Covenant vs Monarch - What's the difference?
covenant | monarch |
(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 ruler of an absolute monarchy or the head of state of a constitutional monarchy.
* 1598 , (William Shakespeare), Henry V , Act II, Scene II, line 25.
The monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus , found primarily in North America, so called because of the designs on its wings.
Police.
*1961 , (Nene Gare), The Fringe Dwellers , Text Classics 2012, p. 41:
*:‘Skippy gets off. An ya know the first thing e says to them monarch ? E turns round on em an yelps, “An now ya can just gimme back that bottle.”’
As nouns the difference between covenant and monarch
is that covenant is (legal) an agreement to do or not do a particular thing while monarch is monarch (head of state in a monarchy).As a verb covenant
is to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant.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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Noun
(en noun)- Never was monarch better fear'd and lov'd / Than is your Majesty.