covenanting

This was part of the Covenanting conflict during the Civil War.

The Divine Author was invoked during weddings, dedications, jubilees, and the covenanting of noble girls at puberty.

--But remark, at least, how natural to any agitated Nation, which has Faith, this business of Covenanting is.

(Compare Covenanting and Established Church.)

The mother of Christian's four sons was a woman of real mind, as so many of the maidens, and wives, and widows of Puritan England and Covenanting Scotland were.

The great pre-Johnson lexicographer Nathan Bailey nicely defined federation as "a covenanting," with its biblical overtones, agreeing to form a bond that permits each of the covenanters some freedom and individuality within the unity.

He grew up to be the famous Major James Stewart of the Covenanting Wars, of whom Sir Walter Scott wrote the book "The Legend of Montrose, telling of his exploits.

Its theology was a conservative Calvinism and also held the distinctives of the Covenanters and Seceders, such as public covenanting, adherence to the Solemn League and Covenant, and exclusive use of the Psalms in singing.

The Baillies were a Covenanting family and Grisell's ancestors included Robert Bailliewho was put to death for his Covenanting beliefs and his alleged involvement in the Rye House Plot.