mēmen
Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.
- Puritas changed it
- 5,132 times in 688 works
- Consistency
- 99.6% (5,132 of 5,150)
- Reach if approved
- ~5,763 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- No opinion (map not loaded)
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 5,485 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- mē (18)
- Taken into joins
- 75 places (not counted against it)
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,132 changes in 688 works, 99.6% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,132)
- Printed… the fewer the better cheare: but they are for nature persecutors; for number many mēmen, most men, innumerable, all men. But we are here praemoniti, and therefore should be …With rule… the fewer the better cheare: but they are for nature persecutors; for number many mēmen, most men, innumerable, all men. But we are here praemoniti, and therefore should be …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 2 · Open in the reader
- Printed… was not much curious to enquire that therfore I do not know the? do mēmen never know ought, but which they thinke of such momēt as meriteth to be …With rule… was not much curious to enquire that therfore I do not know the? do mēmen never know ought, but which they thinke of such momēt as meriteth to be …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 27 · Open in the reader
- Printed… well weighed, make nothing so clearly for your phātasied Limbus, as you wold haue mēmen weene. You say Augustine doubteth whether Abrahams bosome, in the Scripture be called hell …With rule… well weighed, make nothing so clearly for your phātasied Limbus, as you wold haue mēmen weene. You say Augustine doubteth whether Abrahams bosome, in the Scripture be called hell …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 212 · Open in the reader
- Printed… children. The Papistes are wise in their generation, when they would not haue vnlearned mēmen to reade the scriptures. For euerye childe of seuen yeares age, reading the storie …With rule… children. The Papistes are wise in their generation, when they would not haue vnlearned mēmen to reade the scriptures. For euerye childe of seuen yeares age, reading the storie …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 173 · Open in the reader
- Printed… is nothing but a continual ſinning: wheras this is euidently héere proued, yt ſuch mēmen as carie a great ſhew of vprightnes, in refraining from ſundry vices, are ſtil …With rule… is nothing but a continual ſinning: wheras this is euidently héere proued, yt ſuch mēmen as carie a great ſhew of vprightnes, in refraining from ſundry vices, are ſtil …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
- Printed… this shame. Fourthly, that we may pray for the remouing of shame euē amōgst mēmen, especially that which may bring with it some dishonour to God. Fiftly, that the …With rule… this shame. Fourthly, that we may pray for the remouing of shame euē amōgst mēmen, especially that which may bring with it some dishonour to God. Fiftly, that the …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 417 · Open in the reader
- Printed… and Ioshua sent out som Spies to spy the Land: so we haue 2. special mēmen in Scripture, who haue spied this ioy; Iohn in a Vision, Paul in his …With rule… and Ioshua sent out som Spies to spy the Land: so we haue 2. special mēmen in Scripture, who haue spied this ioy; Iohn in a Vision, Paul in his …
Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 87 · Open in the reader
- PrintedLeast mēmen to christ shulde come, frō ceremonyes dōmeWith ruleLeast mēmen to christ shulde come, frō ceremonyes dōme
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)
None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.