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yeeryear

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

Puritas changed it
2,549 times in 381 works
Consistency
97.5% (2,549 of 2,612)
Reach if approved
~2,744 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: year
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,612 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,549 changes in 381 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,549)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to be Pope, who was the sonne of a married Bishop? H…e …uled 6. yeeryear…s, 5. monethes, and 18. dayes. He excommunicated Pyrrhus Patriarch of Constantinople for the heresie of …
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    … to be Pope, who was the sonne of a married Bishop? H…e …uled 6. yeeryear…s, 5. monethes, and 18. dayes. He excommunicated Pyrrhus Patriarch of Constantinople for the heresie of …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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    … construing & parsing; yet come and examine them in those things a quarter of a yeeryear after, they will be many of them as though they had neuer learned them …
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    … construing & parsing; yet come and examine them in those things a quarter of a yeeryear after, they will be many of them as though they had neuer learned them …

    John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 90 · Open in the reader

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    … to the assembly of the States of Germanie, in their Imperiall parliament, about the yeeryear 1522. These be his words as Epencaeus a learned Bishop of their owne reporteth.
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    … to the assembly of the States of Germanie, in their Imperiall parliament, about the yeeryear 1522. These be his words as Epencaeus a learned Bishop of their owne reporteth.

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 160 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … kings. Sin, Repentance and Pardon, are like to the three vernall months of the yeeryear, March, April, and May. Sin comes in like March blustering, stormy, and full of …
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    … kings. Sin, Repentance and Pardon, are like to the three vernall months of the yeeryear, March, April, and May. Sin comes in like March blustering, stormy, and full of …

    Thomas Adams · Gods Anger and Mans Comfort · p. 87 · Open in the reader

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    11 Thou crownest the yeeryear with thy goodnesse, and thy paths drop fatnesse.
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    11 Thou crownest the yeeryear with thy goodnesse, and thy paths drop fatnesse.

    Zacharie Boyd · The Psalms of David in Meter with the Prose Interlined · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Parish Church of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate-streete; and gave threescore pounds land a yeeryear to the Skinners of London, for which be bound to pay twenty pounds to …
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    … Parish Church of Saint Helens in Bishopsgate-streete; and gave threescore pounds land a yeeryear to the Skinners of London, for which be bound to pay twenty pounds to …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a time, times, and …alfe a time: that is, for the ſpace of three yeeryear…s a… …n hal…e, which are comprized from that fa…ous and laſ …
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    … a time, times, and …alfe a time: that is, for the ſpace of three yeeryear…s a… …n hal…e, which are comprized from that fa…ous and laſ …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … takes lesse because it hath more need; and Riches in the end of the yeeryear, craue more because they haue lesse need. Yea, Pouertie somtimes at the end of …
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    … takes lesse because it hath more need; and Riches in the end of the yeeryear, craue more because they haue lesse need. Yea, Pouertie somtimes at the end of …

    Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (63)

49 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 31 are listed here. 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

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    QUeen Mary dying on Thursday the seventeenth of November, in the YeerYear 1558, her sister, the Lady Elizabeth, of the age of five and twenty yeers, the …
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    QUeen Mary dying on Thursday the seventeenth of November, in the YeerYear 1558, her sister, the Lady Elizabeth, of the age of five and twenty yeers, the …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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    … at Rheims, was carefull to have the League of Blois confirmed; which, in the YeerYear 1572. had been concluded betweene his Brother Charles and that most Illustrious Queen ELIZABETH; Now …
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    … at Rheims, was carefull to have the League of Blois confirmed; which, in the YeerYear 1572. had been concluded betweene his Brother Charles and that most Illustrious Queen ELIZABETH; Now …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 34 · Open in the reader

Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 A29746

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    Printed in the YeerYear. 1665▪
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    Printed in the YeerYear. 1665▪

    John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · Open in the reader

The History of the Indulgence A29750

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    Whereas by the Act of Councel and Proclamation at Glasgow in the YeerYear 1662. a Considerable number of Ministers were at once turned out, and so debarred from …
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    Whereas by the Act of Councel and Proclamation at Glasgow in the YeerYear 1662. a Considerable number of Ministers were at once turned out, and so debarred from …

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 4 · Open in the reader

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    … at our Court, at Whitehall the Seventh day of Iuny 1669. & of our Reigne the 21. YeerYear, by his Majest: Command LAUDERDAIL.
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    … at our Court, at Whitehall the Seventh day of Iuny 1669. & of our Reigne the 21. YeerYear, by his Majest: Command LAUDERDAIL.

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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    Thus we see there were this YeerYear 1669. Five and Thirtie in all licensed and indulged, and ordained to preach, in the …
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    Thus we see there were this YeerYear 1669. Five and Thirtie in all licensed and indulged, and ordained to preach, in the …

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … they call before them all such Ministers, who having entred in or since the YeerYear 1649. and have not as yet obtained Presentations and Collations as aforesaid, yet darred to …
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    … they call before them all such Ministers, who having entred in or since the YeerYear 1649. and have not as yet obtained Presentations and Collations as aforesaid, yet darred to …

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … date of thir presents and former Acts of Councel, certaine Ministers outted since the YeerYear 1661. are confined in manner ther…in contained; and that there are remaining diverse of …
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    … date of thir presents and former Acts of Councel, certaine Ministers outted since the YeerYear 1661. are confined in manner ther…in contained; and that there are remaining diverse of …

    John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · p. 39 · Open in the reader

Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism A29753

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    … saw the Sermons of one Taulerus a Dominican (who preached at Colone about the YeerYear 1346.) translated into Dutch by Ioannes de Lixbona and printed at Antwerp. A. 1647. an Author …
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    … saw the Sermons of one Taulerus a Dominican (who preached at Colone about the YeerYear 1346.) translated into Dutch by Ioannes de Lixbona and printed at Antwerp. A. 1647. an Author …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 431 · Open in the reader

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    … See the mystery of the whore, Epist. but if we reckon back from the YeerYear 1676. wherein this Quakers Apology cometh forth, the Quakers, in his account, appeared first, as …
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    … See the mystery of the whore, Epist. but if we reckon back from the YeerYear 1676. wherein this Quakers Apology cometh forth, the Quakers, in his account, appeared first, as …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 513 · Open in the reader

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    … forth, the Quakers, in his account, appeared first, as a congregated people in the YeerYear 1651. that is, fifteen Yeers later, then the other account: But it may be he …
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    … forth, the Quakers, in his account, appeared first, as a congregated people in the YeerYear 1651. that is, fifteen Yeers later, then the other account: But it may be he …

    John Brown · Quakerism the Path-Way to Paganism · p. 513 · Open in the reader

Vindication of His Annotations A42469

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    … that M. Lillie, that grand Impoſtor, had in his Black Book of the Dark YeerYear, been nibbling at mine Annotations on Jerem. 10.2. and girding at me, after his wonted …
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    … that M. Lillie, that grand Impoſtor, had in his Black Book of the Dark YeerYear, been nibbling at mine Annotations on Jerem. 10.2. and girding at me, after his wonted …

    Thomas Gataker · Vindication of His Annotations · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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    … by the reports given out beforehand, of the moſt dreadful Eclips, that this Black YeerYear ſhould produce, and the direful Effects that ſhould follow thereupon. Yet after ſome ſpace …
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    … by the reports given out beforehand, of the moſt dreadful Eclips, that this Black YeerYear ſhould produce, and the direful Effects that ſhould follow thereupon. Yet after ſome ſpace …

    Thomas Gataker · Vindication of His Annotations · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

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    … revolution and return of all things to their priſtine or firſt perfection, THE GREAT YEERYEAR; So Chriſt brings the GREAT YEERYEAR, when he repairs and reduceth all things to …
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    … revolution and return of all things to their priſtine or firſt perfection, THE GREAT YEERYEAR; So Chriſt brings the GREAT YEERYEAR, when he repairs and reduceth all things to …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 433 · Open in the reader

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    … ſhall eaſily perceive (if we credit our common Account, making this to be the YeerYear of Chriſt 1653.) that the ſaid One thouſand two hundred and ninety yeers are almoſt …
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    … ſhall eaſily perceive (if we credit our common Account, making this to be the YeerYear of Chriſt 1653.) that the ſaid One thouſand two hundred and ninety yeers are almoſt …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 544 · Open in the reader

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    … ceaſed by the aforeſaid miraculous obſtacle, they that account leaſt, put it in the YeerYear of Chriſt 363. others more, of which preſently.
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    … ceaſed by the aforeſaid miraculous obſtacle, they that account leaſt, put it in the YeerYear of Chriſt 363. others more, of which preſently.

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 551 · Open in the reader

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    … Chronologers have been omitted or made too few, or left our, viz. Firſt, ONE YEERYEAR whiles the Flood laſted. Secondly, SIXTY YEERS, untill the birth of Abraham. Thirdly, TWO …
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    … Chronologers have been omitted or made too few, or left our, viz. Firſt, ONE YEERYEAR whiles the Flood laſted. Secondly, SIXTY YEERS, untill the birth of Abraham. Thirdly, TWO …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 560 · Open in the reader

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    … account, either of the YeerYear of the World from the Creation, or of the YeerYear of Chriſt ſince his Nativity doe report. Of which in particular, ſeeing other Chronologers …
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    … account, either of the YeerYear of the World from the Creation, or of the YeerYear of Chriſt ſince his Nativity doe report. Of which in particular, ſeeing other Chronologers …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 562 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A55917

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    From hence unto the YeerYear of our Lord 1073. are a thouſand yeers, at which time Pope Gregory VII. a …
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    From hence unto the YeerYear of our Lord 1073. are a thouſand yeers, at which time Pope Gregory VII. a …

    David Pareus · Commentary on Revelation · p. 508 · Open in the reader

Letters in Two Parts A57970

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    Printed in the YeerYear M DC LXIIII.
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    Printed in the YeerYear M DC LXIIII.

    Samuel Rutherford · Letters in Two Parts · Open in the reader

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    … his returning to his former Charge, upon that happy change of affairs, in the YeerYear 1638: & his being shorthly after sent to the profession of Theology in the Vniversity of …
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    … his returning to his former Charge, upon that happy change of affairs, in the YeerYear 1638: & his being shorthly after sent to the profession of Theology in the Vniversity of …

    Samuel Rutherford · Letters in Two Parts · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

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    …, Gen. 30. 17. Part of land, Gen. 41. 34. …. …. 5. 16. YeerYear, Lev. 19. 25. Lot, Josh. 19. 24. …, 2 …. 2. 23. Seal, Revel. 6. 9. Angel, Revel. 9. 1. … …, Rev. 21. 10, Day, Gen. 1. 23. Moneth, Numb. 23. 38. Jer. 1. 3. Time …
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    …, Gen. 30. 17. Part of land, Gen. 41. 34. …. …. 5. 16. YeerYear, Lev. 19. 25. Lot, Josh. 19. 24. …, 2 …. 2. 23. Seal, Revel. 6. 9. Angel, Revel. 9. 1. … …, Rev. 21. 10, Day, Gen. 1. 23. Moneth, Numb. 23. 38. Jer. 1. 3. Time …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 224 · Open in the reader

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    YeerYear, Lev. 25. 10, 11. 2 King. 15. 23, 27.
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    YeerYear, Lev. 25. 10, 11. 2 King. 15. 23, 27.

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 224 · Open in the reader

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    Referred to Lot, 1 Chr. 24. 16. & 25. 26. YeerYear, 2 King. 25. 8. Jer. 52. 12.
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    Referred to Lot, 1 Chr. 24. 16. & 25. 26. YeerYear, 2 King. 25. 8. Jer. 52. 12.

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 440 · Open in the reader

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    … of an Ephah, Ezek. 45. 13. of an Hin, Ib. 4. 11. Sardius, Rev. 21. 20. Seal, Ib. 6. 12. Son. Gen. 30. 19. YeerYear, Lev. 25. 21.
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    … of an Ephah, Ezek. 45. 13. of an Hin, Ib. 4. 11. Sardius, Rev. 21. 20. Seal, Ib. 6. 12. Son. Gen. 30. 19. YeerYear, Lev. 25. 21.

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 593 · Open in the reader

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    YeerYear of Sabbath, and …]
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    YeerYear of Sabbath, and …]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 747 · Open in the reader

A Two-Fold Shaking of the Earth A79856

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    … and Policies? as, what Kingdom and Commonwealth ſhall riſe or fall in ſuch a YeerYear, or ſuch a Moneth; and what Deſolations there will be, by Peſtilence and Famine …
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    … and Policies? as, what Kingdom and Commonwealth ſhall riſe or fall in ſuch a YeerYear, or ſuch a Moneth; and what Deſolations there will be, by Peſtilence and Famine …

    John Canne · A Two-Fold Shaking of the Earth · p. 4 · Open in the reader

The Nullity of the Pretended Assembly at St Andrews and Dundee A85789

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    Printed in the YeerYear, 1652.
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    Printed in the YeerYear, 1652.

    James Guthrie · The Nullity of the Pretended Assembly at St Andrews and Dundee · Open in the reader

A Discourse Apologetical A85827

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    … Apologetical; WHEREIN Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Paſqil for the YeerYear 1654. are cleerly laid open; His ſhameful Deſertion of his own cauſe is further diſcovered …
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    … Apologetical; WHEREIN Lilies lewd and lowd Lies in his Merlin or Paſqil for the YeerYear 1654. are cleerly laid open; His ſhameful Deſertion of his own cauſe is further diſcovered …

    Thomas Gataker · A Discourse Apologetical · Open in the reader

Sins Discovery and Revenge A86579

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    … Concluſion. God has now (Right Honorable) brought us to the cloſe of an Old YeerYear: wherein we have had Great Experiences of his Goodneſſe to us. Of his Goodneſſe …
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    … Concluſion. God has now (Right Honorable) brought us to the cloſe of an Old YeerYear: wherein we have had Great Experiences of his Goodneſſe to us. Of his Goodneſſe …

    Thomas Horton · Sins Discovery and Revenge · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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    And now for this enſuing New YeerYear, let us be hence perſwaded to ſet upon it, with a purpoſe and endeavour …
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    And now for this enſuing New YeerYear, let us be hence perſwaded to ſet upon it, with a purpoſe and endeavour …

    Thomas Horton · Sins Discovery and Revenge · p. 39 · Open in the reader