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greekesgreeks

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

Puritas changed it
1,481 times in 371 works
Consistency
99.2% (1,481 of 1,492)
Reach if approved
~1,569 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: greeks
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,493 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,481 changes in 371 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,481)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of the Sepulchre, and made roome for him to lye in: and when the GreekesGreeks would haue taken vp the body of Saint Lawrence to carry it to Conſtantinople …
    With rule
    … of the Sepulchre, and made roome for him to lye in: and when the GreekesGreeks would haue taken vp the body of Saint Lawrence to carry it to Conſtantinople …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 434 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to the Bishops of Germany, that the Empire of Rome was translated from the GreekesGreeks to the Almaines, so that the King of Almaine could not be called Emperour …
    With rule
    … to the Bishops of Germany, that the Empire of Rome was translated from the GreekesGreeks to the Almaines, so that the King of Almaine could not be called Emperour …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … neglectes & iudgeth vnworthy to cōten…e wyth calamity. How famous & excellent were the auncient GreekesGreeks and victorious Romaines (ryght honorable, & my ſyngular good Lord) whoſe vertuous dedes & notable exploictes …
    With rule
    … neglectes & iudgeth vnworthy to cōten…e wyth calamity. How famous & excellent were the auncient GreekesGreeks and victorious Romaines (ryght honorable, & my ſyngular good Lord) whoſe vertuous dedes & notable exploictes …

    Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    So the GreekesGreeks in Greeke: as Timothie, the feare of God, Actes 16. 1. Then came he to Darbe …
    With rule
    So the GreekesGreeks in Greeke: as Timothie, the feare of God, Actes 16. 1. Then came he to Darbe …

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

  5. Printed
    … he spake immediately before in Beda, li. 5. ca. 22. by which it appeareth, that y• GreekesGreeks were shorne square, and not round, and therefore Eusebius speaking to Greeke Priestes, would …
    With rule
    … he spake immediately before in Beda, li. 5. ca. 22. by which it appeareth, that y• GreekesGreeks were shorne square, and not round, and therefore Eusebius speaking to Greeke Priestes, would …

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Sonne of God. The Iewes see him onely a st…mbling blocke, and the GreekesGreeks foolishnesse: but Christians see him the Power of God, and the Wisedome of God …
    With rule
    … Sonne of God. The Iewes see him onely a st…mbling blocke, and the GreekesGreeks foolishnesse: but Christians see him the Power of God, and the Wisedome of God …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 291 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … first booke and seuenth Chapter, sheweth that this Pope wrote at large to the GreekesGreeks that there is but onely one Christian Church, and that he was head thereof …
    With rule
    … first booke and seuenth Chapter, sheweth that this Pope wrote at large to the GreekesGreeks that there is but onely one Christian Church, and that he was head thereof …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is the true, plaine, eaſie, familiar, and cōmon ſenſe of Hades among the authentike GreekesGreeks: as alſo of Sheol in Hebrue.
    With rule
    … is the true, plaine, eaſie, familiar, and cōmon ſenſe of Hades among the authentike GreekesGreeks: as alſo of Sheol in Hebrue.

    Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 124 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Collected Sermons A06521

  • Printed
    … of the Spirit, as it is read in the Greeke. Who knoweth, whether the greekesgreeks coppies were here chaunged vpon this occaſion, for that Paule in the Epiſtle to …
    With rule
    … of the Spirit, as it is read in the Greeke. Who knoweth, whether the greekesgreeks coppies were here chaunged vpon this occaſion, for that Paule in the Epiſtle to …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 362 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Moral Law A14909

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    Firſt, hee obſerveth that this word Lehiſhtahhavoth bowing, (the greekesgreeks tranſlate it foreign) was uſed by the eaſterne people both in civill and religious worſhip …
    With rule
    Firſt, hee obſerveth that this word Lehiſhtahhavoth bowing, (the greekesgreeks tranſlate it foreign) was uſed by the eaſterne people both in civill and religious worſhip …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 100 · Open in the reader

Observations Natural and Moral A14910

  • Printed
    … ſignatum, and the Rabbins call it aſiman, which words they have borrowed from the greekesgreeks, as ye would ſay, mony not ſtamped or ſealed. So is the Embrio before …
    With rule
    … ſignatum, and the Rabbins call it aſiman, which words they have borrowed from the greekesgreeks, as ye would ſay, mony not ſtamped or ſealed. So is the Embrio before …

    John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 63 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … weaned their children Gen. 21.8. becauſe their children then were paſt the greateſt danger: the greekesgreeks called this foreign , and the feaſt they called the teeth feaſt, Macrobius lib. 1. de ſomuo …
    With rule
    … weaned their children Gen. 21.8. becauſe their children then were paſt the greateſt danger: the greekesgreeks called this foreign , and the feaſt they called the teeth feaſt, Macrobius lib. 1. de ſomuo …

    John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 77 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … GreekesGreeks doe, or as the Latines. The life of man is called by the greekesgreeks Hebdomas becauſe it is divided in ſeven periods; the firſt is his infancie untill …
    With rule
    … GreekesGreeks doe, or as the Latines. The life of man is called by the greekesgreeks Hebdomas becauſe it is divided in ſeven periods; the firſt is his infancie untill …

    John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation A19563

  • Printed
    … the way make an issue with this author, that no catholike writer among the greekesgreeks hath more playnly set forth the truth of the presence of Christes body in …
    With rule
    … the way make an issue with this author, that no catholike writer among the greekesgreeks hath more playnly set forth the truth of the presence of Christes body in …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the scripture, as by the consent of the olde authors of Christes church both greekesgreeks and Latines, from the beginning continually from tyme to tyme, that transubstantiation is agaynst …
    With rule
    … the scripture, as by the consent of the olde authors of Christes church both greekesgreeks and Latines, from the beginning continually from tyme to tyme, that transubstantiation is agaynst …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 326 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Catholic Faith A20944

  • Printed
    … noted in the margent that Euthymius being a greek followeth the error of the greekesgreeks.
    With rule
    … noted in the margent that Euthymius being a greek followeth the error of the greekesgreeks.

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 398 · Open in the reader

The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory A20964

  • Printed
    … to conquer it. Neither can he by the Galatians vnderſtand the Galatians or Gallo-greekesgreeks of Aſia, who were cōquered without reſiſtāce: beſides in that place he alſo ſpeaketh …
    With rule
    … to conquer it. Neither can he by the Galatians vnderſtand the Galatians or Gallo-greekesgreeks of Aſia, who were cōquered without reſiſtāce: beſides in that place he alſo ſpeaketh …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory · p. 228 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Four Degenerate Sons A68868

  • Printed
    … of the Tyrants of the world: it exceedes Tzijanack navis ſugentis, Ier. 29.26. which the greekesgreeks called foreign, when they incloſed a man betwixt two boards, his head beeing free, and …
    With rule
    … of the Tyrants of the world: it exceedes Tzijanack navis ſugentis, Ier. 29.26. which the greekesgreeks called foreign, when they incloſed a man betwixt two boards, his head beeing free, and …

    John Weemes · Treatise of the Four Degenerate Sons · p. 144 · Open in the reader