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wolueswolves

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

Puritas changed it
1,404 times in 441 works
Consistency
99.9% (1,404 of 1,405)
Reach if approved
~1,476 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wolves
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,405 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,404 changes in 441 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,404)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to be your Lorde ād gouernour, ād with hī all filthie ſwine, wilde beares, wolueswolves, bores, tygers, and lyons to deuoure, deſtroye, ād ouerthrowe all thinges: not your fieldes …
    With rule
    … to be your Lorde ād gouernour, ād with hī all filthie ſwine, wilde beares, wolueswolves, bores, tygers, and lyons to deuoure, deſtroye, ād ouerthrowe all thinges: not your fieldes …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of God to his children in this world to keepe them as sheepe among wolueswolves, and to saue them from the infection of sinne, in the middest of a …
    With rule
    … of God to his children in this world to keepe them as sheepe among wolueswolves, and to saue them from the infection of sinne, in the middest of a …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 493 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    ¶The kynge defendeth Dunstane & destroyeth wolueswolves.
    With rule
    ¶The kynge defendeth Dunstane & destroyeth wolueswolves.

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … seclude you from all administracyous / tyll soche tyme as they fynde ye no longar wolueswolves but faythfull feaders / no destroyers but gentyll teachers. For as sainct Peter doth saye …
    With rule
    … seclude you from all administracyous / tyll soche tyme as they fynde ye no longar wolueswolves but faythfull feaders / no destroyers but gentyll teachers. For as sainct Peter doth saye …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Foxes and Dogges & WoluesWolves thou nam'ſt,
    With rule
    Foxes and Dogges & WoluesWolves thou nam'ſt,

    Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … CATHOLICKE CHVRCH, are CHRIST, and Antichrist; TRVETH, and Lies; WHEAT, and Chaffe; PASTOVRS, and WoluesWolves; the true TEMPLE, and the Abhomination of Desolation, standing, all-so, (in sanctis Ecclesiae …
    With rule
    … CATHOLICKE CHVRCH, are CHRIST, and Antichrist; TRVETH, and Lies; WHEAT, and Chaffe; PASTOVRS, and WoluesWolves; the true TEMPLE, and the Abhomination of Desolation, standing, all-so, (in sanctis Ecclesiae …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 151 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … our selues, then hath a sheepe that is wandring in the wildernesse among the WoluesWolves, Beares, and Lions. Secondly, if wee confesse and finde our selues to bee such …
    With rule
    … our selues, then hath a sheepe that is wandring in the wildernesse among the WoluesWolves, Beares, and Lions. Secondly, if wee confesse and finde our selues to bee such …

    William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … beetle could not cleaue, was caught faſt by the fiſts, and ſo deuoured by WoluesWolves. So Riches ioyned with godlineſſe and good Conſcience, are the good bleſſings of God …
    With rule
    … beetle could not cleaue, was caught faſt by the fiſts, and ſo deuoured by WoluesWolves. So Riches ioyned with godlineſſe and good Conſcience, are the good bleſſings of God …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

An ABC for Laymen A15621

  • Printed
    WOluesWolves breaking into a flocke of sheepe, deuouring some, & scattering the rest: doe resemble false …
    With rule
    WOluesWolves breaking into a flocke of sheepe, deuouring some, & scattering the rest: doe resemble false …

    Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 171 · Open in the reader