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absoluedabsolved

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

Puritas changed it
589 times in 200 works
Consistency
99.8% (589 of 590)
Reach if approved
~620 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: absolved
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
590 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (589 changes in 200 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 589)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … that dyed without absolution in the absence of the Abbot, after his death was absoluedabsolved, and enioyned for penance to tarry in purgatory vntill his body were buried, whereat …
    With rule
    … that dyed without absolution in the absence of the Abbot, after his death was absoluedabsolved, and enioyned for penance to tarry in purgatory vntill his body were buried, whereat …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 172 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of that curſed nation (ſo hee tearmed it, and yet the Popes holynes had abſoluedabsolved it) ſhould gouerne England any more. But bleſſed be God, who hath bleſſed vs …
    With rule
    … of that curſed nation (ſo hee tearmed it, and yet the Popes holynes had abſoluedabsolved it) ſhould gouerne England any more. But bleſſed be God, who hath bleſſed vs …

    Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 98 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … did sinne abound, but in them did grace neuer so abound, that they were absoluedabsolved from that damnation, which is pronounced against all vnfaithfull, in these wordes: Who so …
    With rule
    … did sinne abound, but in them did grace neuer so abound, that they were absoluedabsolved from that damnation, which is pronounced against all vnfaithfull, in these wordes: Who so …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 382 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in fleſh and bloude / ād borne even wyth man / the which can not be abſoluedabsolved ād takē awaie by the Pope / by the keye (as he calleth it) of …
    With rule
    … in fleſh and bloude / ād borne even wyth man / the which can not be abſoluedabsolved ād takē awaie by the Pope / by the keye (as he calleth it) of …

    Martin Luther · Sermon on John 20 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … for the comfort of the faithfull, who were hardly cenſured amongſt wicked men, but abſoluedabsolved by the moſt iuſt God. And it is a comfort to all in the …
    With rule
    … for the comfort of the faithfull, who were hardly cenſured amongſt wicked men, but abſoluedabsolved by the moſt iuſt God. And it is a comfort to all in the …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 276 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … condemned by Pontius Pilate a mortall iudge, that we might not be condemned but absoluedabsolved before Gods iudgement seate: let vs all labour to haue this absolution sealed vp …
    With rule
    … condemned by Pontius Pilate a mortall iudge, that we might not be condemned but absoluedabsolved before Gods iudgement seate: let vs all labour to haue this absolution sealed vp …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 327 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and thus, all that doe or shall beleeue in him, are in him acquit, absoluedabsolved, and iustified from all their sinnes. If any demaund, how they which liued in …
    With rule
    … and thus, all that doe or shall beleeue in him, are in him acquit, absoluedabsolved, and iustified from all their sinnes. If any demaund, how they which liued in …

    William Perkins · The True Gain More in Worth Than All the Goods in the World · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … an excommunicate perſon ſhall be put without day, terme paroll … Iour till he be abſoluedabsolved And ſo is it in all … ther caſes which happen without the Plaintifes folly …
    With rule
    … an excommunicate perſon ſhall be put without day, terme paroll … Iour till he be abſoluedabsolved And ſo is it in all … ther caſes which happen without the Plaintifes folly …

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 432 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Commentary on Romans A15525

  • Printed
    … could not be Iustified &c. where the word can haue no other sense, but [AbsoluedAbsolved.] Note further, there is a legall Iustification, and an Euangelicall. The latter, is by …
    With rule
    … could not be Iustified &c. where the word can haue no other sense, but [AbsoluedAbsolved.] Note further, there is a legall Iustification, and an Euangelicall. The latter, is by …

    Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 139 · Open in the reader