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suddainesudden

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

Puritas changed it: 886 times in 431 works
Consistency: 98.6% (886 of 898)
Reach if approved: ~944 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sudden
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 898 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (886 changes in 431 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 886)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnto the Lordes and commons, as though hée had béene taken naturally with ſome ſuddainesudden diſeaſe. This was the end of the good Duke, after he had politikely by …
With rule
… vnto the Lordes and commons, as though hée had béene taken naturally with ſome ſuddainesudden diſeaſe. This was the end of the good Duke, after he had politikely by …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 382 · Open in the reader
Printed
… done, it was becauſe they had ſowen many prayers which came up on the ſuddainesudden, ver. 5, 6. So Peter, hee was faſt aſleepe, and did not ſo much as dreame …
With rule
… done, it was becauſe they had ſowen many prayers which came up on the ſuddainesudden, ver. 5, 6. So Peter, hee was faſt aſleepe, and did not ſo much as dreame …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
Liuie reporteth a fearefull example of ſuddainesudden death: ſaith hee, There were two old men that frequented two Harlots, and preſently …
With rule
Liuie reporteth a fearefull example of ſuddainesudden death: ſaith hee, There were two old men that frequented two Harlots, and preſently …
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
Through ſuddainesudden death our ioy is more
With rule
Through ſuddainesudden death our ioy is more
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to deſolation, as the houſes of Iobs children: by a ſtrong winde, on a ſuddainesudden: euen peraduenture whilſt you were eating and drinking, & taking money: therefore riſe vp in …
With rule
… to deſolation, as the houſes of Iobs children: by a ſtrong winde, on a ſuddainesudden: euen peraduenture whilſt you were eating and drinking, & taking money: therefore riſe vp in …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… thats too Phythagorical? so the Gentiles had their Philosophers of their seuerall sects, Vpon suddainesudden and fancifull reuelations, thats meerely Anabaptisticall, God in an engine. Vpon what then? Euangelical …
With rule
… thats too Phythagorical? so the Gentiles had their Philosophers of their seuerall sects, Vpon suddainesudden and fancifull reuelations, thats meerely Anabaptisticall, God in an engine. Vpon what then? Euangelical …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · Open in the reader
Printed
… to him let death come when it will, it cannot be either terrible or ſuddainesudden. If wee keepe a Courſer to runne a Race, wee leade him euery day …
With rule
… to him let death come when it will, it cannot be either terrible or ſuddainesudden. If wee keepe a Courſer to runne a Race, wee leade him euery day …
Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I telling them of Heaven. If Almighty God did punish Ananias and Saphyra with suddainesudden death, who gave much to the Church, and kept back only some part dedicated …
With rule
… I telling them of Heaven. If Almighty God did punish Ananias and Saphyra with suddainesudden death, who gave much to the Church, and kept back only some part dedicated …
Ephraim Pagitt · A Relation of Christians in the World · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02186

Printed
SuddaineSudden death.
With rule
SuddaineSudden death.
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 24 · Open in the reader

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
… of their hearers, who delight in their lies, in their smooth and silken sermons; SuddaineSudden, horrible, and unavoidable confusion. Isa. 30.13.14.
With rule
… of their hearers, who delight in their lies, in their smooth and silken sermons; SuddaineSudden, horrible, and unavoidable confusion. Isa. 30.13.14.
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 158 · Open in the reader

The Rules of a Holy Life A17410

Printed
Seuenthly, SuddaineSudden feares; Bee not so amazed with the first tydings, or beginnings of any affliction …
With rule
Seuenthly, SuddaineSudden feares; Bee not so amazed with the first tydings, or beginnings of any affliction …
Nicholas Byfield · The Rules of a Holy Life · p. 320 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 1-3 A35389

Printed
Death, SuddaineSudden death no argument of Gods disfavour, p. 173.
With rule
Death, SuddaineSudden death no argument of Gods disfavour, p. 173.
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · Open in the reader

Englands Parliamentary Chronicle A95892

Printed
SuddaineSudden alteration of things in Scotland. p. 270
With rule
SuddaineSudden alteration of things in Scotland. p. 270
John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · Open in the reader

A Sum of Moral Philosophy B15223

Printed
1 SuddaineSudden friends haue but small root of loue.
With rule
1 SuddaineSudden friends haue but small root of loue.
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 SuddaineSudden.
With rule
1 SuddaineSudden.
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
SuddaineSudden vpon Sence.
With rule
SuddaineSudden vpon Sence.
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
SuddaineSudden.
With rule
SuddaineSudden.
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
SuddaineSudden P…ssion.
With rule
SuddaineSudden P…ssion.
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 56 · Open in the reader