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husbandehusband

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
630 times in 170 works
Consistency
97.0% (630 of 649)
Reach if approved
~682 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: husband
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
649 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (630 changes in 170 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 630)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … cōpanye at home. Ethelburge made great hast and left no callynge on, tyll her husbandehusband Kynge Inas was thydrewardes, with scrippe hatte and staffe, she lokynge for hys nomore …
    With rule
    … cōpanye at home. Ethelburge made great hast and left no callynge on, tyll her husbandehusband Kynge Inas was thydrewardes, with scrippe hatte and staffe, she lokynge for hys nomore …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … conſtytucyon, kept Mawde the ducheſſe of lotharye both by the lyfe dayes of her huſbandehusband Gozilon, and alſo after hys deathe, leadynge her abought with hym, and ſhe maynteynynge …
    With rule
    … conſtytucyon, kept Mawde the ducheſſe of lotharye both by the lyfe dayes of her huſbandehusband Gozilon, and alſo after hys deathe, leadynge her abought with hym, and ſhe maynteynynge …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … one in his callynge, maye vse and doo the woorkes of his callynge: the husbandehusband manne may goe to ploughe: they maye bye and sell. Item, menne may marye …
    With rule
    … one in his callynge, maye vse and doo the woorkes of his callynge: the husbandehusband manne may goe to ploughe: they maye bye and sell. Item, menne may marye …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … lesse reuerences to bee obserued, than if they had beene commaunded of Christe her husbandehusband.
    With rule
    … lesse reuerences to bee obserued, than if they had beene commaunded of Christe her husbandehusband.

    Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Cooper / he has no ſuche cauſe to doubt of Dame Lawſons going without her huſbandehusband / as the biſhop of Wincheſter hath had of dame Coopers gadding But more worke …
    With rule
    … Cooper / he has no ſuche cauſe to doubt of Dame Lawſons going without her huſbandehusband / as the biſhop of Wincheſter hath had of dame Coopers gadding But more worke …

    Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſluggard when he ſaith there is a Lyon in the way, nor the bad husbandehusband when he ſoweth not, becauſe he feareth there is foule weather towards. The Prieſtes …
    With rule
    … ſluggard when he ſaith there is a Lyon in the way, nor the bad husbandehusband when he ſoweth not, becauſe he feareth there is foule weather towards. The Prieſtes …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … one body with her, hauing the ſame coniunctiō with her in wickedneſſe, that the husbandehusband hath with his lawfull wife in holines and by the appointment of the Lorde …
    With rule
    … one body with her, hauing the ſame coniunctiō with her in wickedneſſe, that the husbandehusband hath with his lawfull wife in holines and by the appointment of the Lorde …

    John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 77 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the more heedefull: that by her godly and chaſte conuerſation ioyned with meekeneſſe, her huſbandehusband may bee wonne from his naughtie life. Likewiſe, the man which is coupled with …
    With rule
    … the more heedefull: that by her godly and chaſte conuerſation ioyned with meekeneſſe, her huſbandehusband may bee wonne from his naughtie life. Likewiſe, the man which is coupled with …

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric A00630

  • Printed
    … keepe his children in ſubiection, with all honestie. 1. Tim. If anie be vnblameable, the HusbandeHusband of one Wife, hauing faythefull children, whiche are not ſlaundered of ryot, eyther ſtubburne …
    With rule
    … keepe his children in ſubiection, with all honestie. 1. Tim. If anie be vnblameable, the HusbandeHusband of one Wife, hauing faythefull children, whiche are not ſlaundered of ryot, eyther ſtubburne …

    Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    HusbandeHusband to the wife.
    With rule
    HusbandeHusband to the wife.

    Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

  • Printed
    HusbandeHusband againſt the wife 231
    With rule
    HusbandeHusband againſt the wife 231

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

Historical Table of the Bible A06660

  • Printed
    Ioſeph the HuſbandeHusband of the vyrgen Marye, Mathey. i,b. Flyeth in to Egypte. ii.c.
    With rule
    Ioſeph the HuſbandeHusband of the vyrgen Marye, Mathey. i,b. Flyeth in to Egypte. ii.c.

    Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

  • Printed
    … vvoulde not ſtande. For Theos had a former vvyfe, named Laodicea: vvho poyſoned her HuſbandeHusband, and ſtyrred her ſonnes to kill Berenice vvhich in tyme they dyd; and a …
    With rule
    … vvoulde not ſtande. For Theos had a former vvyfe, named Laodicea: vvho poyſoned her HuſbandeHusband, and ſtyrred her ſonnes to kill Berenice vvhich in tyme they dyd; and a …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ A17690

  • Printed
    Moreouer, in them euery man is taught his perticular leſſon. For firſte the HuſbandeHusband is taught to vnderſtande what loue hee ought to beare vnto his wife, and …
    With rule
    Moreouer, in them euery man is taught his perticular leſſon. For firſte the HuſbandeHusband is taught to vnderſtande what loue hee ought to beare vnto his wife, and …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Divinity Humanity and Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader

Two Godly and Learned Sermons A17725

  • Printed
    … not agrée on euerie parte, becauſe that an harlotte ioyned in matrimonie to an HuſbandeHusband, wyll haue ſome ſhamefaſtneſſe and modeſtie, that ſhee wyll not ſette foorth and make …
    With rule
    … not agrée on euerie parte, becauſe that an harlotte ioyned in matrimonie to an HuſbandeHusband, wyll haue ſome ſhamefaſtneſſe and modeſtie, that ſhee wyll not ſette foorth and make …

    John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    The sayd Christian Georges HusbandeHusband, had an other wife burnt before this Christian, whose name was Agnes George, which …
    With rule
    The sayd Christian Georges HusbandeHusband, had an other wife burnt before this Christian, whose name was Agnes George, which …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2037 · Open in the reader

Sum of the Christian Faith A68595

  • Printed
    … woman in the ſcripture (to the whiche the Church is compared) hath but one HuſbandeHusband , and one body hath but one heade. He hath no néede of any Succeſſor …
    With rule
    … woman in the ſcripture (to the whiche the Church is compared) hath but one HuſbandeHusband , and one body hath but one heade. He hath no néede of any Succeſſor …

    Theodore Beza · Sum of the Christian Faith · p. 80 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

  • Printed
    … in many places tourne it Lord. For thys woorde Baal ſignifieth a Lorde, a HuſbandeHusband, a Patrone, and ſuche like. Thys woord Aſtharoth is lykewiſe ſpoken in the plurall …
    With rule
    … in many places tourne it Lord. For thys woorde Baal ſignifieth a Lorde, a HuſbandeHusband, a Patrone, and ſuche like. Thys woord Aſtharoth is lykewiſe ſpoken in the plurall …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader