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absoluingabsolving

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

Puritas changed it
139 times in 91 works
Consistency
97.8% (139 of 142)
Reach if approved
~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: absolving
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (139 changes in 91 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 139)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lawe to euerie fact, whether good or euil; it deales with man either by abſoluingabsolving or condemning; before God it either accuſeth, or excuſeth. Hence conſcientia, quaſi ſcientia qualis …
    With rule
    … lawe to euerie fact, whether good or euil; it deales with man either by abſoluingabsolving or condemning; before God it either accuſeth, or excuſeth. Hence conſcientia, quaſi ſcientia qualis …

    John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 346 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    5—All three by gratious pardoning and abſoluingabsolving.
    With rule
    5—All three by gratious pardoning and abſoluingabsolving.

    William Bradshaw · A Treatise of Justification · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wee are iustified from all thinges, Beza in this place vseth the worde of absoluingabsolving or acquitting, in the same sense that he doth iustifying in other places, where …
    With rule
    … wee are iustified from all thinges, Beza in this place vseth the worde of absoluingabsolving or acquitting, in the same sense that he doth iustifying in other places, where …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 331 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and haue no barre to hinder. For if the power of abſoluingabsolving, or not abſoluingabsolving, depend vpon the putting in, or taking away the barre of impenitency; then he …
    With rule
    … and haue no barre to hinder. For if the power of abſoluingabsolving, or not abſoluingabsolving, depend vpon the putting in, or taking away the barre of impenitency; then he …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 341 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Of things past two waies, either by accusing & cond…ning, or by excusing & absoluingabsolving. Ro. 2. 15.
    With rule
    Of things past two waies, either by accusing & cond…ning, or by excusing & absoluingabsolving. Ro. 2. 15.

    William Perkins · Conscience · p. 84 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſhould be dayly ſo perfourmed by the ſinner repenting, and the Prieſt or miniſter abſoluingabsolving. Wherefore repentance is not to be reſtrained to this forme and dialogue, or communication …
    With rule
    … ſhould be dayly ſo perfourmed by the ſinner repenting, and the Prieſt or miniſter abſoluingabsolving. Wherefore repentance is not to be reſtrained to this forme and dialogue, or communication …

    Robert Rollock · Gods Effectual Calling · p. 214 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Chrisme, and signating with it the fore-heads of them who are baptized, from absoluingabsolving publikelie in time of Masse anie penitent person, and sending testimonials to foraine partes …
    With rule
    … Chrisme, and signating with it the fore-heads of them who are baptized, from absoluingabsolving publikelie in time of Masse anie penitent person, and sending testimonials to foraine partes …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … therewith: but alſo by the cenſures, and diſcipline, in excommunicating the obſtinate impenitent, and abſoluingabsolving the penitent. If, I ſay, your doctrine be this, then you iniurie vs in …
    With rule
    … therewith: but alſo by the cenſures, and diſcipline, in excommunicating the obſtinate impenitent, and abſoluingabsolving the penitent. If, I ſay, your doctrine be this, then you iniurie vs in …

    John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 105 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    … often else-where, both in that Epistle and others, [Iustifying] is put for our [AbsoluingAbsolving] from sin, and being pronounced Iust before God his Iudgement seat. Sée Acts 13, 39. Esay 53, 12.
    With rule
    … often else-where, both in that Epistle and others, [Iustifying] is put for our [AbsoluingAbsolving] from sin, and being pronounced Iust before God his Iudgement seat. Sée Acts 13, 39. Esay 53, 12.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … which signifieth [Iustifying] is euer vsed in the Originall Haebrew tongue, otherwise then for [AbsoluingAbsolving] a person accused. Neither in the New-Testament (when our [Iustification] before God is …
    With rule
    … which signifieth [Iustifying] is euer vsed in the Originall Haebrew tongue, otherwise then for [AbsoluingAbsolving] a person accused. Neither in the New-Testament (when our [Iustification] before God is …

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 266 · Open in the reader

Pseudo-Martyr A20647

  • Printed
    … which our case is thus farre concern'd; that they handle the Popes authority in AbsoluingAbsolving and Dispensing from Oathes: And the first is c…ted often and with great …
    With rule
    … which our case is thus farre concern'd; that they handle the Popes authority in AbsoluingAbsolving and Dispensing from Oathes: And the first is c…ted often and with great …

    John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · p. 301 · Open in the reader