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halfway covenant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.56 in modern English

Syllables
halfway -covenant
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but unconverted parents to present their own children for baptism, but denying them the other privileges of church membership.

Inflected Forms

halfway covenants (plural)

Questions

What does halfway covenant mean?
A form of partial church membership adopted by the Puritan-controlled Congregational churches of colonial New England in the 1660s, allowing baptized but unconverted parents to present their own children for baptism, but denying them the other privileges of church membership.

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