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sawesaw

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

Puritas changed it
3,333 times in 550 works
Consistency
99.2% (3,333 of 3,359)
Reach if approved
~3,529 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: saw
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,359 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,333 changes in 550 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,333)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … tell, but rapt he was into the thred heauē, and into Paradiſe, wher he ſawesaw ſuche thinges as is not lawefull for man to ſpeake. Whiche wonderfull viſions were …
    With rule
    … tell, but rapt he was into the thred heauē, and into Paradiſe, wher he ſawesaw ſuche thinges as is not lawefull for man to ſpeake. Whiche wonderfull viſions were …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxx · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … demaunde according to their wordes, but thereupon tooke occasion to instruct them as the sawesaw neede. And I have proved by the 6. of Math. that our Saviour did not …
    With rule
    … demaunde according to their wordes, but thereupon tooke occasion to instruct them as the sawesaw neede. And I have proved by the 6. of Math. that our Saviour did not …

    John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … seuen last plages. 3. for in them ys fulfylled the wrathe of God. 4. And I sawesaw as yt were a glassye see. 5. myngled with fyre. 6. and them that had gotten …
    With rule
    … seuen last plages. 3. for in them ys fulfylled the wrathe of God. 4. And I sawesaw as yt were a glassye see. 5. myngled with fyre. 6. and them that had gotten …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … notwithstanding the great Wealth of his predecessor. This is an Euill which the preacher, duplicate page duplicate page sawesaw vnder the sunne, A man, to whom God hath giuen riches, and treasures, and …
    With rule
    … notwithstanding the great Wealth of his predecessor. This is an Euill which the preacher, duplicate page duplicate page sawesaw vnder the sunne, A man, to whom God hath giuen riches, and treasures, and …

    Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to his Father; but when he was yet a great way off, his Father sawesaw him, and had compassion, & came, & fell on his neck, and kissed him, v. 20.
    With rule
    … to his Father; but when he was yet a great way off, his Father sawesaw him, and had compassion, & came, & fell on his neck, and kissed him, v. 20.

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 591 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … sauety of the world, so did they proclaim nothing else, but that which they sawesaw with their eyes, & heard with their eares, they published nothing but what was foreshadowed …
    With rule
    … sauety of the world, so did they proclaim nothing else, but that which they sawesaw with their eyes, & heard with their eares, they published nothing but what was foreshadowed …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    And after these thinges I sawesaw an other Au… gell come downe from Heauen▪ hauing great power. &c.
    With rule
    And after these thinges I sawesaw an other Au… gell come downe from Heauen▪ hauing great power. &c.

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 117 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of diſcorde: and at this time now preſent when this Pſalme was giuen, they ſawesaw the bleſsings and benefits of vnitie and peace. For their former experience in the …
    With rule
    … of diſcorde: and at this time now preſent when this Pſalme was giuen, they ſawesaw the bleſsings and benefits of vnitie and peace. For their former experience in the …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 258 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

15 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 are listed here. 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … of man. Which thing they expresse ordinarily by these spéeches, According to the old SaweSaw, as the auncientest reports goe, As our forefathers and Elde…s say, and such …
    With rule
    … of man. Which thing they expresse ordinarily by these spéeches, According to the old SaweSaw, as the auncientest reports goe, As our forefathers and Elde…s say, and such …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to knowe the vse and goodnesse of a toole (as for example, of a SaweSaw,) wee consider it not by the rustinesse thereof that hath eaten away the téeth …
    With rule
    … to knowe the vse and goodnesse of a toole (as for example, of a SaweSaw,) wee consider it not by the rustinesse thereof that hath eaten away the téeth …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … first when GOD created him. Also wee iudge not of the vse of the SaweSaw by the mettall thereof in that it is Stéele, or in that it hath …
    With rule
    … first when GOD created him. Also wee iudge not of the vse of the SaweSaw by the mettall thereof in that it is Stéele, or in that it hath …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for a knife hath all things, which yet notwithstanding is neuer the more a SaweSaw for all that: but we déeme thereof by some peculiar shape, and by some …
    With rule
    … for a knife hath all things, which yet notwithstanding is neuer the more a SaweSaw for all that: but we déeme thereof by some peculiar shape, and by some …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … his Soule. Againe, the fayd perticular shape which giueth a perticular vse to the SaweSaw, is common to all tooles which beare the name of a SaweSaw: and therefore …
    With rule
    … his Soule. Againe, the fayd perticular shape which giueth a perticular vse to the SaweSaw, is common to all tooles which beare the name of a SaweSaw: and therefore …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 323 · Open in the reader

The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion A10213

  • Printed
    … awaye, Iob. 1. 21. So the King of Babilon is compared vnto an Are and a SaweSaw, to wyt, because the Lorde executed or brought to passe his worke by him …
    With rule
    … awaye, Iob. 1. 21. So the King of Babilon is compared vnto an Are and a SaweSaw, to wyt, because the Lorde executed or brought to passe his worke by him …

    Theodore Beza · The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

A Preparative to Contention A18015

  • Printed
    … his feete made faſt in the ſtockes: Iſaiah was cut a ſunder with a SaweSaw: Eliah was threatned and perſecuted: Ezechiel had bands for him prepared: and Daniel was …
    With rule
    … his feete made faſt in the ſtockes: Iſaiah was cut a ſunder with a SaweSaw: Eliah was threatned and perſecuted: Ezechiel had bands for him prepared: and Daniel was …

    John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · p. 262 · Open in the reader

A Defense of English Writers and Preachers A19650

  • Printed
    … puniſhed for his wickedneſſe. And Eſaie the Prophet, comparing Nabuchodonoſor to an Axe, a SaweSaw, and a Rodde: doth plainly teach, that it was God that wrought all the …
    With rule
    … puniſhed for his wickedneſſe. And Eſaie the Prophet, comparing Nabuchodonoſor to an Axe, a SaweSaw, and a Rodde: doth plainly teach, that it was God that wrought all the …

    Robert Crowley · A Defense of English Writers and Preachers · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Thirty-One Epigrams A19663

  • Printed
    SaweSaw in hys tyme
    With rule
    SaweSaw in hys tyme

    Robert Crowley · Thirty-One Epigrams · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

  • Printed
    … the Clay reaſon with the Potter, or the Axe with the Carpenter, or the SaweSaw with him that draweth it, or the Rodde with him that taketh it? Or …
    With rule
    … the Clay reaſon with the Potter, or the Axe with the Carpenter, or the SaweSaw with him that draweth it, or the Rodde with him that taketh it? Or …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 239 · Open in the reader

An Ark for All Gods Noahs A29681

  • Printed
    … ſerpent to ſting the ſoul, 'tis a poiſon to ſwell the ſoul, 'tis a SaweSaw to ſawesaw the ſoul, 'tis a moth that corrupts the ſoul, and 'tis a …
    With rule
    … ſerpent to ſting the ſoul, 'tis a poiſon to ſwell the ſoul, 'tis a SaweSaw to ſawesaw the ſoul, 'tis a moth that corrupts the ſoul, and 'tis a …

    Thomas Brooks · An Ark for All Gods Noahs · p. 133 · Open in the reader

Human Industry A55564

  • Printed
    … ingenious traveller of this Nation, saw a Mill which (without help of hands) did SaweSaw boards, having an iron wheel, which did not only drive the sawesaw, but also …
    With rule
    … ingenious traveller of this Nation, saw a Mill which (without help of hands) did SaweSaw boards, having an iron wheel, which did not only drive the sawesaw, but also …

    Thomas Powell · Human Industry · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … drive the sawesaw, but also did hook in, and turn the boards unto the SaweSaw. Dr John Dee makes mention of the like which he had …een at Prague …
    With rule
    … drive the sawesaw, but also did hook in, and turn the boards unto the SaweSaw. Dr John Dee makes mention of the like which he had …een at Prague …

    Thomas Powell · Human Industry · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Great Assize B08096

  • Printed
    … perſons muſt be cited and ſummoned, who muſt appeare: Saint Iohn ſaith heere, he SaweSaw the dead both great and ſmall, ſtand before the Iudge: all that euer are …
    With rule
    … perſons muſt be cited and ſummoned, who muſt appeare: Saint Iohn ſaith heere, he SaweSaw the dead both great and ſmall, ſtand before the Iudge: all that euer are …

    Samuel Smith · The Great Assize · p. 4 · Open in the reader