Uncovenanted

This is what I call uncovenanted mercy, no previous promise having rendered it certain. ❋ Martin Luther (1514)

This is the mercy we above called uncovenanted mercy. ❋ Martin Luther (1514)

The term 'uncovenanted' may require explanation for readers not familiar with the details of Indian administration. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

European or Eurasian 'uncovenanted' Collectors of Customs and their assistants. ❋ William Sleeman (1822)

"What an enormous, uncovenanted blessing to have kept Henry James for middle age and to turn, as the door shuts behind the departing guest, to a first reading of 'Portrait of a Lady,'" Evelyn Waugh wrote in his diary in 1946. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Unless, of course, we are to have recourse to your usual solution and call up an uncovenanted miracle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Anyway, just as there are uncovenanted side benefits to major dental work, so there are things about quitting the smoking habit for which nobody prepares you. ❋ Hitchens, Christopher (2008)

A series of uncovenanted mandates, for failed states or former abattoir regimes, is more likely to be the real picture. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The commander of the Presbyterian, or rather Convenanting party, was Mr Robert Hamilton, of the honourable House of Preston, brother of Sir William Hamilton, to whose title and estate he afterwards succeeded; but, according to his biographer, Howie of Lochgoin, he never took possession of either, as he could not do so without acknowledging the right of King William (an uncovenanted monarch) to the crown. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If her academic dress had exposed such uncovenanted mercies, such superb, such unpredictable expanses and lengths of flesh, what would she not show them when gowned for the evening? ❋ Waugh, Evelyn (1998)

This belief is not to be confused with an indolent trust in the uncovenanted good will of an overruling Providence, nor yet with an unintelligent notion that 'it can't happen here.' ❋ Unknown (1969)

The title of this book has an uncovenanted propriety. ❋ Kermode, Frank (1964)

Hence, infants were left to the uncovenanted mercies of God. ❋ Various (N/A)

[150] We have sought to place this Hebrew luniolatry beyond dispute, because so many Christians have supposed that "the chosen people" lived in unclouded light, and "the uncovenanted heathen" in outer and utter darkness. ❋ Timothy Harley (N/A)

She would cease to be counted by her as one of the uncovenanted, and told that she had broken the line of promise given to the elect. ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)

Almighty in return for her son's disobedience in sharing his lot with the uncovenanted. ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)

Church, the House of Lords, and the Crown to the uncovenanted mercies of modern political criticism is a rash experiment. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is what the old theologians used to call 'an uncovenanted mercy.' ❋ Samuel McChord Crothers (N/A)

The efficacy of any such arrangement evidently depends upon two conditions, first, the confidence of the signatory states that each and all will abide by their undertaking, and, secondly, the uncovenanted condition that they will accept and carry into effect the awards or recommendations of the arbitral and conciliation commissions. ❋ Various (N/A)