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destroyedestroy

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

Puritas changed it
711 times in 233 works
Consistency
98.3% (711 of 723)
Reach if approved
~760 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: destroy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
723 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (711 changes in 233 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 711)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Gods iustice alwayes, by whome she holdeth her authoritie to edifie and not to destroyedestroy: to bynd as well as to loose. Although such dolour for offensies committed, and …
    With rule
    … Gods iustice alwayes, by whome she holdeth her authoritie to edifie and not to destroyedestroy: to bynd as well as to loose. Although such dolour for offensies committed, and …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … by hys Lorde God to slee Nabal, a folyshe and wycked man, and to destroyedestroy all that was hys. Yet at the firste instaunce of the sobre wyse woman …
    With rule
    … by hys Lorde God to slee Nabal, a folyshe and wycked man, and to destroyedestroy all that was hys. Yet at the firste instaunce of the sobre wyse woman …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    12 Tares wyll he sowe to destroyedestroy the good sede / for his wrathe is great to se him self thus deiected …
    With rule
    12 Tares wyll he sowe to destroyedestroy the good sede / for his wrathe is great to se him self thus deiected …

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

  4. Printed
    … Entragne and Pnygallart, made the declaration: He sayd that the kings meaning was to destroyedestroy all the Rebels which had in these late yeares borne armes against his maiestie …
    With rule
    … Entragne and Pnygallart, made the declaration: He sayd that the kings meaning was to destroyedestroy all the Rebels which had in these late yeares borne armes against his maiestie …

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

  5. Printed
    … to bring their subiectes to the true worshipping and honoring of God. And did destroyedestroy all monumentes of idolatrie, did punishe to deathe the teachers of it, and remoued …
    With rule
    … to bring their subiectes to the true worshipping and honoring of God. And did destroyedestroy all monumentes of idolatrie, did punishe to deathe the teachers of it, and remoued …

    John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the throne of Goddes Iuſtice, and from thence bryng downe indignacyon and vengeaunce, to deſtroyedestroy wycked worldelings, which being thē ſelfs in welth and aboundaunce, fele no gryete of …
    With rule
    … the throne of Goddes Iuſtice, and from thence bryng downe indignacyon and vengeaunce, to deſtroyedestroy wycked worldelings, which being thē ſelfs in welth and aboundaunce, fele no gryete of …

    Thomas Lever · Meditation Upon the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … do we teache. Oh good Lorde is thys euyll? Ought men for thys to deſtroyedestroy, and to ſhede bloude? Vve are no heretykes, but preache the holpe Goſpell ſyncerelye …
    With rule
    … do we teache. Oh good Lorde is thys euyll? Ought men for thys to deſtroyedestroy, and to ſhede bloude? Vve are no heretykes, but preache the holpe Goſpell ſyncerelye …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … deſpiſe the worke of a man, but ſo much as lyeth in them, they deſtroyedestroy what God hath made, wherin they take a worke in hande, which they cannot …
    With rule
    … deſpiſe the worke of a man, but ſo much as lyeth in them, they deſtroyedestroy what God hath made, wherin they take a worke in hande, which they cannot …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 92 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

8 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.

Against a Rank Papist A02621

  • Printed
    … Ezech. xliiii. be you a faythful and earnest minister in executing that Godly offyce. DestroyeDestroy the male stues (as is sayd afore) wythin your owne lande, as dyd noble …
    With rule
    … Ezech. xliiii. be you a faythful and earnest minister in executing that Godly offyce. DestroyeDestroy the male stues (as is sayd afore) wythin your owne lande, as dyd noble …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers A02668

  • Printed
    … thy brother be greued ouer thy meate / then walkest thou not now after charite. DestroyeDestroy not with thy meate / hym for whō Christ dyed.
    With rule
    … thy brother be greued ouer thy meate / then walkest thou not now after charite. DestroyeDestroy not with thy meate / hym for whō Christ dyed.

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 28 · Open in the reader

First Sermon to His Majesty A05141

  • Printed
    … sayd: Ne interficias eum, quis enimimpune manum suam inferret vucto domini. &c. That is: DestroyeDestroy hym not, for who can laye hys handes on the Lordes annoynted and be …
    With rule
    … sayd: Ne interficias eum, quis enimimpune manum suam inferret vucto domini. &c. That is: DestroyeDestroy hym not, for who can laye hys handes on the Lordes annoynted and be …

    Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … the parties which gaue euidence against our Lorde Iesus Christ, that he had saide, DestroyeDestroy yee this Temple, and in three dayes I will builde it vp againe, were …
    With rule
    … the parties which gaue euidence against our Lorde Iesus Christ, that he had saide, DestroyeDestroy yee this Temple, and in three dayes I will builde it vp againe, were …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 239 · Open in the reader

Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain A68098

  • Printed
    … that Antichriſt of Rome / and frō al his deteſtable enormities / manners / lawes / garments / & ceremonies: DeſtroyeDestroy the counſel of al Papiſtes and Atheiſtes / enemies of thy Goſpell / & of this realme …
    With rule
    … that Antichriſt of Rome / and frō al his deteſtable enormities / manners / lawes / garments / & ceremonies: DeſtroyeDestroy the counſel of al Papiſtes and Atheiſtes / enemies of thy Goſpell / & of this realme …

    Anthony Gilby · Dialogue Between a Soldier and a Chaplain · Open in the reader

An Humble Supplication Unto God for Restoring His Holy Word A68446

  • Printed
    … and conſume as the / fatte of lambes / yea as ſmoke let them conſume awaye. DeſtroyeDestroy them for euer / and / plucke the out of their dwelīg and root them out …
    With rule
    … and conſume as the / fatte of lambes / yea as ſmoke let them conſume awaye. DeſtroyeDestroy them for euer / and / plucke the out of their dwelīg and root them out …

    Thomas Becon · An Humble Supplication Unto God for Restoring His Holy Word · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

  • Printed
    … they had hearde priuatelye, they ſhoulde ſpeake openlye and manifeſtlye. The Lord alſo ſayd: DeſtroyeDestroy this temple, and in three dayes I wyll reſtore it: which is alſo ſpoken …
    With rule
    … they had hearde priuatelye, they ſhoulde ſpeake openlye and manifeſtlye. The Lord alſo ſayd: DeſtroyeDestroy this temple, and in three dayes I wyll reſtore it: which is alſo ſpoken …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 260 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

  • Printed
    … Spoile and deſtroyedestroy ſayeth the Lord, and accōpliſh all that I haue cōmaunded thee. DeſtroyeDestroy her, that nothing remaine. Intrench rounde aboute, that no man eſcape. Rewarde her after …
    With rule
    … Spoile and deſtroyedestroy ſayeth the Lord, and accōpliſh all that I haue cōmaunded thee. DeſtroyeDestroy her, that nothing remaine. Intrench rounde aboute, that no man eſcape. Rewarde her after …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 544 · Open in the reader