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prouinceprovince

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

Puritas changed it
941 times in 183 works
Consistency
100% (941 of 941)
Reach if approved
~989 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: province
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
941 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (941 changes in 183 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 941)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Verſe 14. But Solomon here reſolueth this doubt. If thou ſeeſt ſuch diſorder in a ProuinceProvince, maruell not that it ſhould be ſo, for God that is moſt high in …
    With rule
    … Verſe 14. But Solomon here reſolueth this doubt. If thou ſeeſt ſuch diſorder in a ProuinceProvince, maruell not that it ſhould be ſo, for God that is moſt high in …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … that notable Lord President, Nehemiah, to see that God… Sabbaths be kept in the ProuinceProvince, and that fallers away be obserued and watched, that they increase not by infection …
    With rule
    … that notable Lord President, Nehemiah, to see that God… Sabbaths be kept in the ProuinceProvince, and that fallers away be obserued and watched, that they increase not by infection …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … promoted to dominion or empire to reigne ouer man, be it in realme, natiō, prouinceprovince or citie. Now resteth it in fewe wordes, to be shewed, that the same …
    With rule
    … promoted to dominion or empire to reigne ouer man, be it in realme, natiō, prouinceprovince or citie. Now resteth it in fewe wordes, to be shewed, that the same …

    John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … an Archbishop, which is the Metropolitane, should be consecrated: all the bishoppes of that prouinceprovince ought to bee present, euen as they all are bounde to obey hym. In …
    With rule
    … an Archbishop, which is the Metropolitane, should be consecrated: all the bishoppes of that prouinceprovince ought to bee present, euen as they all are bounde to obey hym. In …

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of the tenne hornes, all the proconsuls one after another succedyng, gouernyng the same prouinceprovince. Da. And he shal be mightyer then the former. And the .iij. Kynges. Osi …
    With rule
    … of the tenne hornes, all the proconsuls one after another succedyng, gouernyng the same prouinceprovince. Da. And he shal be mightyer then the former. And the .iij. Kynges. Osi …

    Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … alſo taken away by Herod a forrainer borne, and Iudea being reduced to a ProuinceProvince, and ſo in fine as Iacob had foretold (all gouernment being taken from Iudea …
    With rule
    … alſo taken away by Herod a forrainer borne, and Iudea being reduced to a ProuinceProvince, and ſo in fine as Iacob had foretold (all gouernment being taken from Iudea …

    Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſuch caſes, Matth. 18.19, 20. Now theſe Aſſemblies are ſometimes greater, as of a Dioceſſe or ProuinceProvince, ſometimes ſmaller, as of a Pariſh. Againe, ſome are ordinary, vpon ordinary occaſions; and …
    With rule
    … ſuch caſes, Matth. 18.19, 20. Now theſe Aſſemblies are ſometimes greater, as of a Dioceſſe or ProuinceProvince, ſometimes ſmaller, as of a Pariſh. Againe, ſome are ordinary, vpon ordinary occaſions; and …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … sent to Rome to occupie with his chaire the mother church of the Romane prouinceprovince and chiefe citie of the worlde, and there vanquished Symon Magus the head of …
    With rule
    … sent to Rome to occupie with his chaire the mother church of the Romane prouinceprovince and chiefe citie of the worlde, and there vanquished Symon Magus the head of …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 232 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

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