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apostacieapostasy

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

Puritas changed it
1,055 times in 391 works
Consistency
99.7% (1,055 of 1,058)
Reach if approved
~1,112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: apostasy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,058 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,055 changes in 391 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,055)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of penance, lotheſomneſſe of faſting, lacke of zeale and deuotion, diſobedience to Magiſtrates, ſacriledge, apoſtacieapostasy, breach of vowes, vnlawfull luſtes, wantonneſſe in all life and maners, if theſe thinges …
    With rule
    … of penance, lotheſomneſſe of faſting, lacke of zeale and deuotion, diſobedience to Magiſtrates, ſacriledge, apoſtacieapostasy, breach of vowes, vnlawfull luſtes, wantonneſſe in all life and maners, if theſe thinges …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and the worlds dolefull declyning, to that palpable and mistie darknesse of ignorance and ApostacieApostasy. They likewise detect the Schismes and Simonies of the Romane Church, the pride and …
    With rule
    … and the worlds dolefull declyning, to that palpable and mistie darknesse of ignorance and ApostacieApostasy. They likewise detect the Schismes and Simonies of the Romane Church, the pride and …

    William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … breaches of the first precept, we contrive into these heads, Ignorance, Infidelitie, Atheism, Heresie, ApostacieApostasy, Internall Idolatrie, makeing a God of the Creature, hatred of God, inward and outward …
    With rule
    … breaches of the first precept, we contrive into these heads, Ignorance, Infidelitie, Atheism, Heresie, ApostacieApostasy, Internall Idolatrie, makeing a God of the Creature, hatred of God, inward and outward …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … error, and quite reuolte from their loyall allegiaunce to GOD, by mere Pride and ApoſtacieApostasy, like theſe of whom S. Peter here ſpeaketh: aduauncyng theimſelues aboue God, and will …
    With rule
    … error, and quite reuolte from their loyall allegiaunce to GOD, by mere Pride and ApoſtacieApostasy, like theſe of whom S. Peter here ſpeaketh: aduauncyng theimſelues aboue God, and will …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in heart, to bring in (through their ouerſight againſt their owne generall doctrine) that ApoſtacieApostasy from the faith which he foretold. For proſe hereof, I begin with the Agapae …
    With rule
    … in heart, to bring in (through their ouerſight againſt their owne generall doctrine) that ApoſtacieApostasy from the faith which he foretold. For proſe hereof, I begin with the Agapae …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … a base conceit of the Gospel. Fiftly, this euill heart brings a man to apostacieapostasy, and falling from God, which is the extinguishing of the light of the Gospel …
    With rule
    … a base conceit of the Gospel. Fiftly, this euill heart brings a man to apostacieapostasy, and falling from God, which is the extinguishing of the light of the Gospel …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 365 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … more Sacrifice for sinne. It is true, he speakes there of the sin of ApostacieApostasy, but marke that word, If we sinne wilfully, that is, if the will have …
    With rule
    … more Sacrifice for sinne. It is true, he speakes there of the sin of ApostacieApostasy, but marke that word, If we sinne wilfully, that is, if the will have …

    John Preston · The Saints Qualification · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … herein in great wiſedome, and mercie, meeting both with our Infidelitie, and with our ApoſtacieApostasy, our ſlipperineſſe to fall from him: with our Infidelitie, becauſe we hardly will beleeue …
    With rule
    … herein in great wiſedome, and mercie, meeting both with our Infidelitie, and with our ApoſtacieApostasy, our ſlipperineſſe to fall from him: with our Infidelitie, becauſe we hardly will beleeue …

    John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 185 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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 Time of Finding A33242

  • Printed
    … be executeth, and glorified by it. So …ong as HYPOCRITES REIGN, …nd the LAST APOSTACIEAPOSTASY ſtands, the Lords Teſtimonies will not be loved, but the Statutes of Omri kept …
    With rule
    … be executeth, and glorified by it. So …ong as HYPOCRITES REIGN, …nd the LAST APOSTACIEAPOSTASY ſtands, the Lords Teſtimonies will not be loved, but the Statutes of Omri kept …

    John Canne · the Time of Finding · p. 76 · Open in the reader

The Time of the End A33243

  • Printed
    … Self-love (as the bitter root) brings forth this unbleſſed weed, called, THE STATE-APOSTACIEAPOSTASY OF THE LAST TIMES. Neither indeed can it be otherwiſe; for if men begin …
    With rule
    … Self-love (as the bitter root) brings forth this unbleſſed weed, called, THE STATE-APOSTACIEAPOSTASY OF THE LAST TIMES. Neither indeed can it be otherwiſe; for if men begin …

    John Canne · The Time of the End · p. 53 · Open in the reader

A Two-Fold Shaking of the Earth A79856

  • Printed
    … me: for truly I know not what to call it, except the LATE STATE-APOSTACIEAPOSTASY: neither that THING, which is managed by the Tryers, unleſs I ſhould ſay, it …
    With rule
    … me: for truly I know not what to call it, except the LATE STATE-APOSTACIEAPOSTASY: neither that THING, which is managed by the Tryers, unleſs I ſhould ſay, it …

    John Canne · A Two-Fold Shaking of the Earth · p. 28 · Open in the reader