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deuoutdevout

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
908 times in 327 works
Consistency
97.2% (908 of 934)
Reach if approved
~981 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: devout
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
934 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (908 changes in 327 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 908)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … obedience. This wil be thought a hard cenſure, eſpecially touching thoſe which ſeeme ſo deuoutdevout and make ſo great a profeſſion of good works: But it is eaſily iuſtified …
    With rule
    … obedience. This wil be thought a hard cenſure, eſpecially touching thoſe which ſeeme ſo deuoutdevout and make ſo great a profeſſion of good works: But it is eaſily iuſtified …

    Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Caietane, the flowre of their Cardinals, with Gerſon Chancellor of Paris, with Titleman a deuoutdevout Papiſt: that as Chriſt wroong out teſtimonie from Sathan, ſo hath the trueth in …
    With rule
    … Caietane, the flowre of their Cardinals, with Gerſon Chancellor of Paris, with Titleman a deuoutdevout Papiſt: that as Chriſt wroong out teſtimonie from Sathan, ſo hath the trueth in …

    William Hubbock · An Apology of Infants · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vs: ſometime by cauſeleſſe feares and ſinfull ſhamefaſtnes hee withdraweth vs from our holy deuoutdevout exerciſe. But this ſound faith quencheth all theſe fierie darts which are throwne againſt …
    With rule
    … vs: ſometime by cauſeleſſe feares and ſinfull ſhamefaſtnes hee withdraweth vs from our holy deuoutdevout exerciſe. But this ſound faith quencheth all theſe fierie darts which are throwne againſt …

    Paul Baynes · The Trial of a Christians Estate · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Meditate ô deuoutdevout Christian,
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    Meditate ô deuoutdevout Christian,

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

  5. Printed
    … which he noteth not: last of all, Religiosus amicus, &c. they be necessary, the deuoutdevout frend must in no case omitte them Ca. 5. the necessarie supplications he speaketh of …
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    … which he noteth not: last of all, Religiosus amicus, &c. they be necessary, the deuoutdevout frend must in no case omitte them Ca. 5. the necessarie supplications he speaketh of …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 250 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Lay-Catholiques of England, many of them, eſpecially the more ignorant, and therefore dotingly deuoutdevout, are ſo mad of theſe trumperies, and ſo ſick of their money, that his …
    With rule
    … Lay-Catholiques of England, many of them, eſpecially the more ignorant, and therefore dotingly deuoutdevout, are ſo mad of theſe trumperies, and ſo ſick of their money, that his …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by Saint Mathew was this. The hypocriticall Phariſees got to themſelues the name of deuoutdevout perſons by their frequent, and much praying. But Chriſt obſeruing their Deuotion to be …
    With rule
    … by Saint Mathew was this. The hypocriticall Phariſees got to themſelues the name of deuoutdevout perſons by their frequent, and much praying. But Chriſt obſeruing their Deuotion to be …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 322 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … exerciſes: ſhee lookes through her window, and ſeeing the attyre and geſtures of her deuoutdevout husband, deſpiſeth him in her hart, neither can ſhee conceale her contempt, but like …
    With rule
    … exerciſes: ſhee lookes through her window, and ſeeing the attyre and geſtures of her deuoutdevout husband, deſpiſeth him in her hart, neither can ſhee conceale her contempt, but like …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 178 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

23 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 are listed here. 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Praise of a Godly Woman A01431

  • Printed
    … is as true also (which Gerson and others haue obserued) that many times a DeuoutDevout Soule is so disquieted with a slauish Feare of the Aduersary; that she feares …
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    … is as true also (which Gerson and others haue obserued) that many times a DeuoutDevout Soule is so disquieted with a slauish Feare of the Aduersary; that she feares …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … euer still and quiet from paine, onely while Diuine Seruice was saying; so this DeuoutDevout Lady forgetting (as it were) Her former Groanings, did listen attentiuely to the prayers …
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    … euer still and quiet from paine, onely while Diuine Seruice was saying; so this DeuoutDevout Lady forgetting (as it were) Her former Groanings, did listen attentiuely to the prayers …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 33 · Open in the reader

Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens A10177

  • Printed
    … And the rather am I induced to thinke, that I haue not wronged our DeuoutDevout Author in his Arethmetique; because he ioynes his fiue Precepts of the Church: his …
    With rule
    … And the rather am I induced to thinke, that I haue not wronged our DeuoutDevout Author in his Arethmetique; because he ioynes his fiue Precepts of the Church: his …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Yet this is not all; For our DeuoutDevout Author, as hee admits a Corporal presence: so he impliedly affirmes, An vnbloody Sacrifice …
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    Yet this is not all; For our DeuoutDevout Author, as hee admits a Corporal presence: so he impliedly affirmes, An vnbloody Sacrifice …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    As Wicked men, and Seducers, waxe worse, and worse; so doeth our DeuoutDevout Author, who slips from one point of Poperie, to an other: from the Mediation …
    With rule
    As Wicked men, and Seducers, waxe worse, and worse; so doeth our DeuoutDevout Author, who slips from one point of Poperie, to an other: from the Mediation …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … all Ministers, and Clergie-men, whose liues, and conuersations should be more Heauenly, and DeuoutDevout then others, are exempted from them? If so, what kinde of Secular persons should …
    With rule
    … all Ministers, and Clergie-men, whose liues, and conuersations should be more Heauenly, and DeuoutDevout then others, are exempted from them? If so, what kinde of Secular persons should …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and Life; but euen the Sacred ashes, and Suruiuing memory of that Euer-blessed, DeuoutDevout, and Pious Queene, (who gaue the greatest life, increase, and vigor, to our Protestant …
    With rule
    … and Life; but euen the Sacred ashes, and Suruiuing memory of that Euer-blessed, DeuoutDevout, and Pious Queene, (who gaue the greatest life, increase, and vigor, to our Protestant …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 46 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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    … raiment till the old be worne: They neither buy nor sell, but mutually communicate. DeuoutDevout they are in the seruice of GOD. For before the Sunne riseth, they speake …
    With rule
    … raiment till the old be worne: They neither buy nor sell, but mutually communicate. DeuoutDevout they are in the seruice of GOD. For before the Sunne riseth, they speake …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 124 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    DeuoutDevout. sig:
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    DeuoutDevout. sig:

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … himselfe to the true worship of the true God, abhorring Idolatry. Acts 10, 2. Cornelius a DeuoutDevout man.
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    … himselfe to the true worship of the true God, abhorring Idolatry. Acts 10, 2. Cornelius a DeuoutDevout man.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and is not, but is giuen to Will-worship. Actes 13, 50. The Iewes stirred vp DeuoutDevout Women against Paul.
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    … and is not, but is giuen to Will-worship. Actes 13, 50. The Iewes stirred vp DeuoutDevout Women against Paul.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

  • Printed
    DeuoutDevout, chast, honest, innocent, and pure:
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    DeuoutDevout, chast, honest, innocent, and pure:

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Festival Epistles and Gospels A16556

  • Printed
    … is a part of prayer, and in prayer no gesture so fit as kneeling. DeuoutDevout Asella did vse geniculation in prayer so much, as that her knee; were made …
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    … is a part of prayer, and in prayer no gesture so fit as kneeling. DeuoutDevout Asella did vse geniculation in prayer so much, as that her knee; were made …

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

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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    … For then thou ſhalt make thy way proſperous, and then thou ſhalt do wiſelie. DeuoutDevout and holie Princes therefore did doe their faithfull & diligent indeuour to cauſe the word …
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    … For then thou ſhalt make thy way proſperous, and then thou ſhalt do wiſelie. DeuoutDevout and holie Princes therefore did doe their faithfull & diligent indeuour to cauſe the word …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 184 · Open in the reader

A Censure of Simony A17294

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    … all ambitious suing is of the ancient learned Diuines iudged and condemned for Simoniacall. DeuoutDevout Bernard to Eugenius giueth this aduise: Pro quo rogaris, sit suspectus: qui ipse rogat …
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    … all ambitious suing is of the ancient learned Diuines iudged and condemned for Simoniacall. DeuoutDevout Bernard to Eugenius giueth this aduise: Pro quo rogaris, sit suspectus: qui ipse rogat …

    Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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    DeuoutDevout Bernard complaining also of the course of his times, saith, among many other things …
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    DeuoutDevout Bernard complaining also of the course of his times, saith, among many other things …

    Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 75 · Open in the reader

The Christians Bulwark A17299

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    … Gods sauing grace; The true grace of God, saith Augustine, not a common grace. DeuoutDevout Bernard vnderstands by free-will, a meere will in man without respect to the …
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    … Gods sauing grace; The true grace of God, saith Augustine, not a common grace. DeuoutDevout Bernard vnderstands by free-will, a meere will in man without respect to the …

    Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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    … a better resurrection, than the receiuing of their temporall life from a temporall death. DeuoutDevout Bernard saith, Nonne si fluctuat fides, inanis est & spes nostra? Stulti ergo Martyres nostri …
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    … a better resurrection, than the receiuing of their temporall life from a temporall death. DeuoutDevout Bernard saith, Nonne si fluctuat fides, inanis est & spes nostra? Stulti ergo Martyres nostri …

    Henry Burton · The Christians Bulwark · p. 268 · Open in the reader

Truths Triumph Over Trent A17308

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    … Gods sauing grace; The true grace of God, saith Augustine, not a common grace. DeuoutDevout Bernard vnderstands by free-will, a meere will in man without respect to the …
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    … Gods sauing grace; The true grace of God, saith Augustine, not a common grace. DeuoutDevout Bernard vnderstands by free-will, a meere will in man without respect to the …

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a better resurrection, than the receiuing of their temporall life from a temporall death. DeuoutDevout Bernard saith, Nonne si fluctuat fides, manis est & spes nostra? Stulti ergo Martyres nostri …
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    … a better resurrection, than the receiuing of their temporall life from a temporall death. DeuoutDevout Bernard saith, Nonne si fluctuat fides, manis est & spes nostra? Stulti ergo Martyres nostri …

    Henry Burton · Truths Triumph Over Trent · p. 268 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

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    … words of God, Once Offered, One Sacrifice, One Oblation? And yet theſe Popiſh Shauelings (DeuoutDevout men) take vpon them to crucifie, and ſacrifice Chriſt againe; and whiles they ſolemnly …
    With rule
    … words of God, Once Offered, One Sacrifice, One Oblation? And yet theſe Popiſh Shauelings (DeuoutDevout men) take vpon them to crucifie, and ſacrifice Chriſt againe; and whiles they ſolemnly …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 659 · Open in the reader