Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3317 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

metaphoremetaphor

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

Puritas changed it: 378 times in 151 works
Consistency: 100% (378 of 378)
Reach if approved: ~397 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: metaphor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 378 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (378 changes in 151 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 378)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The bowels: that is, by an exceſsiue metaphoremetaphor, be inward affections of the Saints: Here is ſet down the ſpeciall of the …
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The bowels: that is, by an exceſsiue metaphoremetaphor, be inward affections of the Saints: Here is ſet down the ſpeciall of the …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… rod, and bring them into the Bond of his Couenant: that is, by a MetaphoreMetaphor taken from Sheepheards that count their sheepe with a rod or a sheep-hookes …
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… rod, and bring them into the Bond of his Couenant: that is, by a MetaphoreMetaphor taken from Sheepheards that count their sheepe with a rod or a sheep-hookes …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 69 · Open in the reader
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… is a comfortable estate in this life oft set forth and resembled by this metaphoremetaphor. When Eliphas would perswade Iob how beneficiall a thing it would be unto him …
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… is a comfortable estate in this life oft set forth and resembled by this metaphoremetaphor. When Eliphas would perswade Iob how beneficiall a thing it would be unto him …
Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 2 · Open in the reader
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^g This is a metaphoremetaphor taken from them, that by the raſh furie and ouerthrow of their enemies, haue …
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^g This is a metaphoremetaphor taken from them, that by the raſh furie and ouerthrow of their enemies, haue …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 114 · Open in the reader
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… that hee ſhould bee our God, and we his people, and that by a MetaphoreMetaphor borrowed from the Sacraments, that is, the ſolemne oathes, whereby ſouldiers bound themſelues vnto …
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… that hee ſhould bee our God, and we his people, and that by a MetaphoreMetaphor borrowed from the Sacraments, that is, the ſolemne oathes, whereby ſouldiers bound themſelues vnto …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is alwaies the ſimilitude and reſemblance (as once I haue ſaid alreadie) betwixt the metaphoremetaphor and the thinges metaphorized; let vs ſee and viewe what likelihoode there is betwixt …
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… is alwaies the ſimilitude and reſemblance (as once I haue ſaid alreadie) betwixt the metaphoremetaphor and the thinges metaphorized; let vs ſee and viewe what likelihoode there is betwixt …
Thomas Sparke · The Highway to Heaven · p. 326 · Open in the reader
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Their Sinnes are amplified by a metaphoremetaphor of breaking out, as a violent streame.
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Their Sinnes are amplified by a metaphoremetaphor of breaking out, as a violent streame.
William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it selfe ouercharged, and could last out no longer. And in my iudgement, the MetaphoreMetaphor which is vsed here in the type, doth expresse this in Christ Iesus, for …
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… it selfe ouercharged, and could last out no longer. And in my iudgement, the MetaphoreMetaphor which is vsed here in the type, doth expresse this in Christ Iesus, for …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 318 · Open in the reader

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