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colourcolor

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

Puritas changed it
12,964 times in 2,927 works
Consistency
99.9% (12,964 of 12,969)
Reach if approved
~13,631 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: colour
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
12,973 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (12,964 changes in 2,927 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 12,964)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … which ye king by their perſuaſions pretended not to ſpare, hauing any rigor or colourcolor of law to coūtenance the matter. With which cōmiſſion they departed that time from …
    With rule
    … which ye king by their perſuaſions pretended not to ſpare, hauing any rigor or colourcolor of law to coūtenance the matter. With which cōmiſſion they departed that time from …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … place of ye Apostels request, to haue this woman dispatched: But alas we what colourcolor or likelyhood of reason? For first this womā desireth none of them all to …
    With rule
    … place of ye Apostels request, to haue this woman dispatched: But alas we what colourcolor or likelyhood of reason? For first this womā desireth none of them all to …

    William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … dayes, which though hée can tollerate diuersitie of Ceremonies, as the Papistes say, to colourcolor this matter, yet will he not tollerate that any man shall dissent in opinion …
    With rule
    … dayes, which though hée can tollerate diuersitie of Ceremonies, as the Papistes say, to colourcolor this matter, yet will he not tollerate that any man shall dissent in opinion …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … names; therefore the substance that is gone retaineth it owne name still: or, the colourcolor, savour shape and sise retaine their old names, and that which is in the …
    With rule
    … names; therefore the substance that is gone retaineth it owne name still: or, the colourcolor, savour shape and sise retaine their old names, and that which is in the …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … wine, but onely the accidents (as they cal thē) which are the proportion, the colourcolor, & taſte, with ſuch like.
    With rule
    … wine, but onely the accidents (as they cal thē) which are the proportion, the colourcolor, & taſte, with ſuch like.

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in the world, that is of the world, is commendable, praeter Colorem, besides the ColourColor? A Cottage would serue to sleepe in, as well as a sumptuous Pallace, but …
    With rule
    … in the world, that is of the world, is commendable, praeter Colorem, besides the ColourColor? A Cottage would serue to sleepe in, as well as a sumptuous Pallace, but …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … one for a ſign, the other for the ſpiritual matter, and the accidentes, as colourcolor, taſte, &c. muſt ſignifie and ſeale into the bodie of Chriſt, which is falſe.
    With rule
    … one for a ſign, the other for the ſpiritual matter, and the accidentes, as colourcolor, taſte, &c. muſt ſignifie and ſeale into the bodie of Chriſt, which is falſe.

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Looke into my poll, canst thou not perceiue by the colourcolor of my braines that I haue vnlac't her knaue…y? thou knowst Ci…ces …
    With rule
    Looke into my poll, canst thou not perceiue by the colourcolor of my braines that I haue vnlac't her knaue…y? thou knowst Ci…ces …

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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.

Transubstantiation A54011

  • Printed
    … he thought the Doctrine to be MONSTROUS; that he had done his endeavour to COLOURCOLOR it OVER the beſt he could in his Books, but that in ſhort he …
    With rule
    … he thought the Doctrine to be MONSTROUS; that he had done his endeavour to COLOURCOLOR it OVER the beſt he could in his Books, but that in ſhort he …

    Henry Pendlebury · Transubstantiation · Open in the reader

Vindication of the Old and New Secluded Members A56142

  • Printed
    … and be for ever convicted and ſilenced thereby. 2ly. There was never the leaſt colourcolor1 of truth or proof, that any of the ſecluded Members raiſed, or encouraged this …
    With rule
    … and be for ever convicted and ſilenced thereby. 2ly. There was never the leaſt colourcolor1 of truth or proof, that any of the ſecluded Members raiſed, or encouraged this …

    William Prynne · Vindication of the Old and New Secluded Members · p. 6 · Open in the reader

Speech 4 December 1648 A56213

  • Printed
    … Westminster, in 29 H. 6. to grant some Petitions, and stirring an Insurrection, and Rebellion UNDER COLOURCOLOR OF JUSTICE FOR REF ORMATION OF THE LAWES; And proceeding upon the same grounds …
    With rule
    … Westminster, in 29 H. 6. to grant some Petitions, and stirring an Insurrection, and Rebellion UNDER COLOURCOLOR OF JUSTICE FOR REF ORMATION OF THE LAWES; And proceeding upon the same grounds …

    William Prynne · Speech 4 December 1648 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

Against the Illegal New Tax A91168

  • Printed
    … TO ASPERSE THEIR PROCEEDINGS, and SOME OF THEIR MEMBERS, TO MAKE THEM ODIOUS, and COLOURCOLOR THE VIOLENCE WHICH WAS USED AGAINST THEM. Tunnage and Poundage hath been received without …
    With rule
    … TO ASPERSE THEIR PROCEEDINGS, and SOME OF THEIR MEMBERS, TO MAKE THEM ODIOUS, and COLOURCOLOR THE VIOLENCE WHICH WAS USED AGAINST THEM. Tunnage and Poundage hath been received without …

    William Prynne · Against the Illegal New Tax · p. 11 · Open in the reader

Legal and Rational Plea A91199

  • Printed
    … it BY VVORD OR DEED, OPENLY OR PRIVILY, BY ANY MANNER OF PRETEENCE OR COLOURCOLOR: and ſequeſter and exclude them from the Body of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and …
    With rule
    … it BY VVORD OR DEED, OPENLY OR PRIVILY, BY ANY MANNER OF PRETEENCE OR COLOURCOLOR: and ſequeſter and exclude them from the Body of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and …

    William Prynne · Legal and Rational Plea · p. 30 · Open in the reader