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covenantee|ˌkʌvɪnənˈtiː|
[see -ee.]
a. Legal and gen. The person to whom a promise by covenant is made. The correlative of covenantor.
1649W. Ball Power of Kings 8 Even so it is between the King, who is Covenantor by Oath, and the People who are Covenantees concerning Lawes and Statutes..to be enacted. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 156 If a man covenants to be at York by such a day..and is not at York at the time appointed..these are direct breaches of his covenant; and may be perhaps greatly to the disadvantage and loss of the covenantee. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) I. 101 If a tenant in tail covenants to stand seised to the use of the covenantee for life. 1885Law Times Rep. LIII. 308/1 The reasons for making the trustees covenantees are that the husband cannot covenant with his wife.
b. Theol. One admitted into God's covenant with His people.
1692Beverley Disc. Dr. Crisp 1 The Covenantees according to the faultless Covenant must so continue in it, that God may be for ever their God, and they his People. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. v. iii. (1852) 295 To be in covenant, or to be a covenantee is the formalis ratio of a church member. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 105 Both of them were the respective Rites of their Admission into the several Covenants, and the Covenantees became thereby entitled to the respective Privileges which were annex'd to them. |