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anselmeanselm

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

Puritas changed it
566 times in 201 works
Consistency
99.6% (566 of 568)
Reach if approved
~597 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: anselm
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
568 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (566 changes in 201 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 566)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it must be without all staine or want: and this cannot be inherent righteousnes. AnselmeAnselm saith, He is made sinne as we are made iustice: not ours but Gods …
    With rule
    … it must be without all staine or want: and this cannot be inherent righteousnes. AnselmeAnselm saith, He is made sinne as we are made iustice: not ours but Gods …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 927 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … meere Divells incarnate in verity: as appeares by seuerall Popes, by Thomas of Becket, AnselmeAnselm, Edward, Thomas, and William, of Canterbury, with divers of our anuncient English, and late …
    With rule
    … meere Divells incarnate in verity: as appeares by seuerall Popes, by Thomas of Becket, AnselmeAnselm, Edward, Thomas, and William, of Canterbury, with divers of our anuncient English, and late …

    William Prynne · A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and people of Waterford in the letters which they wrote at that time unto AnselmeAnselm, doe thus intimate. We and our King Murchertach, and Dofnald the Bishop, and Dermeth …
    With rule
    … and people of Waterford in the letters which they wrote at that time unto AnselmeAnselm, doe thus intimate. We and our King Murchertach, and Dofnald the Bishop, and Dermeth …

    James Ussher · The Religion Anciently Professed by the Irish and British · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … it must be without all staine or want: and that cannot bee inherent righteousnes. AnselmeAnselm saith, He is made sinne as wee are made iustice: not ours, but Gods …
    With rule
    … it must be without all staine or want: and that cannot bee inherent righteousnes. AnselmeAnselm saith, He is made sinne as wee are made iustice: not ours, but Gods …

    Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Apostleship eminently comprehendeth all these graces: it may be granted (as I conceiue, which AnselmeAnselm collecteth here) that Archbishops and Primates haue the roomes of Apostles in the Church …
    With rule
    … Apostleship eminently comprehendeth all these graces: it may be granted (as I conceiue, which AnselmeAnselm collecteth here) that Archbishops and Primates haue the roomes of Apostles in the Church …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Wincheſter. Whom, notwithſtanding, without diſpenſation of the Pope, he married, by the conſent of AnſelmeAnselm. By which Mawd he had two ſonnes, William, and Richard: and two daughters, Mawd …
    With rule
    … Wincheſter. Whom, notwithſtanding, without diſpenſation of the Pope, he married, by the conſent of AnſelmeAnselm. By which Mawd he had two ſonnes, William, and Richard: and two daughters, Mawd …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the Bishops of London, Ely, Winchester, interdictors of the King, and the whole realme. AnselmeAnselm against Rufus; Beckett vexeing Henry the second; Langton casting away King and State; Arundell …
    With rule
    … the Bishops of London, Ely, Winchester, interdictors of the King, and the whole realme. AnselmeAnselm against Rufus; Beckett vexeing Henry the second; Langton casting away King and State; Arundell …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a ſtrict follower of Auguſtine in all things, and Gorran of Thomas Aquinas; though AnſelmeAnselm be for this vſefull, becauſe hee hath collected his expoſitions out of diuers workes …
    With rule
    … a ſtrict follower of Auguſtine in all things, and Gorran of Thomas Aquinas; though AnſelmeAnselm be for this vſefull, becauſe hee hath collected his expoſitions out of diuers workes …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Appeal of Injured Innocence A40651

  • Printed
    ANSELMEANSELM Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 3. p. 11. ¶. 30. refuseth to lend King Rufus a 1000. pounds, ¶. 32. Variance …
    With rule
    ANSELMEANSELM Arch-bishop of Cant. b. 3. p. 11. ¶. 30. refuseth to lend King Rufus a 1000. pounds, ¶. 32. Variance …

    Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · Open in the reader