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cainecain

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

Puritas changed it
750 times in 300 works
Consistency
99.3% (750 of 755)
Reach if approved
~793 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
755 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (750 changes in 300 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 750)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … against his brother, testified by his sad countenance, before he slew his brother; but CaineCain not yeelding to the Lords reproofe, came at last to the grieuous sinne of …
    With rule
    … against his brother, testified by his sad countenance, before he slew his brother; but CaineCain not yeelding to the Lords reproofe, came at last to the grieuous sinne of …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 433 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … bee cast out, and euery one with whom the Couenant indeed is not established. CaineCain remained for a time, but he was cast out, and made a Vagabond vpon …
    With rule
    … bee cast out, and euery one with whom the Couenant indeed is not established. CaineCain remained for a time, but he was cast out, and made a Vagabond vpon …

    John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … burthen for our shoulders; able to sincke vs downe to hell, as they did CaineCain and Iudas, if they had beene imposed. Tulit Iesus. Christ carried our sorrowes. Neuer …
    With rule
    … burthen for our shoulders; able to sincke vs downe to hell, as they did CaineCain and Iudas, if they had beene imposed. Tulit Iesus. Christ carried our sorrowes. Neuer …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … pietie recorded to be done after mans fall. In the ſacrifices which Abel and CaineCain firſt offered, God did not behold the offering, but the heart, that he might …
    With rule
    … pietie recorded to be done after mans fall. In the ſacrifices which Abel and CaineCain firſt offered, God did not behold the offering, but the heart, that he might …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Saint Ambrose, Nullus Abel, &c. There is no Abel, saith hee, but hath his CaineCain; no good man, but hath his persecutor: So that we may conclude, that what …
    With rule
    … Saint Ambrose, Nullus Abel, &c. There is no Abel, saith hee, but hath his CaineCain; no good man, but hath his persecutor: So that we may conclude, that what …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſlaine by the wicked nature of the ſinne, through the hands of his brother CaineCain: And how that Seth, after the death of Abel, was placed by God to …
    With rule
    … ſlaine by the wicked nature of the ſinne, through the hands of his brother CaineCain: And how that Seth, after the death of Abel, was placed by God to …

    John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Touching the compariſons following, wherein they are compared to Cain, Balaam and Core. As CaineCain was full of enuy and hatred againſt his brother, ſo were theſe againſt the …
    With rule
    Touching the compariſons following, wherein they are compared to Cain, Balaam and Core. As CaineCain was full of enuy and hatred againſt his brother, ſo were theſe againſt the …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 240 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … poorely obeyed: for ſome will allow what Conſcience condemneth, Rom. 14. 22. Some will deny, as CaineCain, what it tells him is true: ſome will not amend, though it make them …
    With rule
    … poorely obeyed: for ſome will allow what Conſcience condemneth, Rom. 14. 22. Some will deny, as CaineCain, what it tells him is true: ſome will not amend, though it make them …

    Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 108 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

The Governance of Virtue A06832

  • Printed
    CAineCain the figure of all wicked and blou dy Tirantes, slew his brother Abel, & while …
    With rule
    CAineCain the figure of all wicked and blou dy Tirantes, slew his brother Abel, & while …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

The Christian Disputations A14461

  • Printed
    … bene found, and then al the ſorrow was changed into ioy. Therefore the Poet cainecain calleth him Oſiris, who is neuer ſerched for ynough. for as Lactantius ſaith, they …
    With rule
    … bene found, and then al the ſorrow was changed into ioy. Therefore the Poet cainecain calleth him Oſiris, who is neuer ſerched for ynough. for as Lactantius ſaith, they …

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 150 · Open in the reader

Christian Commonwealth A18056

  • Printed
    … with him, ſo ſoone as he ſaw her; hee left his kingly ſeat and cainecain to meete her, and reuerently bowed himſelfe vnto her, and cauſed her to bee …
    With rule
    … with him, ſo ſoone as he ſaw her; hee left his kingly ſeat and cainecain to meete her, and reuerently bowed himſelfe vnto her, and cauſed her to bee …

    Thomas Carter · Christian Commonwealth · p. 191 · Open in the reader