theefethief
Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.
- Puritas changed it
- 2,363 times in 678 works
- Consistency
- 100% (2,363 of 2,363)
- Reach if approved
- ~2,486 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- Agrees: thief
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 2,366 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,363 changes in 678 works, 100% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,363)
- Printed… as they speake, and that they speake with sorow and griefe. For, will a TheefeThief purpose to steale agayne, when he is to be hanged? Will a childe purpose …With rule… as they speake, and that they speake with sorow and griefe. For, will a TheefeThief purpose to steale agayne, when he is to be hanged? Will a childe purpose …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
- Printed… another, callinge each other wt sharpe despite and bitter reproche, Antichriste, scismatick, heretick, tyrant, theefethief, traytour, vniust, wic…ed sower of darnel in Gods Haruest, and the cursed sonne …With rule… another, callinge each other wt sharpe despite and bitter reproche, Antichriste, scismatick, heretick, tyrant, theefethief, traytour, vniust, wic…ed sower of darnel in Gods Haruest, and the cursed sonne …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
- Printed… next words following, viz. But the day of the Lord will come as a theefethief in the night, in which the heauens ſhall paſſe away with a great noiſe …With rule… next words following, viz. But the day of the Lord will come as a theefethief in the night, in which the heauens ſhall paſſe away with a great noiſe …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 69 · Open in the reader
- Printed… to the ground: Luc. 12.50. & 22.44. and ſhall a little ſo trouble vs, who (as the theefethief ſaid to his fellow) receaue things worthie of that we haue done, where Chriſt …With rule… to the ground: Luc. 12.50. & 22.44. and ſhall a little ſo trouble vs, who (as the theefethief ſaid to his fellow) receaue things worthie of that we haue done, where Chriſt …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 76 · Open in the reader
- Printed… ſlave, mocked like a foole, ſpit upon like a made man, whipt like a theefethief, crucified like a traitour; make up a miſery, that the ſun ſhamed, the earth …With rule… ſlave, mocked like a foole, ſpit upon like a made man, whipt like a theefethief, crucified like a traitour; make up a miſery, that the ſun ſhamed, the earth …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 508 · Open in the reader
- Printed… of any man questioned in this Sacriledge; Aske my father if I bee a theefethief? When Dauid decided the matter to Mephibosheth; Thou and Ziba diuide the land: he …With rule… of any man questioned in this Sacriledge; Aske my father if I bee a theefethief? When Dauid decided the matter to Mephibosheth; Thou and Ziba diuide the land: he …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 149 · Open in the reader
- Printed… a greater mischiefe, may make a man yeeld to giue his purse to a theefethief, or to cast his wares into the sea, which otherwise he ought not to …With rule… a greater mischiefe, may make a man yeeld to giue his purse to a theefethief, or to cast his wares into the sea, which otherwise he ought not to …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 86 · Open in the reader
- Printed… the end overtake thee, and that when thou leaſt thinkeſt of it, as a theefethief in the night, when thou art aſleepe, yet dreameſt not of it, 2 Theſ. 5. when …With rule… the end overtake thee, and that when thou leaſt thinkeſt of it, as a theefethief in the night, when thou art aſleepe, yet dreameſt not of it, 2 Theſ. 5. when …
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 41 · 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.