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ensigneensign

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

Puritas changed it
618 times in 296 works
Consistency
100% (618 of 618)
Reach if approved
~650 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ensign
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
619 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (618 changes in 296 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 618)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … building by the unconstancy of the foundation) that the overthrow of the Mahometanes (whose ensigneensign was the Half-moon) was portended. But the calculatours of after-chances seldome hit …
    With rule
    … building by the unconstancy of the foundation) that the overthrow of the Mahometanes (whose ensigneensign was the Half-moon) was portended. But the calculatours of after-chances seldome hit …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the Lombardes whom he had cursed, and gaue the Heluetians a pardon and an ensigneensign, to encourage them to the slaughter of the Lombardes. He aduaūced his cosins & bastardes …
    With rule
    … the Lombardes whom he had cursed, and gaue the Heluetians a pardon and an ensigneensign, to encourage them to the slaughter of the Lombardes. He aduaūced his cosins & bastardes …

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

  3. Printed
    … by their hoasts, pitched Westward, and their Campe was foure mile square, and his ensigneensign was of three party colours, like the three stones in the brestplate, a Turkie …
    With rule
    … by their hoasts, pitched Westward, and their Campe was foure mile square, and his ensigneensign was of three party colours, like the three stones in the brestplate, a Turkie …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 174 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of Chriſt, hath ſimple proofe, but (indeed) your aſſertion that it ſhould be the enſigneensign of Chriſt hath no prooue at all. And againe: That Caſſiodorus & Lactantius ſpake of …
    With rule
    … of Chriſt, hath ſimple proofe, but (indeed) your aſſertion that it ſhould be the enſigneensign of Chriſt hath no prooue at all. And againe: That Caſſiodorus & Lactantius ſpake of …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … it is the armes royall of our grand Captaine Ieſus Chriſt, it is the enſigneensign wherewith he triumphed ouer his enemies: Which of you can rebuke mee of ſinne …
    With rule
    … it is the armes royall of our grand Captaine Ieſus Chriſt, it is the enſigneensign wherewith he triumphed ouer his enemies: Which of you can rebuke mee of ſinne …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 199 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … as Eusebius writeth, (vnto whom Constantine did report the thing, and shewed him that ensigneensign which he had caused to be made in the likenesse thereof,) it was the …
    With rule
    … as Eusebius writeth, (vnto whom Constantine did report the thing, and shewed him that ensigneensign which he had caused to be made in the likenesse thereof,) it was the …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 585 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … be justified by faith, Gal. 3. 24. by his writings, Christ is lifted up as an ensigneensign unto all peoples for he wrote of Christ, Ioh. 5▪ 46▪ and by the rigour of …
    With rule
    … be justified by faith, Gal. 3. 24. by his writings, Christ is lifted up as an ensigneensign unto all peoples for he wrote of Christ, Ioh. 5▪ 46▪ and by the rigour of …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 134 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … honorable and to be deſired in the world, becauſe princes take them for the enſigneensign of their Order, acknowledging and calling them brethren that weare thē. The enſigneensign then …
    With rule
    … honorable and to be deſired in the world, becauſe princes take them for the enſigneensign of their Order, acknowledging and calling them brethren that weare thē. The enſigneensign then …

    Jean Taffin · The Marks of the Children of God and their Comforts in Affliction · p. 102 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.