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grainesgrains

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

Puritas changed it
398 times in 248 works
Consistency
89.0% (398 of 447)
Reach if approved
~470 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: grains
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
447 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (398 changes in 248 works, 89.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 398)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … good déeds, among great heapes of ſinfull workes, and as it were a few grainesgrains of Corne in a great heape of Chaffe, ſhould be a true witneſſe of …
    With rule
    … good déeds, among great heapes of ſinfull workes, and as it were a few grainesgrains of Corne in a great heape of Chaffe, ſhould be a true witneſſe of …

    George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the purple of the juyce of a shell-fish, and the scarlet of the grainesgrains of a berry, ancient purple was of a reddish colour, tho now these sorts …
    With rule
    … the purple of the juyce of a shell-fish, and the scarlet of the grainesgrains of a berry, ancient purple was of a reddish colour, tho now these sorts …

    John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … betwixt all the faithfull, ſet forth by the ſame bread being made of many grainesgrains of corne, and by the ſame wine being made of many grapes.
    With rule
    … betwixt all the faithfull, ſet forth by the ſame bread being made of many grainesgrains of corne, and by the ſame wine being made of many grapes.

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 541 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not like ours: for they are rooted upwarde in heauen in Christ, and their grainesgrains and branches growe downward that they may beare fruite among men.
    With rule
    … not like ours: for they are rooted upwarde in heauen in Christ, and their grainesgrains and branches growe downward that they may beare fruite among men.

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 484 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … malignant part of the world, & so it is but a little flock, as many grainesgrains and measures of corne may lie hid under a greater heape of chaffe. Secondly …
    With rule
    … malignant part of the world, & so it is but a little flock, as many grainesgrains and measures of corne may lie hid under a greater heape of chaffe. Secondly …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Ciprian saith, the Lord calleth bread made of many grainesgrains, his bodie, and called wine made of many grapes, his bloud.
    With rule
    Ciprian saith, the Lord calleth bread made of many grainesgrains, his bodie, and called wine made of many grapes, his bloud.

    Henry Smith · A Preparative to Marriage · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in the skie? How many drops of water in the ſea? Or how many grainesgrains of ſand vpon the earth? If all the men in the world, kings, or …
    With rule
    … in the skie? How many drops of water in the ſea? Or how many grainesgrains of ſand vpon the earth? If all the men in the world, kings, or …

    Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … suffero? What maruell, if in sweeping the Lords floore, and seeking to gather-in grainesgrains that are flowne out, I endure a little dust? Homo sum enim de areâ …
    With rule
    … suffero? What maruell, if in sweeping the Lords floore, and seeking to gather-in grainesgrains that are flowne out, I endure a little dust? Homo sum enim de areâ …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 175 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (49)

26 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 are listed here. 23 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Handmaid to Private Devotion A00587

  • Printed
    … him, the Flowers to refresh him, the Herbes to cure him, the Fruits and GrainesGrains to nourish him, the Mines to inrich him, the precious Stones to adorne him …
    With rule
    … him, the Flowers to refresh him, the Herbes to cure him, the Fruits and GrainesGrains to nourish him, the Mines to inrich him, the precious Stones to adorne him …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 382 · Open in the reader

The Pope Confuted A01130

  • Printed
    As one Loafe of bread is made of many GrainesGrains, and as Wine is brought forth of many grapes: so the body of a …
    With rule
    As one Loafe of bread is made of many GrainesGrains, and as Wine is brought forth of many grapes: so the body of a …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 93 · Open in the reader

Antichrist the Pope of Rome A06098

  • Printed
    … at a very low rate? Witneſſe their Diſpenſations, Pardons, Maſſes, Trentals, Agnus deis, holy GrainesGrains, with a number more ſuch like fopperies, which they exchange with men for the …
    With rule
    … at a very low rate? Witneſſe their Diſpenſations, Pardons, Maſſes, Trentals, Agnus deis, holy GrainesGrains, with a number more ſuch like fopperies, which they exchange with men for the …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … efficacy of Chriſts blood, and yet he annihilates it, by conferring it vpon holy GrainesGrains, Crucifixes, Agnus Deis, holy-water, whips, Monkes Coules, &c. as if he had power …
    With rule
    … efficacy of Chriſts blood, and yet he annihilates it, by conferring it vpon holy GrainesGrains, Crucifixes, Agnus Deis, holy-water, whips, Monkes Coules, &c. as if he had power …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to conſecrate and hallow an infinite number of Crucifixes, Medailes, and Agnus Deis, holy GrainesGrains, or Beades, and ſuch like traſh, and to ſend them abroad into the world …
    With rule
    … to conſecrate and hallow an infinite number of Crucifixes, Medailes, and Agnus Deis, holy GrainesGrains, or Beades, and ſuch like traſh, and to ſend them abroad into the world …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 370 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … taketh his oath. This being done, they throw or poure vpon him a few GrainesGrains of Rice, with many other ceremonies and prayers, and he worshippeth the Sunne three …
    With rule
    … taketh his oath. This being done, they throw or poure vpon him a few GrainesGrains of Rice, with many other ceremonies and prayers, and he worshippeth the Sunne three …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 422 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … yeare Master Iohn Lock went for Captaine into those parts, to trade for Gold, GrainesGrains, and Elephants teeth. And after that, diuerse Voyages were thither made by William Towerson …
    With rule
    … yeare Master Iohn Lock went for Captaine into those parts, to trade for Gold, GrainesGrains, and Elephants teeth. And after that, diuerse Voyages were thither made by William Towerson …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 541 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    For their Seedes and GrainesGrains, Mays is principall, of which they make their bread, which our English ground brings …
    With rule
    For their Seedes and GrainesGrains, Mays is principall, of which they make their bread, which our English ground brings …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 616 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the commodities of Virginia for food in Fowles, Beasts, Fishes, Fruits, Plants, Hearbs, Beries, GrainesGrains, especially their Maiz, which yeeldeth incredible recompence for a little labour. One acre of …
    With rule
    … the commodities of Virginia for food in Fowles, Beasts, Fishes, Fruits, Plants, Hearbs, Beries, GrainesGrains, especially their Maiz, which yeeldeth incredible recompence for a little labour. One acre of …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 635 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … thus laide downe six or seuen hundred in one Circle, accounting their songes by GrainesGrains, as the Papists their Orisons by Beades, they made two or three other circles …
    With rule
    … thus laide downe six or seuen hundred in one Circle, accounting their songes by GrainesGrains, as the Papists their Orisons by Beades, they made two or three other circles …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 638 · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 A19588

  • Printed
    … mens ſoules, the Pope ordained that certaine Crucifixes, and Meddalls, and Agnus dei & holy GrainesGrains, & beads & other ſuch Iewels, ſhould be firſt conſecrated and hallowed by the hands of …
    With rule
    … mens ſoules, the Pope ordained that certaine Crucifixes, and Meddalls, and Agnus dei & holy GrainesGrains, & beads & other ſuch Iewels, ſhould be firſt conſecrated and hallowed by the hands of …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of all his ſinnes: prouided that hee haue one of theſe bleſſed and holy GrainesGrains, Meddalls, Crucifixes or Pictures.
    With rule
    … of all his ſinnes: prouided that hee haue one of theſe bleſſed and holy GrainesGrains, Meddalls, Crucifixes or Pictures.

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a man, or lying before him one or more of theſe holy Medalles, Croſſes, GrainesGrains, or Images, and obſeruing what is afore appointed: and his Holineſſes wil is, that …
    With rule
    … a man, or lying before him one or more of theſe holy Medalles, Croſſes, GrainesGrains, or Images, and obſeruing what is afore appointed: and his Holineſſes wil is, that …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … forgiueneſſe of all his ſinnes, if hee haue one of theſe holy Croſſes, or GrainesGrains about him. And is this the Diuinitie of the Romiſh Church? is this procured …
    With rule
    … forgiueneſſe of all his ſinnes, if hee haue one of theſe holy Croſſes, or GrainesGrains about him. And is this the Diuinitie of the Romiſh Church? is this procured …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … true faith and repentance ſaue him tho hee haue a hundreth of theſe holy GrainesGrains about him? or if hee doe truely repent and beleeue in CHRIST, tho hee …
    With rule
    … true faith and repentance ſaue him tho hee haue a hundreth of theſe holy GrainesGrains about him? or if hee doe truely repent and beleeue in CHRIST, tho hee …

    William Crashaw · Sermon Preached 14 February 1607 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

  • Printed
    … of our Redemption. When we ſee one Bread and one Wine, conſiſting of many GrainesGrains and Grapes, we are to be put in mind thereby, that there is but …
    With rule
    … of our Redemption. When we ſee one Bread and one Wine, conſiſting of many GrainesGrains and Grapes, we are to be put in mind thereby, that there is but …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 127 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Catholic Faith A20944

  • Printed
    … of the auncients there be mention made of Iubilees, of Agnus Dei, or holy GrainesGrains, conſecrated Medals, of Cordelier-Friars, or Iacobins, or Ieſuites, and an infinite ſort of …
    With rule
    … of the auncients there be mention made of Iubilees, of Agnus Dei, or holy GrainesGrains, conſecrated Medals, of Cordelier-Friars, or Iacobins, or Ieſuites, and an infinite ſort of …

    Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 142 · Open in the reader

The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory A20964

  • Printed
    … God; The Elevation and walking of their conſecrated cake vp and downe: The hallowed GrainesGrains and Medals: The fraternity of S. Frances Corde loaden with ſo manie pardons and …
    With rule
    … God; The Elevation and walking of their conſecrated cake vp and downe: The hallowed GrainesGrains and Medals: The fraternity of S. Frances Corde loaden with ſo manie pardons and …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Waters of Shiloh to Quench the Fire of Purgatory · p. 43 · Open in the reader

A Worthy Communicant A21060

  • Printed
    … growes exceedingly: and Rom. 1. 17. The righteouſneſſe of God is revealed from faith to faith. GrainesGrains of muſtard-ſeed grow to the procerity, and ſpred of trees, in which the …
    With rule
    … growes exceedingly: and Rom. 1. 17. The righteouſneſſe of God is revealed from faith to faith. GrainesGrains of muſtard-ſeed grow to the procerity, and ſpred of trees, in which the …

    Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 320 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of the Mass A36867

  • Printed
    … contracted, under colour of Monachall… profeſſion? Did they then ſpeake of Beades, Roſaries, bleſſed GrainesGrains, Agnus Dei? &c. The like I ſay of the title they give to the …
    With rule
    … contracted, under colour of Monachall… profeſſion? Did they then ſpeake of Beades, Roſaries, bleſſed GrainesGrains, Agnus Dei? &c. The like I ſay of the title they give to the …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · The Anatomy of the Mass · p. 139 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … write in religious Cowles, Altars, Reliques, Aſhes, Candles, Oyles, Salts, Waters, Enſignes, Roſes, Words, GrainesGrains, Agnus Dei, Medalls, and a world of ſuch traſh: So much, that they haue …
    With rule
    … write in religious Cowles, Altars, Reliques, Aſhes, Candles, Oyles, Salts, Waters, Enſignes, Roſes, Words, GrainesGrains, Agnus Dei, Medalls, and a world of ſuch traſh: So much, that they haue …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 444 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Inuiſible and Spirituall God? That wee ſhould put our confidence in Agnis Dei, GrainesGrains, Tapers, Roſes, Swords, Enſignes, Bels, ridiculouſly (after their manner) inchanted? That by certaine Magicall …
    With rule
    … the Inuiſible and Spirituall God? That wee ſhould put our confidence in Agnis Dei, GrainesGrains, Tapers, Roſes, Swords, Enſignes, Bels, ridiculouſly (after their manner) inchanted? That by certaine Magicall …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 662 · Open in the reader