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containecontain

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

Puritas changed it
3,383 times in 1,052 works
Consistency
99.7% (3,383 of 3,393)
Reach if approved
~3,565 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: contain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,393 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,383 changes in 1,052 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,383)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … position. But thinke you that well applyed to this Confession: for it doth not containecontain everie negative position, but is only a rejection of sundrie popish errours particularly expressed …
    With rule
    … position. But thinke you that well applyed to this Confession: for it doth not containecontain everie negative position, but is only a rejection of sundrie popish errours particularly expressed …

    David Calderwood · An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be plainly sayd vnto them, that either they should marry if they can not containecontain, or els containecontain if they will not marry. Epiphanius lib. 2. haer. 61. calleth mariage for …
    With rule
    … be plainly sayd vnto them, that either they should marry if they can not containecontain, or els containecontain if they will not marry. Epiphanius lib. 2. haer. 61. calleth mariage for …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Lady of Hales, and our Lady of Sienna: no reaſonable Volume would receiue or containecontain them. I referre him that would ſpend idle time in idle fables, to Rob …
    With rule
    … Lady of Hales, and our Lady of Sienna: no reaſonable Volume would receiue or containecontain them. I referre him that would ſpend idle time in idle fables, to Rob …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … begining and ende. And the heauen, yea the heauen of al heauens, can not containecontain hym (much leſſe a littlle boxe to be ſhut therin (but as he was …
    With rule
    … begining and ende. And the heauen, yea the heauen of al heauens, can not containecontain hym (much leſſe a littlle boxe to be ſhut therin (but as he was …

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

  5. Printed
    … preſence: yea to be ſo incomprehenſible, as the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot containecontain him.
    With rule
    … preſence: yea to be ſo incomprehenſible, as the heauen, and heauen of heauens cannot containecontain him.

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … begins with Tau; the last letter of the Alphabet; as though this Psalme should containecontain whatsoever may be expressed by all the letters of the Alphabet. And it may …
    With rule
    … begins with Tau; the last letter of the Alphabet; as though this Psalme should containecontain whatsoever may be expressed by all the letters of the Alphabet. And it may …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Commaundements, as walles on each side to enclose vs, which wee must striue to containecontain our selues within, and to redresse our waies according therevnto. Christs voice is the …
    With rule
    … Commaundements, as walles on each side to enclose vs, which wee must striue to containecontain our selues within, and to redresse our waies according therevnto. Christs voice is the …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 142 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … shed, and offered for vs: because the species, or forme of bread, although it containecontain the blood, yet it represents not the blood, nor makes any memorie, or commemoration …
    With rule
    … shed, and offered for vs: because the species, or forme of bread, although it containecontain the blood, yet it represents not the blood, nor makes any memorie, or commemoration …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Reformed Catholic A09453

  • Printed
    … things which are plainely set downe in Scripture, are found ALL THOSE POINTES VVHICH CONTAINECONTAIN FAITH AND MANNERS of liuing well. Vicentius Lirinen. saith, the Canon of the Scripture …
    With rule
    … things which are plainely set downe in Scripture, are found ALL THOSE POINTES VVHICH CONTAINECONTAIN FAITH AND MANNERS of liuing well. Vicentius Lirinen. saith, the Canon of the Scripture …

    William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 141 · Open in the reader

The True Catholic A13971

  • Printed
    … be written; all the world could not containecontain the bookes which ſhould be written; ContaineContain (ſaith he) that is vnderſtand. For if (ſaith he) the world cannot, nor all …
    With rule
    … be written; all the world could not containecontain the bookes which ſhould be written; ContaineContain (ſaith he) that is vnderſtand. For if (ſaith he) the world cannot, nor all …

    Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 469 · Open in the reader

Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion A17676

  • Printed
    1. ContaineContain by his power All thinges.
    With rule
    1. ContaineContain by his power All thinges.

    John Calvin · Abridgment of Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 32-24 A35535

  • Printed
    The three firſt verſes of the Chapter, ContaineContain the firſt part of the Preface, wherein Elihu excites and calls forth Jobs attention …
    With rule
    The three firſt verſes of the Chapter, ContaineContain the firſt part of the Preface, wherein Elihu excites and calls forth Jobs attention …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 32-24 · p. 143 · Open in the reader

The Universalist Examined and Convicted A44706

  • Printed
    … And alſo to preſſe the ſame upon them, Ver. 17. Now that thoſe words, Ver. 14, 15, ContaineContain an Argument to prove and backe this, is evident; and that to ſhew a …
    With rule
    … And alſo to preſſe the ſame upon them, Ver. 17. Now that thoſe words, Ver. 14, 15, ContaineContain an Argument to prove and backe this, is evident; and that to ſhew a …

    Obadiah Howe · The Universalist Examined and Convicted · Open in the reader

A Help Unto Devotion A72314

  • Printed
    … the labours of thoſe whome thou haſt appointed to the ſeruice of thy church: ContaineContain the ſubiects in their due obedience to authority, bring to nought all tumultuous & rebellious …
    With rule
    … the labours of thoſe whome thou haſt appointed to the ſeruice of thy church: ContaineContain the ſubiects in their due obedience to authority, bring to nought all tumultuous & rebellious …

    Samuel Hieron · A Help Unto Devotion · p. 1 · Open in the reader

The New World A86501

  • Printed
    2. ContaineContain all the citie.
    With rule
    2. ContaineContain all the citie.

    Nathanael Homes · The New World · p. 60 · Open in the reader