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sinewessinews

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

Puritas changed it
702 times in 416 works
Consistency
95.5% (702 of 735)
Reach if approved
~772 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sinews
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
735 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (702 changes in 416 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 702)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … all his other members. For what would the ſwiftneſſe of his feete, ſtrength of ſinewessinews, nimbleneſſe of hands, &c. ſtand him heere in ſtead, if he had not an …
    With rule
    … all his other members. For what would the ſwiftneſſe of his feete, ſtrength of ſinewessinews, nimbleneſſe of hands, &c. ſtand him heere in ſtead, if he had not an …

    Paul Baynes · The Mirror or Miracle of Gods Love Unto the World of His Elect · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … held her wrist, and the burning Candle vnder her hand so long, vntill the sinewessinews cracked in sunder, saying often vnto her, Thou young Whoore, wilt thou not crie …
    With rule
    … held her wrist, and the burning Candle vnder her hand so long, vntill the sinewessinews cracked in sunder, saying often vnto her, Thou young Whoore, wilt thou not crie …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 340 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … both be blowne vp. Can the backe of charitie beare no loade? Are the sinewessinews of loue growne so feeble? Alas fooles! you get both nothing but the blowes …
    With rule
    … both be blowne vp. Can the backe of charitie beare no loade? Are the sinewessinews of loue growne so feeble? Alas fooles! you get both nothing but the blowes …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … reason it selfe euidently discouereth as much) Mr. B. himselfe elsewhere cutteth the very sinewessinews of his owne Argument, where hauing obiected that Bread and Wine are in the …
    With rule
    … reason it selfe euidently discouereth as much) Mr. B. himselfe elsewhere cutteth the very sinewessinews of his owne Argument, where hauing obiected that Bread and Wine are in the …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … former fashion, as before it had any being, to tie the flesh together with sinewessinews, to conuey strength into the bones, and to beautifie all with a skin Let …
    With rule
    … former fashion, as before it had any being, to tie the flesh together with sinewessinews, to conuey strength into the bones, and to beautifie all with a skin Let …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … doth deny. What here you write, hath neither dependance nor conſequence, neither ioints nor ſinewessinews; much like vnto a ſhadow, which hauing ſome proportion of a mans body, hath …
    With rule
    … doth deny. What here you write, hath neither dependance nor conſequence, neither ioints nor ſinewessinews; much like vnto a ſhadow, which hauing ſome proportion of a mans body, hath …

    William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſelfe; the truth is, this deſpaire of the ſoule is that which cutteth the ſinewessinews of all mans comfort, and taketh off the power and edge of all the …
    With rule
    … ſelfe; the truth is, this deſpaire of the ſoule is that which cutteth the ſinewessinews of all mans comfort, and taketh off the power and edge of all the …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſo great a point of Antichriſtianity, as the Hierarchy is: Which is the verie ſinewessinews and ſtrength of the Popes Religion: As (I feare) wofull experience will teach you …
    With rule
    … ſo great a point of Antichriſtianity, as the Hierarchy is: Which is the verie ſinewessinews and ſtrength of the Popes Religion: As (I feare) wofull experience will teach you …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 205 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (33)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 are listed here. 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Happiness of the Church A01956

  • Printed
    … vs; with these warre, and no peace: for they haue no peace with Christ. SinewesSinews cut in sunder can neuer be knitte, nor can there be Integralis vnitas in …
    With rule
    … vs; with these warre, and no peace: for they haue no peace with Christ. SinewesSinews cut in sunder can neuer be knitte, nor can there be Integralis vnitas in …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

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    … Heart, the Lungs, the Stomacke, the Liuer, the Bowelles, the Kidneys, the Bones, the SinewesSinews, the Heartstrings, the Ueynes, and such other things. The beginning of this whole Masse …
    With rule
    … Heart, the Lungs, the Stomacke, the Liuer, the Bowelles, the Kidneys, the Bones, the SinewesSinews, the Heartstrings, the Ueynes, and such other things. The beginning of this whole Masse …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … howbeit from one welhead, that is to say from the Liuer: so be the SinewesSinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewise are the Heartstrings, howbeit from the Heart. By …
    With rule
    … howbeit from one welhead, that is to say from the Liuer: so be the SinewesSinews, howbeit from the Brayne; So likewise are the Heartstrings, howbeit from the Heart. By …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … sayth that the knitting parts that is to wit the bones, the skin, the SinewesSinews and such lyke may be made of the mixing togither of the elements, and …
    With rule
    … sayth that the knitting parts that is to wit the bones, the skin, the SinewesSinews and such lyke may be made of the mixing togither of the elements, and …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … head, the yrefull in the heart, and the quickning in the Liuer, because the SinewesSinews, Hartstrings and Uaynes come from those parts: Whereas the reasonable power is not in …
    With rule
    … head, the yrefull in the heart, and the quickning in the Liuer, because the SinewesSinews, Hartstrings and Uaynes come from those parts: Whereas the reasonable power is not in …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 271 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is all one and the same man, or as the power that moueth the SinewesSinews is one selfesame still, both when it stirreth them, and when it holdeth them …
    With rule
    … is all one and the same man, or as the power that moueth the SinewesSinews is one selfesame still, both when it stirreth them, and when it holdeth them …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 283 · Open in the reader

A Gleaning in Gods Harvest A10384

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    … dead in treſpaſſes and ſinnes, but now they are alive, rayſed from the dead. SinewesSinews of Braſſe, a heart of Adamant and Steele, muſt needs relent in the ſence …
    With rule
    … dead in treſpaſſes and ſinnes, but now they are alive, rayſed from the dead. SinewesSinews of Braſſe, a heart of Adamant and Steele, muſt needs relent in the ſence …

    Henry Ramsden · A Gleaning in Gods Harvest · p. 197 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

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    … strength; for thereof the bone is named. embrodered] that is, cunningly wrought with Nerves, SinewesSinews, Veines, & variety of limbs. A similitude taken from broiderie worke, Psal. 45. 15. nether places of …
    With rule
    … strength; for thereof the bone is named. embrodered] that is, cunningly wrought with Nerves, SinewesSinews, Veines, & variety of limbs. A similitude taken from broiderie worke, Psal. 45. 15. nether places of …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 181 · Open in the reader

Davids Learning A13538

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    … obstinate, and thy neck is as an yron sinew, and thy brow as brasse: SinewesSinews are instruments of motion, hard indeed, but flexible; but so refractarie is the naturall …
    With rule
    … obstinate, and thy neck is as an yron sinew, and thy brow as brasse: SinewesSinews are instruments of motion, hard indeed, but flexible; but so refractarie is the naturall …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 354 · Open in the reader

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

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    … with the speciall power of Gods blessing, for the cutting asunder of the iron-SinewesSinews of a stubborne and stony heart, doth crush and conquer, strike through and breake …
    With rule
    … with the speciall power of Gods blessing, for the cutting asunder of the iron-SinewesSinews of a stubborne and stony heart, doth crush and conquer, strike through and breake …

    Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 172 · Open in the reader

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions A20631

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    … If all the Veines in our bodies, were extented to Riuers, and all the SinewesSinews, to vaines of Mines, and all the Muscles, that lye vpon one another, to …
    With rule
    … If all the Veines in our bodies, were extented to Riuers, and all the SinewesSinews, to vaines of Mines, and all the Muscles, that lye vpon one another, to …

    John Donne · Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Braine, his Councell; and the whole Magistracie, that ties all toge…her, is the SinewesSinews, which proceed from thence; and the life of all is Honour, and iust respect …
    With rule
    … Braine, his Councell; and the whole Magistracie, that ties all toge…her, is the SinewesSinews, which proceed from thence; and the life of all is Honour, and iust respect …

    John Donne · Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions · p. 284 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    … Touch the cleanliest. Useful in Law to seal Instruments, and in Physick, to mollifie SinewesSinews, ripen and dissolve Ulcers, &c. Yea, the Ground and Foundation of all Cere-cloath …
    With rule
    … Touch the cleanliest. Useful in Law to seal Instruments, and in Physick, to mollifie SinewesSinews, ripen and dissolve Ulcers, &c. Yea, the Ground and Foundation of all Cere-cloath …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 2 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

  • Printed
    … their proper function. And as the head of a body naturall cannot change his SinewesSinews, nor cannot deny nor with-hold from his inferiour members, cheir proper powers, and …
    With rule
    … their proper function. And as the head of a body naturall cannot change his SinewesSinews, nor cannot deny nor with-hold from his inferiour members, cheir proper powers, and …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

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    … were; ſome hard, as bones; others ſoft, as fleſh; ſome ſtrong and tough, as SinewesSinews; others ſubtile and pure, as ſpirits, and the like: which wonders, if they be …
    With rule
    … were; ſome hard, as bones; others ſoft, as fleſh; ſome ſtrong and tough, as SinewesSinews; others ſubtile and pure, as ſpirits, and the like: which wonders, if they be …

    John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 117 · Open in the reader

Apples of Gold from the Tree of Life A67735

  • Printed
    … experience the Iurymen or Free-holders, the joynts resemble Concord and good Order, the SinewesSinews Money, his Arms and Hands the Souldiers and Tradesmen, his Feet the Merchants, his …
    With rule
    … experience the Iurymen or Free-holders, the joynts resemble Concord and good Order, the SinewesSinews Money, his Arms and Hands the Souldiers and Tradesmen, his Feet the Merchants, his …

    Richard Younge · Apples of Gold from the Tree of Life · p. 15 · Open in the reader