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pharisiesPharisees

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
1,751 times in 405 works
Consistency
99.9% (1,751 of 1,752)
Reach if approved
~1,841 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pharisees
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,752 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,751 changes in 405 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,751)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … our heauenly father, verſ. 1. 2. 3. 4. Secondly for prayer, how to auoyd the ambition of the PhariſiesPharisees, and how to pleaſe our heauenly father, verſ. 5. and 15. Thirdly for faſting, how to …
    With rule
    … our heauenly father, verſ. 1. 2. 3. 4. Secondly for prayer, how to auoyd the ambition of the PhariſiesPharisees, and how to pleaſe our heauenly father, verſ. 5. and 15. Thirdly for faſting, how to …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … miracles he did, and that hereupon many beleeued in him, the high Prieſts and PhariſiesPharisees gathered a Councell, and ſaid, If wee let him thus alone, all men will …
    With rule
    … miracles he did, and that hereupon many beleeued in him, the high Prieſts and PhariſiesPharisees gathered a Councell, and ſaid, If wee let him thus alone, all men will …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … God, that is gotten or kept vncharitably amongst men. O howe vncharitably did the PharisiesPharisees catch and kéepe vnto themselues by their traditions, the riches and releefe which yong …
    With rule
    … God, that is gotten or kept vncharitably amongst men. O howe vncharitably did the PharisiesPharisees catch and kéepe vnto themselues by their traditions, the riches and releefe which yong …

    Thomas Lever · The Right Way from Danger of Sin and Vengeance · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Publican was iuſtified, and not the Phariſei? Why harlots & Publicans go before the Scribes & PhariſiesPharisees in the kingdome why ye ſonne of the free woman was receaued, & the bondwomans …
    With rule
    … Publican was iuſtified, and not the Phariſei? Why harlots & Publicans go before the Scribes & PhariſiesPharisees in the kingdome why ye ſonne of the free woman was receaued, & the bondwomans …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 269 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … their good deedes are euen ſuch, as the almes, faſting, and prayers of the PhariſiesPharisees which Chriſt doth reproue, Mat. 6. Take this for a moſt vndoubted truth, that there …
    With rule
    … their good deedes are euen ſuch, as the almes, faſting, and prayers of the PhariſiesPharisees which Chriſt doth reproue, Mat. 6. Take this for a moſt vndoubted truth, that there …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons · p. 126 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of diſtreſſe. The baſe advantages which Saul ſought againſt David, and the Prieſts, Scribes, PhariſiesPharisees, and other Iewes againſt Chriſt and his Apostles, and other enemies, heretiques, and idolaters …
    With rule
    … of diſtreſſe. The baſe advantages which Saul ſought againſt David, and the Prieſts, Scribes, PhariſiesPharisees, and other Iewes againſt Chriſt and his Apostles, and other enemies, heretiques, and idolaters …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 197 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in Christ Iesus; and so they shall be kept the better from being Iusticiarie PharisiesPharisees: for when beeing a long time well brought vp, & leading a ciuill life, the …
    With rule
    … in Christ Iesus; and so they shall be kept the better from being Iusticiarie PharisiesPharisees: for when beeing a long time well brought vp, & leading a ciuill life, the …

    Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … false (of all) to thy selfe. So (this white Deuill) Iudas, that for the PharisiesPharisees sake betrayed his master, and for the Deuils sake betrayed himselfe, was in the …
    With rule
    … false (of all) to thy selfe. So (this white Deuill) Iudas, that for the PharisiesPharisees sake betrayed his master, and for the Deuils sake betrayed himselfe, was in the …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed A10250

  • Printed
    Whence wee gather, that the DONATISTS, PELLAGIANS, PHARISIESPHARISEES, ANABAPTISTS, MONKS, and the reſt of that batch are to bee condemned, who brag …
    With rule
    Whence wee gather, that the DONATISTS, PELLAGIANS, PHARISIESPHARISEES, ANABAPTISTS, MONKS, and the reſt of that batch are to bee condemned, who brag …

    Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 62 · Open in the reader