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deadnessedeadness

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

Puritas changed it
1,276 times in 436 works
Consistency
97.7% (1,276 of 1,306)
Reach if approved
~1,372 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: deadness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,306 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,276 changes in 436 works, 97.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,276)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
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    … whereas the quiet of a wicked conſcience ariſeth from ſearedneſſe and be…mbedneſſe and deadneſſedeadness, when men …eing paſt feeling of ſinne are not trou…ed at the committing …
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    … whereas the quiet of a wicked conſcience ariſeth from ſearedneſſe and be…mbedneſſe and deadneſſedeadness, when men …eing paſt feeling of ſinne are not trou…ed at the committing …

    William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 142 · Open in the reader

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    … ſinfull diſpoſition that is ſtirring in him, every by-end, every contrariety unto holineſſe, deadneſſedeadness to duty, reluctancie to ſpirituall duties: and when regenerated, beginneth to ſee and know …
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    … ſinfull diſpoſition that is ſtirring in him, every by-end, every contrariety unto holineſſe, deadneſſedeadness to duty, reluctancie to ſpirituall duties: and when regenerated, beginneth to ſee and know …

    Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 49 · Open in the reader

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    … which muſt be purged and preuented, our ſurfers great which muſt be cured, our deadneſſedeadness great, which muſt be quickned, our inſide bad, which muſt be cleanſed. Time will …
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    … which muſt be purged and preuented, our ſurfers great which muſt be cured, our deadneſſedeadness great, which muſt be quickned, our inſide bad, which muſt be cleanſed. Time will …

    Robert Harris · Absoloms Funeral · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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    … in the graces of Gods children, ſo that though there be many corruptions, much deadneſſedeadness and untowardneſſe, yet if this gratious worke be there, it will vomit out all …
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    … in the graces of Gods children, ſo that though there be many corruptions, much deadneſſedeadness and untowardneſſe, yet if this gratious worke be there, it will vomit out all …

    Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 13 · Open in the reader

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    … Rome that now is. The ſixt is a generall contempt of the Goſpell, or deadneſſedeadness of heart in the hearers of it. Luc. 17. And when more generally contemned, or …
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    … Rome that now is. The ſixt is a generall contempt of the Goſpell, or deadneſſedeadness of heart in the hearers of it. Luc. 17. And when more generally contemned, or …

    Robert Horne · Life and Death · Open in the reader

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    … hindring vs from feeling the ſweete comfort in them; exciting the reliques of ſloth, deadneſſedeadness, inconſtancie that are in vs: ſometime by cauſeleſſe feares and ſinfull ſhamefaſtnes hee withdraweth …
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    … hindring vs from feeling the ſweete comfort in them; exciting the reliques of ſloth, deadneſſedeadness, inconſtancie that are in vs: ſometime by cauſeleſſe feares and ſinfull ſhamefaſtnes hee withdraweth …

    Paul Baynes · The Trial of a Christians Estate · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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    Take from me, blindneſſe of mind, dulneſſe of wit, diſorderlines of affections, deadneſſedeadness of ſpirit, hardneſſe of heart, vnbeleefe, pride, ſelfeconceit, preſumption of mercy, and wicked prophanenes …
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    Take from me, blindneſſe of mind, dulneſſe of wit, diſorderlines of affections, deadneſſedeadness of ſpirit, hardneſſe of heart, vnbeleefe, pride, ſelfeconceit, preſumption of mercy, and wicked prophanenes …

    Richard Bernard · A Weeks Work and a Work for Every Week · p. 154 · Open in the reader

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    Fourthly, exceſſive ſorrow and feare in times of danger and diſtreſſe, with great deadneſſedeadness of heart when outward meanes do faile and dangers approach: as though the power …
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    Fourthly, exceſſive ſorrow and feare in times of danger and diſtreſſe, with great deadneſſedeadness of heart when outward meanes do faile and dangers approach: as though the power …

    Thomas Pierson · The Cure of Hurtful Cares and Fears · p. 26 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (30)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Guide to Go to God A01975

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    4. DeadneſſeDeadness of Conſcience, which is the cauſe that men go on in ſinne greedily and …
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    4. DeadneſſeDeadness of Conſcience, which is the cauſe that men go on in ſinne greedily and …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 95 · Open in the reader

Exposition on the Catholic Epistles A07348

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    Anſw. DeadneſſeDeadness here, by the conſent of all, is deadneſſedeadness in ſinne: he had a name …
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    Anſw. DeadneſſeDeadness here, by the conſent of all, is deadneſſedeadness in ſinne: he had a name …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 282 · Open in the reader

Three Treatises A10659

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    … the soule of man and the Creatures, arising from the Vanitie thereof, is their DeadnesseDeadness, unprofitablenesse, inefficacie by any inward vertue of their owne to convey or preserue life …
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    … the soule of man and the Creatures, arising from the Vanitie thereof, is their DeadnesseDeadness, unprofitablenesse, inefficacie by any inward vertue of their owne to convey or preserue life …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 15 · Open in the reader

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    The Reasons hereof are, first, DeadnesseDeadness argues disability to any such workes as did pertaine to that life unto which …
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    The Reasons hereof are, first, DeadnesseDeadness argues disability to any such workes as did pertaine to that life unto which …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 275 · Open in the reader

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    Secondly, DeadnesseDeadness argues disaffection. A condemned man cares not for the things of this World, because …
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    Secondly, DeadnesseDeadness argues disaffection. A condemned man cares not for the things of this World, because …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 276 · Open in the reader

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    Thirdly, DeadnesseDeadness argues liberty, unsubjection, justification, He that is dead is freed from sinne, as the …
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    Thirdly, DeadnesseDeadness argues liberty, unsubjection, justification, He that is dead is freed from sinne, as the …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 276 · Open in the reader

Time Well Spent in Sacred Meditations A19693

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    Dulneſſe and DeadneſſeDeadness.
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    Dulneſſe and DeadneſſeDeadness.

    Ezekiel Culverwell · Time Well Spent in Sacred Meditations · p. 100 · Open in the reader

The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered A21258

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    … ſpirituall euils they finde in themſelues, as their Vnbeliefe, their Dulneſſe of minde, their DeadneſſeDeadness of heart, do moſt of all trouble them, and thoſe are the things they …
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    … ſpirituall euils they finde in themſelues, as their Vnbeliefe, their Dulneſſe of minde, their DeadneſſeDeadness of heart, do moſt of all trouble them, and thoſe are the things they …

    Edward Elton · The Complaint of a Sanctified Sinner Answered · p. 467 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Song of Solomon A37032

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    … are supposed to be, in this first part of Christ's Sermon, vers. 10, &c. is, 1. DeadnesseDeadness, total or partial: Believers may be under a decay, and be in part dead …
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    … are supposed to be, in this first part of Christ's Sermon, vers. 10, &c. is, 1. DeadnesseDeadness, total or partial: Believers may be under a decay, and be in part dead …

    James Durham · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 134 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Revelation A37035

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    … are but many of you meer hypocrites, although ye have a fair shew. Secondly, DeadnesseDeadness may be understood comparatively, that is, either in respect of what they seemed to …
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    … are but many of you meer hypocrites, although ye have a fair shew. Secondly, DeadnesseDeadness may be understood comparatively, that is, either in respect of what they seemed to …

    James Durham · Commentary on Revelation · p. 177 · Open in the reader

Four Profitable Treatises A41118

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    2. Now I come to ſhew you the Effects of this DeadneſſeDeadness, how it pulls down the heart: this will pull down the heart of a …
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    2. Now I come to ſhew you the Effects of this DeadneſſeDeadness, how it pulls down the heart: this will pull down the heart of a …

    William Fenner · Four Profitable Treatises · p. 38 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

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    … grave, when he stinks again. He that at first raised thee out of thy DeadnesseDeadness, can much more raise thee out of thy dulnesse. All men and means are …
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    … grave, when he stinks again. He that at first raised thee out of thy DeadnesseDeadness, can much more raise thee out of thy dulnesse. All men and means are …

    Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 133 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance A53688

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    … decryed; All it seemes that the Scripture hath told us of our utter Insufficiency, DeadnesseDeadness, Disability & indisposednesse to any thing that is good, without a new Life and principle …
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    … decryed; All it seemes that the Scripture hath told us of our utter Insufficiency, DeadnesseDeadness, Disability & indisposednesse to any thing that is good, without a new Life and principle …

    John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 301 · Open in the reader

Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself A57963

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    2. DeadnesseDeadness and indisposition is a sinne, then must we confesse to God, and tell the …
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    2. DeadnesseDeadness and indisposition is a sinne, then must we confesse to God, and tell the …

    Samuel Rutherford · Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself · p. 484 · Open in the reader

The Covenant of Life Opened A57966

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    … withering of heart, Psal. 102.4. Psal. 27.13. (3.) An overwhelmed and unbeleeving sowning heart, Psal. 61.2. Psal. 142.3. Psal. 143.3, 4. (4.) DeadnesseDeadness in going about the service of God, Psal. 119.37. Quicken me in thy way, of …
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    … withering of heart, Psal. 102.4. Psal. 27.13. (3.) An overwhelmed and unbeleeving sowning heart, Psal. 61.2. Psal. 142.3. Psal. 143.3, 4. (4.) DeadnesseDeadness in going about the service of God, Psal. 119.37. Quicken me in thy way, of …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Covenant of Life Opened · p. 147 · Open in the reader

The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul A68795

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    1. DeadneſſeDeadness, and dulneſſe of heart: Sometimes living men are in a liveleſſe ſtate, their hearts …
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    1. DeadneſſeDeadness, and dulneſſe of heart: Sometimes living men are in a liveleſſe ſtate, their hearts …

    Joseph Symonds · The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul · p. 517 · Open in the reader

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    … Pſ. 75.8. that by this ſtrong potion, he may quicken their dull and ſleepie ſpirits. DeadneſſeDeadness is ſuch a ſtate, in which a man is neither receptive nor active, neither …
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    … Pſ. 75.8. that by this ſtrong potion, he may quicken their dull and ſleepie ſpirits. DeadneſſeDeadness is ſuch a ſtate, in which a man is neither receptive nor active, neither …

    Joseph Symonds · The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul · p. 517 · Open in the reader

Christ All and in All A70945

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    Uſe 4. DeadneſſeDeadness of Spirit, want of ſpiritual Activity is very inexcuſable in a beleever. The ground …
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    Uſe 4. DeadneſſeDeadness of Spirit, want of ſpiritual Activity is very inexcuſable in a beleever. The ground …

    Ralph Robinson · Christ All and in All · p. 17 · Open in the reader

Christ Crucified A81890

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    … of Chriſt; eſpecially, when it puts Folks to diſcern, and take up their own DeadneſſeDeadness; to quit their own Righteouſneſs▪ and to be content to lay their Mouth in …
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    … of Chriſt; eſpecially, when it puts Folks to diſcern, and take up their own DeadneſſeDeadness; to quit their own Righteouſneſs▪ and to be content to lay their Mouth in …

    James Durham · Christ Crucified · p. 339 · Open in the reader

The Axe at the Root A85664

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    … and ſo God, to lay the Axe to the Root of a Tree. Firſt, DeadneſſeDeadness. Secondly, Rottenneſſe. Thirdly▪ Barrenneſſe, Fourthly, Evill fruitfulneſſe.
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    … and ſo God, to lay the Axe to the Root of a Tree. Firſt, DeadneſſeDeadness. Secondly, Rottenneſſe. Thirdly▪ Barrenneſſe, Fourthly, Evill fruitfulneſſe.

    William Greenhill · The Axe at the Root · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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    Firſt, DeadneſſeDeadness: When the Tree is dying or dead, the Gardener layes his Axe to the …
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    Firſt, DeadneſſeDeadness: When the Tree is dying or dead, the Gardener layes his Axe to the …

    William Greenhill · The Axe at the Root · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Influences of the Life of Grace A92141

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    … way; quicken me in thy righteouſneſs; quicken me according to thy word, &c. v. 37, 40, 88, 107, 156, 159. DeadneſſeDeadness, when David had much of the fulneſſe of God, hath been creeping on ſeven …
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    … way; quicken me in thy righteouſneſs; quicken me according to thy word, &c. v. 37, 40, 88, 107, 156, 159. DeadneſſeDeadness, when David had much of the fulneſſe of God, hath been creeping on ſeven …

    Samuel Rutherford · Influences of the Life of Grace · p. 154 · Open in the reader

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    3. DeadneſſeDeadness.
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    3. DeadneſſeDeadness.

    Samuel Rutherford · Influences of the Life of Grace · p. 385 · Open in the reader

Three Decades of Sermons A96523

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    … gives quickning Ordinances, let us pray for the energetical effectual working of Gods Spirit. DeadneſſeDeadness of Spirit (ſaith Mr. Greenham) is the grave of ſpiritual graces. Between a lazy …
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    … gives quickning Ordinances, let us pray for the energetical effectual working of Gods Spirit. DeadneſſeDeadness of Spirit (ſaith Mr. Greenham) is the grave of ſpiritual graces. Between a lazy …

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 51 · Open in the reader

The Wonderful Mystery of Spiritual Growth B12200

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    … concerning all ſuch other deſertions and afflictions of the minde. 1. As decay in grace. 2. DeadneſſeDeadness in holy duties. 3. Not anſwering our beſt endeuours for the preſent, and ſuch like …
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    … concerning all ſuch other deſertions and afflictions of the minde. 1. As decay in grace. 2. DeadneſſeDeadness in holy duties. 3. Not anſwering our beſt endeuours for the preſent, and ſuch like …

    Thomas Cooper · The Wonderful Mystery of Spiritual Growth · p. 129 · Open in the reader