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reseruereserve

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

Puritas changed it
741 times in 337 works
Consistency
99.2% (741 of 747)
Reach if approved
~785 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: reserve
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
747 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (741 changes in 337 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 741)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … come to his answere / he myght geue the one copye vnto the Archebysshop / and reseruereserve the other to himselfe. As the daye of examynacyon was comen / which was the …
    With rule
    … come to his answere / he myght geue the one copye vnto the Archebysshop / and reseruereserve the other to himselfe. As the daye of examynacyon was comen / which was the …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … which concerne your ſoules. Be not now firſt for profit and delight meaning to reſeruereserve your grauer yeares for grauer matters. You know not what a day may bring …
    With rule
    … which concerne your ſoules. Be not now firſt for profit and delight meaning to reſeruereserve your grauer yeares for grauer matters. You know not what a day may bring …

    Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … both of them (not of Iudah onely, but of Iſraell alſo) whom he vvould reſeruereserve. Ier. 50, 17 — 20. Eyther therefore let them deny Iudah then to haue ben the church & people …
    With rule
    … both of them (not of Iudah onely, but of Iſraell alſo) whom he vvould reſeruereserve. Ier. 50, 17 — 20. Eyther therefore let them deny Iudah then to haue ben the church & people …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … The Easterne most especially must acknowledge this. Some men in the East (saith Origen) reseruereserve their old speech, (meaning by likelihood the Hebrew) and haue not altered it, but …
    With rule
    … The Easterne most especially must acknowledge this. Some men in the East (saith Origen) reseruereserve their old speech, (meaning by likelihood the Hebrew) and haue not altered it, but …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Some are so charitable, that hauing got the tythe-corne frō the Church, they reseruereserve from the presented Incumbent their petty tythes also: like monstrous theeues, that hauing stole …
    With rule
    … Some are so charitable, that hauing got the tythe-corne frō the Church, they reseruereserve from the presented Incumbent their petty tythes also: like monstrous theeues, that hauing stole …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … And therefore, how truly the Papists affirme that to be the Sacrament, which they reseruereserve after the administration, or rather what horrible idolatry they commit in calling, and worshipping …
    With rule
    … And therefore, how truly the Papists affirme that to be the Sacrament, which they reseruereserve after the administration, or rather what horrible idolatry they commit in calling, and worshipping …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 271 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they burne it, and so deale with it as they doe with Heretickes, or reseruereserve it ouer long.
    With rule
    … they burne it, and so deale with it as they doe with Heretickes, or reseruereserve it ouer long.

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 191 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … enormities, and let S. Paul himselfe referre you to the most absolute patterne, and reseruereserve to your imitation, certaine limittes, Follow me, as I follow Jesus Christ: Wee must …
    With rule
    … enormities, and let S. Paul himselfe referre you to the most absolute patterne, and reseruereserve to your imitation, certaine limittes, Follow me, as I follow Jesus Christ: Wee must …

    Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

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

Works A02178

  • Printed
    … all that thou hast to doe: That is; Finish all ere this day come: ReserueReserve this wholy to GOD, vse not this to performe any part of thy busines …
    With rule
    … all that thou hast to doe: That is; Finish all ere this day come: ReserueReserve this wholy to GOD, vse not this to performe any part of thy busines …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 841 · Open in the reader

The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution A09887

  • Printed
    … haue you ſpent fortie or threeſcore, yea threeſcore and ten, or fourſcore? deſpaire not: ReſerueReserve the reſt of your daies, yea, if you haue not daies, reſeruereserve the reſt …
    With rule
    … haue you ſpent fortie or threeſcore, yea threeſcore and ten, or fourſcore? deſpaire not: ReſerueReserve the reſt of your daies, yea, if you haue not daies, reſeruereserve the reſt …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 184 · Open in the reader

The First Anniversary A20620

  • Printed
    Forgetting her, the maine ReserueReserve of all,
    With rule
    Forgetting her, the maine ReserueReserve of all,

    John Donne · The First Anniversary · p. 4 · Open in the reader