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COVENANTING

Definition: COVENANTING

COVENANTING

Adjective

1. Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Covenant

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COVENANTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)


Commercial Usage: COVENANTING

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies, 1639-1651 (reference)

  • A Story of Shalom: The Calling of Christians and Jews by a Covenanting God (Stimulus Series) (reference)

  • Charles I and the Making of the Covenanting Movement 1625-1641 (reference)

  • King's College, Aberdeen, 1560-1641: From Protestant Reformation to Covenanting Revolution (Quincentennial Studies Series) (reference)

  • Resisting the Threats to Life: Covenanting for Justice Peace and the Integrity of Creation (Risk Book No 41) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: COVENANTING

"COVENANTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "COVENANTING" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)50%7133,076
Adjective (general or positive)35.71%5157,705
Noun (proper)14.29%2245,945
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: COVENANTING

Language Translations for "COVENANTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

立约承诺 (Covenanted). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ovenantingcay

   

Scottish

  

rà iteach. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: COVENANTING

Misspellings

"COVENANTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: coveyancing. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: COVENANTING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-t-v"

-1 letter: conventing, nonvintage.

-2 letters: cantoning, connivent, convening, nonacting, nonnative.

-3 letters: canoeing, coinvent, conative, covenant, coveting, enacting, innocent, innovate, invocate, negation, tenoning, venation.

-4 letters: aconite, actinon, ancient, anteing, antigen, atoning, canning, canting, centavo, coagent, coating, cognate, coinage, connate, conning, connive, contain, convent, enation, gentian, negaton, tanning, tonnage, vanning, venatic, venting, vetoing, vintage.

-5 letters: acetin, acting, action, active.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-t-v"
 

+1 letter: contravening.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern 		5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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