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sweareswear

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
5,825 times in 1,208 works
Consistency
99.9% (5,825 of 5,830)
Reach if approved
~6,127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: swear
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
5,831 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,825 changes in 1,208 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,825)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … but marriage, and he will giue thee maintenance. Iura, periura, Defraude, dissemble, sweareswear, for sweareswear, bribe, flatter, temporize; make vse of all men, loue onely thy selfe; and riches …
    With rule
    … but marriage, and he will giue thee maintenance. Iura, periura, Defraude, dissemble, sweareswear, for sweareswear, bribe, flatter, temporize; make vse of all men, loue onely thy selfe; and riches …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … you tooke the great estimation of water, salt, oyle, breade, &c. and vse to sweareswear by them, as they did. Epiph. contra Ossenes 19. Of the same heretikes, you receiued …
    With rule
    … you tooke the great estimation of water, salt, oyle, breade, &c. and vse to sweareswear by them, as they did. Epiph. contra Ossenes 19. Of the same heretikes, you receiued …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … it: they must be mentioned, though like a Traytors name in the Chronicles. These sweareswear away all reproofes, & drinke away all the chidings of their owne Conscience: it shal …
    With rule
    … it: they must be mentioned, though like a Traytors name in the Chronicles. These sweareswear away all reproofes, & drinke away all the chidings of their owne Conscience: it shal …

    Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their calling, and conſecration, and power deriued from him; in as much as they ſweareswear obedience vnto him, to mayntayne his dignitie, his tyrannie, his doctrine, and his lawes …
    With rule
    … their calling, and conſecration, and power deriued from him; in as much as they ſweareswear obedience vnto him, to mayntayne his dignitie, his tyrannie, his doctrine, and his lawes …

    George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … euill communication that commeth from them, they infect children, who learne of them to ſweareswear, to ſing lewd ſongs, and the like. So it commeth to paſſe, that many …
    With rule
    … euill communication that commeth from them, they infect children, who learne of them to ſweareswear, to ſing lewd ſongs, and the like. So it commeth to paſſe, that many …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … foule deuill all the weeke. These are they, that make Religion a masquery: lye, sweareswear, cheat, oppresse, scorne, ryot, revile, reuell; yet appeare at Church on the Sabboth; as …
    With rule
    … foule deuill all the weeke. These are they, that make Religion a masquery: lye, sweareswear, cheat, oppresse, scorne, ryot, revile, reuell; yet appeare at Church on the Sabboth; as …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … their hearers and beholders much ſinne in the acting of their Playes, as to ſweareswear, curſe, lye, flatter, coſen, ſteale, to play the bawde and the harlot, with very …
    With rule
    … their hearers and beholders much ſinne in the acting of their Playes, as to ſweareswear, curſe, lye, flatter, coſen, ſteale, to play the bawde and the harlot, with very …

    Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Nay if you sweareswear, we shall catch no fish, what Can…rone, sneake you still? whoop, we shall …
    With rule
    Nay if you sweareswear, we shall catch no fish, what Can…rone, sneake you still? whoop, we shall …

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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.

Commentary on Genesis and Exodus A15408

  • Printed
    Vers. 23. SWeareSwear unto me here by God. Abimelech, though himselfe, as it is likely, were a …
    With rule
    Vers. 23. SWeareSwear unto me here by God. Abimelech, though himselfe, as it is likely, were a …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

  • Printed
    SWeareSwear you ſhall, that you ſhall duly conſider, and diligently enquire of all and every …
    With rule
    SWeareSwear you ſhall, that you ſhall duly conſider, and diligently enquire of all and every …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 96 · Open in the reader

Divinity Knots Unloosed A89619

  • Printed
    58. Doubt. But how can theſe paſſages ſtand with flat prohibitions on the other ſide, SWEARESWEAR NOT AT ALL , and ABOVE ALL THINGS MY BRETHREN SWEARESWEAR NOT ?
    With rule
    58. Doubt. But how can theſe paſſages ſtand with flat prohibitions on the other ſide, SWEARESWEAR NOT AT ALL , and ABOVE ALL THINGS MY BRETHREN SWEARESWEAR NOT ?

    Adam Martindale · Divinity Knots Unloosed · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … on the other ſide, SWEARESWEAR NOT AT ALL , and ABOVE ALL THINGS MY BRETHREN SWEARESWEAR NOT ?
    With rule
    … on the other ſide, SWEARESWEAR NOT AT ALL , and ABOVE ALL THINGS MY BRETHREN SWEARESWEAR NOT ?

    Adam Martindale · Divinity Knots Unloosed · p. 55 · Open in the reader

Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations B15410

  • Printed
    … sweareswear, not that they might forsweare; but now since yee know THAT EVEN, TO SWEARESWEAR WELL IS A SIN, (and so resolve most of the Fathers on that Text …
    With rule
    … sweareswear, not that they might forsweare; but now since yee know THAT EVEN, TO SWEARESWEAR WELL IS A SIN, (and so resolve most of the Fathers on that Text …

    William Prynne · Of the Prelates Intolerable Usurpations · p. 153 · Open in the reader