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.

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