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nominatiuenominative

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

Puritas changed it
299 times in 20 works
Consistency
86.6% (299 of 345)
Reach if approved
~362 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: nominative
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
345 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (299 changes in 20 works, 86.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 299)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … was ſo deere, that hee reades that place, Gal. 5, 24. Qui ſunt Chriſti, in the nominatiuenominative plurall, not as it is vulgarly taken in the genitiue ſingular: As if hee …
    With rule
    … was ſo deere, that hee reades that place, Gal. 5, 24. Qui ſunt Chriſti, in the nominatiuenominative plurall, not as it is vulgarly taken in the genitiue ſingular: As if hee …

    William Loe · The Joy of Jerusalem and Woe of the Worldlings · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or à Legate sent. Where is to be noted by the way, yt this nominatiuenominative [Nos] in the pluratiue nūber is not here to be expoūded after ye stile …
    With rule
    … or à Legate sent. Where is to be noted by the way, yt this nominatiuenominative [Nos] in the pluratiue nūber is not here to be expoūded after ye stile …

    John Foxe · A Sermon of Christ Crucified · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … word Soloecophanes. The apparance of incongruitie is, that it seemeth, that foreign, which is the nominatiuenominative case, shold agre with foreign, which is the datiue case, wheras in deed foreign is vsed …
    With rule
    … word Soloecophanes. The apparance of incongruitie is, that it seemeth, that foreign, which is the nominatiuenominative case, shold agre with foreign, which is the datiue case, wheras in deed foreign is vsed …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 308 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … partim with his genitiue caſe ſignorum of the plurall number, is put for the nominatiuenominative caſe before the verbe ſunt, and therefore is the ſaid verbe ſunt the plurall …
    With rule
    … partim with his genitiue caſe ſignorum of the plurall number, is put for the nominatiuenominative caſe before the verbe ſunt, and therefore is the ſaid verbe ſunt the plurall …

    John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sense should be imperfect. 3. Therefore, the better reading is, to beginne also in the nominatiuenominative case: Iehouah God of Israel, and so to suspend the sense vntill the beginning …
    With rule
    … sense should be imperfect. 3. Therefore, the better reading is, to beginne also in the nominatiuenominative case: Iehouah God of Israel, and so to suspend the sense vntill the beginning …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 216 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … he referreth it vnto God, and putteth foreign, all, in the accusatiue, not in the nominatiuenominative case: that it is God, which worketh all things for the best vnto his …
    With rule
    … he referreth it vnto God, and putteth foreign, all, in the accusatiue, not in the nominatiuenominative case: that it is God, which worketh all things for the best vnto his …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 377 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    25 From the beginning. They are muche deceiued that take beginning in the nominatiuenominative case, as if Christ did in this place affirme his eternall Godhead. There can …
    With rule
    25 From the beginning. They are muche deceiued that take beginning in the nominatiuenominative case, as if Christ did in this place affirme his eternall Godhead. There can …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 200 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … may be made perfect if the words condemnation and iuſtification be read in the nominatiuenominative caſe, as ſure they muſt bee reſolued if you will haue the ſence perfect …
    With rule
    … may be made perfect if the words condemnation and iuſtification be read in the nominatiuenominative caſe, as ſure they muſt bee reſolued if you will haue the ſence perfect …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (46)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 43 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

  • Printed
    … or defectiue speach, to make any sense, wherof, there must needes be added a NominatiueNominative case, and a Verbe. Now by what other NominatiueNominative case, and Verbe, may the …
    With rule
    … or defectiue speach, to make any sense, wherof, there must needes be added a NominatiueNominative case, and a Verbe. Now by what other NominatiueNominative case, and Verbe, may the …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … must needes be added a NominatiueNominative case, and a Verbe. Now by what other NominatiueNominative case, and Verbe, may the sense be supplied, but by that which the Apostle …
    With rule
    … must needes be added a NominatiueNominative case, and a Verbe. Now by what other NominatiueNominative case, and Verbe, may the sense be supplied, but by that which the Apostle …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Rejoinder to Bristows Reply A01324

  • Printed
    … bring in his place? (saith he) the verbe significat you cannot, because foreign is the NominatiueNominative case, then must you needes haue the verbe est: but as soone as it …
    With rule
    … bring in his place? (saith he) the verbe significat you cannot, because foreign is the NominatiueNominative case, then must you needes haue the verbe est: but as soone as it …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 599 · Open in the reader