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imploymentsemployments

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

Puritas changed it
2,433 times in 955 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,433 of 2,435)
Reach if approved
~2,767 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: employments
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,633 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,433 changes in 955 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,433)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … slay, but quite interre the soules of liuing men, and indispose them vnto all imploymentsemployments; and so make them a burthen, a trouble, and incumbrance both to Church and …
    With rule
    … slay, but quite interre the soules of liuing men, and indispose them vnto all imploymentsemployments; and so make them a burthen, a trouble, and incumbrance both to Church and …

    William Prynne · Healths Sickness · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … But wee muſt willingly, and cheerefully offer our ſelues vnto the Lord for ſuch imploymentsemployments in this ſeruice, as it ſhall pleaſe him to make vs fit for; and …
    With rule
    … But wee muſt willingly, and cheerefully offer our ſelues vnto the Lord for ſuch imploymentsemployments in this ſeruice, as it ſhall pleaſe him to make vs fit for; and …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … where it is already planted. One onely thing doth especially grieue mee, that our imploymentsemployments at this time are such, about other affaires, that wee haue no leasure to …
    With rule
    … where it is already planted. One onely thing doth especially grieue mee, that our imploymentsemployments at this time are such, about other affaires, that wee haue no leasure to …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … God was his Maſter, taught him. Haſt thou enlarged parts and gifts for higher imploymentsemployments? it is not thy birth, or age hath acquired them unto thee: Iob 32. 8, 9. Great …
    With rule
    … God was his Maſter, taught him. Haſt thou enlarged parts and gifts for higher imploymentsemployments? it is not thy birth, or age hath acquired them unto thee: Iob 32. 8, 9. Great …

    Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … both, Churches to be repaired, priſons to be furniſhed with ſome Teachers, and other imploymentsemployments more than a few: ſtand not idle now all the day long, becauſe none …
    With rule
    … both, Churches to be repaired, priſons to be furniſhed with ſome Teachers, and other imploymentsemployments more than a few: ſtand not idle now all the day long, becauſe none …

    Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … times they were chiefe governours of the Church under Christ; and for their sacred imploymentsemployments sake, being men answerable to their calling, ought doubtlesse to have a neer subordination …
    With rule
    … times they were chiefe governours of the Church under Christ; and for their sacred imploymentsemployments sake, being men answerable to their calling, ought doubtlesse to have a neer subordination …

    William Loe · The Incomparable Jewel · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … any whit aduance it, I haue this my deſire, and alſo encouragement to future imploymentsemployments in this kinde, and in the meane while ſhall bleſſe my God, that hath …
    With rule
    … any whit aduance it, I haue this my deſire, and alſo encouragement to future imploymentsemployments in this kinde, and in the meane while ſhall bleſſe my God, that hath …

    Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Lord, the God of hoaſts, increaſe the number, in theſe dayes of warlicke imploymentsemployments. And thus, in all dutifull reſpect, I for this preſent humbly take leaue.
    With rule
    … the Lord, the God of hoaſts, increaſe the number, in theſe dayes of warlicke imploymentsemployments. And thus, in all dutifull reſpect, I for this preſent humbly take leaue.

    Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · 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.

Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes A91306

  • Printed
    … own teſtimony of his Integrity in the Scottiſh Negotiation, Ann. 1641, and endowments FOR OTHER IMPLOYMENTSEMPLOYMENTS in the State; they are no convincing Arguments of his courage, integrity, or extenuations …
    With rule
    … own teſtimony of his Integrity in the Scottiſh Negotiation, Ann. 1641, and endowments FOR OTHER IMPLOYMENTSEMPLOYMENTS in the State; they are no convincing Arguments of his courage, integrity, or extenuations …

    William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … him from cowardize or Treachery in the ſurrender of Briſtol. And the words OTHER IMPLOYMENTSEMPLOYMENTS, &c. diſcover, that his Excellency deemes him a better Commiſſioner then Souldier, and we …
    With rule
    … him from cowardize or Treachery in the ſurrender of Briſtol. And the words OTHER IMPLOYMENTSEMPLOYMENTS, &c. diſcover, that his Excellency deemes him a better Commiſſioner then Souldier, and we …

    William Prynne · Relation of the Prosecution of Nathaniel Fiennes · p. 119 · Open in the reader