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fourescorefourscore

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

Puritas changed it
564 times in 279 works
Consistency
96.7% (564 of 583)
Reach if approved
~613 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fourscore
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
583 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (564 changes in 279 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 564)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … there did no light shine. The Land had rest sometimes fortie yeeres, and sometimes fourescorefourscore yeeres, but we never finde that they were suffered to provoke the Lord to …
    With rule
    … there did no light shine. The Land had rest sometimes fortie yeeres, and sometimes fourescorefourscore yeeres, but we never finde that they were suffered to provoke the Lord to …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … he lay on h… death-bed, O my ſoul, haſt thou ſerv… Chriſt theſe foureſcorefourscore years, and art th… now afraid to die? Again, a mans lo… may be …
    With rule
    … he lay on h… death-bed, O my ſoul, haſt thou ſerv… Chriſt theſe foureſcorefourscore years, and art th… now afraid to die? Again, a mans lo… may be …

    William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 159 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … he knew her. Though in the ſence of Helvidius this be unlikely, Ioſeph being foureſcorefourscore yeeres old when he tooke her to wife, as Epiphanius writes haereſ. 28. and that …
    With rule
    … he knew her. Though in the ſence of Helvidius this be unlikely, Ioſeph being foureſcorefourscore yeeres old when he tooke her to wife, as Epiphanius writes haereſ. 28. and that …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … S. Ihon the Euangelist and martyred for the faith of Iesus Christe, threttene hūdreth, fourescorefourscore fyue zearis bypast, wryttis on this maner, Christ tuke bread, and gaue thankis saying …
    With rule
    … S. Ihon the Euangelist and martyred for the faith of Iesus Christe, threttene hūdreth, fourescorefourscore fyue zearis bypast, wryttis on this maner, Christ tuke bread, and gaue thankis saying …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 611 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … one night, by an Angel, smote in the the campe of Ashur an hundredth fourescorefourscore and fiue thousand, who durst rise vp against him and against his people? Let …
    With rule
    … one night, by an Angel, smote in the the campe of Ashur an hundredth fourescorefourscore and fiue thousand, who durst rise vp against him and against his people? Let …

    David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 385 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the ſinagogue of Rome that now is, and hath bene in a conſumption euen foureſcorefourscore yeares. Praiſed be God, who hath withdrawne our ſhoulders from that moſt greeuous burden.
    With rule
    … the ſinagogue of Rome that now is, and hath bene in a conſumption euen foureſcorefourscore yeares. Praiſed be God, who hath withdrawne our ſhoulders from that moſt greeuous burden.

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Antichrist to preuaile in the Church, for many hundred yeares. And now, about some fourescorefourscore yeares agone, the Lord in mercy raised vp worthy instruments, by whose meanes, hee …
    With rule
    … Antichrist to preuaile in the Church, for many hundred yeares. And now, about some fourescorefourscore yeares agone, the Lord in mercy raised vp worthy instruments, by whose meanes, hee …

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 533 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … their goods taken captives, 1 Sa. 30.1, 2, 5. Were not the Lords Prieſts, to the number of foureſcorefourscore and five perſons, their City, both men, Women, and Children and ſucklings, Oxen, Sheepe …
    With rule
    … their goods taken captives, 1 Sa. 30.1, 2, 5. Were not the Lords Prieſts, to the number of foureſcorefourscore and five perſons, their City, both men, Women, and Children and ſucklings, Oxen, Sheepe …

    Thomas Pierson · The Cure of Hurtful Cares and Fears · p. 64 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The History of the Bible A08820

  • Printed
    A. FoureſcoreFourscore yeares.
    With rule
    A. FoureſcoreFourscore yeares.

    Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 43 · Open in the reader

A Golden Chain A09339

  • Printed
    … the Martyr, who when he was bidden to take his oath, & curse Christ, answered, FourescoreFourscore and sixe yeares haue I beene his seruant, yet in all this time hath …
    With rule
    … the Martyr, who when he was bidden to take his oath, & curse Christ, answered, FourescoreFourscore and sixe yeares haue I beene his seruant, yet in all this time hath …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 734 · Open in the reader

The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism A10180

  • Printed
    … by the Pro-consul to blaspheme and denye Christ, that so hee might escape: FourescoreFourscore and sixe yeeres (saith hee) haue I serued him, neither hath hee offended me …
    With rule
    … by the Pro-consul to blaspheme and denye Christ, that so hee might escape: FourescoreFourscore and sixe yeeres (saith hee) haue I serued him, neither hath hee offended me …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … of religion: except in some few which yet remaine, of which Leo thus reporteth: FourescoreFourscore yeares after Mahumet, one Elhesenibnu Abilhaseu gaue certaine rules to his disciples, contratie to …
    With rule
    … of religion: except in some few which yet remaine, of which Leo thus reporteth: FourescoreFourscore yeares after Mahumet, one Elhesenibnu Abilhaseu gaue certaine rules to his disciples, contratie to …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … who left volumes of writings vnto his Disciples: But by the Lawyers was condemned. FourescoreFourscore yeares after, vnder an other famous Professor, that law reuiued, who had many Disciples …
    With rule
    … who left volumes of writings vnto his Disciples: But by the Lawyers was condemned. FourescoreFourscore yeares after, vnder an other famous Professor, that law reuiued, who had many Disciples …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 514 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … yeares since, and (by reducing to our accompt) about the yeare of our Lord 720. FourescoreFourscore yeares they stayed on the way, the cause whereof they ascribe to their Gods …
    With rule
    … yeares since, and (by reducing to our accompt) about the yeare of our Lord 720. FourescoreFourscore yeares they stayed on the way, the cause whereof they ascribe to their Gods …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 659 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

  • Printed
    10. Men Of FourescoreFourscore escaped from the hands of Ishmaell,
    With rule
    10. Men Of FourescoreFourscore escaped from the hands of Ishmaell,

    Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 22 · Open in the reader

The Hoary Head Crowned A44071

  • Printed
    GOD having multiplied your dayes to FoureſcoreFourscore yeares and upwards, and your Seed to above an hundred, and in both reſpects …
    With rule
    GOD having multiplied your dayes to FoureſcoreFourscore yeares and upwards, and your Seed to above an hundred, and in both reſpects …

    Thomas Hodges · The Hoary Head Crowned · Open in the reader

The Garden of Zion B01751

  • Printed
    FoureſcoreFourscore and five ſervants of the great GOD,
    With rule
    FoureſcoreFourscore and five ſervants of the great GOD,

    Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    FoureſcoreFourscore of men who ſtood armed withou…
    With rule
    FoureſcoreFourscore of men who ſtood armed withou…

    Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 358 · Open in the reader

Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture B13871

  • Printed
    FOurescoreFourscore of those Iewes which remained still in the land of Iudea, came in a …
    With rule
    FOurescoreFourscore of those Iewes which remained still in the land of Iudea, came in a …

    Joseph Hall · Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture · p. 411 · Open in the reader