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yeeresyears

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it
11,760 times in 1,044 works
Consistency
99.7% (11,760 of 11,790)
Reach if approved
~12,389 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: years
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
11,791 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11,760 changes in 1,044 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11,760)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … reproofe. Many of vs are growne in wealth, but not in Religion; growne in yeeresyears, but not in grace. Nothing at all nearer, but rather much further from saluation …
    With rule
    … reproofe. Many of vs are growne in wealth, but not in Religion; growne in yeeresyears, but not in grace. Nothing at all nearer, but rather much further from saluation …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … not with a Trienniall Visitation, as Episcopall Fathers vse to visite, once in three yeeresyears; but euery yeare, euery moneth in the yeare, weeke of the moneth, day of …
    With rule
    … not with a Trienniall Visitation, as Episcopall Fathers vse to visite, once in three yeeresyears; but euery yeare, euery moneth in the yeare, weeke of the moneth, day of …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … we all adiudged to dye, before wee were; but God (with whom a thouſand yeeresyears is but as one day) hath appoynted the firſt, ſecond, third, fourth, fifth, or …
    With rule
    … we all adiudged to dye, before wee were; but God (with whom a thouſand yeeresyears is but as one day) hath appoynted the firſt, ſecond, third, fourth, fifth, or …

    John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … firſt. Did that greateſt Convert that ever was, that had not lived paſt thirty yeeresyears in his ſinfull eſtate (for he was young when he held the ſtoners clothes …
    With rule
    … firſt. Did that greateſt Convert that ever was, that had not lived paſt thirty yeeresyears in his ſinfull eſtate (for he was young when he held the ſtoners clothes …

    Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … man, ready to die; yet he continued to wait. There paſſed almoſt foure thouſand yeeresyears betwixt that time. wherein the bleſſed ſeed of the woman was firſt promiſed, and …
    With rule
    … man, ready to die; yet he continued to wait. There paſſed almoſt foure thouſand yeeresyears betwixt that time. wherein the bleſſed ſeed of the woman was firſt promiſed, and …

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 302 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … deſires, yet wee are commonly like the children of Iſrael, going that iourney forty yeeresyears, which perhaps might haue beene diſpatched in forty daies.
    With rule
    … deſires, yet wee are commonly like the children of Iſrael, going that iourney forty yeeresyears, which perhaps might haue beene diſpatched in forty daies.

    Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … more of this point. About the beginning of the Perſian monarchie, which was almoſt 500 yeeresyears afore Chriſt, and about the time of the Iewes returne out of the captivitie …
    With rule
    … more of this point. About the beginning of the Perſian monarchie, which was almoſt 500 yeeresyears afore Chriſt, and about the time of the Iewes returne out of the captivitie …

    Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of the word, as wee now ſee hee is, and hath beene for theſe 300. yeeresyears laſt paſt continually.
    With rule
    … of the word, as wee now ſee hee is, and hath beene for theſe 300. yeeresyears laſt paſt continually.

    John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (30)

27 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

  • Printed
    … LORD EMBASSADOR, RESIDENT IN FRANCE, LYING IN THE FAUXBURGE OF St. GERMANS, IN THE YEERESYEARS OF OUR LORD 1610, 1611, 1612.
    With rule
    … LORD EMBASSADOR, RESIDENT IN FRANCE, LYING IN THE FAUXBURGE OF St. GERMANS, IN THE YEERESYEARS OF OUR LORD 1610, 1611, 1612.

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 608 · Open in the reader

The Pope Confuted A01130

  • Printed
    … downe in the booke of Genesis: where seuen eares of corne are called Seuen YeeresYears: Fleshe, Heye: Seede, the Worde: a Fielde, the World: the heauenly Father, an Husbandman …
    With rule
    … downe in the booke of Genesis: where seuen eares of corne are called Seuen YeeresYears: Fleshe, Heye: Seede, the Worde: a Fielde, the World: the heauenly Father, an Husbandman …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 85 · Open in the reader

Moses Unveiled A02353

  • Printed
    … holy Places; so were there holy Times, which were eyther Dayes, Moones, Seasons or YeeresYears, calling to memory speciall benefits, and therewith pointing at more higher mysteries.
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    … holy Places; so were there holy Times, which were eyther Dayes, Moones, Seasons or YeeresYears, calling to memory speciall benefits, and therewith pointing at more higher mysteries.

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Protection: who are dayly preserued, as the Israelites in Tents were in the Wildernes. 4. YeeresYears: which was euery seuenth yeere: but in speciall that great Iubile after a Sabbath …
    With rule
    … Protection: who are dayly preserued, as the Israelites in Tents were in the Wildernes. 4. YeeresYears: which was euery seuenth yeere: but in speciall that great Iubile after a Sabbath …

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England A04215

  • Printed
    ABout Three YeeresYears ſince, Maiſter Iacob hauing ſome ſpeach with certen of the ſeparation before mentioned, concerning …
    With rule
    ABout Three YeeresYears ſince, Maiſter Iacob hauing ſome ſpeach with certen of the ſeparation before mentioned, concerning …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    … eateth of it the second yeere after the Iubile; for it is written, THE YEERESYEARS OF THE REVENVES. Maimony in Iobel, chap. 11. sect. 9. 10. 12.
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    … eateth of it the second yeere after the Iubile; for it is written, THE YEERESYEARS OF THE REVENVES. Maimony in Iobel, chap. 11. sect. 9. 10. 12.

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … learned him five yeeresyears; as it is said (in Num. 8. 24.) FROM FIVE AND TWENTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; and another scripture saith, (in Num. 4. 3.) FROM THIRTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; loe five are …
    With rule
    … learned him five yeeresyears; as it is said (in Num. 8. 24.) FROM FIVE AND TWENTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; and another scripture saith, (in Num. 4. 3.) FROM THIRTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; loe five are …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … FROM FIVE AND TWENTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; and another scripture saith, (in Num. 4. 3.) FROM THIRTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; loe five are for him to learne. And he entreth not upon his …
    With rule
    … FROM FIVE AND TWENTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; and another scripture saith, (in Num. 4. 3.) FROM THIRTIE YEERESYEARS OLD; loe five are for him to learne. And he entreth not upon his …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 20 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy A16547

  • Printed
    YeeresYears.
    With rule
    YeeresYears.

    John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    YeeresYears:
    With rule
    YeeresYears:

    John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 94 · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

  • Printed
    … that reſt. Heb. 4, 8. IESVS dieth 110 Y. olde. OTHONIEL of Iuda iudgeth Iſrael 40 Y. Iud 3, 11 40 YeeresYears after the death of Ieſus, Othoniel iudgeth and reuēgeth the cauſe of Iſrael: as …
    With rule
    … that reſt. Heb. 4, 8. IESVS dieth 110 Y. olde. OTHONIEL of Iuda iudgeth Iſrael 40 Y. Iud 3, 11 40 YeeresYears after the death of Ieſus, Othoniel iudgeth and reuēgeth the cauſe of Iſrael: as …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

  • Printed
    YeeresYears of an hireling 16. 14
    With rule
    YeeresYears of an hireling 16. 14

    John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

  • Printed
    … and the Moone, the Night; and make the difference of ciuill Dayes, Moneths, and YeeresYears.
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    … and the Moone, the Night; and make the difference of ciuill Dayes, Moneths, and YeeresYears.

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 67 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

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    … Treatiſe for our Poſition, called Diatribe, that is, A Diſputation concerning the Apocalyptical THOUSAND YEERESYEARS not thoſe of the CHILIASTS (properly ſo called) and Phantaſticks, but of bleſſed Daniel …
    With rule
    … Treatiſe for our Poſition, called Diatribe, that is, A Diſputation concerning the Apocalyptical THOUSAND YEERESYEARS not thoſe of the CHILIASTS (properly ſo called) and Phantaſticks, but of bleſſed Daniel …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of Solomon. Fifthly, ELEVEN YEERS of Zedekiah, the laſt King of Judah. Sixthly, SEVEN YEERESYEARS in the times of the Kings of Perſia. Seventhly, TWO YEERS, which Scaliger, Helvicus …
    With rule
    … of Solomon. Fifthly, ELEVEN YEERS of Zedekiah, the laſt King of Judah. Sixthly, SEVEN YEERESYEARS in the times of the Kings of Perſia. Seventhly, TWO YEERS, which Scaliger, Helvicus …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 560 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A55917

  • Printed
    … vialls: Whence it is moſt certaine that Antichriſt shall reigne much longer then foure YeeresYears.
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    … vialls: Whence it is moſt certaine that Antichriſt shall reigne much longer then foure YeeresYears.

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 376 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Of the DRAGONS binding a thouſand YeeresYears.
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    Of the DRAGONS binding a thouſand YeeresYears.

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 500 · Open in the reader

Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light A56171

  • Printed
    … this Marriage SHOVLD BE BROVGHT VP CATHOLIQVES VNDER THE MOTHER VNTILL THEY VVERE 12. OR 14. YEERESYEARS OLD. He well knew the verity of the ancient Proverb,
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    … this Marriage SHOVLD BE BROVGHT VP CATHOLIQVES VNDER THE MOTHER VNTILL THEY VVERE 12. OR 14. YEERESYEARS OLD. He well knew the verity of the ancient Proverb,

    William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 21 · Open in the reader

The Due Right of Presbyteries A57969

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    … godlinesse permit us to thinke that Paul would exclude a Widow of 50. or 54. or 56 YeeresYears, from the Colledge of Widowes, who were desolate and poore? nor, 2. Would Paul rebuke …
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    … godlinesse permit us to thinke that Paul would exclude a Widow of 50. or 54. or 56 YeeresYears, from the Colledge of Widowes, who were desolate and poore? nor, 2. Would Paul rebuke …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Due Right of Presbyteries · p. 173 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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    In the YeeresYears
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    In the YeeresYears

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacy A77490

  • Printed
    … theſe whom it concernes. You cannot bee ignorant who theſe men are, who theſe YeeresYears paſt, upon no other grounds that can be conjectured, but only their own temporall …
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    … theſe whom it concernes. You cannot bee ignorant who theſe men are, who theſe YeeresYears paſt, upon no other grounds that can be conjectured, but only their own temporall …

    Robert Baillie · The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacy · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Reformed, when you joine with the ancient Kirke in the firſt three hundred YeeresYears; we have ſhewn before the vanitie of this Language, for in Epiſcopall Government, you …
    With rule
    … the Reformed, when you joine with the ancient Kirke in the firſt three hundred YeeresYears; we have ſhewn before the vanitie of this Language, for in Epiſcopall Government, you …

    Robert Baillie · The Unlawfulness and Danger of Limited Episcopacy · p. 30 · Open in the reader

The Christian Sabbath Vindicated A78427

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    … dayes) is a more exact Naturall diviſion according to Dayes, then either Moneths or YeeresYears. But this we leave for the preſent to thoſe Authors to maintaine.) 3. From Accident …
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    … dayes) is a more exact Naturall diviſion according to Dayes, then either Moneths or YeeresYears. But this we leave for the preſent to thoſe Authors to maintaine.) 3. From Accident …

    Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the obſervation of Dayes, and Moneths, and Times (or ſeaſons, foreign is the word) and YeeresYears. And Rom. 14. making ſtronger Chriſtians to pronounce, every Day alike. Theſe places, we ſay …
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    … the obſervation of Dayes, and Moneths, and Times (or ſeaſons, foreign is the word) and YeeresYears. And Rom. 14. making ſtronger Chriſtians to pronounce, every Day alike. Theſe places, we ſay …

    Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 342 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for their Yeerely feſtivalls; the Paſſeover, feaſt of Weekes, Trumpets, Tabernacles; and their Sabbaticall YeeresYears, every ſeventh Yeere; and Yeares of Iubilee every 50. Yeares, of theſe Seaſons and Dayes …
    With rule
    … for their Yeerely feſtivalls; the Paſſeover, feaſt of Weekes, Trumpets, Tabernacles; and their Sabbaticall YeeresYears, every ſeventh Yeere; and Yeares of Iubilee every 50. Yeares, of theſe Seaſons and Dayes …

    Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 342 · Open in the reader

The Coming Forth of Christ in the Power of His Death A93876

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    Theſe are the Two Marks, that Daniel ſets upon the Beginning of his YeeresYears; Dayes being ſo taken in a Propheticall Language, each Day for a Yeere.
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    Theſe are the Two Marks, that Daniel ſets upon the Beginning of his YeeresYears; Dayes being ſo taken in a Propheticall Language, each Day for a Yeere.

    Peter Sterry · The Coming Forth of Christ in the Power of His Death · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … God rain Blood upon the Face of the Earth, for the ſpace of forty YeeresYears, to weare out the Race of the Wicked, and to waſh off the Worldly …
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    … God rain Blood upon the Face of the Earth, for the ſpace of forty YeeresYears, to weare out the Race of the Wicked, and to waſh off the Worldly …

    Peter Sterry · The Coming Forth of Christ in the Power of His Death · p. 13 · Open in the reader