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hymneshymns

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

Puritas changed it
974 times in 357 works
Consistency
98.9% (974 of 984)
Reach if approved
~1,034 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hymns
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
984 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (974 changes in 357 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 974)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … hee sheweth yt after the ministers of ye church are sanctified by the spirituall hymneshymns that were song, they besought their louing God to sende his holy spirit vpon …
    With rule
    … hee sheweth yt after the ministers of ye church are sanctified by the spirituall hymneshymns that were song, they besought their louing God to sende his holy spirit vpon …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 688 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … know the fable: and yet hee ſpeakes more plainely to the Trinitie, in his HymnesHymns of the Night, of the Heauen, and of the Ayre. Platoes ſeparate Ideas meane …
    With rule
    … know the fable: and yet hee ſpeakes more plainely to the Trinitie, in his HymnesHymns of the Night, of the Heauen, and of the Ayre. Platoes ſeparate Ideas meane …

    Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … joyfull with the feeling of his word and ſpirit, and they with Pſalmes and hymneshymns and ſpirituall ſongs doe ſing, and make melody in their hearts unto the Lord …
    With rule
    … joyfull with the feeling of his word and ſpirit, and they with Pſalmes and hymneshymns and ſpirituall ſongs doe ſing, and make melody in their hearts unto the Lord …

    Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Heere endes the HymnesHymns.
    With rule
    Heere endes the HymnesHymns.

    Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … seuerall office a pa…t. Each hath his holy day, his sundrie Collect, holy HymnesHymns and deuout praiers: euerie one doth know ouer what handicraft or science, ouer which …
    With rule
    … seuerall office a pa…t. Each hath his holy day, his sundrie Collect, holy HymnesHymns and deuout praiers: euerie one doth know ouer what handicraft or science, ouer which …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 252 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … by the Lord many waies exceedingly, they both outwardly magnifie him with pſalmes and hymneshymns and ſpirituall ſongs, and inwardly are chearfull, being filled with ioy of the holy …
    With rule
    … by the Lord many waies exceedingly, they both outwardly magnifie him with pſalmes and hymneshymns and ſpirituall ſongs, and inwardly are chearfull, being filled with ioy of the holy …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 260 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … onely by night, when they assembled as they might, sometimes to sing Psalmes and hymneshymns together. In all which their dreadfull dangers, and sorrowfull afflictions, notwithstanding the goodnesse of …
    With rule
    … onely by night, when they assembled as they might, sometimes to sing Psalmes and hymneshymns together. In all which their dreadfull dangers, and sorrowfull afflictions, notwithstanding the goodnesse of …

    John Foxe · A Blow for the Pope · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vnto our selues, that is, amongst our selues, one to another in psalmes and hymneshymns, so as that it may be a great shame to vs, if not staying …
    With rule
    … vnto our selues, that is, amongst our selues, one to another in psalmes and hymneshymns, so as that it may be a great shame to vs, if not staying …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

10 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Handmaid to Private Devotion A00587

  • Printed
    … HAND-MAIDES Taske, which is to furnish Christian fastes and feasts with proper MEDITATIONS, HYMNESHYMNS and PRAYERS. As our bodie liues to the soule, by which it liueth; so …
    With rule
    … HAND-MAIDES Taske, which is to furnish Christian fastes and feasts with proper MEDITATIONS, HYMNESHYMNS and PRAYERS. As our bodie liues to the soule, by which it liueth; so …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for such sorrow. If the piercing Texts of holy Seripture in the ADMONITIONS and HYMNESHYMNS appointed for the Christian fasts, diuide betweene your soule and spirit, and bruse if …
    With rule
    … for such sorrow. If the piercing Texts of holy Seripture in the ADMONITIONS and HYMNESHYMNS appointed for the Christian fasts, diuide betweene your soule and spirit, and bruse if …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader

Hymns or Sacred Songs A03826

  • Printed
    HYMNESHYMNS, OR SACRED SONGS, wherein the right vse of Poësie may be espied.
    With rule
    HYMNESHYMNS, OR SACRED SONGS, wherein the right vse of Poësie may be espied.

    Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE HYMNESHYMNS, AND sacred songs, of Alexander Hume.
    With rule
    THE HYMNESHYMNS, AND sacred songs, of Alexander Hume.

    Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 2 · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

  • Printed
    THE HYMNESHYMNS AND SONGS OF THE CHVRCH; Diuided into two parts.
    With rule
    THE HYMNESHYMNS AND SONGS OF THE CHVRCH; Diuided into two parts.

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE FIRST PART OF The HYMNESHYMNS and SONGS of the CHVRCH, containing those which are translated out of the Canonicall …
    With rule
    THE FIRST PART OF The HYMNESHYMNS and SONGS of the CHVRCH, containing those which are translated out of the Canonicall …

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE HYMNESHYMNS OF THE New-Testament.
    With rule
    THE HYMNESHYMNS OF THE New-Testament.

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 104 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE SECOND PART of the HYMNESHYMNS and Songs of the CHVRCH, appropriated to the seuerall Times and Occasions, most obseruable …
    With rule
    THE SECOND PART of the HYMNESHYMNS and Songs of the CHVRCH, appropriated to the seuerall Times and Occasions, most obseruable …

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The second Part of the HYMNESHYMNS and Songs of the Church. Spirituall Songs, appropriated to those Times, in which are …
    With rule
    The second Part of the HYMNESHYMNS and Songs of the Church. Spirituall Songs, appropriated to those Times, in which are …

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · Open in the reader

The Scholars Purgatory Discovered A15655

  • Printed
    … began and finished those Hymns and Songes, which make vp the Booke, called the HYMNESHYMNS and SONGS OF THE CHVRCH. So named, not for that I would haue them …
    With rule
    … began and finished those Hymns and Songes, which make vp the Booke, called the HYMNESHYMNS and SONGS OF THE CHVRCH. So named, not for that I would haue them …

    George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 15 · Open in the reader