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groanesgroans

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

Puritas changed it
940 times in 485 works
Consistency
97.4% (940 of 965)
Reach if approved
~1,014 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: groans
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
965 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (940 changes in 485 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 940)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … them among whom they live; and this maketh a knot not eaſily broken without groanesgroans.
    With rule
    … them among whom they live; and this maketh a knot not eaſily broken without groanesgroans.

    George Hughes · The Saints Loss and Lamentation · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … c. The odours which were giuen vnto him, they expound of the ſights and groanesgroans of Gods ſeruants, or of his graciouſneſſe, which is as ſweet odours added to …
    With rule
    … c. The odours which were giuen vnto him, they expound of the ſights and groanesgroans of Gods ſeruants, or of his graciouſneſſe, which is as ſweet odours added to …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 334 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … desires of our hearts, and giue vs the blessing. And our constant desires and groanesgroans to heauen for mercie, shall neuer be in vaine. For if we aske any …
    With rule
    … desires of our hearts, and giue vs the blessing. And our constant desires and groanesgroans to heauen for mercie, shall neuer be in vaine. For if we aske any …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 300 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … help my weakeneſſe, that I may yeeld vnto thee, O my God, my laſt groanesgroans, to thee acceptable, and to me ſalutiferous, as being in the throne of thy …
    With rule
    … help my weakeneſſe, that I may yeeld vnto thee, O my God, my laſt groanesgroans, to thee acceptable, and to me ſalutiferous, as being in the throne of thy …

    Theodore Beza · Household Prayers · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Rouseth itselfe with groanesgroans: and round about
    With rule
    Rouseth itselfe with groanesgroans: and round about

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 315 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … with calling to heauen; and when shee cannot speake, she deliuers her mind in groanesgroans. There is not a teare falles from her, but an Angell holds a bottell …
    With rule
    … with calling to heauen; and when shee cannot speake, she deliuers her mind in groanesgroans. There is not a teare falles from her, but an Angell holds a bottell …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … reading instead of praying were not of fayth, seeing in praying the sighes and groanesgroans that proceede of faith, minister matter to praye without a booke. Secondly that you …
    With rule
    … reading instead of praying were not of fayth, seeing in praying the sighes and groanesgroans that proceede of faith, minister matter to praye without a booke. Secondly that you …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … feare him▪ … cry, and will save them. … you that are tender … moved with the groanesgroans, … of your children, … is with the Lord; the … of his children … much more, and …
    With rule
    … feare him▪ … cry, and will save them. … you that are tender … moved with the groanesgroans, … of your children, … is with the Lord; the … of his children … much more, and …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (25)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Childs Patrimony A15695

  • Printed
    … away Time. Grave counſell to that purpoſe (197.) Who may be ſaid properly to live. GroanesGroans not diſcernable from what ſpirit they proceed (199.) We make an Idoll of the laſt …
    With rule
    … away Time. Grave counſell to that purpoſe (197.) Who may be ſaid properly to live. GroanesGroans not diſcernable from what ſpirit they proceed (199.) We make an Idoll of the laſt …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · Open in the reader

The Earnest of our Inheritance A20804

  • Printed
    … knoweth and approoueth what his owne Spirit desireth and coueteth, taketh notice of these GroanesGroans, accepteth of them, and will heare and deliuer the oppressed: These proceede from a …
    With rule
    … knoweth and approoueth what his owne Spirit desireth and coueteth, taketh notice of these GroanesGroans, accepteth of them, and will heare and deliuer the oppressed: These proceede from a …

    Thomas Draxe · The Earnest of our Inheritance · p. 41 · Open in the reader

Of the Childs Portion A67002

  • Printed
    … away Time. Grave counſell to that purpoſe (197.) Who may be ſaid properly to live. GroanesGroans not diſcernable from what ſpirit they proceed (199.) We make an Idoll of the laſt …
    With rule
    … away Time. Grave counſell to that purpoſe (197.) Who may be ſaid properly to live. GroanesGroans not diſcernable from what ſpirit they proceed (199.) We make an Idoll of the laſt …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Of the Childs Portion · Open in the reader

A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion A67005

  • Printed
    … away Time. Grave counſell to that purpoſe (197.) Who may be ſaid properly to live. GroanesGroans not diſcernable from what ſpirit they proceed (199.) We make an Idoll of the laſt …
    With rule
    … away Time. Grave counſell to that purpoſe (197.) Who may be ſaid properly to live. GroanesGroans not diſcernable from what ſpirit they proceed (199.) We make an Idoll of the laſt …

    Hezekiah Woodward · A Sons Patrimony and Daughters Portion · Open in the reader

A Second Guide to Heaven A70327

  • Printed
    … is it to see a dear Child, Husband or Wife, in Convulsive-fits, under GroanesGroans and Sweats, and ghastly looks? but fall under Gods endless wrath, who knows the …
    With rule
    … is it to see a dear Child, Husband or Wife, in Convulsive-fits, under GroanesGroans and Sweats, and ghastly looks? but fall under Gods endless wrath, who knows the …

    Samuel Hardy · A Second Guide to Heaven · p. 166 · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

  • Printed
    … all; now O ſoules, what have you profitted by all Words, Prayers, Teares, Sighes, GroanesGroans? As Conſcience can anſwer to this (for nothing elſe may then ſpeake,) ſo ſhall …
    With rule
    … all; now O ſoules, what have you profitted by all Words, Prayers, Teares, Sighes, GroanesGroans? As Conſcience can anſwer to this (for nothing elſe may then ſpeake,) ſo ſhall …

    Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 550 · Open in the reader