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runnagaterunagate

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
128 times in 99 works
Consistency
84.2% (128 of 152)
Reach if approved
~160 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: runagate
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
152 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (128 changes in 99 works, 84.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 128)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of the moſt high God: for a beggar on the dunghil, a vagabond, a runnagaterunagate from God, a prodigal, a ſtranger to God, whom the Lord had no cauſe …
    With rule
    … of the moſt high God: for a beggar on the dunghil, a vagabond, a runnagaterunagate from God, a prodigal, a ſtranger to God, whom the Lord had no cauſe …

    Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    The Deuill is no idle spirit, but a walker; a vagrant, runnagaterunagate walker, like Caine, that cannot rest in a place. I haue heard of Trauellers …
    With rule
    The Deuill is no idle spirit, but a walker; a vagrant, runnagaterunagate walker, like Caine, that cannot rest in a place. I haue heard of Trauellers …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wee for sake them, and Christ shall be the iudge, who hath bene the runnagaterunagate, who hath bene the Apostata.
    With rule
    … wee for sake them, and Christ shall be the iudge, who hath bene the runnagaterunagate, who hath bene the Apostata.

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 647 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … againe, as is plainly ſhewed, Chap. 17.16. and it were ſtrange, that ſuch a poore runnagaterunagate people as the Iewes ſhould haue the title of Kings of the Eaſt, where …
    With rule
    … againe, as is plainly ſhewed, Chap. 17.16. and it were ſtrange, that ſuch a poore runnagaterunagate people as the Iewes ſhould haue the title of Kings of the Eaſt, where …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 475 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sinne, evidences of immortality, and presumptions of irreconciliation with God. This made Cain a runnagaterunagate, and Iudas a murtherer of himselfe, yea some touches of it made David cry …
    With rule
    … sinne, evidences of immortality, and presumptions of irreconciliation with God. This made Cain a runnagaterunagate, and Iudas a murtherer of himselfe, yea some touches of it made David cry …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 265 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of antiquitie, that the Romane Church that now is, is become an Apoſtata and runnagaterunagate from the ancient Apoſtolique Romane Church indeed. Al theſe abhominations & a number moe in …
    With rule
    … of antiquitie, that the Romane Church that now is, is become an Apoſtata and runnagaterunagate from the ancient Apoſtolique Romane Church indeed. Al theſe abhominations & a number moe in …

    Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 273 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … build, as Cain: but it is most like because Cain was a fugitive and runnagaterunagate, he would build him a City to stay in, and to be a defence …
    With rule
    … build, as Cain: but it is most like because Cain was a fugitive and runnagaterunagate, he would build him a City to stay in, and to be a defence …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … also disobedient to God, and vnfaithfull in finishing the course of their warrefare like runnagaterunagate Souldiers, which forgetting the othe of warrefare shamefully forsake their standarde. And as for …
    With rule
    … also disobedient to God, and vnfaithfull in finishing the course of their warrefare like runnagaterunagate Souldiers, which forgetting the othe of warrefare shamefully forsake their standarde. And as for …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Joshua · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Discovery of a False Detection A15420

  • Printed
    RunnagateRunagate Roger. 138
    With rule
    RunnagateRunagate Roger. 138

    Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

  • Printed
    … he did, would not follow and purſue after him ſo far. This Fugitiue and RunnagateRunagate Seruant, falſe fingered, and falſe hearted, comming to Rome, was by the gratious prouidence …
    With rule
    … he did, would not follow and purſue after him ſo far. This Fugitiue and RunnagateRunagate Seruant, falſe fingered, and falſe hearted, comming to Rome, was by the gratious prouidence …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … from thy face ſhall I be hid, and ſhall be a Ʋagabond and a RunnagateRunagate in the Earth, and whoſoeuer findeth me ſhall ſlay me. In this State and …
    With rule
    … from thy face ſhall I be hid, and ſhall be a Ʋagabond and a RunnagateRunagate in the Earth, and whoſoeuer findeth me ſhall ſlay me. In this State and …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Goſpell, though he were a Seruant, and had beene a Theefe and a RunnagateRunagate, that he glorieth in his Faith, reioyceth in his Conuerſion, accounteth him as his …
    With rule
    … the Goſpell, though he were a Seruant, and had beene a Theefe and a RunnagateRunagate, that he glorieth in his Faith, reioyceth in his Conuerſion, accounteth him as his …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … vſed a certaine mitigation. For whereas he might haue called him a Theefe and RunnagateRunagate, he expreſſeth them vnder much milder names, calling his robbing and flying away, an …
    With rule
    … vſed a certaine mitigation. For whereas he might haue called him a Theefe and RunnagateRunagate, he expreſſeth them vnder much milder names, calling his robbing and flying away, an …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 362 · Open in the reader

A Century of Sermons A43515

  • Printed
    … a Scorpion. This was Nabals Largeſs to David, he told him he was a RunnagateRunagate from Saul his Maſter. The next excuſe againſt Charity is, the great abuſe of …
    With rule
    … a Scorpion. This was Nabals Largeſs to David, he told him he was a RunnagateRunagate from Saul his Maſter. The next excuſe againſt Charity is, the great abuſe of …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 865 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Mill was in thoſe days inſtead of an Houſe of Correction to torment RunnagateRunagate Servants. O ſays the Maſter, ubi te occuparem niſi in piſtrino? This is the …
    With rule
    … the Mill was in thoſe days inſtead of an Houſe of Correction to torment RunnagateRunagate Servants. O ſays the Maſter, ubi te occuparem niſi in piſtrino? This is the …

    John Hacket · A Century of Sermons · p. 898 · Open in the reader

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

  • Printed
    Suddenly then, with a loud voyce cryed the accuser, the fat sow, Thou Hereticke, RunnagateRunagate, Traytor, and Thief, It was not lawfull for thee to preach; thou hast taken …
    With rule
    Suddenly then, with a loud voyce cryed the accuser, the fat sow, Thou Hereticke, RunnagateRunagate, Traytor, and Thief, It was not lawfull for thee to preach; thou hast taken …

    John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Thou false Hereticke, RunnagateRunagate, Traytor, and Thief, Deceiver of the people, despisest the Church, and in like case …
    With rule
    Thou false Hereticke, RunnagateRunagate, Traytor, and Thief, Deceiver of the people, despisest the Church, and in like case …

    John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 60 · Open in the reader