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actesacts

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

Puritas changed it
2,656 times in 501 works
Consistency
99.8% (2,656 of 2,660)
Reach if approved
~2,796 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: acts
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,661 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,656 changes in 501 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,656)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſit in iudgement, &c. How ſhould councells be gathered, which Pope ſhoulde confirme their actesacts, &c, When you are able to aunſwere theſe queſtions, for your owne church, then …
    With rule
    … ſit in iudgement, &c. How ſhould councells be gathered, which Pope ſhoulde confirme their actesacts, &c, When you are able to aunſwere theſe queſtions, for your owne church, then …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the fruite of thy wombe the whyche place holy Peter alledginge to the Iewes. ActesActs .ii. doth name it the fruyte of the loynes of Dauid forſeinge by the …
    With rule
    … the fruite of thy wombe the whyche place holy Peter alledginge to the Iewes. ActesActs .ii. doth name it the fruyte of the loynes of Dauid forſeinge by the …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of Iames, was exiled by Domitianus into Pathmos: of whom diuers and sundry memorable actesacts be reported in sundry Chronicles. As fyrst, how he was put into a vessell …
    With rule
    … of Iames, was exiled by Domitianus into Pathmos: of whom diuers and sundry memorable actesacts be reported in sundry Chronicles. As fyrst, how he was put into a vessell …

    Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … already in religiō, in abolishing the most shameful idolatries of Antichrist, besides his other actesacts for publyque affayres, & ye shal find at this day, no christen prynce lyke to …
    With rule
    … already in religiō, in abolishing the most shameful idolatries of Antichrist, besides his other actesacts for publyque affayres, & ye shal find at this day, no christen prynce lyke to …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the other three fingers; hurled body and al into the riuer, & recondemned all his actesacts, ſo that it was needful to admit them new to orders, whom hee had …
    With rule
    … the other three fingers; hurled body and al into the riuer, & recondemned all his actesacts, ſo that it was needful to admit them new to orders, whom hee had …

    James Balmford · Carpenters Chips · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his worde, Rulers who haue the care of ſoules committed to them, Heb. 13. 17. Iames 5. 14. ActesActs 14. 23. And ſome of them to labor alſo in the worde, one by teaching, an …
    With rule
    … his worde, Rulers who haue the care of ſoules committed to them, Heb. 13. 17. Iames 5. 14. ActesActs 14. 23. And ſome of them to labor alſo in the worde, one by teaching, an …

    Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to the seat of Rome (vpon evident conviction of his fraude in falsifying the actesacts of the Synode of Nice) make more then manifest. That I speak nothing of …
    With rule
    … to the seat of Rome (vpon evident conviction of his fraude in falsifying the actesacts of the Synode of Nice) make more then manifest. That I speak nothing of …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … making Priests by imposition of handes: as else where S. Paule, 1. Tim. 5. and the ActesActs of the Apostles (Act. 6. and 13.) do speake in the ordaining of the seuen Deacons …
    With rule
    … making Priests by imposition of handes: as else where S. Paule, 1. Tim. 5. and the ActesActs of the Apostles (Act. 6. and 13.) do speake in the ordaining of the seuen Deacons …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 165 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 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.

Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country A02788

  • Printed
    ACtesActs of cru…lte by Byss. …
    With rule
    ACtesActs of cru…lte by Byss. …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader

Confutation of Unwritten Verities A19566

  • Printed
    ACtesActs .16. A certayne damsel / possessed with a sprite that prophesied met vs: which brought her …
    With rule
    ACtesActs .16. A certayne damsel / possessed with a sprite that prophesied met vs: which brought her …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ACtesActs .8. Simon Magus / an in chaunter / by his wonders bewitched the Samaritans.
    With rule
    ACtesActs .8. Simon Magus / an in chaunter / by his wonders bewitched the Samaritans.

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ACtesActs .13. Elimas the sorcerer had of long tyme deceyued the Antiochians. Read the stories.
    With rule
    ACtesActs .13. Elimas the sorcerer had of long tyme deceyued the Antiochians. Read the stories.

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader