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abhominableabominable

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

Puritas changed it
2,586 times in 712 works
Consistency
99.4% (2,586 of 2,601)
Reach if approved
~2,737 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abominable
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,605 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,586 changes in 712 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,586)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … our selues, whereas we are departed out of Babylon, not so much for the abhominableabominable life thereof, as for the corrupt & false doctrine taught therein, by which it is …
    With rule
    … our selues, whereas we are departed out of Babylon, not so much for the abhominableabominable life thereof, as for the corrupt & false doctrine taught therein, by which it is …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … other vice, that they truſt not in vncertaine riches. A vice moſt foule and abhominableabominable, which all men are prone vnto likewiſe, but the rich men moſt in danger …
    With rule
    … other vice, that they truſt not in vncertaine riches. A vice moſt foule and abhominableabominable, which all men are prone vnto likewiſe, but the rich men moſt in danger …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    2 That good meanings and intentions may ſtand with moſt abhominableabominable impieties and iniquities. For proofe whereof, reade Iohn 16. 2. and Acts 26. 9.
    With rule
    2 That good meanings and intentions may ſtand with moſt abhominableabominable impieties and iniquities. For proofe whereof, reade Iohn 16. 2. and Acts 26. 9.

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 311 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The prayers of such Ministers and people as be subject to Antichrist are abhominableabominable:
    With rule
    The prayers of such Ministers and people as be subject to Antichrist are abhominableabominable:

    John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … how soeuer they impiust it wrangle and wreiste all to there fond wicked and abhominableabominable masse, which Augustine neuer knew, nether wes there any suche prophanatiō amongest christians many …
    With rule
    … how soeuer they impiust it wrangle and wreiste all to there fond wicked and abhominableabominable masse, which Augustine neuer knew, nether wes there any suche prophanatiō amongest christians many …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … or ſnfferings not to giue the honour of an oath vnto thē which were abhominableabominable. Deut. 6. 13. Eſay. 18. 18. 1. Kings. 8. 31. Heb. 16. 17. But to affect their hearts the more with reuerence of …
    With rule
    … or ſnfferings not to giue the honour of an oath vnto thē which were abhominableabominable. Deut. 6. 13. Eſay. 18. 18. 1. Kings. 8. 31. Heb. 16. 17. But to affect their hearts the more with reuerence of …

    Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Papists: Their abhominableabominable abuse of Scripture.
    With rule
    Papists: Their abhominableabominable abuse of Scripture.

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it newly, scandale, is in scripture often and greatly detested, and verie damnable and abhominableabominable, a thing well knowne to them, that are wise and learned in the scriptures …
    With rule
    … it newly, scandale, is in scripture often and greatly detested, and verie damnable and abhominableabominable, a thing well knowne to them, that are wise and learned in the scriptures …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

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

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    … they, wher his bright beāes once apereth, which is ye clere sunne of rightuousnes. AbhominableAbominable lyes & errours did he proue ye high learning of ye bishops & lawyers, as he …
    With rule
    … they, wher his bright beāes once apereth, which is ye clere sunne of rightuousnes. AbhominableAbominable lyes & errours did he proue ye high learning of ye bishops & lawyers, as he …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted A02886

  • Printed
    … bene applyed to that sacrament as it is now vsed. Victime impiorum abominabiles Domino. AbhominableAbominable to y• Lorde are the sacrifyces of the wycked / where as the prayer of …
    With rule
    … bene applyed to that sacrament as it is now vsed. Victime impiorum abominabiles Domino. AbhominableAbominable to y• Lorde are the sacrifyces of the wycked / where as the prayer of …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the same selfe chapter. Quod abominatio Domino est omnis illusor / & cum simplicibus sermocinatio eius. AbhominableAbominable to the Lorde is e…eye disdaynefull scorner / where as the simple disdayned shall …
    With rule
    … the same selfe chapter. Quod abominatio Domino est omnis illusor / & cum simplicibus sermocinatio eius. AbhominableAbominable to the Lorde is e…eye disdaynefull scorner / where as the simple disdayned shall …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to desyre his subiectes to praye for hī in y• same stiking heresye also? AbhominableAbominable is that prayer / whiche riseth out of so stinkinge a desyre. Is not Pantolabus …
    With rule
    … to desyre his subiectes to praye for hī in y• same stiking heresye also? AbhominableAbominable is that prayer / whiche riseth out of so stinkinge a desyre. Is not Pantolabus …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass A14460

  • Printed
    … engliſhed (right honorable) this litle ſhort Treatiſe of the Cawtelles of the moſte Blaſphemous, AbhominableAbominable, and Monſtrous Popiſh Maſſe: And hauing withall well weyed and conſidered that the enemies …
    With rule
    … engliſhed (right honorable) this litle ſhort Treatiſe of the Cawtelles of the moſte Blaſphemous, AbhominableAbominable, and Monſtrous Popiſh Maſſe: And hauing withall well weyed and conſidered that the enemies …

    Pierre Viret · Ceremonies of the Monstrous Popish Mass · Open in the reader

A Sinners Indictment A14766

  • Printed
    … eternall destruction both of body and soule; For the Fearefull, and Vnbeleeuing, and the AbhominableAbominable, & Murtherers, and Whore-mongers, and Sorcerers, and Idolaters, and all Lyers, shall haue their …
    With rule
    … eternall destruction both of body and soule; For the Fearefull, and Vnbeleeuing, and the AbhominableAbominable, & Murtherers, and Whore-mongers, and Sorcerers, and Idolaters, and all Lyers, shall haue their …

    William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 98 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    … deserueth to be abhorred and held as loathsome, for some great spirituall filthinesse. Reuel. 21, 8. AbhominableAbominable, &c.
    With rule
    … deserueth to be abhorred and held as loathsome, for some great spirituall filthinesse. Reuel. 21, 8. AbhominableAbominable, &c.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 2 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

  • Printed
    … not be wiped away: ſo Idolatrie brings reproach upon men, 2 Pet. 4.3. they are cal'd AbhominableAbominable Idolatries, they make the names of men abhominableabominable, as well as their perſons and …
    With rule
    … not be wiped away: ſo Idolatrie brings reproach upon men, 2 Pet. 4.3. they are cal'd AbhominableAbominable Idolatries, they make the names of men abhominableabominable, as well as their perſons and …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 199 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    AbhominableAbominable blaſphemie. 330. a
    With rule
    AbhominableAbominable blaſphemie. 330. a

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

A Serious Review of Presbyters Reordination by Bishops A80852

  • Printed
    … duely followed, yea or their precepts be answered with full and perfect obedience, these AbhominableAbominable RAGS, POLLƲTED GARMENTS, MARKS and SACRAMENTS of IDOLATRY, which Power, as you see, constraineth …
    With rule
    … duely followed, yea or their precepts be answered with full and perfect obedience, these AbhominableAbominable RAGS, POLLƲTED GARMENTS, MARKS and SACRAMENTS of IDOLATRY, which Power, as you see, constraineth …

    Zachary Crofton · A Serious Review of Presbyters Reordination by Bishops · p. 36 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 6-13 A85667

  • Printed
    AbhominableAbominable beaſts.
    With rule
    AbhominableAbominable beaſts.

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 6-13 · p. 161 · Open in the reader