Covenant vs Constitution - What's the difference?
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(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.
to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant
* L'Estrange
* Bible, Matthew xxvi. 15
(legal) To enter a formal agreement.
(legal) To bind oneself in contract.
(legal) To make a stipulation.
The act, or process of setting something up, or establishing something; the composition or structure of such a thing; its makeup.
* Sir J. Herschel
The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions.
* Macaulay
A legal document describing such a formal system.
The general health of a person.
A person's physique or temperament.
* Story
* Clarendon
As a noun covenant
is (legal) an agreement to do or not do a particular thing.As a verb covenant
is to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.As a proper noun constitution is
the supreme law of some countries, such as australia, ireland, and the united states.covenant
English
(wikipedia covenant)Alternative forms
* covenaunt (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, as the tenant should direct.
- and they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver
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English
(wikipedia constitution)Noun
(en noun)- the physical constitution of the sun
- Our constitution had begun to exist in times when statesmen were not much accustomed to frame exact definitions.
- Our constitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the old world.
- He defended himself with less passion than was expected from his constitution .