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covenant_of_salt

covenant of salt

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Noun

covenant of salt

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) A long-lasting agreement.
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received tenents, and commonly presumed truths, page 306:
      ... God gave the Kingdom unto David for ever, or by a Covenant of Salt.