noncovenanter
English
editEtymology
editFrom non- + Covenanter.
Noun
editnoncovenanter (plural noncovenanters)
- (historical) One who is not a Covenanter.
- 1827, George Buchanan, James Aikman, The History of Scotland, volume 3, page 448:
- The nation now was divided into two parties—an overwhelming majority of covenanters, and an astonished, disheartened minority of noncovenanters.
- 1971, John Baillie, Religion in Life, volume 40, page 274:
- These people also quite naturally keep themselves segregated from other people — refuse to eat with them, use their dishes or equipment, or allow their children to touch or marry noncovenanters.
- 2014, Richard A. Harrison, Princetonians, 1769-1775: A Biographical Dictionary, page 207:
- Not until 1788, five years after the congregation moved back to its own church, did he baptize the child of a noncovenanter.