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wholsomewholesome

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

Puritas changed it
2,690 times in 1,322 works
Consistency
98.7% (2,690 of 2,723)
Reach if approved
~2,861 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wholesome
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,723 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,690 changes in 1,322 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,690)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … on all sides waxen cankred and incurable, that neither indeuoure nor petition, praier, nor wholsomewholesome admonition of any priuate person were able in any respect to auaile. For this …
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    … on all sides waxen cankred and incurable, that neither indeuoure nor petition, praier, nor wholsomewholesome admonition of any priuate person were able in any respect to auaile. For this …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    2 Consider what wholsomewholesome doctrine this student in Diuinitie gathereth out of the Scriptures of God. Dauid not …
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    2 Consider what wholsomewholesome doctrine this student in Diuinitie gathereth out of the Scriptures of God. Dauid not …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vtterly vnfit to watch. Then beloued, let vs giue good heed, and follow this wholſomewholesome counſell which the holie Ghoſt doth here giue vnto vs by this Apoſtle. If …
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    … vtterly vnfit to watch. Then beloued, let vs giue good heed, and follow this wholſomewholesome counſell which the holie Ghoſt doth here giue vnto vs by this Apoſtle. If …

    George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as I taſt them. As they are pleaſant to looke on, ſo they are wholſomewholesome to feed on: As they are ſweet to be taſted, ſo they are eaſie …
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    … as I taſt them. As they are pleaſant to looke on, ſo they are wholſomewholesome to feed on: As they are ſweet to be taſted, ſo they are eaſie …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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    … or other this wanton course of contempt / this rashe ronnyng at large / at ther wholsomewholesome warnynges / least our owne myschefe / sworde / snare / & pryde / be oure confusion / as they were …
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    … or other this wanton course of contempt / this rashe ronnyng at large / at ther wholsomewholesome warnynges / least our owne myschefe / sworde / snare / & pryde / be oure confusion / as they were …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader

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    … for this judgement. This I do infinitely grieve at, (ſaith Auguſtine) that many moſt wholſomewholesome precepts of Divine ſcripture are little regarded, and in the mean time all is …
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    … for this judgement. This I do infinitely grieve at, (ſaith Auguſtine) that many moſt wholſomewholesome precepts of Divine ſcripture are little regarded, and in the mean time all is …

    John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … cloſeſt to the ſoule, though happily it be not ſo toothſome, yet it is wholſomewholesome: therefore ſubmit to any reproofe. It is a ſigne of a good heart that …
    With rule
    … cloſeſt to the ſoule, though happily it be not ſo toothſome, yet it is wholſomewholesome: therefore ſubmit to any reproofe. It is a ſigne of a good heart that …

    Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … soules, to distinguish their true Mother from a false harlot; the sincere milke, and wholsomewholesome brests of the one, from the poysoned dugs of the other: to which end …
    With rule
    … soules, to distinguish their true Mother from a false harlot; the sincere milke, and wholsomewholesome brests of the one, from the poysoned dugs of the other: to which end …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 115 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (33)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Form of Wholesome Words A13014

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    A FORME Of WholſomeWholesome WORDS; OR, AN INTRODUCTION to the Body of Divinity: In three Sermons on 2 TIMOTHY, 1.13.
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    A FORME Of WholſomeWholesome WORDS; OR, AN INTRODUCTION to the Body of Divinity: In three Sermons on 2 TIMOTHY, 1.13.

    John Stoughton · A Form of Wholesome Words · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    2 WholſomeWholesome, for
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    2 WholſomeWholesome, for

    John Stoughton · A Form of Wholesome Words · Open in the reader

Commentary on Titus A13535

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    … his Masters minde: that is, the pure word of God, without mingling or corrupting. WholsomeWholesome food, not drawne out of the poysoned puddles of Popish Friers, or postillars, of …
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    … his Masters minde: that is, the pure word of God, without mingling or corrupting. WholsomeWholesome food, not drawne out of the poysoned puddles of Popish Friers, or postillars, of …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 125 · Open in the reader

The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness A13554

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    … no tenure, nor assurance (out of his idle conceit) to one foote in heaven? 2. WholsomeWholesome Doctrine is the staffe and support of a man in the way to heaven …
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    … no tenure, nor assurance (out of his idle conceit) to one foote in heaven? 2. WholsomeWholesome Doctrine is the staffe and support of a man in the way to heaven …

    Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 127 · Open in the reader

The Vanity of the Creature A23772

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    … tells us, that the Earth is either Fruitful or Barren, and the Air either WholsomeWholesome or Infectious, sutably to that measure and manner of influence they receive from them.
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    … tells us, that the Earth is either Fruitful or Barren, and the Air either WholsomeWholesome or Infectious, sutably to that measure and manner of influence they receive from them.

    Richard Allestree · The Vanity of the Creature · p. 42 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

  • Printed
    WholsomeWholesome Doctrine, Idem.
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    WholsomeWholesome Doctrine, Idem.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    A WholsomeWholesome Word, Tit. 2. 8.
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    A WholsomeWholesome Word, Tit. 2. 8.

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 16 · Open in the reader

A Brief Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes A34666

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    … ſuch as may be moſt fit to gain a ſinner, and heale his ſoule. WholſomeWholesome gaining words are, Firſt, generall terms, eſpecially at firſt, and againſt pretious and gainful …
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    … ſuch as may be moſt fit to gain a ſinner, and heale his ſoule. WholſomeWholesome gaining words are, Firſt, generall terms, eſpecially at firſt, and againſt pretious and gainful …

    John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes · p. 170 · Open in the reader

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    … by diſpenſing ordinances, Jer. 31.15. Secondly, by exemplary converſation, 1 Tim. 4.12. Houſholders teach by Chatechiſing, Prov. 22.6. WholſomeWholesome Diſcipline, Prov. 29.15. and godly example, 1 Chron. 28.19.
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    … by diſpenſing ordinances, Jer. 31.15. Secondly, by exemplary converſation, 1 Tim. 4.12. Houſholders teach by Chatechiſing, Prov. 22.6. WholſomeWholesome Diſcipline, Prov. 29.15. and godly example, 1 Chron. 28.19.

    John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of Ecclesiastes · p. 264 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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    1. WholsomeWholesome, our English Beef and Pork keeping sweet and sound longer then any Flesh of …
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    1. WholsomeWholesome, our English Beef and Pork keeping sweet and sound longer then any Flesh of …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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    … of the Cud of the food of the soul, turning it into Clean and WholsomeWholesome Nourishment. He wrot (beside other works) a book of Meditations, dedicating the same to …
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    … of the Cud of the food of the soul, turning it into Clean and WholsomeWholesome Nourishment. He wrot (beside other works) a book of Meditations, dedicating the same to …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 155 · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

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    … ſo it is Pernicious. There are many things which are bitter, but they are WholſomeWholesome, and do carry a Medicinal quality and property along with them. But this of …
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    … ſo it is Pernicious. There are many things which are bitter, but they are WholſomeWholesome, and do carry a Medicinal quality and property along with them. But this of …

    Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jonah A46743

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    … muſt go for Benhadads life, becauſe he let go a man worthy to die: WholſomeWholesome ſeverity is as neceſſary as mercy and kindneſs; that offendors be puniſhed according to …
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    … muſt go for Benhadads life, becauſe he let go a man worthy to die: WholſomeWholesome ſeverity is as neceſſary as mercy and kindneſs; that offendors be puniſhed according to …

    William Jemmat · Exposition of Jonah · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Hebrews 6-10 A53678

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    … But the warning it self contained in the Commination, was, as he shews, Good, WholsomeWholesome and Seasonable. And of this his Hope and Judgment concerning the Hebrews, he expresseth …
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    … But the warning it self contained in the Commination, was, as he shews, Good, WholsomeWholesome and Seasonable. And of this his Hope and Judgment concerning the Hebrews, he expresseth …

    John Owen · Exposition of Hebrews 6-10 · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Unreasonableness of Separation A61632

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    … deal Vprightly and Iustly, to Guide their Families in the Fear of God, with WholsomeWholesome Instructions, and to stand fast in the Calling in which God hath set them …
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    … deal Vprightly and Iustly, to Guide their Families in the Fear of God, with WholsomeWholesome Instructions, and to stand fast in the Calling in which God hath set them …

    Edward Stillingfleet · The Unreasonableness of Separation · p. 27 · Open in the reader

Thirty-Six Sermons A62128

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    … be able to discern (at any certainty) good from evil, or truth from falshood. WholsomeWholesome therefore is St. Peters advice, to add unto faith Vertue. Vertue will not only …
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    … be able to discern (at any certainty) good from evil, or truth from falshood. WholsomeWholesome therefore is St. Peters advice, to add unto faith Vertue. Vertue will not only …

    Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 488 · Open in the reader

Twenty Sermons A62137

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    … or Indiscretion in the pulpit, will sowre a great lump of Truth and of WholsomeWholesome doctrine: As also because personal matters can hardly be so dealt in, (especially in …
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    … or Indiscretion in the pulpit, will sowre a great lump of Truth and of WholsomeWholesome doctrine: As also because personal matters can hardly be so dealt in, (especially in …

    Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 94 · Open in the reader

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    … be able to discern (at any certainty) good from evil, or truth from falshood. WholsomeWholesome therefore is S. Peters advice, to add unto Faith Vertue. Vertue will not only …
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    … be able to discern (at any certainty) good from evil, or truth from falshood. WholsomeWholesome therefore is S. Peters advice, to add unto Faith Vertue. Vertue will not only …

    Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 185 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John A63065

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    … who moves upon the face of theſe waters, ſtirs them, and makes them medicinable, WholſomeWholesome words ſuch as have a healing property in them, as the word ſignifies. For …
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    … who moves upon the face of theſe waters, ſtirs them, and makes them medicinable, WholſomeWholesome words ſuch as have a healing property in them, as the word ſignifies. For …

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 708 · Open in the reader

Englands Unthankfulness Striving with Gods Goodness A67748

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    The sight of our filihyness is the first step toward cleanness. WholsomeWholesome medicins will for the present bite, and offend: yet afterwards, they bring health and …
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    The sight of our filihyness is the first step toward cleanness. WholsomeWholesome medicins will for the present bite, and offend: yet afterwards, they bring health and …

    Richard Younge · Englands Unthankfulness Striving with Gods Goodness · p. 70 · Open in the reader

A True State of the Case of Mr Hotham A86588

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    … Committee, hath by ſome undue information, procured your Order for his exemption from this WholſomeWholesome Ordinance, which we hope will upon more mature deliberation prove far from your honorable …
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    … Committee, hath by ſome undue information, procured your Order for his exemption from this WholſomeWholesome Ordinance, which we hope will upon more mature deliberation prove far from your honorable …

    Charles Hotham · A True State of the Case of Mr Hotham · p. 18 · Open in the reader

Plea for the Lords A91243

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    … the Realm, that the ſaid Lords WOULD COUNSEL and ſhew Him their advice and WHOLSOMEWHOLESOME COUNSEL IN THIS BEHALF SEVERALLY & INTIRELY without diſſimulation, or adulation, having regard to the …
    With rule
    … the Realm, that the ſaid Lords WOULD COUNSEL and ſhew Him their advice and WHOLSOMEWHOLESOME COUNSEL IN THIS BEHALF SEVERALLY & INTIRELY without diſſimulation, or adulation, having regard to the …

    William Prynne · Plea for the Lords · p. 20 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Pentateuch A94797

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    … reading Livy, Curtius, Aventinus, &c. What may we think may be done by theſe WholſomeWholesome words, theſe healing hiſtories, if rightly regarded?
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    … reading Livy, Curtius, Aventinus, &c. What may we think may be done by theſe WholſomeWholesome words, theſe healing hiſtories, if rightly regarded?

    John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 82 · Open in the reader

An Exhortation to All N01408

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    … without Inciſion;) Yet the Growth of it is Pleaſant and the fruit Sweet, and WholſomeWholesome, even as the fruit of the Vine, refreſhing the Heart of God and Man …
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    … without Inciſion;) Yet the Growth of it is Pleaſant and the fruit Sweet, and WholſomeWholesome, even as the fruit of the Vine, refreſhing the Heart of God and Man …

    Samuel Danforth · An Exhortation to All · p. 4 · Open in the reader

Twelve Single Sermons N01630

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    Sermon, V. WholſomeWholesome COUNSELS and WARNINGS, Occaſion'd By the SIN of YOƲNG MEN.
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    Sermon, V. WholſomeWholesome COUNSELS and WARNINGS, Occaſion'd By the SIN of YOƲNG MEN.

    Benjamin Wadsworth · Twelve Single Sermons · p. 79 · Open in the reader