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favouringfavoring

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

Puritas changed it
579 times in 403 works
Consistency
98.9% (579 of 585)
Reach if approved
~615 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: favouring
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
585 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (579 changes in 403 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 579)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Christian Love. This held such good men of old as Bernard, Gerson, &c. from favouringfavoring the Reformers, thinking that the Papacy was necessary to Unity: This kept such as …
    With rule
    … Christian Love. This held such good men of old as Bernard, Gerson, &c. from favouringfavoring the Reformers, thinking that the Papacy was necessary to Unity: This kept such as …

    Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 434 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Nay commonly it bringeth a man under ſuſpition either of favouringfavoring ſome hereſie, or abating his zeal, if he do but attempt a pacificatory work …
    With rule
    Nay commonly it bringeth a man under ſuſpition either of favouringfavoring ſome hereſie, or abating his zeal, if he do but attempt a pacificatory work …

    Richard Baxter · The Reformed Pastor · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to be afraid, lest by receiving such, they should bring themselves under Suspicion of favouringfavoring Non-conformists, and so be ruined, or so covetous, as knowing their advantage, to …
    With rule
    … to be afraid, lest by receiving such, they should bring themselves under Suspicion of favouringfavoring Non-conformists, and so be ruined, or so covetous, as knowing their advantage, to …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſhould ſhew who are ſheep and who are goats: 4 the Lord is brought in favouringfavoring the wicked, and making ſad the hearts of his own ſervants; for men of …
    With rule
    … ſhould ſhew who are ſheep and who are goats: 4 the Lord is brought in favouringfavoring the wicked, and making ſad the hearts of his own ſervants; for men of …

    Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 251 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … libertie in dealing vvith them, against vvhom they haue the aduantage of the times favouringfavoring them, like the vvind on their backs. But God for bidde I should follovv …
    With rule
    … libertie in dealing vvith them, against vvhom they haue the aduantage of the times favouringfavoring them, like the vvind on their backs. But God for bidde I should follovv …

    John Robinson · The Lawfulness of Hearing of the Ministers of the Church of England · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … then of perfection. And for ought I see, freedom unto evill is no more favouringfavoring of imperfection then freedome unto good, considering that they both make but one morall …
    With rule
    … then of perfection. And for ought I see, freedom unto evill is no more favouringfavoring of imperfection then freedome unto good, considering that they both make but one morall …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 360 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … distinction is heer betwixt Images? though he was not by the Replier accused, as favouringfavoring all Images, but onely a Crucifixe. And let him tell us, if he doeth …
    With rule
    … distinction is heer betwixt Images? though he was not by the Replier accused, as favouringfavoring all Images, but onely a Crucifixe. And let him tell us, if he doeth …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 294 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … can find,) but all are alike to you. Yea, so far are you from favouringfavoring these, that sometimes you would have the Sin of those that own you for …
    With rule
    … can find,) but all are alike to you. Yea, so far are you from favouringfavoring these, that sometimes you would have the Sin of those that own you for …

    Vincent Alsop · Reply to the Dean of St Pauls Reflections on the Rector of Sutton · p. 44 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Nonconformists Plea for Peace A26965

  • Printed
    … and Propriety and the Liberty of Subjects, and cried down Arminianiſm, Monopolies, Connivence and FavouringFavoring of Papiſts, and their increaſe thereby; expreſſing by Speeches, and Remonſtrances, their jealouſies in …
    With rule
    … and Propriety and the Liberty of Subjects, and cried down Arminianiſm, Monopolies, Connivence and FavouringFavoring of Papiſts, and their increaſe thereby; expreſſing by Speeches, and Remonſtrances, their jealouſies in …

    Richard Baxter · The Nonconformists Plea for Peace · p. 123 · Open in the reader

The True History of Councils A27058

  • Printed
    … to their ſeveral inclinations and Courſe of life: The looſer and more licentious ſort FavouringFavoring the moſt indulgent diſcipline, the other of more auſtere lives inclining moſt to the …
    With rule
    … to their ſeveral inclinations and Courſe of life: The looſer and more licentious ſort FavouringFavoring the moſt indulgent diſcipline, the other of more auſtere lives inclining moſt to the …

    Richard Baxter · The True History of Councils · p. 127 · Open in the reader