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syonZion

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

Puritas changed it
495 times in 211 works
Consistency
97.8% (495 of 506)
Reach if approved
~565 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: zion
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
538 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (495 changes in 211 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 495)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of learning, varietie of reading, and laborious penning, by them that preferre Babylon before SyonZion, the traditions of men before the heavenly inſpired and purified word of light and …
    With rule
    … of learning, varietie of reading, and laborious penning, by them that preferre Babylon before SyonZion, the traditions of men before the heavenly inſpired and purified word of light and …

    Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and Iames cry out, Woe to the rich, and Esayas tell the Daughters of SyonZion that they are proud, and goe mincing, and so forth: Tell me then what …
    With rule
    … and Iames cry out, Woe to the rich, and Esayas tell the Daughters of SyonZion that they are proud, and goe mincing, and so forth: Tell me then what …

    William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … eies, but of Faithe and eares. Wherfore sayth the Euangelist: Tell the daughter of SyonZion. And the Prophete sayth: Reioyce SyonZion, be glad, daunce, and leape for ioye, O …
    With rule
    … eies, but of Faithe and eares. Wherfore sayth the Euangelist: Tell the daughter of SyonZion. And the Prophete sayth: Reioyce SyonZion, be glad, daunce, and leape for ioye, O …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … preachers, thou knoweſt not how many. O take vp a lamētation ye that loue SyonZion ouer the many that are gone over, ſome to Gallen, ſome to Iuſtinian, ſome …
    With rule
    … preachers, thou knoweſt not how many. O take vp a lamētation ye that loue SyonZion ouer the many that are gone over, ſome to Gallen, ſome to Iuſtinian, ſome …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 178 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the earth bee ſhaken, and the ſea make a noyſe, yet God will keepe SyonZion, and the Apple of his eye ſhall not be touched. The Lorde Ieſus keepe …
    With rule
    … the earth bee ſhaken, and the ſea make a noyſe, yet God will keepe SyonZion, and the Apple of his eye ſhall not be touched. The Lorde Ieſus keepe …

    Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … well meaning Christians that were commers on, who were inequisitive of the way to SyonZion. O ye daughters of Hierusalem, that you may know that there is some cause …
    With rule
    … well meaning Christians that were commers on, who were inequisitive of the way to SyonZion. O ye daughters of Hierusalem, that you may know that there is some cause …

    Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 416 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they were in the VVildernesse, both fedde, and feeding others. They were on Mount SyonZion, with the Lambe, both worshipping, purelie, them-selues, and leading others there-in; though …
    With rule
    … they were in the VVildernesse, both fedde, and feeding others. They were on Mount SyonZion, with the Lambe, both worshipping, purelie, them-selues, and leading others there-in; though …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … againe / thy Scepter is an uer lasting Scepter. I haue set my king vpon SyonZion my Holy mountaine, Mat. 2.6. Psa. 2. and 45. and 110. these lawes ād ordināces wherby this kinge …
    With rule
    … againe / thy Scepter is an uer lasting Scepter. I haue set my king vpon SyonZion my Holy mountaine, Mat. 2.6. Psa. 2. and 45. and 110. these lawes ād ordināces wherby this kinge …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

  • Printed
    No: but stood still stable, vpon Mount SYONZION, with the Lambe; whyle all the Earth was, in GOD HIS justice, miscarried, after …
    With rule
    No: but stood still stable, vpon Mount SYONZION, with the Lambe; whyle all the Earth was, in GOD HIS justice, miscarried, after …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 137 · Open in the reader

Against a Rank Papist A02621

  • Printed
    … for it was not their ordre, but their stocke, that was mayntayned by succes syonZion. Their ordre was mainteyned by sacry fyces, firste, frutes, tythes, vowes, deuocyons, and offerynges …
    With rule
    … for it was not their ordre, but their stocke, that was mayntayned by succes syonZion. Their ordre was mainteyned by sacry fyces, firste, frutes, tythes, vowes, deuocyons, and offerynges …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

A Map of Rome A13544

  • Printed
    TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYONZION, HEARTILY AND VNfainedly: Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ.
    With rule
    TO ALL THAT WISH WELL TO OVR SYONZION, HEARTILY AND VNfainedly: Grace be multiplied and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ.

    Thomas Taylor · A Map of Rome · Open in the reader

Sovereign Balm A78218

  • Printed
    TO ALL THE CORDIALL Friends, and ſincere lovers of the Lord IESUS and his SYONZION.
    With rule
    TO ALL THE CORDIALL Friends, and ſincere lovers of the Lord IESUS and his SYONZION.

    William Bartlet · Sovereign Balm · Open in the reader