What's the difference between covenantee and covenanter?
Covenantee
Definition:
(n.) The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
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Covenanter
Definition:
(n.) One who makes a covenant.
(n.) One who subscribed and defended the "Solemn League and Covenant." See Covenant.
Example Sentences:
(1) But for years now, historians have been in broad agreement that the civil wars of the 17th century were not English civil wars at all: a crucial, indeed pivotal role was played by the Scots Covenanters, who kicked the whole thing off.
(2) "Ceremonies" were linked rituals that invoked a covenantal style.
(3) This article examines the evolving role of the nurse as patient advocate, building on Gadow's framework of "existential advocacy" (9) and Cooper's description of "covenantal relationships."
(4) The doctor as parent, fighter, technician, teacher, and covenanter may be important roles at appropriate moments with a given patient who may be experiencing the disease variably as infectious chaos, brutal enemy, spiritual challenge, or opportunity for growth.
(5) A promise to care for the hospitalized child, based on Stenberg's notions of covenantal relationship, is seen as involving a commitment to the mastery of technical skills, an agreement to safeguard the patient, a promise to provide unqualified care, and a promise to free the patient from the fear of abandonment and unnecessary pain.
(6) It is argued here that covenantal relationships between the nurse and the patient provide a more substantial foundation for the nursing ethic.
(7) Employing the categories of covenant theology and applying the interpretative methodology of liberal Judaism, the author argues for the valuation of the person as homosexual as a legitimate expression of human and Jewish covenantal obligation.