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单词 non-covenanter
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non-covenantern.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: non- prefix, covenanter n.
Etymology: < non- prefix + covenanter n.
Scottish. Obsolete. In later use historical.
A person not subscribing or adhering to the Presbyterian National Covenant of 1638 (see covenant n. 9a). Cf. covenanter n. 2.
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1639 in W. Stevenson Presbyterie Bk. Kirkcaldie (1900) 152 No wilfull noncovenanters should be admittitt [to communion].
1639 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) II. 441 Serue your selves of the non-covenanteris meanes for heerafter.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 354 At the incuming of this army to Abirdene the covenanteris wes no less blythe nor the non covenanteris wes wo.
1731 N. Salmon Lives Bishops III. 353 He never could have thriven as did, if he had appeared to the World a Non-Covenanter.
1873 D. Masson Drummond of Hawthornden xiv. 300 Whoever remained a non-Covenanter..was a tainted man, a Prelatist, a Malignant.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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