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accusatiueaccusative

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

Puritas changed it
177 times in 25 works
Consistency
88.0% (177 of 201)
Reach if approved
~211 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: accusative
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
201 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (177 changes in 25 works, 88.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 177)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … vp somewhat, when hee speakes of the absent, hee knowes no case but the accusatiueaccusative: loues none (from his Patron) but the datiue. Hi… laudes numerat, dum ille laudes …
    With rule
    … vp somewhat, when hee speakes of the absent, hee knowes no case but the accusatiueaccusative: loues none (from his Patron) but the datiue. Hi… laudes numerat, dum ille laudes …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the datiue case, this interpretation might take place, but when it is in the accusatiueaccusative case, Credo Ecclesiam Catholicam, A boy that woulde conster it otherwise than thus: I …
    With rule
    … the datiue case, this interpretation might take place, but when it is in the accusatiueaccusative case, Credo Ecclesiam Catholicam, A boy that woulde conster it otherwise than thus: I …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … letter Beth is vsed, must not bee translated with a preposition that ruleth an accusatiueaccusative or ablatiue case, but with a datiue case on this manner, Beleeue Moses, Dauid …
    With rule
    … letter Beth is vsed, must not bee translated with a preposition that ruleth an accusatiueaccusative or ablatiue case, but with a datiue case on this manner, Beleeue Moses, Dauid …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 450 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … man he Lorde. for a…h in Hebrew is a perpetuall note of the accuſatiueaccusative caſe. But if this be true, why then did the 70. Interpreters trā ſlate it …
    With rule
    … man he Lorde. for a…h in Hebrew is a perpetuall note of the accuſatiueaccusative caſe. But if this be true, why then did the 70. Interpreters trā ſlate it …

    Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    6. But the best reading is, to put it in the accusatiueaccusative; the thing impossible to the law, in as much as it was weake, &c …
    With rule
    6. But the best reading is, to put it in the accusatiueaccusative; the thing impossible to the law, in as much as it was weake, &c …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 352 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    The fourth …hing required in confession is, that it be not defensiue, bu… accusatiueaccusative, noted in the word, Peccata Now there be diuers partitions of sinnes, as, First …
    With rule
    The fourth …hing required in confession is, that it be not defensiue, bu… accusatiueaccusative, noted in the word, Peccata Now there be diuers partitions of sinnes, as, First …

    John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · p. 288 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … an Epiſtle. That Clement ſcarce knowing what difference there is / between the nominatiue / and accuſatiueaccusative caſe: yt was no merueill if he were ignorant off the difference / between a …
    With rule
    … an Epiſtle. That Clement ſcarce knowing what difference there is / between the nominatiue / and accuſatiueaccusative caſe: yt was no merueill if he were ignorant off the difference / between a …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCCLXVII · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it. This is the reason why the Apostle hath set it downe in the accusatiueaccusative, foreign, to represent a moving vnto vs. His meaning then is that the Pope shall …
    With rule
    … it. This is the reason why the Apostle hath set it downe in the accusatiueaccusative, foreign, to represent a moving vnto vs. His meaning then is that the Pope shall …

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · The Accomplishment of the Prophecies · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 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
    … Whereof it is put in the Genetiue case; after such prepositions as gouerne an AccusatiueAccusative or Datiue, where foreign the house of Pluto is to bee vnderstoode. I might heere …
    With rule
    … Whereof it is put in the Genetiue case; after such prepositions as gouerne an AccusatiueAccusative or Datiue, where foreign the house of Pluto is to bee vnderstoode. I might heere …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 236 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … say) is otherwise, for foreign is not ioyned with a Genitiue case, but with an AccusatiueAccusative, and a Preposition: In deede this later construction of foreign is not so vsuall, and …
    With rule
    … say) is otherwise, for foreign is not ioyned with a Genitiue case, but with an AccusatiueAccusative, and a Preposition: In deede this later construction of foreign is not so vsuall, and …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 266 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … be with a Genitiue case, as in the examples you bring, or with an AccusatiueAccusative, as in this text of S. Paule. And euen so the Englishe word (worthie …
    With rule
    … be with a Genitiue case, as in the examples you bring, or with an AccusatiueAccusative, as in this text of S. Paule. And euen so the Englishe word (worthie …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 268 · Open in the reader

Rejoinder to Bristows Reply A01324

  • Printed
    … scriptures, to the twelue Apostles, and to the foure Euangelistes. For Credo with an AccusatiueAccusative case, to signifie I giue credite, howe so euer you deride my grammatication, will …
    With rule
    … scriptures, to the twelue Apostles, and to the foure Euangelistes. For Credo with an AccusatiueAccusative case, to signifie I giue credite, howe so euer you deride my grammatication, will …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 316 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Christ. &c. But our sauiour Christ in S. Iohn confoundeth this difference, vsing the AccusatiueAccusative case and the Ablatiue: with the preposition, for all one. I am the liuing …
    With rule
    … Christ. &c. But our sauiour Christ in S. Iohn confoundeth this difference, vsing the AccusatiueAccusative case and the Ablatiue: with the preposition, for all one. I am the liuing …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 530 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ye eate the flesh of the sonne of man, &c: where he vseth the AccusatiueAccusative: by which it is plaine, that with Christ, to eat this breade, & to eat …
    With rule
    … ye eate the flesh of the sonne of man, &c: where he vseth the AccusatiueAccusative: by which it is plaine, that with Christ, to eat this breade, & to eat …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 530 · Open in the reader

Remains of John Boyse A16562

  • Printed
    … in the Genitiue, by their fornication; in the Datiue, by their Bribes; in the AccusatiueAccusative, by their Detracting, and backbiting; In the Vocatiue, By their adulation, and flattering; In …
    With rule
    … in the Genitiue, by their fornication; in the Datiue, by their Bribes; in the AccusatiueAccusative, by their Detracting, and backbiting; In the Vocatiue, By their adulation, and flattering; In …

    John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · p. 274 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Acts A17642

  • Printed
    36 Cōcerning the matter. Becauſe the greek text is abrupt, ſome think that the AccuſatiueAccusative caſe is put in ſteede of the Nominatiue: & that the ſenſe is this, This …
    With rule
    36 Cōcerning the matter. Becauſe the greek text is abrupt, ſome think that the AccuſatiueAccusative caſe is put in ſteede of the Nominatiue: & that the ſenſe is this, This …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Acts · p. 255 · Open in the reader