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- Covin definition: a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another.
The earliest known use of the noun covin is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for covin is from around 1330, in the writing of Robert Mannyng, poet and historian. covin is a borrowing from French.
1. archaic : crew, band, confederacy. 2. a. : collusive agreement between two or more persons to the detriment of a third : conspiracy. b. archaic : fraud, trickery. 3. : coven.
A group or gathering of witches who meet regularly; the word is a variant of covin (archaic term for fraud, deception; in Middle English, denoting a company or band), and comes via Old French from Latin convenium, from convenire ‘assemble’.
Covin (from the French covine, or couvine, from Latin convenire, to come together), an association of persons, so used in the Statute of Labourers of 1360, which, inter alia, declared void "all alliances and covins of stonemasons and carpenters".
What does the noun coven mean? There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun coven . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
Define covin. covin synonyms, covin pronunciation, covin translation, English dictionary definition of covin. n law a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th...
Covin definition: a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another. See examples of COVIN used in a sentence.
