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despightdespite

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

Puritas changed it: 1,560 times in 820 works
Consistency: 97.0% (1,560 of 1,608)
Reach if approved: ~1,690 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: despite
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,608 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,560 changes in 820 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,560)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of the ſpirit of grace, and yet after this, haſt grieved, oppoſed, and done deſpightdespite againſt it.
With rule
… of the ſpirit of grace, and yet after this, haſt grieved, oppoſed, and done deſpightdespite againſt it.
Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… s r…bidus, a madde dogge, for his f…ry and malice. Fourthly, foreign, doth despightdespite to the spirit of grace. Maliciously breaking forth into speeches and actions, to grieue …
With rule
… s r…bidus, a madde dogge, for his f…ry and malice. Fourthly, foreign, doth despightdespite to the spirit of grace. Maliciously breaking forth into speeches and actions, to grieue …
Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… valiantly like Dauids worthies broken thorough these Philistims forces, and brought vnto vs in despightdespite of them the pure water of the well of life; among whom this our …
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… valiantly like Dauids worthies broken thorough these Philistims forces, and brought vnto vs in despightdespite of them the pure water of the well of life; among whom this our …
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
They despightdespite the Spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 29.
With rule
They despightdespite the Spirit of Grace Heb. 10. 29.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into a rage, he vttered theſe wordes: bring me my porke fleſh in the deſpightdespite of God.
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… into a rage, he vttered theſe wordes: bring me my porke fleſh in the deſpightdespite of God.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… away, and giues to the Poore. These holy courses, shall make you continue, in despightdespite of Hell and Rome; your Mountaine shalbe hedged about with the Mercies of God …
With rule
… away, and giues to the Poore. These holy courses, shall make you continue, in despightdespite of Hell and Rome; your Mountaine shalbe hedged about with the Mercies of God …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the face of his Nobles and Concubines arrelt him, and ſhake him in deſpightdespite of his ſecuritie. Nor will this watchfull. Officer be bobd with a bundle of …
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… in the face of his Nobles and Concubines arrelt him, and ſhake him in deſpightdespite of his ſecuritie. Nor will this watchfull. Officer be bobd with a bundle of …
Robert Harris · Pauls Confidence · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Woe woe to your soules that thus delight in sinne. There are many that despightdespite the spirit of grace and sticke not to say, I did sweare such a …
With rule
… Woe woe to your soules that thus delight in sinne. There are many that despightdespite the spirit of grace and sticke not to say, I did sweare such a …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 191 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (48)

37 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 32 are listed here. 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

Printed
DeſpightDespite of ſickly Nature: ſhe is all faire
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DeſpightDespite of ſickly Nature: ſhe is all faire
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Britains Remembrancer A15627

Printed
DespightDespite can adde, to wrong a good endeavor;
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DespightDespite can adde, to wrong a good endeavor;
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
Detraction, Envie, Miſchief, and DeſpightDespite,
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Detraction, Envie, Miſchief, and DeſpightDespite,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
Yet, ſure, to ſtopp the malice of DeſpightDespite,
With rule
Yet, ſure, to ſtopp the malice of DeſpightDespite,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
And, all the venom'd Engines of DeſpightDespite,
With rule
And, all the venom'd Engines of DeſpightDespite,
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 97 · Open in the reader

Withers Motto A15662

Printed
Their blacke DespightDespite, which to a drunken note,
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Their blacke DespightDespite, which to a drunken note,
George Wither · Withers Motto · Open in the reader

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

Printed
… lately received, he knew theſe auguſtious Preparations would be ridiculouſly diſappointed; which was a DeſpightDespite that a Gentleman, not to ſay an Embaſſador, ſhould have prevented. For the Diſgrace …
With rule
… lately received, he knew theſe auguſtious Preparations would be ridiculouſly diſappointed; which was a DeſpightDespite that a Gentleman, not to ſay an Embaſſador, ſhould have prevented. For the Diſgrace …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fertur, velut abſcondente turpitudinem loco. Beſide, he that felt the Frowns, or rather the DeſpightDespite of the Court, by being near to it, knew it was wholſome to change …
With rule
… fertur, velut abſcondente turpitudinem loco. Beſide, he that felt the Frowns, or rather the DeſpightDespite of the Court, by being near to it, knew it was wholſome to change …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… except them that reſiſted to Blood) none was wounded with ſo many Darts of DeſpightDespite as this man, or aviled with ſo many Cenſures, or ſtood ſo long in …
With rule
… except them that reſiſted to Blood) none was wounded with ſo many Darts of DeſpightDespite as this man, or aviled with ſo many Cenſures, or ſtood ſo long in …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to thruſt him under Water, that was ſinking already, none was hatcht of more DeſpightDespite and Indignity, than a Book publiſh'd by a Bluſter-maſter, ann. 1636. call'd, A Coal …
With rule
… to thruſt him under Water, that was ſinking already, none was hatcht of more DeſpightDespite and Indignity, than a Book publiſh'd by a Bluſter-maſter, ann. 1636. call'd, A Coal …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rebels find their Fidelity again, when they have loſt it. They have ſhew'd their DeſpightDespite ſo lately, that it is too ſoon to offer them Courteſie; they know in …
With rule
… Rebels find their Fidelity again, when they have loſt it. They have ſhew'd their DeſpightDespite ſo lately, that it is too ſoon to offer them Courteſie; they know in …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 162 · Open in the reader

Sermons Volume 2 A51846

Printed
… than the Priests and Pharisees, many of which came rather out of Curiosity than DespightDespite. Yea, this Supplication was effectual and succesful to all the Elect intended. This Prayer …
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… than the Priests and Pharisees, many of which came rather out of Curiosity than DespightDespite. Yea, this Supplication was effectual and succesful to all the Elect intended. This Prayer …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 2 · p. 100 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… whereas good Aſa was long Eſtabliſh'd upon his Throne by his True Piety, in DeſpightDespite of the Devil; leaving his godly Son Jehoſophat (the 4th. King) to ſucceed him …
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… whereas good Aſa was long Eſtabliſh'd upon his Throne by his True Piety, in DeſpightDespite of the Devil; leaving his godly Son Jehoſophat (the 4th. King) to ſucceed him …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was Reduced, even to one Suckling Child, yet the promiſe is made good in DeſpightDespite of the Devil and this Devilſh Woman, who ſought his life alſo, as Herod …
With rule
… was Reduced, even to one Suckling Child, yet the promiſe is made good in DeſpightDespite of the Devil and this Devilſh Woman, who ſought his life alſo, as Herod …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 202 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all their Wicked Counſel into Folly, 2 Sam. 15. 31. 1 Cor. 1. 19, 25. &c. and in the ſight and DeſpightDespite of Sixty Weaponed Witneſſes, (After the Sun of Righteouſneſs had been ſett in the …
With rule
… all their Wicked Counſel into Folly, 2 Sam. 15. 31. 1 Cor. 1. 19, 25. &c. and in the ſight and DeſpightDespite of Sixty Weaponed Witneſſes, (After the Sun of Righteouſneſs had been ſett in the …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 361 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his Sleep) ſtrikes off his Chains, opens the Iron-Gates, conveys him out in DeſpightDespite of his Guards, Peter lives to do the Church much Service, and ſoon after …
With rule
… his Sleep) ſtrikes off his Chains, opens the Iron-Gates, conveys him out in DeſpightDespite of his Guards, Peter lives to do the Church much Service, and ſoon after …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 397 · Open in the reader
Printed
… v. 4. a great Multitude, v. 9. and more than moſt thought they had been, in DeſpightDespite of the Devil. (2) Gods great kindneſs in cauſing thoſe Sealed Servants to Triumph before …
With rule
… v. 4. a great Multitude, v. 9. and more than moſt thought they had been, in DeſpightDespite of the Devil. (2) Gods great kindneſs in cauſing thoſe Sealed Servants to Triumph before …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 413 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

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… c. Here the Multitude are alſo moved to do Honour to the Meſſiah, (in DeſpightDespite of the Sanhedrim's Threatning Excommunication, John 9.22.) as to a King, whoſe paſſage is Beautified …
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… c. Here the Multitude are alſo moved to do Honour to the Meſſiah, (in DeſpightDespite of the Sanhedrim's Threatning Excommunication, John 9.22.) as to a King, whoſe paſſage is Beautified …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Acts 10.36. and had the Keys of Hell and Death, Roſe from the Dead in DeſpightDespite of all the Infernal Spirits, who therefore, then fall into a trembling Fit, &c …
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… Acts 10.36. and had the Keys of Hell and Death, Roſe from the Dead in DeſpightDespite of all the Infernal Spirits, who therefore, then fall into a trembling Fit, &c …
Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 263 · Open in the reader

The Devils Patriarch A52809

Printed
… Holy Predeceſſours once ſaid, I will have my Will [Al deſpito di dio] in DeſpightDespite of God; But the miſcheif is, neither the Pope nor his Popelings dare take …
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… Holy Predeceſſours once ſaid, I will have my Will [Al deſpito di dio] in DeſpightDespite of God; But the miſcheif is, neither the Pope nor his Popelings dare take …
Christopher Ness · The Devils Patriarch · p. 94 · Open in the reader

The Christian Life A58787

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… Occasions and Opportunities of sinning, as do too often inveagle and betray them in DespightDespite of all their good Resolutions to the contrary. Whereas had they but suspected themselves …
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… Occasions and Opportunities of sinning, as do too often inveagle and betray them in DespightDespite of all their good Resolutions to the contrary. Whereas had they but suspected themselves …
John Scott · The Christian Life · p. 417 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he is wont to lay Siege to the Fort of our Life, how in DespightDespite of all the Resistances of Nature he plants and quarters them in our Veins …
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… he is wont to lay Siege to the Fort of our Life, how in DespightDespite of all the Resistances of Nature he plants and quarters them in our Veins …
John Scott · The Christian Life · p. 463 · Open in the reader

Practical Discourses Volume 2 A58808

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… of our Lives; in a word, that hath kept Religion alive in us in DespightDespite of all our Attempts to extinguish it, and would not suffer us to destroy …
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… of our Lives; in a word, that hath kept Religion alive in us in DespightDespite of all our Attempts to extinguish it, and would not suffer us to destroy …
John Scott · Practical Discourses Volume 2 · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had provoked him beyond the Sufferance of any Patience but his own; when in DespightDespite of all those innumerable Mercies wherewith from Time to Time he had sought to …
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… had provoked him beyond the Sufferance of any Patience but his own; when in DespightDespite of all those innumerable Mercies wherewith from Time to Time he had sought to …
John Scott · Practical Discourses Volume 2 · p. 185 · Open in the reader

The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God A61474

Printed
… Spiritual Enemy, as they treated her Lord, her Life; that is with Scorn, and DespightDespite.
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… Spiritual Enemy, as they treated her Lord, her Life; that is with Scorn, and DespightDespite.
Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 29 · Open in the reader

A Body of Practical Divinity A65285

Printed
… sin presumptuously, sin wilfully: Put but one Weight more into the Scale, add but DespightDespite and Malice against the Spirit, and it becomes the unpardonable Sin. Though Presumption is …
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… sin presumptuously, sin wilfully: Put but one Weight more into the Scale, add but DespightDespite and Malice against the Spirit, and it becomes the unpardonable Sin. Though Presumption is …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 1005 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for Sin. To sin presumptuously against Light, may in time bring on Malice and DespightDespite to the Spirit. As it was with Iulian, who threw up his Dagger in …
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… for Sin. To sin presumptuously against Light, may in time bring on Malice and DespightDespite to the Spirit. As it was with Iulian, who threw up his Dagger in …
Thomas Watson · A Body of Practical Divinity · p. 1005 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… diſtruſtfull: now Dauids preſence begins to be more diſpleaſing, then his Muſicke was ſweet; DeſpightDespite it ſelfe had rather preferre him to a remote dignity, then endure him a …
With rule
… diſtruſtfull: now Dauids preſence begins to be more diſpleaſing, then his Muſicke was ſweet; DeſpightDespite it ſelfe had rather preferre him to a remote dignity, then endure him a …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1087 · Open in the reader

A Good Conscience the Strongest Hold A93060

Printed
… ſelfe, and with men in midſt of a Raging, unquiet world, but Peace in DeſpightDespite of Hell Gates, and Sathans Darts. Of this Peace we may ſay as Gideon …
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… ſelfe, and with men in midſt of a Raging, unquiet world, but Peace in DeſpightDespite of Hell Gates, and Sathans Darts. Of this Peace we may ſay as Gideon …
John Sheffeild · A Good Conscience the Strongest Hold · p. 40 · Open in the reader

The Protector A96764

Printed
And are, and will be; whom, Revenge, DeſpightDespite,
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And are, and will be; whom, Revenge, DeſpightDespite,
George Wither · The Protector · p. 24 · Open in the reader

Of the Day of Grace B10034

Printed
… And of how much ſoever Puniſhment ſhall ſuch be thought guilty, that do thus DeſpightDespite to the Spirit of Chriſt, who bears Witneſs to his Perſon and Doctrine! Who …
With rule
… And of how much ſoever Puniſhment ſhall ſuch be thought guilty, that do thus DeſpightDespite to the Spirit of Chriſt, who bears Witneſs to his Perſon and Doctrine! Who …
John Shower · Of the Day of Grace · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Guilt; that ſin againſt the Holy Spirit, even as a Spirit of Grace; doing DeſpightDespite to the Spirit of Grace, who did invite, and wooe, and draw them unto …
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… Guilt; that ſin againſt the Holy Spirit, even as a Spirit of Grace; doing DeſpightDespite to the Spirit of Grace, who did invite, and wooe, and draw them unto …
John Shower · Of the Day of Grace · p. 113 · Open in the reader