backesbacks
A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.
- Puritas changed it
- 935 times in 472 works
- Consistency
- 99.1% (935 of 943)
- Reach if approved
- ~991 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- Agrees: backs
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 943 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (935 changes in 472 works, 99.1% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 935)
- Printed… before my eyes to prouoke me to anger / They haue turned vnto me their backesbacks / and not their faces: They / their kynges / their princes / their prophetes / their prieſtes / hole …With rule… before my eyes to prouoke me to anger / They haue turned vnto me their backesbacks / and not their faces: They / their kynges / their princes / their prophetes / their prieſtes / hole …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
- Printed… of sores. ver. 20. from such a creature we will turne our faces, and our backesbacks too, ForWith rule… of sores. ver. 20. from such a creature we will turne our faces, and our backesbacks too, For
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 179 · Open in the reader
- Printed… So they serue vs as Carriers do their Horses; lay heauy burdens vpon their backesbacks, and then hang belles at their eares to make them musicke. But be our …With rule… So they serue vs as Carriers do their Horses; lay heauy burdens vpon their backesbacks, and then hang belles at their eares to make them musicke. But be our …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 9 · Open in the reader
- Printed… Ierusalem: you cannot creepe through those new dores with your old sinnes on your backesbacks. Be no Gibeonites: God will not bee cossened with your old Garments. Put them …With rule… Ierusalem: you cannot creepe through those new dores with your old sinnes on your backesbacks. Be no Gibeonites: God will not bee cossened with your old Garments. Put them …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 199 · Open in the reader
- Printed… God, the Church, their owne soules: If euer they come with Simony on their backesbacks into Heauen, I may be of the Indians minde, who dying vnder the Spanish …With rule… God, the Church, their owne soules: If euer they come with Simony on their backesbacks into Heauen, I may be of the Indians minde, who dying vnder the Spanish …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 16 · Open in the reader
- Printed… one perfight sacrifice ones made for all. They stode not at aulters, wyth theyr backesbacks to the multitude, but out of the pulpet they turned theyr faces vnto them …With rule… one perfight sacrifice ones made for all. They stode not at aulters, wyth theyr backesbacks to the multitude, but out of the pulpet they turned theyr faces vnto them …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
- Printed… in opinion and poſſibility) to their laſt paſſage, and themſelues either to turne their backesbacks, or to ſit by, proclayming to the world their want of appetite to ſuch …With rule… in opinion and poſſibility) to their laſt paſſage, and themſelues either to turne their backesbacks, or to ſit by, proclayming to the world their want of appetite to ſuch …
Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 6 · Open in the reader
- Printed… following the Lord, but ſerve the Lord with all your hearts, neither turne your backesbacks after vaine things that can profit you nothing; as who ſhould ſay, I will …With rule… following the Lord, but ſerve the Lord with all your hearts, neither turne your backesbacks after vaine things that can profit you nothing; as who ſhould ſay, I will …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 557 · Open in the reader
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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)
4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.
Life and Death A03695
- Printed… of the ſoules eſtate after death, I leaue to the Mowles and to the BackesBacks from which they came, Eſa. 2.20. My purpoſe being to ſpeake of the bodies eſtate …With rule… of the ſoules eſtate after death, I leaue to the Mowles and to the BackesBacks from which they came, Eſa. 2.20. My purpoſe being to ſpeake of the bodies eſtate …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 326 · Open in the reader
The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199
- Printed… our Proud, and rotten Carcases? to lauish out our Patrimonies on our Heads, and BackesBacks, and hang whole Manners at our Eares, and Neckes at once? to Frizle, Powder …With rule… our Proud, and rotten Carcases? to lauish out our Patrimonies on our Heads, and BackesBacks, and hang whole Manners at our Eares, and Neckes at once? to Frizle, Powder …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader
Commentary on Isaiah A17640
- Printed… for their owne aduantage in the world, but are as blind as Moles or BackesBacks, in things belonging to Gods worſhip and ſeruice; the chiefe cauſe is, that they …With rule… for their owne aduantage in the world, but are as blind as Moles or BackesBacks, in things belonging to Gods worſhip and ſeruice; the chiefe cauſe is, that they …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 469 · Open in the reader
The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211
- Printed… for it. For as Nature it selfe hath instructed Lyons, Beares, Wolves, Boares, Stagges, BackesBacks, and most other beasts, not onely to defend themselves against the violence of one …With rule… for it. For as Nature it selfe hath instructed Lyons, Beares, Wolves, Boares, Stagges, BackesBacks, and most other beasts, not onely to defend themselves against the violence of one …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 17 · Open in the reader