Covenant vs Swear - What's the difference?
covenant | swear |
(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.
To take an oath.
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*:The Bat—they called him the Bat.. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
(lb) To use offensive language.
Heavy.
Top-heavy; too high.
Dull; heavy; lazy; slow; reluctant; unwilling.
Niggardly.
A lazy time; a short rest during working hours (especially field labour); a siesta.
As nouns the difference between covenant and swear
is that covenant is an agreement to do or not do a particular thing while swear is a swearword.As verbs the difference between covenant and swear
is that covenant is to enter into, or promise something by, a covenant while swear is to take an oath.As an adjective swear is
heavy.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