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tearmesterms

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

Puritas changed it
2,146 times in 743 works
Consistency
97.6% (2,146 of 2,198)
Reach if approved
~2,309 places (estimated)
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Agrees: terms
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,198 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,146 changes in 743 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,146)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … he ſtandes: This I am ſure, that he ſtandes vpon the beſt and ſafeſt tearmesterms, who can ſay touching his hope and comfort in Chriſt Ieſus, This I haue …
    With rule
    … he ſtandes: This I am ſure, that he ſtandes vpon the beſt and ſafeſt tearmesterms, who can ſay touching his hope and comfort in Chriſt Ieſus, This I haue …

    Samuel Hieron · The Doctrines Trial · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … able to appale with the cloudinesse of their looke; how far they exceed the tearmesterms wherewith mans nature should bee limited; how high they beare their heades over others …
    With rule
    … able to appale with the cloudinesse of their looke; how far they exceed the tearmesterms wherewith mans nature should bee limited; how high they beare their heades over others …

    Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Nature of Pride · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Morrall, though in our report… and yeere-bookes they come not vnder the ſame tearmesterms, yet the things which ther… you finde are the ſame; for the ſparkes o …
    With rule
    … Morrall, though in our report… and yeere-bookes they come not vnder the ſame tearmesterms, yet the things which ther… you finde are the ſame; for the ſparkes o …

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … obtained by faithe alone. Sainct Augustine, although he doe not so often repeate the tearmesterms of faithe alone, yet no writer more often, nor more substancially setteth forthe the …
    With rule
    … obtained by faithe alone. Sainct Augustine, although he doe not so often repeate the tearmesterms of faithe alone, yet no writer more often, nor more substancially setteth forthe the …

    William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … as those are; and there is impious iniquity therefore (to vse Mr. Bs. tragicall tearmesterms) by his Grounds, as well in the one as in the other. But it …
    With rule
    … as those are; and there is impious iniquity therefore (to vse Mr. Bs. tragicall tearmesterms) by his Grounds, as well in the one as in the other. But it …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our Superiours so judge of? Nay, then they should deliver their distinction in other tearmesterms, and say thus: If our Superiours injoyne any thing which they judge to be …
    With rule
    … our Superiours so judge of? Nay, then they should deliver their distinction in other tearmesterms, and say thus: If our Superiours injoyne any thing which they judge to be …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Supremacie, layeth no lesse to their charge, than Fra…d… and Falsehood, in expresse tearmesterms.
    With rule
    … Supremacie, layeth no lesse to their charge, than Fra…d… and Falsehood, in expresse tearmesterms.

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 231 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … follow your rayling humour and spare not, I like better to beare your hard tearmesterms, then that you should loose your occupation. Onely let me tell you, that if …
    With rule
    … follow your rayling humour and spare not, I like better to beare your hard tearmesterms, then that you should loose your occupation. Onely let me tell you, that if …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (52)

42 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 33 are listed here. 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The City of Peace A01085

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    And what doth the winner get, that at the TearmesTerms end, hee may bragge of his gaines? Doth hee not come home dry-founderd …
    With rule
    And what doth the winner get, that at the TearmesTerms end, hee may bragge of his gaines? Doth hee not come home dry-founderd …

    Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 101 · Open in the reader

Nature and Use of Lots A01545

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    The former may againe be sorted into two rankes according to the two TearmesTerms of the thing questioned, A Lot vsed in recreation, or Recreation by a Lot …
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    The former may againe be sorted into two rankes according to the two TearmesTerms of the thing questioned, A Lot vsed in recreation, or Recreation by a Lot …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    First the principall Syllogisme it selfe is not sound, there are foure TearmesTerms, as they say, in it. I shew it by the like Paralogisme built of …
    With rule
    First the principall Syllogisme it selfe is not sound, there are foure TearmesTerms, as they say, in it. I shew it by the like Paralogisme built of …

    Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 142 · Open in the reader

Of Justification By Faith A09274

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    … which was not in the Praemises. For Reason will teach them, that where two TearmesTerms are immediately opposite, if one bee taken away, the other remaines alone. So that …
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    … which was not in the Praemises. For Reason will teach them, that where two TearmesTerms are immediately opposite, if one bee taken away, the other remaines alone. So that …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … remaines alone. So that in euery disjunctiue Syllogisme, whose Maior Proposition standeth vpon two TearmesTerms immediately opposite: if one be remoued in the Minor, the Conclusion is plainely equivalent …
    With rule
    … remaines alone. So that in euery disjunctiue Syllogisme, whose Maior Proposition standeth vpon two TearmesTerms immediately opposite: if one be remoued in the Minor, the Conclusion is plainely equivalent …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … or the godly. But the wicked are not saued. Thence it followes in exclusiue TearmesTerms, Therefore the godly onely are saued. Our Aduersaries cannot deny, but that the Proposition …
    With rule
    … or the godly. But the wicked are not saued. Thence it followes in exclusiue TearmesTerms, Therefore the godly onely are saued. Our Aduersaries cannot deny, but that the Proposition …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … that the Proposition [A Man is iustified by workes, or by Faith,] consists of TearmesTerms immediately opposite. For else they accuse the Apostle Paul of want of Logicke, who …
    With rule
    … that the Proposition [A Man is iustified by workes, or by Faith,] consists of TearmesTerms immediately opposite. For else they accuse the Apostle Paul of want of Logicke, who …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … committed any Sinne at all. Darest thou indeed stand to it, and vpon these TearmesTerms appeare in Gods Iudgment? Darest thou abide the strictnesse of this examination standing ready …
    With rule
    … committed any Sinne at all. Darest thou indeed stand to it, and vpon these TearmesTerms appeare in Gods Iudgment? Darest thou abide the strictnesse of this examination standing ready …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 98 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

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    … Play-haunters now; they hate, revile and slander, all zealous, practicall Christians, under the TearmesTerms of Puritanes, Prescitians, Novellers, Factionists, Holy-breathren, Men of the Spirit, Bible-beares, Sermon …
    With rule
    … Play-haunters now; they hate, revile and slander, all zealous, practicall Christians, under the TearmesTerms of Puritanes, Prescitians, Novellers, Factionists, Holy-breathren, Men of the Spirit, Bible-beares, Sermon …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

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    … which have their light in themselves, and are knowne by evidence of their owne TearmesTerms. Others derived and deduced by argumentation from those Principles, which is the Knowledge of …
    With rule
    … which have their light in themselves, and are knowne by evidence of their owne TearmesTerms. Others derived and deduced by argumentation from those Principles, which is the Knowledge of …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 455 · Open in the reader

Sermons in One Volume A12406

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    … like a queſt of twelue men, vntill they conſent vppon lawe, before anie moe TearmesTerms paſſe, to giue God his right, and let him take the heart which hee …
    With rule
    … like a queſt of twelue men, vntill they conſent vppon lawe, before anie moe TearmesTerms paſſe, to giue God his right, and let him take the heart which hee …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 286 · Open in the reader

The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition A13017

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    … of God: For the further explication of which I ſuppoſe the meaning of the TearmesTerms, as facil and eaſie, and conceived by every one in this place, to be …
    With rule
    … of God: For the further explication of which I ſuppoſe the meaning of the TearmesTerms, as facil and eaſie, and conceived by every one in this place, to be …

    John Stoughton · The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition · p. 104 · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

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    … consequence is easie to bee perceaved, is distinguished by Figures, according to their numbers. TearmesTerms of Arte I haue eschewed, because I would bee playne to all. I haue …
    With rule
    … consequence is easie to bee perceaved, is distinguished by Figures, according to their numbers. TearmesTerms of Arte I haue eschewed, because I would bee playne to all. I haue …

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

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

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    … Lawes are compelled to vſe ſo many wordes, and to heap vp ſo many TearmesTerms, that thereby they might heale this ſore, and remedie this miſchiefe. Let vs not …
    With rule
    … Lawes are compelled to vſe ſo many wordes, and to heap vp ſo many TearmesTerms, that thereby they might heale this ſore, and remedie this miſchiefe. Let vs not …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 387 · Open in the reader

The Appeal of Injured Innocence A40651

  • Printed
    … Writers of Civill Dissentions are sometimes necessitated for differencing of Parties, to use those TearmesTerms they do not approve.
    With rule
    … Writers of Civill Dissentions are sometimes necessitated for differencing of Parties, to use those TearmesTerms they do not approve.

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 49 · Open in the reader

A Brief Discourse of Mans Estate A45654

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    Fourthly, for the TearmesTerms, they are very free and gracious. Firſt, let fall all other hopes, and cry …
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    Fourthly, for the TearmesTerms, they are very free and gracious. Firſt, let fall all other hopes, and cry …

    Robert Harris · A Brief Discourse of Mans Estate · p. 133 · Open in the reader

Several Sermons A45658

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    Fourthly, for the TearmesTerms, they are very free and gracious. Firſt, let fall all other hopes, and cry …
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    Fourthly, for the TearmesTerms, they are very free and gracious. Firſt, let fall all other hopes, and cry …

    Robert Harris · Several Sermons · p. 69 · Open in the reader

Instructions About Right Believing A75538

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    … thus doing, and ſo of Faith, is Gods free offer of Chriſt, on theſe TearmesTerms, thus to be had, with his promiſe of Salvation by Him to all that …
    With rule
    … thus doing, and ſo of Faith, is Gods free offer of Chriſt, on theſe TearmesTerms, thus to be had, with his promiſe of Salvation by Him to all that …

    Henry Archer · Instructions About Right Believing · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the moſt doe obtaine it, becauſe they uſe not the Meanes, accept not the TearmesTerms & Cōditions.
    With rule
    … the moſt doe obtaine it, becauſe they uſe not the Meanes, accept not the TearmesTerms & Cōditions.

    Henry Archer · Instructions About Right Believing · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … People, Luke 2. 10. Now if Salvation might not be had by All, on the ſame TearmesTerms, then were it not glad Tidings to All, But this makes it glad Tydings …
    With rule
    … People, Luke 2. 10. Now if Salvation might not be had by All, on the ſame TearmesTerms, then were it not glad Tidings to All, But this makes it glad Tydings …

    Henry Archer · Instructions About Right Believing · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to ſhew that None be excluded; out of the Offer, but on the ſame TearmesTerms any one whatever may come & injoye Chriſt.
    With rule
    … to ſhew that None be excluded; out of the Offer, but on the ſame TearmesTerms any one whatever may come & injoye Chriſt.

    Henry Archer · Instructions About Right Believing · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Him, and give up your Selves to Him in all his Offices; upon theſe TearmesTerms, He may be had by any of you; It is moſt probable there be …
    With rule
    … Him, and give up your Selves to Him in all his Offices; upon theſe TearmesTerms, He may be had by any of you; It is moſt probable there be …

    Henry Archer · Instructions About Right Believing · p. 45 · Open in the reader

The Bloody Tenant Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb A80608

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    … Baniſhment at all, and ſuch as were cauſes, were not delivered in ſuch generall TearmesTerms. For in univerſalibus latet Dolus. It is evident the two latter cauſes which he …
    With rule
    … Baniſhment at all, and ſuch as were cauſes, were not delivered in ſuch generall TearmesTerms. For in univerſalibus latet Dolus. It is evident the two latter cauſes which he …

    John Cotton · The Bloody Tenant Washed and Made White in the Blood of the Lamb · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Protestation of George Lawrence A88806

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    … Phariſees are obſerved to ſtigmatize, and agnominize, Chriſt and his Diſciples, with the reproachfull TearmesTerms of Deceivers and Seducers, while they themſelves ſeduce, and lead about ſylly creatures, creeping …
    With rule
    … Phariſees are obſerved to ſtigmatize, and agnominize, Chriſt and his Diſciples, with the reproachfull TearmesTerms of Deceivers and Seducers, while they themſelves ſeduce, and lead about ſylly creatures, creeping …

    George Lawrence · Protestation of George Lawrence · Open in the reader

The Opening of the Great Seal of England A91237

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    … a forgery, or a charter granted only in merriment; which Raſt all in his TearmesTerms of the law, f. 80. attributes rather to King Edward the third, then to the …
    With rule
    … a forgery, or a charter granted only in merriment; which Raſt all in his TearmesTerms of the law, f. 80. attributes rather to King Edward the third, then to the …

    William Prynne · The Opening of the Great Seal of England · p. 7 · Open in the reader

A Voyage to East India A95658

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    … being an Hidalgo, it was very diſhonorable for him to take entertainment upon the TearmesTerms he had it, and therefore deſired us to make a little Purſe for him …
    With rule
    … being an Hidalgo, it was very diſhonorable for him to take entertainment upon the TearmesTerms he had it, and therefore deſired us to make a little Purſe for him …

    Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Diviſion and ſubdiviſion are TearmesTerms that have their uſe in Arithmetick, but they are dangerous to be heard of …
    With rule
    Diviſion and ſubdiviſion are TearmesTerms that have their uſe in Arithmetick, but they are dangerous to be heard of …

    Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 469 · Open in the reader

The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody A96610

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    … Martyrdome to their ſuffrings] He defendeth ſuch Language by the Scripture Freedome in ſuch TearmesTerms againſt Sinners, which ſayth he, the Diſcuſſer acknowledgeth.
    With rule
    … Martyrdome to their ſuffrings] He defendeth ſuch Language by the Scripture Freedome in ſuch TearmesTerms againſt Sinners, which ſayth he, the Diſcuſſer acknowledgeth.

    Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 198 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … freely, by which they get better bargaines, then if they ſtood ſtiffly on their TearmesTerms of Anaqúſhento, or Trading: And when not ſatisfied to the utmoſt, they grudge, revile …
    With rule
    … freely, by which they get better bargaines, then if they ſtood ſtiffly on their TearmesTerms of Anaqúſhento, or Trading: And when not ſatisfied to the utmoſt, they grudge, revile …

    Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … though with this Diſtinction) but in truth an acknowledgement of what in Words and TearmesTerms, he yet denies (with Hilarie) to wit, a propagating of Chriſtian Religion and Truth …
    With rule
    … though with this Diſtinction) but in truth an acknowledgement of what in Words and TearmesTerms, he yet denies (with Hilarie) to wit, a propagating of Chriſtian Religion and Truth …

    Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Croſſe and Gallowes (in moſt ordinarie perſecution,) which with ſelfe-deniall, are the aſſured TearmesTerms his Servants muſt reſolve to looke for.
    With rule
    … Croſſe and Gallowes (in moſt ordinarie perſecution,) which with ſelfe-deniall, are the aſſured TearmesTerms his Servants muſt reſolve to looke for.

    Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 242 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … eaſie enough to ſuch whoſe eyes it pleaſeth God to open, although (in expreſſe TearmesTerms) Chriſt Jeſus hath not given an expreſſe Catalogue of all ſuch particulars to be …
    With rule
    … eaſie enough to ſuch whoſe eyes it pleaſeth God to open, although (in expreſſe TearmesTerms) Chriſt Jeſus hath not given an expreſſe Catalogue of all ſuch particulars to be …

    Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 273 · Open in the reader

The Power of Godliness B17454

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    … Looke upon the men of this world, how do they observe their Marts, Faires, TearmesTerms; what lets and impediments do they breake through for that purpose? By their wisdome …
    With rule
    … Looke upon the men of this world, how do they observe their Marts, Faires, TearmesTerms; what lets and impediments do they breake through for that purpose? By their wisdome …

    John Ball · The Power of Godliness · p. 34 · Open in the reader