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abouteabout

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

Puritas changed it
1,440 times in 256 works
Consistency
97.8% (1,440 of 1,472)
Reach if approved
~1,548 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: about
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,473 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,440 changes in 256 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,440)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … alleadgeth his owne experience declaring what heretofore hath happened vnto him, while he wente abouteabout to ſearch theſe things. I inſtruct thée (ſaith he) by myne owne example. I …
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    … alleadgeth his owne experience declaring what heretofore hath happened vnto him, while he wente abouteabout to ſearch theſe things. I inſtruct thée (ſaith he) by myne owne example. I …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

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    … I thynke rather that he spake them to y• women, as mooste comonly occupied abouteabout suche thinges. But to whom he spake, the text maketh no menciō, therfore cā …
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    … I thynke rather that he spake them to y• women, as mooste comonly occupied abouteabout suche thinges. But to whom he spake, the text maketh no menciō, therfore cā …

    Thomas Becon · The Castle of Comfort · Open in the reader

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    … they thought it nedefull or necessarie. And because Ananias the husbande of Saphira wente abouteabout to kepe backe a portion of that comon mony, for the which they sould …
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    … they thought it nedefull or necessarie. And because Ananias the husbande of Saphira wente abouteabout to kepe backe a portion of that comon mony, for the which they sould …

    William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader

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    … and draue away his cattell, were stirred vp by the Deuill, he stayeth not abouteabout them nor yet about the Deuill, but looketh and addresseth himselfe vnto him which …
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    … and draue away his cattell, were stirred vp by the Deuill, he stayeth not abouteabout them nor yet about the Deuill, but looketh and addresseth himselfe vnto him which …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

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    … so sone the worlde / but he was bye and bye persecuted. The deuyll goeth abouteabout lyke a roaryngely on / sekynge whome he maye deuowre.
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    … so sone the worlde / but he was bye and bye persecuted. The deuyll goeth abouteabout lyke a roaryngely on / sekynge whome he maye deuowre.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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    For abouteabout the buſhe runne they to arts, who vnderſtād not the Original tounges. Of the …
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    For abouteabout the buſhe runne they to arts, who vnderſtād not the Original tounges. Of the …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

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    With purple cloke beſett abouteabout with gardes,
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    With purple cloke beſett abouteabout with gardes,

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 34 · Open in the reader

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    And we shall syng abouteabout your sepulture
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    And we shall syng abouteabout your sepulture

    David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (32)

31 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

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    … the houſe of Thomas Poynes an Engliſhman, who kepte an houſe of Engliſh merchants. AbouteAbout which time came thither one out of England, whoſe name was Henry Phillips, his …
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    … the houſe of Thomas Poynes an Engliſhman, who kepte an houſe of Engliſh merchants. AbouteAbout which time came thither one out of England, whoſe name was Henry Phillips, his …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Acts of English Votaries A02573

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    … where as your fystynge Nōnes, were of Antichrist ād the deuyll. Capgraue, Fabiane, Polidorus. AbouteAbout the same tyme, was Alcuinus a doctour of Englande, made abbot of Turonia in …
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    … where as your fystynge Nōnes, were of Antichrist ād the deuyll. Capgraue, Fabiane, Polidorus. AbouteAbout the same tyme, was Alcuinus a doctour of Englande, made abbot of Turonia in …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

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    … years after, the roode translated from thens into the churche for hys myracles sake. AbouteAbout the yeare of our lorde a. M. and .xxxvi. as kynge Canutus beynge at …
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    … years after, the roode translated from thens into the churche for hys myracles sake. AbouteAbout the yeare of our lorde a. M. and .xxxvi. as kynge Canutus beynge at …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

Against a Rank Papist A02621

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    … alicui, se voto prius obligauerāt, donec patriarcha Aymericus, eos ad hoc primū astrinxit, & ce. AbouteAbout. lxxviii. yeares after, folowed Albertus the patriarke of Hierusalem, which in the yeare of …
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    … alicui, se voto prius obligauerāt, donec patriarcha Aymericus, eos ad hoc primū astrinxit, & ce. AbouteAbout. lxxviii. yeares after, folowed Albertus the patriarke of Hierusalem, which in the yeare of …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xix · Open in the reader

The Pageant of Popes A02895

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    … bull: and so he charged him to be packinge forthwith out of the councell. AbouteAbout that time Paulus Vergerius bishop of Iustinople, who had serued ye sea of Rome …
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    … bull: and so he charged him to be packinge forthwith out of the councell. AbouteAbout that time Paulus Vergerius bishop of Iustinople, who had serued ye sea of Rome …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 194 · Open in the reader

The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter A03723

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    … daye after the king of Nauarres mariage, and spent muche time in that treatie. AbouteAbout noone, when he was in returning home from the coūsell, with a great companie …
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    … daye after the king of Nauarres mariage, and spent muche time in that treatie. AbouteAbout noone, when he was in returning home from the coūsell, with a great companie …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. Xl · Open in the reader

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    … that were well borne, that now fatherlesse and motherlesse live wandering and in beggerie. AbouteAbout this time the King caused to be proclaimed, that such as had any office …
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    … that were well borne, that now fatherlesse and motherlesse live wandering and in beggerie. AbouteAbout this time the King caused to be proclaimed, that such as had any office …

    François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. lXXXV · Open in the reader

The Logic Newly Translated A05111

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    AbouteAbout the wich one other dothe appeare
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    AbouteAbout the wich one other dothe appeare

    Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

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    … question, saying: I pray you wherin … this preparation? how shall I make me redye? AbouteAbout this matter hathe ben great …: for there hath ben an infinite number, and there …
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    … question, saying: I pray you wherin … this preparation? how shall I make me redye? AbouteAbout this matter hathe ben great …: for there hath ben an infinite number, and there …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 137 · Open in the reader

A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier A05548

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    AbouteAbout the Cetie of stagis
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    AbouteAbout the Cetie of stagis

    David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader

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    AbouteAbout, three score of mylis It was
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    AbouteAbout, three score of mylis It was

    David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader

Historical Table of the Bible A06660

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    xviij.b. AbouteAbout thys tyme wyll I come and Sara ſhal haue a ſonne. Rom ix.b
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    xviij.b. AbouteAbout thys tyme wyll I come and Sara ſhal haue a ſonne. Rom ix.b

    Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

The Relics of Rome A07146

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    … altares come, for the which the stubborne, sturdye stoute papistes doe so stoutly striue AbouteAbout the yeare of oure Lord, (if stories bee true) two hundred three score and …
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    … altares come, for the which the stubborne, sturdye stoute papistes doe so stoutly striue AbouteAbout the yeare of oure Lord, (if stories bee true) two hundred three score and …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 82 · Open in the reader

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    AbouteAbout that tyme also there was a Councell holden in Spayne, where it was enacted …
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    AbouteAbout that tyme also there was a Councell holden in Spayne, where it was enacted …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 95 · Open in the reader

The Justification of Man by Faith Only A07407

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    … by Paul, & nat theſe wordes alſo (by oure workes) but for Chryſte hys ſake. AbouteAbout the whiche wordes, nat onelye the conſciences of men, but alſo the Prophettes and …
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    … by Paul, & nat theſe wordes alſo (by oure workes) but for Chryſte hys ſake. AbouteAbout the whiche wordes, nat onelye the conſciences of men, but alſo the Prophettes and …

    Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

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    ABouteAbout the beginning of the Kynges grace that now is / fraūce was mightie / so y …
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    ABouteAbout the beginning of the Kynges grace that now is / fraūce was mightie / so y …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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    iij. Where was it doen? AbouteAbout the vale of Terebinthus.
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    iij. Where was it doen? AbouteAbout the vale of Terebinthus.

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked A16795

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    … Bishop, vvhich he so much contemned, that hee not vnwillingly dyed vnder that sentence. AbouteAbout that time vvere here and there dispersed sundry godly men, who sawe more then …
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    … Bishop, vvhich he so much contemned, that hee not vnwillingly dyed vnder that sentence. AbouteAbout that time vvere here and there dispersed sundry godly men, who sawe more then …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 55 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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    … and howe they thinke that in the ſignes the holy thinges themſelues are conteyned. AbouteAbout this matter Bonauentura hathe woonderfully buſied himſelfe, who in his writing In 4. Magistri Diſtinct …
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    … and howe they thinke that in the ſignes the holy thinges themſelues are conteyned. AbouteAbout this matter Bonauentura hathe woonderfully buſied himſelfe, who in his writing In 4. Magistri Diſtinct …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 1004 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Galatians A17706

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    ABouteAbout fourteene yeares afte, I vvent vp agayne too Ieruſalem vvith Barnabas, and tooke Titus …
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    ABouteAbout fourteene yeares afte, I vvent vp agayne too Ieruſalem vvith Barnabas, and tooke Titus …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Of Relics A17729

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    AbouteAbout fyftye yeares after the death of Chriſt Ieſus, Ieruſalem was beſeiged and deſtroyed. Many …
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    AbouteAbout fyftye yeares after the death of Chriſt Ieſus, Ieruſalem was beſeiged and deſtroyed. Many …

    John Calvin · Of Relics · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

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    … Catholike / whome the lorde had ſtirred vpp to mainteine the trwthe off the Goſpell / AbouteAbout the time off Pope Iohn the 12. diſputinge againſte the ſole election off the biſhope …
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    … Catholike / whome the lorde had ſtirred vpp to mainteine the trwthe off the Goſpell / AbouteAbout the time off Pope Iohn the 12. diſputinge againſte the ſole election off the biſhope …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CXCIIII · Open in the reader

Philargyry of Great Britain A19665

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    AbouteAbout ſome trayne
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    AbouteAbout ſome trayne

    Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader

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    AbouteAbout Hypocriſie
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    AbouteAbout Hypocriſie

    Robert Crowley · Philargyry of Great Britain · Open in the reader

Pleasure and Pain Heaven and Hell A19667

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    AbouteAbout the waſte
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    AbouteAbout the waſte

    Robert Crowley · Pleasure and Pain Heaven and Hell · Open in the reader

The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet A19855

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    … acquainted togither. For we haue heard before out of page 78. that we became acquanted abOuteabout the yeare 1592. and out of page 79. about ſiue or ſixe yeares paſt before 98. Now …
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    … acquainted togither. For we haue heard before out of page 78. that we became acquanted abOuteabout the yeare 1592. and out of page 79. about ſiue or ſixe yeares paſt before 98. Now …

    John Darrell · The Sinful Shameful Lying and Ridiculous Discourse of Samuel Harshnet · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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    AbouteAbout this time, at the beginning of the flourishing reigne of Queene Elizabeth, was a …
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    AbouteAbout this time, at the beginning of the flourishing reigne of Queene Elizabeth, was a …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2125 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

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    … or compaſing the throne. A rainebowe like a ſmaragde goeth roūde about the ſame. AbouteAbout the Throne by a circle appere xxiiii. Seates, and ſo manye elders ſittyng in …
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    … or compaſing the throne. A rainebowe like a ſmaragde goeth roūde about the ſame. AbouteAbout the Throne by a circle appere xxiiii. Seates, and ſo manye elders ſittyng in …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 140 · Open in the reader

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    AbouteAbout the Throne are ſene ſette .xxiiii. ſeates, and in them ſitte xxiiii. Elders, as …
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    AbouteAbout the Throne are ſene ſette .xxiiii. ſeates, and in them ſitte xxiiii. Elders, as …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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    … I am able to proue, by many teſtimonies of auncient wryters, yf nede requyred. AbouteAbout the counſell of Nice, and a litle before that tyme, when churches were greatly …
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    … I am able to proue, by many teſtimonies of auncient wryters, yf nede requyred. AbouteAbout the counſell of Nice, and a litle before that tyme, when churches were greatly …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 386 · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

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    … moare like to be made of paper or fine parchement then of wheten floure. AbouteAbout which was no smal questiō in oxforde of late dayes / whether it were bred …
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    … moare like to be made of paper or fine parchement then of wheten floure. AbouteAbout which was no smal questiō in oxforde of late dayes / whether it were bred …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader