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hypocritshypocrites

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

Puritas changed it
520 times in 235 works
Consistency
100% (520 of 520)
Reach if approved
~546 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hypocrites
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
520 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (520 changes in 235 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 520)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    3. The next Leuen is that of the Herodians: heere crafty and dissembling hypocritshypocrites might be thought their fittest and most sutable paralells: because Christ calls Herod a …
    With rule
    3. The next Leuen is that of the Herodians: heere crafty and dissembling hypocritshypocrites might be thought their fittest and most sutable paralells: because Christ calls Herod a …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 364 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … may be reuerence in the Sacrament where there is no kneeling. And yet theſe hypocritshypocrites call it vnreuerent ſetting vpon their tayles, and make it an article in their …
    With rule
    … may be reuerence in the Sacrament where there is no kneeling. And yet theſe hypocritshypocrites call it vnreuerent ſetting vpon their tayles, and make it an article in their …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … themſelues; a godly preacher aſſureth them, that their pleaſures are ſpurres, & their ſinnes very hypocritshypocrites, hony in their mouthes, but poyſon in their ſtomacks. Could Samuel tell Saul all …
    With rule
    … themſelues; a godly preacher aſſureth them, that their pleaſures are ſpurres, & their ſinnes very hypocritshypocrites, hony in their mouthes, but poyſon in their ſtomacks. Could Samuel tell Saul all …

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the true soules of God (by the sealing of the Spirit) are distinguished from HypocritsHypocrites, and lawfull children, from bastards.
    With rule
    … the true soules of God (by the sealing of the Spirit) are distinguished from HypocritsHypocrites, and lawfull children, from bastards.

    William Perkins · How a Man May Know Whether he be a Son of God · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … fastings? what profitablenesse at all is there in his seruice? Thus we find the hypocritshypocrites challenging God for afflicting them, upbraiding him with their humiliations, and the fruitlesnesse of …
    With rule
    … fastings? what profitablenesse at all is there in his seruice? Thus we find the hypocritshypocrites challenging God for afflicting them, upbraiding him with their humiliations, and the fruitlesnesse of …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 177 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Christ, whom he so often calleth hypocrites: and these are the speaches of the hypocritshypocrites of our age, that seeme to liue after the straightest sect of our religion …
    With rule
    … Christ, whom he so often calleth hypocrites: and these are the speaches of the hypocritshypocrites of our age, that seeme to liue after the straightest sect of our religion …

    Henry Smith · The Sinners Confession · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … was, he will not ſticke to cry out againſt them, w… be to you hypocritshypocrites, as he did againſt the ſcribes and Pharaſes Math. 23. we ſay therefore to euery …
    With rule
    … was, he will not ſticke to cry out againſt them, w… be to you hypocritshypocrites, as he did againſt the ſcribes and Pharaſes Math. 23. we ſay therefore to euery …

    Thomas Sparke · Sermon 22 November 1593 · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to the ſecular power to be burned: which when they had done, (like falſe hypocritshypocrites) they deſired ye tēporall Lords preſent, very inſtantly, that they would not put the …
    With rule
    … to the ſecular power to be burned: which when they had done, (like falſe hypocritshypocrites) they deſired ye tēporall Lords preſent, very inſtantly, that they would not put the …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 299 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.