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lockeslocks

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

Puritas changed it
403 times in 190 works
Consistency
83.6% (403 of 482)
Reach if approved
~506 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: locks
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
482 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (403 changes in 190 works, 83.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 403)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … nyght, but not without the strength of twenty men, beyng locked … barred with diuers lockeslocks and barres, was sene at v…. of the clocke at night, and (as Egesippus …
    With rule
    … nyght, but not without the strength of twenty men, beyng locked … barred with diuers lockeslocks and barres, was sene at v…. of the clocke at night, and (as Egesippus …

    Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Ladyes and dayntie Miſtreſſes into wytherednes and ſunne burninge. Theyr fayre layde out yelowe lockeslocks into baldneſſe, for the tyme approcheth that of force they muſte forgo theyr trinkettes …
    With rule
    … Ladyes and dayntie Miſtreſſes into wytherednes and ſunne burninge. Theyr fayre layde out yelowe lockeslocks into baldneſſe, for the tyme approcheth that of force they muſte forgo theyr trinkettes …

    Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … death lies, which beeing once knowne, we must with speed cut off his Sāpsons lockeslocks, and bereaue him of his power, disarme him, & make him altogether vnable to preuaile …
    With rule
    … death lies, which beeing once knowne, we must with speed cut off his Sāpsons lockeslocks, and bereaue him of his power, disarme him, & make him altogether vnable to preuaile …

    William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    But the nourishing, and wearing of Loue-lockeslocks, in its very best acceptation, is but a meere Ridiculous, Foolish, Childish, and Fantastique …
    With rule
    But the nourishing, and wearing of Loue-lockeslocks, in its very best acceptation, is but a meere Ridiculous, Foolish, Childish, and Fantastique …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … so that it was a signe of sorrow, misery, and captivity, to have such lockeslocks uncovered, Esa. 47. 2. But the Spouse of Christ freed by him from Satans bondage, is …
    With rule
    … so that it was a signe of sorrow, misery, and captivity, to have such lockeslocks uncovered, Esa. 47. 2. But the Spouse of Christ freed by him from Satans bondage, is …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vp, in as ſtraight manner as in the Tower, being at the leaſt 5. or 6. lockeslocks betwéene her lodging & her walkes: Sir Henry kéeping the keyes and truſting no man …
    With rule
    … vp, in as ſtraight manner as in the Tower, being at the leaſt 5. or 6. lockeslocks betwéene her lodging & her walkes: Sir Henry kéeping the keyes and truſting no man …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 274 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of Harlotes. Her shamefaste forehead hath received the marke of the Beast. Her lovely-lockeslocks are frizled with the crisping pins of Antichristian fashions. Her chaste Eares are made …
    With rule
    … of Harlotes. Her shamefaste forehead hath received the marke of the Beast. Her lovely-lockeslocks are frizled with the crisping pins of Antichristian fashions. Her chaste Eares are made …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the lightes before their false gods, the tacks that sustayne them for fallinge, the lockeslocks that saue them from the robberye of théeues, their fyre pans, bars and poolyes …
    With rule
    … the lightes before their false gods, the tacks that sustayne them for fallinge, the lockeslocks that saue them from the robberye of théeues, their fyre pans, bars and poolyes …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (79)

57 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 are listed here. 22 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Devils Banket Described A00888

  • Printed
    … our houses; our soules our goods; our senses are the Doores and Windores, the LockesLocks are Faith and Prayer. The day of our doome will come as a theefe …
    With rule
    … our houses; our soules our goods; our senses are the Doores and Windores, the LockesLocks are Faith and Prayer. The day of our doome will come as a theefe …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 86 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … do well to make them beards of the haire they have shorne from their LockesLocks and Foretops) will but imitate, they may then seeme bearded men in earnest, and …
    With rule
    … do well to make them beards of the haire they have shorne from their LockesLocks and Foretops) will but imitate, they may then seeme bearded men in earnest, and …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 199 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and fall to wearing breeches to, (as they have lately taken up mens Tonsure, LockesLocks and Dublets, if not more:) and so bee like these mannish Argivae, ouer-ruling …
    With rule
    … and fall to wearing breeches to, (as they have lately taken up mens Tonsure, LockesLocks and Dublets, if not more:) and so bee like these mannish Argivae, ouer-ruling …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 199 · Open in the reader

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

  • Printed
    … but course and vile, consisting of Effeminate, Proud, Lasciuious, Exorbitant, and Fantastique Haires, or LockesLocks, or Loue-lockeslocks, (as they stile them:) which euery Barba… may correct and regulate …
    With rule
    … but course and vile, consisting of Effeminate, Proud, Lasciuious, Exorbitant, and Fantastique Haires, or LockesLocks, or Loue-lockeslocks, (as they stile them:) which euery Barba… may correct and regulate …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and time, or lauish out so great expences on their Heads, their Haire, and LockesLocks, as we doe now? If not, then l…t vs be as well conceited …
    With rule
    … and time, or lauish out so great expences on their Heads, their Haire, and LockesLocks, as we doe now? If not, then l…t vs be as well conceited …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE VNLOVELINESSE, OF LOVE-LOCKESLOCKS.
    With rule
    THE VNLOVELINESSE, OF LOVE-LOCKESLOCKS.

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … euen from this very ground, because he weares a Locke: Most that weare these LockesLocks, are notoriously knowne to bee such as these: wherefore men vpon the very first …
    With rule
    … euen from this very ground, because he weares a Locke: Most that weare these LockesLocks, are notoriously knowne to bee such as these: wherefore men vpon the very first …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … not truely say of many, that they are so inamored, and besotted with their LockesLocks, that they would hazard, and ingage their liues in their quarrell, and defence? that …
    With rule
    … not truely say of many, that they are so inamored, and besotted with their LockesLocks, that they would hazard, and ingage their liues in their quarrell, and defence? that …

    William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 28 · Open in the reader

Bowels Opened A12167

  • Printed
    … shee so exact in reckoning up so many particulars of her Beloved, his Head, LockesLocks, Eyes, Lips, and such like?
    With rule
    … shee so exact in reckoning up so many particulars of her Beloved, his Head, LockesLocks, Eyes, Lips, and such like?

    Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 374 · Open in the reader

The Wonders of the Lodestone A14727

  • Printed
    … Instruments are made of it, but such as are ordinary, as Horse-shooes, Keyes, LockesLocks, Nailes, Sawes, Mattocks, Plow-shares, to say nothing of Warlike Slings, Guns, Bullets, and …
    With rule
    … Instruments are made of it, but such as are ordinary, as Horse-shooes, Keyes, LockesLocks, Nailes, Sawes, Mattocks, Plow-shares, to say nothing of Warlike Slings, Guns, Bullets, and …

    Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 174 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    … some countries was accounted a comly beautiful thing in a young Man. Can. 5, 11. His LockesLocks curled, and Blacke as a Rauen.
    With rule
    … some countries was accounted a comly beautiful thing in a young Man. Can. 5, 11. His LockesLocks curled, and Blacke as a Rauen.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Curled LockesLocks. sig:
    With rule
    Curled LockesLocks. sig:

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … faire. It being counted of in those times as a grace, to haue Curled LockesLocks. Cant. 5, 11. His LockesLocks Curled.
    With rule
    … faire. It being counted of in those times as a grace, to haue Curled LockesLocks. Cant. 5, 11. His LockesLocks Curled.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … counted of in those times as a grace, to haue Curled LockesLocks. Cant. 5, 11. His LockesLocks Curled.
    With rule
    … counted of in those times as a grace, to haue Curled LockesLocks. Cant. 5, 11. His LockesLocks Curled.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 180 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … loue of his Spouse. Cant. 5, 2. For mine head is full of Dew, and my LockesLocks with the Droppes of the night. There was no inconuenience or euil so great …
    With rule
    … loue of his Spouse. Cant. 5, 2. For mine head is full of Dew, and my LockesLocks with the Droppes of the night. There was no inconuenience or euil so great …

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 182 · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

  • Printed
    Whereon curled LockesLocks doe grow;
    With rule
    Whereon curled LockesLocks doe grow;

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    And, thy LockesLocks, like kidlings be,
    With rule
    And, thy LockesLocks, like kidlings be,

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 51 · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

  • Printed
    … Lord, whom all cyes shall see▪ that day with his golden Head and bus… LockesLocks: Christ shall bee clothed in his triumphing apparell with such a brightnesse, that the …
    With rule
    … Lord, whom all cyes shall see▪ that day with his golden Head and bus… LockesLocks: Christ shall bee clothed in his triumphing apparell with such a brightnesse, that the …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 619 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … their desire hee shall reigne ouer them in all prosperitie: Then shall his curled LockesLocks bee fullie dryed of the Dew and doole droppes of the night of all …
    With rule
    … their desire hee shall reigne ouer them in all prosperitie: Then shall his curled LockesLocks bee fullie dryed of the Dew and doole droppes of the night of all …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 640 · Open in the reader

The Mischief and Misery of Scandals A21049

  • Printed
    … this hardneſſe of heart wil be as quaternions of Souldiers, as Chaines, and Keepers, LockesLocks, Barres, Bolts, and Fetters, to reſerue a man ſure for damnation. A man hath …
    With rule
    … this hardneſſe of heart wil be as quaternions of Souldiers, as Chaines, and Keepers, LockesLocks, Barres, Bolts, and Fetters, to reſerue a man ſure for damnation. A man hath …

    Jeremiah Dyke · The Mischief and Misery of Scandals · p. 91 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21059

  • Printed
    … this hardneſſe of heart will be as quarternions of Souldiers, as Chaines, and Keepers, LockesLocks, Barres, Boults, and Fetters, to reſerue a man ſure for damnation. A man hath …
    With rule
    … this hardneſſe of heart will be as quarternions of Souldiers, as Chaines, and Keepers, LockesLocks, Barres, Boults, and Fetters, to reſerue a man ſure for damnation. A man hath …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 91 · Open in the reader