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deuotedevote

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

Puritas changed it: 132 times in 61 works
Consistency: 97.0% (132 of 136)
Reach if approved: ~143 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devote
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 136 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (132 changes in 61 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 132)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Nor deuotedevote Doctouris in Diuinite.
With rule
Nor deuotedevote Doctouris in Diuinite.
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… with their Professions: they must needes renounce the one, if they should but once deuotedevote themselues vnto the other. On Lawyers, Iustices, Countrey-Gentlemen, and painefull Husband-men, whose …
With rule
… with their Professions: they must needes renounce the one, if they should but once deuotedevote themselues vnto the other. On Lawyers, Iustices, Countrey-Gentlemen, and painefull Husband-men, whose …
William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a teacher of Rhetoricke, by the preaching of Ambrose Bishop of Millan, and the deuotedevote behauiour of the people in singing Psalmes to the praise of God, the like …
With rule
… a teacher of Rhetoricke, by the preaching of Ambrose Bishop of Millan, and the deuotedevote behauiour of the people in singing Psalmes to the praise of God, the like …
Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
… impes, that so wilfully abandon your owne countrie to practise against it, and to deuotedevote your selues to that forraine priest, haue faces of brasse: that although your selues …
With rule
… impes, that so wilfully abandon your owne countrie to practise against it, and to deuotedevote your selues to that forraine priest, haue faces of brasse: that although your selues …
Edmund Bunny · A Brief Answer · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
deuotedevote, to giue vnto, to appoint vnto.
With rule
deuotedevote, to giue vnto, to appoint vnto.
Robert Cawdrey · Hard English Words Borrowed from Hebrew Greek Latin or French etc · Open in the reader
Printed
… to make it common, and for many iust and waighty reasons me mouing, doe deuotedevote and consecrate it to your Honours. For, first, your Honours being Pillers in Gods …
With rule
… to make it common, and for many iust and waighty reasons me mouing, doe deuotedevote and consecrate it to your Honours. For, first, your Honours being Pillers in Gods …
Thomas Draxe · The Christian Armory · Open in the reader
Printed
… nothing, for aſmuch as without him was made nothing. For if a worldling be deuotedevote, his religion is an Idoll, and an Idoll is nothing in this world: and …
With rule
… nothing, for aſmuch as without him was made nothing. For if a worldling be deuotedevote, his religion is an Idoll, and an Idoll is nothing in this world: and …
William Loe · The Joy of Jerusalem and Woe of the Worldlings · Open in the reader
Printed
… good; therefore hee muſt not abaſe himſelfe to ſtoupe ſo lowe, but rather honourably deuotedevote himſelfe to his belly, and to the Diuell the lord of the belly. The …
With rule
… good; therefore hee muſt not abaſe himſelfe to ſtoupe ſo lowe, but rather honourably deuotedevote himſelfe to his belly, and to the Diuell the lord of the belly. The …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 310 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Against Popery A13025

Printed
… that is, the fourth 3. daies he maketh theſe three, Diligēter officiare, to ſetue diligently. DeuoteDevote celebrars, to celebrate deuoutly. Honeſte conuerſari, to liue honeſtly. The fifth three daies he …
With rule
… that is, the fourth 3. daies he maketh theſe three, Diligēter officiare, to ſetue diligently. DeuoteDevote celebrars, to celebrate deuoutly. Honeſte conuerſari, to liue honeſtly. The fifth three daies he …
Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · p. 284 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

Printed
… the rather offer thy ſelfe vnto him who is able to make thee worthy. DeuoteDevote and conſecrate thy ſelfe wholly vnto his ſeruice, and reſolue to glorifie and pleaſe …
With rule
… the rather offer thy ſelfe vnto him who is able to make thee worthy. DeuoteDevote and conſecrate thy ſelfe wholly vnto his ſeruice, and reſolue to glorifie and pleaſe …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 603 · Open in the reader