Agreement vs. Covenant
Agreementnoun
(countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct.
Agreementnoun
(uncountable) A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another.
Agreementnoun
A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law.
Agreementnoun
Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts.
Agreementnoun
An agreeable quality.
Agreementnoun
State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
Agreementnoun
Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
Agreementnoun
A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
Agreementnoun
the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises;
Agreementnoun
compatibility of observations;
Agreementnoun
harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters;
Agreementnoun
the thing arranged or agreed to;
Agreementnoun
the determination of grammatical inflection on the basis of word relations
Agreementnoun
the verbal act of agreeing
Agreementnoun
harmony or accordance in opinion or feeling
Agreementnoun
a negotiated and typically legally binding arrangement between parties as to a course of action
Agreementnoun
the absence of incompatibility between two things; consistency
Agreementnoun
the condition of having the same number, gender, case, and/or person as another word.
Covenantnoun
(legal) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
Covenantnoun
(legal) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
Covenantnoun
A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
Covenantnoun
An incidental clause in an agreement.
Covenantverb
To enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.
Covenantverb
(legal) To enter a formal agreement.
Covenantverb
(legal) To bind oneself in contract.
Covenantverb
(legal) To make a stipulation.
Covenantnoun
A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement.
Covenantnoun
An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; - usually called the "Solemn League and Covenant."
Covenantnoun
The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc.
Covenantnoun
A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc.
Covenantnoun
An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement.
Covenantverb
To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation.
Covenantverb
To grant or promise by covenant.
Covenantnoun
a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action
Covenantnoun
(Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
Covenantverb
enter into a covenenant
Covenantverb
enter into a covenant or formal agreement;
