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cōtrarycontrary

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

Puritas changed it
769 times in 328 works
Consistency
99.2% (769 of 775)
Reach if approved
~814 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
775 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
cōtrary (6)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (769 changes in 328 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 769)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of god by liuely faith: cauſeth vs to take it as a thynge cleane cōtrarycontrary to the power of the almightie, to be encloſed in a box, turned or …
    With rule
    … of god by liuely faith: cauſeth vs to take it as a thynge cleane cōtrarycontrary to the power of the almightie, to be encloſed in a box, turned or …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … all these haue I consented, nor regardynge the godlye warninges of scripture to the cōtrarycontrary. So that I am now become through myne owne wyckednesse, a captyue presoner vnder …
    With rule
    … all these haue I consented, nor regardynge the godlye warninges of scripture to the cōtrarycontrary. So that I am now become through myne owne wyckednesse, a captyue presoner vnder …

    John Bale · A Dialogue to be had at Table Between Two Children · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … for that the labor of doing good, together with the pleasure arising from the cōtrarycontrary, doth make men for the most part slower to the one, & proner to the …
    With rule
    … for that the labor of doing good, together with the pleasure arising from the cōtrarycontrary, doth make men for the most part slower to the one, & proner to the …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … nor doe examine. Onely becauſe it is your owne profeſſion, and your practiſe is cōtrarycontrary vnto it, I did from hence take the firſt Exception, requiring of you to …
    With rule
    … nor doe examine. Onely becauſe it is your owne profeſſion, and your practiſe is cōtrarycontrary vnto it, I did from hence take the firſt Exception, requiring of you to …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … owne commodities, & ofte tymes with ieoperdy of their life: The children of the world, cōtrarycontrary wise, haue such stomakes, that they wylisoner se them dead, that doth them good …
    With rule
    … owne commodities, & ofte tymes with ieoperdy of their life: The children of the world, cōtrarycontrary wise, haue such stomakes, that they wylisoner se them dead, that doth them good …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    ALl theſe things ſeeme cōtrarycontrary to that he hath ſayd before, except we make a difference betwene theſe two …
    With rule
    ALl theſe things ſeeme cōtrarycontrary to that he hath ſayd before, except we make a difference betwene theſe two …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … is certain that they are not ſpirituall, what countenance ſoeuer they make to the cōtrarycontrary, but they follow the fleſh and performe the filthye workes of the ſame: and …
    With rule
    … is certain that they are not ſpirituall, what countenance ſoeuer they make to the cōtrarycontrary, but they follow the fleſh and performe the filthye workes of the ſame: and …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … must not thinke, that for one error common with them, thou must hold an 100. cōtrarycontrary to them. Thou doest them wrong, to make them thy partakers, as thou shalt …
    With rule
    … must not thinke, that for one error common with them, thou must hold an 100. cōtrarycontrary to them. Thou doest them wrong, to make them thy partakers, as thou shalt …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 404 · 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.