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unsavouryunsavory

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

Puritas changed it
1,146 times in 571 works
Consistency
98.2% (1,146 of 1,166)
Reach if approved
~1,225 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: unsavoury
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,166 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,146 changes in 571 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,146)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … baſeſt of men, like the barren vine , fit for nothing but the fire; or unſavouryunsavory ſalt, very bad, and to be caſt out . It is a good converſation, which …
    With rule
    … baſeſt of men, like the barren vine , fit for nothing but the fire; or unſavouryunsavory ſalt, very bad, and to be caſt out . It is a good converſation, which …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … will-worships of feasts so increased, that there is nothing in the Kirke so unsavouryunsavory to God, so pernicious to men, as to sanctifie such and so many dayes …
    With rule
    … will-worships of feasts so increased, that there is nothing in the Kirke so unsavouryunsavory to God, so pernicious to men, as to sanctifie such and so many dayes …

    David Calderwood · Perth Assembly · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … findes no ſweetnes in his meat, the reaſon is, not becauſe his meat is unſavouryunsavory, but becauſe his taſte is diſtempered: the Ordinances are ſometimes ſweet, and would allwaies …
    With rule
    … findes no ſweetnes in his meat, the reaſon is, not becauſe his meat is unſavouryunsavory, but becauſe his taſte is diſtempered: the Ordinances are ſometimes ſweet, and would allwaies …

    John Angier · A Help to Better Hearts for Better Times · p. 289 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … heartily do all thoſe paſſages of his, which his Readers do generally judge ſo unſavouryunsavory. However I do adjure every Reader, that would not break the ninth Commandment, and …
    With rule
    … heartily do all thoſe paſſages of his, which his Readers do generally judge ſo unſavouryunsavory. However I do adjure every Reader, that would not break the ninth Commandment, and …

    Richard Baxter · Apology Against the Exceptions of Black and Kendall · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … idle, jesting, wanton, and rotten talke: but even vaine, and idle, how much more unsavouryunsavory and rotten speech must not once bee named among Saints: he must turne the …
    With rule
    … idle, jesting, wanton, and rotten talke: but even vaine, and idle, how much more unsavouryunsavory and rotten speech must not once bee named among Saints: he must turne the …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … which every eare may heare almoſt in every place; to wit, thoſe rotten and unſavouryunsavory ſpeeches, thoſe curſed and blaſphemous oaths which the black and unhallowed mouthes of many …
    With rule
    … which every eare may heare almoſt in every place; to wit, thoſe rotten and unſavouryunsavory ſpeeches, thoſe curſed and blaſphemous oaths which the black and unhallowed mouthes of many …

    Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … alone, to destroy a people. If the Salt bee infatuated, every thing must be unsavouryunsavory, if the foundations faile, what can the people doe?
    With rule
    … alone, to destroy a people. If the Salt bee infatuated, every thing must be unsavouryunsavory, if the foundations faile, what can the people doe?

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 320 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the saving working of any affliction upon the hearts of others, by unseasonable and unsavouryunsavory discourses, either by suggesting false remedies, or else diverting men to false contentments, and …
    With rule
    … the saving working of any affliction upon the hearts of others, by unseasonable and unsavouryunsavory discourses, either by suggesting false remedies, or else diverting men to false contentments, and …

    Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 227 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (20)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

  • Printed
    … submit to the Decision of the Spirit of Truth, speaking in the Scriptures. Their UnsavouryUnsavory, Pernicious, and Blasphemous Positions and Assertions will put this matter beyond all debate. I …
    With rule
    … submit to the Decision of the Spirit of Truth, speaking in the Scriptures. Their UnsavouryUnsavory, Pernicious, and Blasphemous Positions and Assertions will put this matter beyond all debate. I …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · Open in the reader

Commentary on 1 John A34689

  • Printed
    … Chriſtian ſo carryes himſelfe, that the bowells of the Saints are refreſhed by him. UnſavouryUnsavory ſpeeches and carriages argue the deadneſſe of ſuch a ſoul.
    With rule
    … Chriſtian ſo carryes himſelfe, that the bowells of the Saints are refreſhed by him. UnſavouryUnsavory ſpeeches and carriages argue the deadneſſe of ſuch a ſoul.

    John Cotton · Commentary on 1 John · p. 407 · Open in the reader

Apology for the Ministry and its Maintenance A45328

  • Printed
    2. UnsavouryUnsavory salt is unprofitable. It is not fit for the earth, for it will not …
    With rule
    2. UnsavouryUnsavory salt is unprofitable. It is not fit for the earth, for it will not …

    Thomas Hall · Apology for the Ministry and its Maintenance · p. 53 · Open in the reader

The Rise Reign and Ruin of the Antinomians Familists and Libertines A65392

  • Printed
    UnsavouryUnsavory Speeches Confuted.
    With rule
    UnsavouryUnsavory Speeches Confuted.

    John Winthrop · The Rise Reign and Ruin of the Antinomians Familists and Libertines · p. 19 · Open in the reader

A Vindication of Godliness A74976

  • Printed
    3. Unneceſſary Converſe with Carnal Friends. Frothy and UnſavouryUnsavory Company leaves a chill, and a damp, and a vanity upon our Spirits. It …
    With rule
    3. Unneceſſary Converſe with Carnal Friends. Frothy and UnſavouryUnsavory Company leaves a chill, and a damp, and a vanity upon our Spirits. It …

    Richard Alleine · A Vindication of Godliness · p. 289 · Open in the reader

Tropes and Figures B25425

  • Printed
    … theſe the Apoſtle ſpeaks, It is impoſſible to renew them again by Repentance, &c. UnſavouryUnsavory Profeſſors,Heb 6 4, 5, 6. and wicked Apoſtates, tend to make the Church barren; they hinder the …
    With rule
    … theſe the Apoſtle ſpeaks, It is impoſſible to renew them again by Repentance, &c. UnſavouryUnsavory Profeſſors,Heb 6 4, 5, 6. and wicked Apoſtates, tend to make the Church barren; they hinder the …

    Benjamin Keach · Tropes and Figures · p. 166 · Open in the reader