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Condition vs Covenant - What's the difference?

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In lang=en terms the difference between condition and covenant

is that condition is a clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way while covenant is to make a stipulation.

As nouns the difference between condition and covenant

is that condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false while covenant is an agreement to do or not do a particular thing.

As verbs the difference between condition and covenant

is that condition is to subject to the process of acclimation while covenant is to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.

condition

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
  • A requirement, term or requisite.
  • (legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
  • The health status of a medical patient.
  • The state or quality.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
  • A particular state of being.
  • (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
  • A man of his condition has no place to make request.

    Synonyms

    * (the health or state of something) fettle

    Derived terms

    * conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient condition

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To subject to the process of acclimation.
  • I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.
  • To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
  • They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.
  • To place conditions or limitations upon.
  • * Tennyson
  • Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.
  • To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
  • To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
  • To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
  • It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.
  • To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
  • (McElrath)
  • (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
  • to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study
  • To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • To think of a thing is to condition .

    Derived terms

    * air-condition * conditioner * precondition * recondition

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    covenant

    Alternative forms

    * covenaunt (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) An agreement to do or not do a particular thing.
  • (legal) A promise, incidental to a deed or contract, either express or implied.
  • A pact or binding agreement between two or more parties.
  • An incidental clause in an agreement.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant
  • * L'Estrange
  • Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, as the tenant should direct.
  • * Bible, Matthew xxvi. 15
  • and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver
  • (legal) To enter a formal agreement.
  • (legal) To bind oneself in contract.
  • (legal) To make a stipulation.