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destroyesdestroys

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

Puritas changed it
1,077 times in 586 works
Consistency
99.1% (1,077 of 1,086)
Reach if approved
~1,141 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: destroys
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,086 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,077 changes in 586 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,077)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … for the circumscription, à noli me tangere. So the Empiricke to cure the feuer, destroyesdestroys the patient: so the wise man to burn the mise, set on fire his …
    With rule
    … for the circumscription, à noli me tangere. So the Empiricke to cure the feuer, destroyesdestroys the patient: so the wise man to burn the mise, set on fire his …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    The light is faith, which darknes all destroyesdestroys.
    With rule
    The light is faith, which darknes all destroyesdestroys.

    Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … he overcomes him, a man offers violence to his enemy, when he flayes and deſtroyesdestroys him: ſuch is the work of the Lord, when he takes poſſeſſion of a …
    With rule
    … he overcomes him, a man offers violence to his enemy, when he flayes and deſtroyesdestroys him: ſuch is the work of the Lord, when he takes poſſeſſion of a …

    Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … victorie, is, That doctrine which deſtroyesdestroys it ſelfe is falſe. The doctrine of ſucceſſion deſtroyesdestroys it ſelfe: Therefore the doctrine of ſucceſſion is a falſe doctrine. My anſwere to …
    With rule
    … victorie, is, That doctrine which deſtroyesdestroys it ſelfe is falſe. The doctrine of ſucceſſion deſtroyesdestroys it ſelfe: Therefore the doctrine of ſucceſſion is a falſe doctrine. My anſwere to …

    Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 189 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … house and friends, and the flesh and sinne, hee will let all goe that destroyesdestroys himselfe, God, Christ, faith, and a good conscience, and all, and therefore wee are …
    With rule
    … house and friends, and the flesh and sinne, hee will let all goe that destroyesdestroys himselfe, God, Christ, faith, and a good conscience, and all, and therefore wee are …

    John Preston · Grace to the Humble · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … cannot bee considered as a thing that is mortall and momentarie, because this consideration destroyesdestroys the essence and nature of the thing considered. If therefore grace be immortall, incorruptible …
    With rule
    … cannot bee considered as a thing that is mortall and momentarie, because this consideration destroyesdestroys the essence and nature of the thing considered. If therefore grace be immortall, incorruptible …

    William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Grace deſtroyesdestroys not Nature, but rectifieth it; it doth not aboliſh Reaſon, but rectifie it; depriues …
    With rule
    Grace deſtroyesdestroys not Nature, but rectifieth it; it doth not aboliſh Reaſon, but rectifie it; depriues …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 316 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Vriah was ſlaine (Let not this thing trouble thee, the ſword of the Lord deſtroyesdestroys one as well as another) I may ſēd as a cooling card to thoſe …
    With rule
    … Vriah was ſlaine (Let not this thing trouble thee, the ſword of the Lord deſtroyesdestroys one as well as another) I may ſēd as a cooling card to thoſe …

    Richard Stock · Sermon 2 November 1606 · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

7 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.

A Ready Way to Remember the Scriptures A19692

  • Printed
    Chap. 6 Godeon, 11. DeſtroyesDestroys Baals Altar, 25. Ierubbaal, 32. His Signes, Ʋerſe. 37.
    With rule
    Chap. 6 Godeon, 11. DeſtroyesDestroys Baals Altar, 25. Ierubbaal, 32. His Signes, Ʋerſe. 37.

    Ezekiel Culverwell · A Ready Way to Remember the Scriptures · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Chap. 27 David goes to Gath, 2. Ziglag, 6. DeſtroyesDestroys the Geſhurites, 8. Tels untruth, Verſ. 10.
    With rule
    Chap. 27 David goes to Gath, 2. Ziglag, 6. DeſtroyesDestroys the Geſhurites, 8. Tels untruth, Verſ. 10.

    Ezekiel Culverwell · A Ready Way to Remember the Scriptures · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

  • Printed
    … is a ſinne deſtructive to bodie and ſoule, Prov. 5.11. it Conſumes the bodie, it DeſtroyesDestroys the ſoule, Chap. 6.32. and The Harlots houſe is the way to Hell, going downe …
    With rule
    … is a ſinne deſtructive to bodie and ſoule, Prov. 5.11. it Conſumes the bodie, it DeſtroyesDestroys the ſoule, Chap. 6.32. and The Harlots houſe is the way to Hell, going downe …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 200 · Open in the reader

The Application of Redemption A44342

  • Printed
    … receive Spiritual Light. 45 3 Christ forceth the Understanding to bear the … of his Spirit, whereby … 47 1 DestroyesDestroys the Soveraignty of … Reason 48 2 Fits it to receive the impression of Spiritual Light 50 4 This …
    With rule
    … receive Spiritual Light. 45 3 Christ forceth the Understanding to bear the … of his Spirit, whereby … 47 1 DestroyesDestroys the Soveraignty of … Reason 48 2 Fits it to receive the impression of Spiritual Light 50 4 This …

    Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · Open in the reader

The Annals of the World A64619

  • Printed
    DestroyesDestroys his mother by famine in prison and chains. ib.
    With rule
    DestroyesDestroys his mother by famine in prison and chains. ib.

    James Ussher · The Annals of the World · Open in the reader

The Covenant Sealed A76812

  • Printed
    … body, this Cup is my blood in the New Teſtament: But ſuch an interpretation, 1. DeſtroyesDestroys the outward ſign, and makes it no Sacrament. 2. Makes the ſpeech wholly not Sacramental …
    With rule
    … body, this Cup is my blood in the New Teſtament: But ſuch an interpretation, 1. DeſtroyesDestroys the outward ſign, and makes it no Sacrament. 2. Makes the ſpeech wholly not Sacramental …

    Thomas Blake · The Covenant Sealed · p. 51 · Open in the reader

Christ and Moses Excellency A90893

  • Printed
    … Free-grace in mens Salvation, 154. The preaching of it, gives no liberty to ſin, 177, 178, 179. DeſtroyesDestroys not the Law, 181.
    With rule
    … Free-grace in mens Salvation, 154. The preaching of it, gives no liberty to ſin, 177, 178, 179. DeſtroyesDestroys not the Law, 181.

    Vavasor Powell · Christ and Moses Excellency · Open in the reader