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ignorauntignorant

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

Puritas changed it
978 times in 233 works
Consistency
99.4% (978 of 983)
Reach if approved
~1,033 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ignorant
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
983 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (978 changes in 233 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 978)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … multitude in the wayes of God / and to se that they were not beastlye ignorauntignorant in the holye scrip tures as the most part of them are now a …
    With rule
    … multitude in the wayes of God / and to se that they were not beastlye ignorauntignorant in the holye scrip tures as the most part of them are now a …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it is reported) a traytour to his owne countrey, otherwise altogither vnlearned, and specially ignorauntignorant of the ciuill lawe, was yet for the subtiltie of his witte aduanced to …
    With rule
    … it is reported) a traytour to his owne countrey, otherwise altogither vnlearned, and specially ignorauntignorant of the ciuill lawe, was yet for the subtiltie of his witte aduanced to …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XV · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … such as to whō god geueth knowledge, he requyreth a confessiō, to prouoke the ignorauntignorant to embrace God and his word, or at the least that by the vnderstanding …
    With rule
    … such as to whō god geueth knowledge, he requyreth a confessiō, to prouoke the ignorauntignorant to embrace God and his word, or at the least that by the vnderstanding …

    John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … this to be moſt true: as thei that haue been tempted, can not bee ignorauntignorant. And therefore wee are more then twiſe miſerable, that liue here ſo careleſly and …
    With rule
    … this to be moſt true: as thei that haue been tempted, can not bee ignorauntignorant. And therefore wee are more then twiſe miſerable, that liue here ſo careleſly and …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſhorte inſtruccion and comforte out of the holy ſcripture, to the intent that the ignorauntignorant maye be taughte, the weake ſtrengthed, and euery one counſelled after hys callynge to …
    With rule
    … ſhorte inſtruccion and comforte out of the holy ſcripture, to the intent that the ignorauntignorant maye be taughte, the weake ſtrengthed, and euery one counſelled after hys callynge to …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … blinding the eyes of them that did see: of the booke deliuered to the ignorauntignorant and vnlettered: of healing the blind and the lame: of Ostryches and Dragons glorifiyng …
    With rule
    … blinding the eyes of them that did see: of the booke deliuered to the ignorauntignorant and vnlettered: of healing the blind and the lame: of Ostryches and Dragons glorifiyng …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … creatures, the power of God also worketh, yet it is lesse perceyued of the ignorauntignorant (to whose capacitie these thinges are framed) then in those thinges in which there …
    With rule
    … creatures, the power of God also worketh, yet it is lesse perceyued of the ignorauntignorant (to whose capacitie these thinges are framed) then in those thinges in which there …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … theyr preſence. And there is no greater ſhame, then to ſee olde perſons fooliſhe, ignorauntignorant, vaine, giuen to boyiſhe trickes, and lightneſſe: which ſpoyleth them of all reuerence, and …
    With rule
    … theyr preſence. And there is no greater ſhame, then to ſee olde perſons fooliſhe, ignorauntignorant, vaine, giuen to boyiſhe trickes, and lightneſſe: which ſpoyleth them of all reuerence, and …

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

  • Printed
    … wrote vpon yt as mēne do that gloſe a text. My lorde therfor beynge IgnorauntIgnorant of the true tyttle, ſchuld ſeme to be ignorauntignorant alſo in the contentes of …
    With rule
    … wrote vpon yt as mēne do that gloſe a text. My lorde therfor beynge IgnorauntIgnorant of the true tyttle, ſchuld ſeme to be ignorauntignorant alſo in the contentes of …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 52 · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

  • Printed
    … no knowledge, were dumb Dogs, could not barke, delighted in sleeping, had neuer enough. IgnorauntIgnorant ministers, that oppose themselues against Preachers and preaching, are to bee terrified with the …
    With rule
    … no knowledge, were dumb Dogs, could not barke, delighted in sleeping, had neuer enough. IgnorauntIgnorant ministers, that oppose themselues against Preachers and preaching, are to bee terrified with the …

    Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 91 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Antichristian Catholic A19658

  • Printed
    … God: that behauing your ſelues well, you may ſtop ye mouthes of fooliſh and IgnorauntIgnorant men: as being free, and not hauing the liberty for a cloke of maliciouſnes …
    With rule
    … God: that behauing your ſelues well, you may ſtop ye mouthes of fooliſh and IgnorauntIgnorant men: as being free, and not hauing the liberty for a cloke of maliciouſnes …

    Robert Crowley · Answer to a Popish Antichristian Catholic · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    IgnorauntIgnorant who. 404. b. Popiſhe Prieſtes. 278. a
    With rule
    IgnorauntIgnorant who. 404. b. Popiſhe Prieſtes. 278. a

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader