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speachesspeeches

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

Puritas changed it
1,275 times in 324 works
Consistency
98.3% (1,275 of 1,297)
Reach if approved
~1,363 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: speeches
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,297 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,275 changes in 324 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,275)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … is not this privily brought in…e not therefore deceived by f…re & humble ſpeachesspeeches, for weep… feſte vnto you, that it by this that is already ſaid it …
    With rule
    … is not this privily brought in…e not therefore deceived by f…re & humble ſpeachesspeeches, for weep… feſte vnto you, that it by this that is already ſaid it …

    Thomas Helwys · Admonition Unto Congregations · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … doth give the proper name. Yet I do not deny all vſe of vnproper ſpeachesspeeches. I grant, on ſome occaſion men may ſpeake generally and vndiſtinctly of things, as …
    With rule
    … doth give the proper name. Yet I do not deny all vſe of vnproper ſpeachesspeeches. I grant, on ſome occaſion men may ſpeake generally and vndiſtinctly of things, as …

    Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſhall finde it to true (who turne all their Scriptures into Allegories, and borowed ſpeachesspeeches) when tēptation ſhall trie them, they ſhall haue nothing to vpholde them: though in …
    With rule
    … ſhall finde it to true (who turne all their Scriptures into Allegories, and borowed ſpeachesspeeches) when tēptation ſhall trie them, they ſhall haue nothing to vpholde them: though in …

    John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … many Godly learned men, both in Latin and in Englyshe and in diuerse other speachesspeeches, vnto the great cōfort of all faythfull Christians and vnto ye confusion of Antichrist …
    With rule
    … many Godly learned men, both in Latin and in Englyshe and in diuerse other speachesspeeches, vnto the great cōfort of all faythfull Christians and vnto ye confusion of Antichrist …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … gave the first occasion and birth to the Error of the Anomaei, by certaine speachesspeeches that fell from him, foreign. Not out of any evill minde he had to broach …
    With rule
    … gave the first occasion and birth to the Error of the Anomaei, by certaine speachesspeeches that fell from him, foreign. Not out of any evill minde he had to broach …

    Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to fill with such vanities. But the wiser sort, that are acquainted with figuratiue speachesspeeches, wil thinke it nothing straunge, if words be not alwaies taken in their vsual …
    With rule
    … to fill with such vanities. But the wiser sort, that are acquainted with figuratiue speachesspeeches, wil thinke it nothing straunge, if words be not alwaies taken in their vsual …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 201 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … then, that as this almes & liberalytie to the poore which is but in faire ſpeachesspeeches is colde & doth not help, ſo in like manner ye Faith which is but …
    With rule
    … then, that as this almes & liberalytie to the poore which is but in faire ſpeachesspeeches is colde & doth not help, ſo in like manner ye Faith which is but …

    George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … spirit into an Idoll, breaking our Christian libertye, and so most detestable. By these speachesspeeches I condemne all Churches say you: this is not true, I condemne but the …
    With rule
    … spirit into an Idoll, breaking our Christian libertye, and so most detestable. By these speachesspeeches I condemne all Churches say you: this is not true, I condemne but the …

    John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 85 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

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    … common, will contende agaynst the healthsome remnant; then are wee both to leaue improper SpeachesSpeeches, and, wyselie, to distinguish, deceitfullie-confounded Tymes, and Cases: and properlie to pleade, That …
    With rule
    … common, will contende agaynst the healthsome remnant; then are wee both to leaue improper SpeachesSpeeches, and, wyselie, to distinguish, deceitfullie-confounded Tymes, and Cases: and properlie to pleade, That …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … all-so, to pleade your part. And, it is not so much anie Satyricke SpeachesSpeeches of myne, (as it pleaseth you to call them) which haue marred Eriphilus Mirth …
    With rule
    … all-so, to pleade your part. And, it is not so much anie Satyricke SpeachesSpeeches of myne, (as it pleaseth you to call them) which haue marred Eriphilus Mirth …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the World. For, I see, (Philomathes) that, by your giving Eare, to their charming SpeachesSpeeches, you are, all-readie, put in the Stayes; yea, halfe over-turned. For me …
    With rule
    … the World. For, I see, (Philomathes) that, by your giving Eare, to their charming SpeachesSpeeches, you are, all-readie, put in the Stayes; yea, halfe over-turned. For me …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 159 · Open in the reader

Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame A02358

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    … worthie paines, and happie memories, than CHRIST wished to be done to his heavenlie SpeachesSpeeches; or the Baereans did to the Apostles Preachings. And in a word, Reserving to …
    With rule
    … worthie paines, and happie memories, than CHRIST wished to be done to his heavenlie SpeachesSpeeches; or the Baereans did to the Apostles Preachings. And in a word, Reserving to …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the men of Iabesh, so how they haue (Crow-lyke) picked out manie orthodox SpeachesSpeeches, out of the works of holie Fathers, that were most peremptor against them, making …
    With rule
    … the men of Iabesh, so how they haue (Crow-lyke) picked out manie orthodox SpeachesSpeeches, out of the works of holie Fathers, that were most peremptor against them, making …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    An Example of the seconde, which is a fraudfull Conjunction of diverse SpeachesSpeeches, which are of diverse matters, as if they were one, we haue like-wise …
    With rule
    An Example of the seconde, which is a fraudfull Conjunction of diverse SpeachesSpeeches, which are of diverse matters, as if they were one, we haue like-wise …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 191 · Open in the reader

An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise A16979

  • Printed
    … as I haue printed in myne Epiſtle vvhich you haue. Ther Ezekias hath other SpeachesSpeeches vvhich make this phraſe voyd of all doubt. So in Ezekiel of a mighty …
    With rule
    … as I haue printed in myne Epiſtle vvhich you haue. Ther Ezekias hath other SpeachesSpeeches vvhich make this phraſe voyd of all doubt. So in Ezekiel of a mighty …

    Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · Open in the reader

Grounds of Divinity Study A17000

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    … it into Ebrew: and the other Moſes in S. M. G. Sepher, Mitſvoth Gedoloth. SpeachesSpeeches frō theſe four, vſed while the Temple ſtood, will helpe vs. And now I …
    With rule
    … it into Ebrew: and the other Moſes in S. M. G. Sepher, Mitſvoth Gedoloth. SpeachesSpeeches frō theſe four, vſed while the Temple ſtood, will helpe vs. And now I …

    Hugh Broughton · Grounds of Divinity Study · p. 36 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse A17001

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    3. For Appellatiues, all Attique and eloquent SpeachesSpeeches of them; (as Rom. 12. 3. Paul paſſeth all Athenes) theſe ſhould all come in their …
    With rule
    3. For Appellatiues, all Attique and eloquent SpeachesSpeeches of them; (as Rom. 12. 3. Paul paſſeth all Athenes) theſe ſhould all come in their …

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 120 · Open in the reader

Of Divorce for Adultery A17240

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    … againe, S. 19. Againe, see Adulterie, came to tempt; Deut 24. Malae, 2, Meaning Obiection, Politicall, and SpeachesSpeeches of others.
    With rule
    … againe, S. 19. Againe, see Adulterie, came to tempt; Deut 24. Malae, 2, Meaning Obiection, Politicall, and SpeachesSpeeches of others.

    Edmund Bunny · Of Divorce for Adultery · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

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    … Master vnto his Servauntes; that the obedience, or disobedience, which wee giue to His SpeachesSpeeches, resolveth, directlie, and immediatelie, vpon GOD HIMSELFE. For, vvhat is it else, to heare …
    With rule
    … Master vnto his Servauntes; that the obedience, or disobedience, which wee giue to His SpeachesSpeeches, resolveth, directlie, and immediatelie, vpon GOD HIMSELFE. For, vvhat is it else, to heare …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … heare, and belieue, and obey GOD; but, To heare, and belieue, and obey His SpeachesSpeeches? And, vvhat is it, Nor to take notice of GOD, to despyse, and disobey …
    With rule
    … heare, and belieue, and obey GOD; but, To heare, and belieue, and obey His SpeachesSpeeches? And, vvhat is it, Nor to take notice of GOD, to despyse, and disobey …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of GOD, to despyse, and disobey GOD; but, Not to take notice of His SpeachesSpeeches, not to reade His Wrytings, and not to care for anie thing that Hee …
    With rule
    … of GOD, to despyse, and disobey GOD; but, Not to take notice of His SpeachesSpeeches, not to reade His Wrytings, and not to care for anie thing that Hee …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

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    … taken in vaine: And much more, when the reading of their Blasphemous and Outragious SpeachesSpeeches against the Holy One; of their Profane and Temerarious Abusings and Wrestings of the …
    With rule
    … taken in vaine: And much more, when the reading of their Blasphemous and Outragious SpeachesSpeeches against the Holy One; of their Profane and Temerarious Abusings and Wrestings of the …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … from this, I think, it is clear, that before men have Imaginations, let be SpeachesSpeeches and Actions, they are possessed of this depraved and malignant Seed; for the Efficient …
    With rule
    … from this, I think, it is clear, that before men have Imaginations, let be SpeachesSpeeches and Actions, they are possessed of this depraved and malignant Seed; for the Efficient …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 97 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

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    SpeachesSpeeches may haue twoo faultes in them. 87
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    SpeachesSpeeches may haue twoo faultes in them. 87

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet of Christs Descent to Hell B00104

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    … vertue onlie of the other, that anie entrie into Heaven is. So, that these SpeachesSpeeches, and the scope of them, is onlie to debarre anie confidence in legall observations …
    With rule
    … vertue onlie of the other, that anie entrie into Heaven is. So, that these SpeachesSpeeches, and the scope of them, is onlie to debarre anie confidence in legall observations …

    William Guild · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet of Christs Descent to Hell · p. 110 · Open in the reader