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sixteenesixteen

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

Puritas changed it
446 times in 223 works
Consistency
99.5% (446 of 448)
Reach if approved
~471 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sixteen
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
448 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (446 changes in 223 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 446)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … barley cornes, of pure silver. The Gerah (called of the Hebrew Doctors Megnah) weighed sixteenesixteen barley cornes. Vnder the second Temple, they added to the Shekel, and made it …
    With rule
    … barley cornes, of pure silver. The Gerah (called of the Hebrew Doctors Megnah) weighed sixteenesixteen barley cornes. Vnder the second Temple, they added to the Shekel, and made it …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … And at the end of tenne yeeres, the same to bee lent to other sixteenesixteen, at the discretion of the Maior and communaltie aforesayde. The other two hundred poundes …
    With rule
    … And at the end of tenne yeeres, the same to bee lent to other sixteenesixteen, at the discretion of the Maior and communaltie aforesayde. The other two hundred poundes …

    Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſome while, like enough above a yeare, and ſo Iſhmael muſt be neere about ſixteenesixteen, that ſhee may thinke he was ſo ſenſible of being Abrahams heire as to …
    With rule
    … ſome while, like enough above a yeare, and ſo Iſhmael muſt be neere about ſixteenesixteen, that ſhee may thinke he was ſo ſenſible of being Abrahams heire as to …

    William Whately · Prototypes · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … iudgement of men. For who was thought to be the heyre of Abraham for sixteenesixteen or seuenteene yeeres, but Ismael, the eldest sonne of Abraham? You, who seemed to …
    With rule
    … iudgement of men. For who was thought to be the heyre of Abraham for sixteenesixteen or seuenteene yeeres, but Ismael, the eldest sonne of Abraham? You, who seemed to …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Lewis to doe when he had once obtained the Crowne, namely that Lewis with sixteenesixteen of his Counsellors (whereof this Vicount was one,) had compacted after possession of the …
    With rule
    … Lewis to doe when he had once obtained the Crowne, namely that Lewis with sixteenesixteen of his Counsellors (whereof this Vicount was one,) had compacted after possession of the …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 206 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … shortly, as it came to passe in this yeare one thousand fiue hundred and sixteenesixteen: in which yeare Doctor MARTINE LVTHER first beganne to write: before whom Picus Mirandola …
    With rule
    … shortly, as it came to passe in this yeare one thousand fiue hundred and sixteenesixteen: in which yeare Doctor MARTINE LVTHER first beganne to write: before whom Picus Mirandola …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Tenne yeares: for whenhe was twenty yeares old, he began to raigne, and raigned ſixteenesixteen yeares, 2. King. 16. ſo he dyed in the thirtie ſixe yeare of his age: Now …
    With rule
    … Tenne yeares: for whenhe was twenty yeares old, he began to raigne, and raigned ſixteenesixteen yeares, 2. King. 16. ſo he dyed in the thirtie ſixe yeare of his age: Now …

    Eusebius Pagit · The History of the Bible · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … after, to witte, in the raigne of Herselius the Emperour, there were on foote ſixteenesixteen ſeverall ſortes of beleefe: but what followed? Firſt, Choſr…es king of the Perſiās …
    With rule
    … after, to witte, in the raigne of Herselius the Emperour, there were on foote ſixteenesixteen ſeverall ſortes of beleefe: but what followed? Firſt, Choſr…es king of the Perſiās …

    Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 100 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.