(in 17th-century Scotland) an adherent of the National Covenant (1638) or of the Solemn League and Covenant (1643), upholding the organization of the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
（支持苏格兰长老会的）国民誓约派（或神圣盟约派）成员
See also covenantor
Example sentencesExamples
Drawn from all parts of Scotland and all sections of society, Covenanters subscribed to the National Covenant of 1638.
If you go right here and follow the path for a few hundred yards, you reach a memorial to six Covenanters shot dead in 1685.
She had stood for truth above compromise in those cruel and difficult days for the Scottish Covenanters of 1685.
Radical Covenanters managed to defeat Turner at the battle of Drumclog in 1679.
After the defeat of the Scottish Covenanters at Bothwell Brig in 1687, a new wave of Scottish refugees came to Ulster.
Definition of Covenanter in US English:
Covenanter
nounˈkəv(ə)nəntərˈkəv(ə)nəntər
(in 17th-century Scotland) an adherent of the National Covenant (1638) or of the Solemn League and Covenant (1643), upholding the organization of the Scottish Presbyterian Church.
（支持苏格兰长老会的）国民誓约派（或神圣盟约派）成员
See also covenantor
Example sentencesExamples
She had stood for truth above compromise in those cruel and difficult days for the Scottish Covenanters of 1685.
If you go right here and follow the path for a few hundred yards, you reach a memorial to six Covenanters shot dead in 1685.
After the defeat of the Scottish Covenanters at Bothwell Brig in 1687, a new wave of Scottish refugees came to Ulster.
Drawn from all parts of Scotland and all sections of society, Covenanters subscribed to the National Covenant of 1638.
Radical Covenanters managed to defeat Turner at the battle of Drumclog in 1679.