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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Covenanters

A term applied, during the civil wars, to the Scotch Presbyterians, who united by “solemn league and covenant” to resist the encroachments of Charles I. on religious liberty.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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