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diuorceddivorced

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
262 times in 115 works
Consistency
99.2% (262 of 264)
Reach if approved
~277 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: divorced
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
264 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (262 changes in 115 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 262)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … teſtimonies of Gods ſpirituall loue tokens are taken away; and thoſe ſame hath he diuorceddivorced. Hence is it that all Diuines in our Church, and in all the reformed …
    With rule
    … teſtimonies of Gods ſpirituall loue tokens are taken away; and thoſe ſame hath he diuorceddivorced. Hence is it that all Diuines in our Church, and in all the reformed …

    Richard Bernard · Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace · p. 122 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … yet doth he limit his diſpleaſure, Pſal.. 125.3. In a word the ſpouſe is ſometimes diuorceddivorced for a time, as ſhe was, ſcarſe ſeuenty yeares ago, but is afterward receiued …
    With rule
    … yet doth he limit his diſpleaſure, Pſal.. 125.3. In a word the ſpouſe is ſometimes diuorceddivorced for a time, as ſhe was, ſcarſe ſeuenty yeares ago, but is afterward receiued …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … compell him to take her againe, and he is not beaten: but if the diuorceddivorced woman dye, or be betrothed to another, before he take her againe; or if …
    With rule
    … compell him to take her againe, and he is not beaten: but if the diuorceddivorced woman dye, or be betrothed to another, before he take her againe; or if …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … new creatures, created to good workes: ioyne that in thy actions which the deuill diuorceddivorced, the inner man with the outward, the subiection of the soule with the obedience …
    With rule
    … new creatures, created to good workes: ioyne that in thy actions which the deuill diuorceddivorced, the inner man with the outward, the subiection of the soule with the obedience …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 388 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and Opulencie may kisse in the Morning, as a married couple; but will be diuorceddivorced before Sun-set. They whose Fathers could sit and tell their Michael-masse-hundreths …
    With rule
    … and Opulencie may kisse in the Morning, as a married couple; but will be diuorceddivorced before Sun-set. They whose Fathers could sit and tell their Michael-masse-hundreths …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … as incompatible as Heauen and Hell: so that if you should hate to be diuorceddivorced from your Bosome-sin whatsoeuer it be (which God forbid) you could haue no …
    With rule
    … as incompatible as Heauen and Hell: so that if you should hate to be diuorceddivorced from your Bosome-sin whatsoeuer it be (which God forbid) you could haue no …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by the consent of the people and iudgement of his Church, that is, be diuorceddivorced from vnlawfull marriage, and vse lawfull and permitted … tion: and obeying (as … it …) conformablie …
    With rule
    … by the consent of the people and iudgement of his Church, that is, be diuorceddivorced from vnlawfull marriage, and vse lawfull and permitted … tion: and obeying (as … it …) conformablie …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … for idolatrie: they were (as I may call it) the widowhoode or rather the diuorceddivorced eſtate of the churche, when (notwithſtanding the Lorde did beare loue and ſecrete liking …
    With rule
    … for idolatrie: they were (as I may call it) the widowhoode or rather the diuorceddivorced eſtate of the churche, when (notwithſtanding the Lorde did beare loue and ſecrete liking …

    John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

  • Printed
    … enacted that no Priest hereafter should mary, that those that were maried should be DiuorcedDivorced, and that none hereafter should be admitted Priest, but should sweare perpetuall Chastitie.
    With rule
    … enacted that no Priest hereafter should mary, that those that were maried should be DiuorcedDivorced, and that none hereafter should be admitted Priest, but should sweare perpetuall Chastitie.

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 45 · Open in the reader