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seruauntservant

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

Puritas changed it: 1,632 times in 284 works
Consistency: 96.8% (1,632 of 1,686)
Reach if approved: ~1,772 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: servant
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,686 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,632 changes in 284 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,632)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… crueltye, and forsakyng goddes moste holye woorde: And he is called in scrypture goddes seruauntservant. It is no good argument He hathe the vyctorye, Ergo he is a good …
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… crueltye, and forsakyng goddes moste holye woorde: And he is called in scrypture goddes seruauntservant. It is no good argument He hathe the vyctorye, Ergo he is a good …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drynke, and clothing, for men ſeruaunts and mayde ſeruauntes. But it chaunceth that his ſeruauntservant falleth ſicke, Here the lawe muſt be broken, and tyme muſt be ſerued. He …
With rule
… drynke, and clothing, for men ſeruaunts and mayde ſeruauntes. But it chaunceth that his ſeruauntservant falleth ſicke, Here the lawe muſt be broken, and tyme muſt be ſerued. He …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
Which as hée ſpake, a ſeruauntservant of one of the Bayliffes, threwe a faggot at his face, that the bloud …
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Which as hée ſpake, a ſeruauntservant of one of the Bayliffes, threwe a faggot at his face, that the bloud …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Scripture? Put out the seruauntservant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruauntservant shall not be heyre with the sonne of the free woman.
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… the Scripture? Put out the seruauntservant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruauntservant shall not be heyre with the sonne of the free woman.
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader
Printed
… say a man may stand in bondage to open knowen sinne, and the free seruauntservant of Christ by outward profession, both at one instant. 2, That it is a falsifying …
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… say a man may stand in bondage to open knowen sinne, and the free seruauntservant of Christ by outward profession, both at one instant. 2, That it is a falsifying …
John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whych I afore tyme by readynge the scriptures haue dylygently marked in Moyses the seruauntservant of God, I haue vrgently bene moued vndre God and our kynge to seke …
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… whych I afore tyme by readynge the scriptures haue dylygently marked in Moyses the seruauntservant of God, I haue vrgently bene moued vndre God and our kynge to seke …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… double, & then ſhall it come to paſſe which happened vnto Cerylus, which of a ſeruauntservant was waxen rich, and ſo inſolent, that he changed his name into Laches, to …
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… double, & then ſhall it come to paſſe which happened vnto Cerylus, which of a ſeruauntservant was waxen rich, and ſo inſolent, that he changed his name into Laches, to …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeruāt / o Lorde that thou wilte build an houſe for hym / and therefore thy ſeruauntservant hath founde conueniēt matter to pray in thy preſence. Now ſo o Lord God …
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… ſeruāt / o Lorde that thou wilte build an houſe for hym / and therefore thy ſeruauntservant hath founde conueniēt matter to pray in thy preſence. Now ſo o Lord God …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (54)

43 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 34 are listed here. 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments A00416

Printed
SeruauntServant.
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SeruauntServant.
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians A06492

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Paule in this place taketh this word SeruauntServant otherwiſe then he did before in the .3. chapt. where he ſayeth: There is neither …
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Paule in this place taketh this word SeruauntServant otherwiſe then he did before in the .3. chapt. where he ſayeth: There is neither …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 185 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… needeth not to got farre to dooe other Woorkes. What thy Maiſter commaundeth his SeruauntServant, or the Maiſtreſſe her Maide, that hath God commaunded to be doen of thee …
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… needeth not to got farre to dooe other Woorkes. What thy Maiſter commaundeth his SeruauntServant, or the Maiſtreſſe her Maide, that hath God commaunded to be doen of thee …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that my Lorde Ieſus Chriſte for the redemption and freedome of me, became a SeruauntServant.
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… that my Lorde Ieſus Chriſte for the redemption and freedome of me, became a SeruauntServant.
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… commaundement of GOD, that the Maiſter ſhould miniſter and bee at becke to his SeruauntServant, nor that the Handmaide ſhould haue the rule ouer her Miſtreſſe, or that the …
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… commaundement of GOD, that the Maiſter ſhould miniſter and bee at becke to his SeruauntServant, nor that the Handmaide ſhould haue the rule ouer her Miſtreſſe, or that the …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and lawfullie maie repute and accoumpt himſelf in higher degree of calling then his SeruauntServant: but a man maie not lift vp himſelf in the pride of his harte …
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… and lawfullie maie repute and accoumpt himſelf in higher degree of calling then his SeruauntServant: but a man maie not lift vp himſelf in the pride of his harte …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his harte (if it ſo ſeemed good to the Lorde) euen to bee a SeruauntServant. This inwarde perſwaſion ought alſo to be in the godlie, in euery ſtate and …
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… his harte (if it ſo ſeemed good to the Lorde) euen to bee a SeruauntServant. This inwarde perſwaſion ought alſo to be in the godlie, in euery ſtate and …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 98 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ecclesiastes A06504

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Leaſt thou perhappes here thy SeruauntServant curſſe thee.
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Leaſt thou perhappes here thy SeruauntServant curſſe thee.
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution A09887

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… If you be a Diſciple, you muſt follow your maiſter; If you are a SeruauntServant, you muſt obey your Lord: and if you be the Child of God, you …
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… If you be a Diſciple, you muſt follow your maiſter; If you are a SeruauntServant, you muſt obey your Lord: and if you be the Child of God, you …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 202 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics A13877

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… vnto them, what profeſſour is it that ſhould not obeye them: but ſuche a SeruauntServant as will be better then his Lorde, and ſuche a Scholler as will bee …
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… vnto them, what profeſſour is it that ſhould not obeye them: but ſuche a SeruauntServant as will be better then his Lorde, and ſuche a Scholler as will bee …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 133 · Open in the reader
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… forbidding the breaking of the Sabboth day, in euery Sonne and Daughter, in euery SeruauntServant and Mayde in Iſraell, with out exception of any, yea in euery ſtranger within …
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… forbidding the breaking of the Sabboth day, in euery Sonne and Daughter, in euery SeruauntServant and Mayde in Iſraell, with out exception of any, yea in euery ſtranger within …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 288 · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

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… Seruant, is the Lordes Free-man: But learne that the propertye of a good SeruauntServant, is to giue all reuerence to his master, obeying him in all thinges, and …
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… Seruant, is the Lordes Free-man: But learne that the propertye of a good SeruauntServant, is to giue all reuerence to his master, obeying him in all thinges, and …
Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 125 · Open in the reader

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

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… meanes that hee vsed to confirme him therein, were diuers: first by a speciall SeruauntServant of his; then, by himselfe. In that first hee did it by one speciall …
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… meanes that hee vsed to confirme him therein, were diuers: first by a speciall SeruauntServant of his; then, by himselfe. In that first hee did it by one speciall …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in proportion was betwixt the owners of them, God the Lord, and Salomon his SeruauntServant. Againe, though so it might gaine the aduantage in length; yet could in not …
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… in proportion was betwixt the owners of them, God the Lord, and Salomon his SeruauntServant. Againe, though so it might gaine the aduantage in length; yet could in not …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 341 · Open in the reader
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… to make so light of a curse going before, though but of any one SeruauntServant of God: and much more to take heede, when so many, so wise and …
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… to make so light of a curse going before, though but of any one SeruauntServant of God: and much more to take heede, when so many, so wise and …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 374 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by decaying the stomacke; seeing God himselfe, in so great a famine, allowed his SeruauntServant two meales a day, it may stand in such like case for a rule …
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… by decaying the stomacke; seeing God himselfe, in so great a famine, allowed his SeruauntServant two meales a day, it may stand in such like case for a rule …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 374 · Open in the reader
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… then went the Prophet himselfe praesently with her: not tarrying to see whether his SeruauntServant had doone it or not (for hee met him by the way) but readyly …
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… then went the Prophet himselfe praesently with her: not tarrying to see whether his SeruauntServant had doone it or not (for hee met him by the way) but readyly …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 406 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A17643

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… not the madnes of his Countriemen, and to take heed to him ſelfe. A SeruauntServant of Ieſus &c. Hee adorneth himſelfe with theſe titles, that hee might gette authoritie …
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… not the madnes of his Countriemen, and to take heed to him ſelfe. A SeruauntServant of Ieſus &c. Hee adorneth himſelfe with theſe titles, that hee might gette authoritie …
John Calvin · Commentary on Romans · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Colossians A17648

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… vncertaine who this Oneſimus was. for it is ſcant credible, that this is that SeruauntServant of Philemon, becauſe the name of a Theefe and a runne awaye had bene …
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… vncertaine who this Oneſimus was. for it is ſcant credible, that this is that SeruauntServant of Philemon, becauſe the name of a Theefe and a runne awaye had bene …
John Calvin · Commentary on Colossians · p. 81 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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Thine vnfayned, T. W. the Lord his vnvvoorthie SeruauntServant.
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Thine vnfayned, T. W. the Lord his vnvvoorthie SeruauntServant.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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… confesseth it with his owne mouth, saying: Lorde, enter not into account with thy SeruauntServant, for no man liuing shall bee iustified in thy sight. There Dauid speaketh not …
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… confesseth it with his owne mouth, saying: Lorde, enter not into account with thy SeruauntServant, for no man liuing shall bee iustified in thy sight. There Dauid speaketh not …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 938 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 A17724

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O ſeeke the SeruauntServant, for I doe not forget thy commaundements.
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O ſeeke the SeruauntServant, for I doe not forget thy commaundements.
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 189 · Open in the reader

Two Godly and Learned Sermons A17725

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… no fault in my ſelfe, as touching my preaching: but that as an vnprofitable SeruauntServant, I dyd not ſo much as I ought to haue doone, although I had …
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… no fault in my ſelfe, as touching my preaching: but that as an vnprofitable SeruauntServant, I dyd not ſo much as I ought to haue doone, although I had …
John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

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… times, the verie name of a Husbande, or Wife, Father or Sonne, Maiſter or SeruauntServant, &c. doth greatly ſo much helpe to perſwade the mind, and to winne the …
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… times, the verie name of a Husbande, or Wife, Father or Sonne, Maiſter or SeruauntServant, &c. doth greatly ſo much helpe to perſwade the mind, and to winne the …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 389 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

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… to his ſpirituall Father. But after the Apoſtle vnderſtood that hee was another Mans SeruauntServant, and belonged vnto him, as it were a part of his poſſeſſion, though he …
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… to his ſpirituall Father. But after the Apoſtle vnderſtood that hee was another Mans SeruauntServant, and belonged vnto him, as it were a part of his poſſeſſion, though he …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 4 · Open in the reader
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… reioyceth in God her Sauiour, Becauſe he looked on the poore degree of his SeruauntServant, and had doone great thinges for her: Hee pulleth downe the mightie from their …
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… reioyceth in God her Sauiour, Becauſe he looked on the poore degree of his SeruauntServant, and had doone great thinges for her: Hee pulleth downe the mightie from their …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 5 · Open in the reader
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… Salomon ſpeaketh in another place, The Rich ruleth the poore, and the borrower is SeruauntServant to the Man that lendeth. Whereby hee meaneth, that commonly it falleth out among …
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… Salomon ſpeaketh in another place, The Rich ruleth the poore, and the borrower is SeruauntServant to the Man that lendeth. Whereby hee meaneth, that commonly it falleth out among …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 384 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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… is geuen vnto them not onely to beleeue, but also to suffer. And the SeruauntServant or Scholer can not be greater then his Lord or Mayster: but by the …
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… is geuen vnto them not onely to beleeue, but also to suffer. And the SeruauntServant or Scholer can not be greater then his Lord or Mayster: but by the …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2030 · Open in the reader
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SeruauntServant of a certayne marchaunt burnt at Leicester. 1914
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SeruauntServant of a certayne marchaunt burnt at Leicester. 1914
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader
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SeruauntServant of a certeine Taylour in Lipsa, his terrible end. 2106
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SeruauntServant of a certeine Taylour in Lipsa, his terrible end. 2106
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain A68098

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From LONDON, The x of May, 1566. Miles your olde SeruauntServant.
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From LONDON, The x of May, 1566. Miles your olde SeruauntServant.
Anthony Gilby · Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain · Open in the reader

The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric A68157

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SeruauntServant to the customer .36.
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SeruauntServant to the customer .36.
John Bale · The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

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… as there is no more eyther riche or poore, there is no more any SeruauntServant or Mayster: thoſe that haue troubled the worlde holde themſelues in quiet: and they …
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… as there is no more eyther riche or poore, there is no more any SeruauntServant or Mayster: thoſe that haue troubled the worlde holde themſelues in quiet: and they …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 57 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

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… Countie of Suffolk. &c. Hys ſingular good Lorde and Maſter. Iohn Daus his obedient SeruauntServant wiſſheth health and peace in the Lorde with thincreaſe of honor and dignitye.
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… Countie of Suffolk. &c. Hys ſingular good Lorde and Maſter. Iohn Daus his obedient SeruauntServant wiſſheth health and peace in the Lorde with thincreaſe of honor and dignitye.
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · Open in the reader