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coueringscoverings

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

Puritas changed it
76 times in 52 works
Consistency
91.5% (76 of 83)
Reach if approved
~87 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: coverings
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
83 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 52 works, 91.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … can eſpie a diſſembler now in this world, when the one hath ſo many coueringscoverings to hide him, and the other ſo great dimneſſe of ſight to hinder him …
    With rule
    … can eſpie a diſſembler now in this world, when the one hath ſo many coueringscoverings to hide him, and the other ſo great dimneſſe of ſight to hinder him …

    John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 18-20 · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … things. Men will not see the cause to be sin, but they flie to coueringscoverings and curtaines. Let vs come then to the Lord his awarding, and that is …
    With rule
    … things. Men will not see the cause to be sin, but they flie to coueringscoverings and curtaines. Let vs come then to the Lord his awarding, and that is …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 786 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … fauour of God, and affiance in him. For these are (as it were) the coueringscoverings of the foule. Outward nakednes is, when the bodie beeing vncouered, is full of …
    With rule
    … fauour of God, and affiance in him. For these are (as it were) the coueringscoverings of the foule. Outward nakednes is, when the bodie beeing vncouered, is full of …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … when it ſhal be known, whether our reproofes for ſinne be iuſt, or your coueringscoverings of ſinnes be good, when as one of our ſoules and bodies ſhall pay …
    With rule
    … when it ſhal be known, whether our reproofes for ſinne be iuſt, or your coueringscoverings of ſinnes be good, when as one of our ſoules and bodies ſhall pay …

    Richard Stock · The Doctrine and Use of Repentance · p. 92 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    1. Some thinke, that whereas yet the Tabernacle consisted of courtaines and coueringscoverings, and so had vailes in stead of doores: that the house of God, and …
    With rule
    1. Some thinke, that whereas yet the Tabernacle consisted of courtaines and coueringscoverings, and so had vailes in stead of doores: that the house of God, and …

    Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 1 Samuel · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the altar and inſtrumentes belonging thereunto. The Gerſonites had charge ouer the cordes, the coueringscoverings, the hangings, the curtaynes, the vayles and roapes belonging to y• tabernacle. The Merarites …
    With rule
    … the altar and inſtrumentes belonging thereunto. The Gerſonites had charge ouer the cordes, the coueringscoverings, the hangings, the curtaynes, the vayles and roapes belonging to y• tabernacle. The Merarites …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 338 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of thoſe that ſhould be true conuerts from Idolatrie, ſaith, Yee ſhall pollute the coueringscoverings of the Images of ſiluer, and the rich ornament of thine Images of gold …
    With rule
    … of thoſe that ſhould be true conuerts from Idolatrie, ſaith, Yee ſhall pollute the coueringscoverings of the Images of ſiluer, and the rich ornament of thine Images of gold …

    Robert Abbot · A Hand of Fellowship to Help Keep Out Sin and Antichrist · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … taught women to put on, confirmeth the ſame: as long haire, vailes, and other coueringscoverings ouer the head: this and the former argument doth the Apoſtle himſelfe vſe to …
    With rule
    … taught women to put on, confirmeth the ſame: as long haire, vailes, and other coueringscoverings ouer the head: this and the former argument doth the Apoſtle himſelfe vſe to …

    William Gouge · Of Domestical Duties · p. 270 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 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.

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … with fine Gold, to couer the Tombe of the Prophet Mahomet, and many other CoueringsCoverings besides of Gold and Silke, to adorne it. The two former are for the …
    With rule
    … with fine Gold, to couer the Tombe of the Prophet Mahomet, and many other CoueringsCoverings besides of Gold and Silke, to adorne it. The two former are for the …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 222 · Open in the reader

Of the Head Cornerstone A17242

  • Printed
    … the other before. As touching the Tabernacle it selfe, first hee beginneth with the CoueringsCoverings thereof aboue: and then commeth to the frame it self beneath. The Coueringes were …
    With rule
    … the other before. As touching the Tabernacle it selfe, first hee beginneth with the CoueringsCoverings thereof aboue: and then commeth to the frame it self beneath. The Coueringes were …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and the other two Families of them, all the rest: the Gersonites, the Vayles, CoueringsCoverings, and Hangings; the Merarites, those Planckes ouer-layde with Golde, together, with all the …
    With rule
    … and the other two Families of them, all the rest: the Gersonites, the Vayles, CoueringsCoverings, and Hangings; the Merarites, those Planckes ouer-layde with Golde, together, with all the …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ready then to take them to carry. The Gersonites must take downe the Vailes, CoueringsCoverings, and Hangings, lap them vp, and make them meete for carriage: and the Merarites …
    With rule
    … ready then to take them to carry. The Gersonites must take downe the Vailes, CoueringsCoverings, and Hangings, lap them vp, and make them meete for carriage: and the Merarites …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … hang vp the vaile before the Arke, and send the others away with their CoueringsCoverings. Which when they had doone, and such other things as belonged vnto them, then …
    With rule
    … hang vp the vaile before the Arke, and send the others away with their CoueringsCoverings. Which when they had doone, and such other things as belonged vnto them, then …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 162 · Open in the reader