cācan
Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.
- Puritas changed it
- 2,329 times in 440 works
- Consistency
- 98.7% (2,329 of 2,358)
- Reach if approved
- ~2,649 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- No opinion (map not loaded)
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 2,521 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- cā (29)
- Taken into joins
- 158 places (not counted against it)
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,329 changes in 440 works, 98.7% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,329)
- PrintedGraye fryre am I non, by the Messe I cācan not flatter.With ruleGraye fryre am I non, by the Messe I cācan not flatter.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
- Printed… nor ever can be condemnatiō vnto them, works preſumption in men, for iff mē cācan but once get a perſwation in thēſelves, that God hath Elected them then they …With rule… nor ever can be condemnatiō vnto them, works preſumption in men, for iff mē cācan but once get a perſwation in thēſelves, that God hath Elected them then they …
Thomas Helwys · Gods Decree is Not the Cause of Any Mans Sin or Condemnation · Open in the reader
- Printed… in talke, ſith here I meane to geue enſtructions, not amplify abuſes. But this cācan I not diſſemble. Whoremongers and adulterers god will iudge. And that otherwhere hereto Paule …With rule… in talke, ſith here I meane to geue enſtructions, not amplify abuſes. But this cācan I not diſſemble. Whoremongers and adulterers god will iudge. And that otherwhere hereto Paule …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
- Printed… suckling is able to confute the Cardinall, who know by meere sense, that nothing cācan be drunk, but that which is moist, and of liquid substance? Nay, the Cardinal …With rule… suckling is able to confute the Cardinall, who know by meere sense, that nothing cācan be drunk, but that which is moist, and of liquid substance? Nay, the Cardinal …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 102 · Open in the reader
- Printed… Or dare any be so blasphemous as to imagine that the spirit of God cācan be in any without some spiritual operations? have not the children of God the …With rule… Or dare any be so blasphemous as to imagine that the spirit of God cācan be in any without some spiritual operations? have not the children of God the …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 42 · Open in the reader
- Printed… meanly of your knowledge, in the Hebrew tongue. For what I pray you els, cācan Moreh in this place signifie, but a teacher? or where is it euer taken …With rule… meanly of your knowledge, in the Hebrew tongue. For what I pray you els, cācan Moreh in this place signifie, but a teacher? or where is it euer taken …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 125 · Open in the reader
- Printed… defend them to be no ſins. And therfore they are wonderful glad, when they cācan get any colour of matter, to proue that to be lawful, which their fleſh …With rule… defend them to be no ſins. And therfore they are wonderful glad, when they cācan get any colour of matter, to proue that to be lawful, which their fleſh …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
- Printed… tranſgreſsions (thoghe many thinges were obſcure as in ſhadowes and figures: how muche leſſe cācan it excuſe any mā now in ſo great lyght of the Goſpel? Seing then …With rule… tranſgreſsions (thoghe many thinges were obſcure as in ſhadowes and figures: how muche leſſe cācan it excuſe any mā now in ſo great lyght of the Goſpel? Seing then …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 169 · 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.