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mencionmention

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

Puritas changed it
615 times in 108 works
Consistency
99.6% (615 of 617)
Reach if approved
~648 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mention
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
617 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (615 changes in 108 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 615)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … he triumphed but I cooled the heate furthwith for ſyr, quoth I, there is mencionmention made of the conuerſion, as well as the ſame appered to the ſence, but …
    With rule
    … he triumphed but I cooled the heate furthwith for ſyr, quoth I, there is mencionmention made of the conuerſion, as well as the ſame appered to the ſence, but …

    John Bradford · All the Examinations of the Martyr John Bradford · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … in marriage. Neyther dysdayned Paule in a serten epistle or gentyll salutacion, to make mencionmention of his yoke fellow or wyfe, whom he at that time minded not to …
    With rule
    … in marriage. Neyther dysdayned Paule in a serten epistle or gentyll salutacion, to make mencionmention of his yoke fellow or wyfe, whom he at that time minded not to …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … would say: so odious are the names of false and …aine goddes, that the mencionmention of them is righteously compared to stinckynge dounge and vile carion, which nether can …
    With rule
    … would say: so odious are the names of false and …aine goddes, that the mencionmention of them is righteously compared to stinckynge dounge and vile carion, which nether can …

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

  4. Printed
    … he vſeth wordes, whiche ſignifye ſomwhat els than they ſounde. As whan he maketh mencionmention of the ſhepherde, of the fedyng, of ye grene paſture, of the freſh water …
    With rule
    … he vſeth wordes, whiche ſignifye ſomwhat els than they ſounde. As whan he maketh mencionmention of the ſhepherde, of the fedyng, of ye grene paſture, of the freſh water …

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

  5. Printed
    … pray ye thou woldest send her a sonne, of whō the scrip ture maketh mencionmention yther coū tenaunce (after her teares and prayers) was not again chaunged or altered …
    With rule
    … pray ye thou woldest send her a sonne, of whō the scrip ture maketh mencionmention yther coū tenaunce (after her teares and prayers) was not again chaunged or altered …

    Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … when man is diſſolued: I can not but maruel what M. Briſtow meaneth to mencionmention, that there be many texts to make it probable, that not any one entreth …
    With rule
    … when man is diſſolued: I can not but maruel what M. Briſtow meaneth to mencionmention, that there be many texts to make it probable, that not any one entreth …

    John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 196 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … geve vs for his sake / bringeth ye holy goost as all the scrptures make mencionmention / and as Paul saith (Actes. xix.) have ye receaved the holy goost thorow fayth …
    With rule
    … geve vs for his sake / bringeth ye holy goost as all the scrptures make mencionmention / and as Paul saith (Actes. xix.) have ye receaved the holy goost thorow fayth …

    William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſomewhat ſhould be reſtored both in ſpirite and in body, why doth Paul make mencionmention rather of the body then of the ſoule? I will tell you: Bycauſe he …
    With rule
    … ſomewhat ſhould be reſtored both in ſpirite and in body, why doth Paul make mencionmention rather of the body then of the ſoule? I will tell you: Bycauſe he …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    MencionMention maketh the holy Ghost heere of Gog and of Magog two tirryble fierce enymies …
    With rule
    MencionMention maketh the holy Ghost heere of Gog and of Magog two tirryble fierce enymies …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

  • Printed
    … to the bowes, which in the Hebrew is a word of the Feminine gender. MencionMention is made of the vtter deſtruction of the Citye, for it was not onely …
    With rule
    … to the bowes, which in the Hebrew is a word of the Feminine gender. MencionMention is made of the vtter deſtruction of the Citye, for it was not onely …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader