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sauagesavage

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
495 times in 242 works
Consistency
96.8% (495 of 511)
Reach if approved
~537 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: savage
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
511 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (495 changes in 242 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 495)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … octanus mirabilis annus, Haue we forgotten the wonderfull yeare of 88? an enemie of a sauagesavage face and truculent spirit; whose armes were bent to harmes, to ruine, to bloud …
    With rule
    … octanus mirabilis annus, Haue we forgotten the wonderfull yeare of 88? an enemie of a sauagesavage face and truculent spirit; whose armes were bent to harmes, to ruine, to bloud …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 47 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſtaues did ſpoile, and beate ſuch as light into their handes, vſing moreouer a ſauagesavage crueltie in putting vineger and lime into mens eies when they had beaten them …
    With rule
    … ſtaues did ſpoile, and beate ſuch as light into their handes, vſing moreouer a ſauagesavage crueltie in putting vineger and lime into mens eies when they had beaten them …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … without a shepheard were scattered abroad very dangerously, in that so many wolues and sauagesavage beasts laid waite in euery corner to deuour the sillie sheepe. In like case …
    With rule
    … without a shepheard were scattered abroad very dangerously, in that so many wolues and sauagesavage beasts laid waite in euery corner to deuour the sillie sheepe. In like case …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 339 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the good man may build vp Temples and Hoſpitals, without trembling to thinke of ſauagesavage and barbarous violences to pull them down: that our Deuotions be not moleſted with …
    With rule
    … the good man may build vp Temples and Hoſpitals, without trembling to thinke of ſauagesavage and barbarous violences to pull them down: that our Deuotions be not moleſted with …

    Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … prizes? ſurely through affectation of valour men incounter and enter the Liſts euen with ſauagesavage beaſts, and account themſelues beautified by the prints of teeth, and ſcarres which they …
    With rule
    … prizes? ſurely through affectation of valour men incounter and enter the Liſts euen with ſauagesavage beaſts, and account themſelues beautified by the prints of teeth, and ſcarres which they …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … brood, for he pretends worship to the Sonne of God, whom he like a sauagesavage beare intends to worrie. Iudas had the impudent and shamelesse face to say, Is …
    With rule
    … brood, for he pretends worship to the Sonne of God, whom he like a sauagesavage beare intends to worrie. Iudas had the impudent and shamelesse face to say, Is …

    William Loe · Come and See the Bliss of Brightest Beauty · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … others to doe: and are little better then brute beaſts, through their ſottiſh ignorance, ſauagesavage qualities, vnruly paſſions, and beaſtly ſenſualitie, doing many things againſt cōmon reaſon, and the …
    With rule
    … others to doe: and are little better then brute beaſts, through their ſottiſh ignorance, ſauagesavage qualities, vnruly paſſions, and beaſtly ſenſualitie, doing many things againſt cōmon reaſon, and the …

    Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 238 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of friend, fōe, aliant, familiar, reuiles any, fratrem que , patrem que . 3. Violence of hands, sauagesavage and monstrous behauiour: Like the troubled Sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast …
    With rule
    … of friend, fōe, aliant, familiar, reuiles any, fratrem que , patrem que . 3. Violence of hands, sauagesavage and monstrous behauiour: Like the troubled Sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 15 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (16)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word A02797

  • Printed
    … amongst the Iesuites, or a simple Priest I cannot affirme; sure it is by SauageSavage his owne confession, that hee perswaded this SauageSavage to vndertake that most barbarous and …
    With rule
    … amongst the Iesuites, or a simple Priest I cannot affirme; sure it is by SauageSavage his owne confession, that hee perswaded this SauageSavage to vndertake that most barbarous and …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … cannot affirme; sure it is by SauageSavage his owne confession, that hee perswaded this SauageSavage to vndertake that most barbarous and sauagesavage acte of shedding the innocent bloud of …
    With rule
    … cannot affirme; sure it is by SauageSavage his owne confession, that hee perswaded this SauageSavage to vndertake that most barbarous and sauagesavage acte of shedding the innocent bloud of …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 148 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

  • Printed
    … feature at all of the first originall paterne. Of the Nations which we call SauageSavage or Wyld, some affirme themselues to keepe and reuerence the places where they furmyse …
    With rule
    … feature at all of the first originall paterne. Of the Nations which we call SauageSavage or Wyld, some affirme themselues to keepe and reuerence the places where they furmyse …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 155 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … they tooke and brought away. They had taken another of the Sauages before. This SauageSavage had before, in the Shippe, seene the Picture of his Countreyman, taken the yeare …
    With rule
    … they tooke and brought away. They had taken another of the Sauages before. This SauageSavage had before, in the Shippe, seene the Picture of his Countreyman, taken the yeare …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 621 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … sweet a bosome, and to appropriate with greatest disparagement so faire a Virgin to SauageSavage Loues: or haply some conceiued indignitie, that some Parents should thither send their most …
    With rule
    … sweet a bosome, and to appropriate with greatest disparagement so faire a Virgin to SauageSavage Loues: or haply some conceiued indignitie, that some Parents should thither send their most …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 631 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … They carryed him prisoner to Powhatan, and there beganne the English acquaintance with that SauageSavage Emperour.
    With rule
    … They carryed him prisoner to Powhatan, and there beganne the English acquaintance with that SauageSavage Emperour.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 634 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … then while wee were aliue. They vse to solemnize certaine moneths-mindes in their SauageSavage manner for any great personage dead. Iames Rosier from the relation of Owen Griffin …
    With rule
    … then while wee were aliue. They vse to solemnize certaine moneths-mindes in their SauageSavage manner for any great personage dead. Iames Rosier from the relation of Owen Griffin …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 637 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … from GOD, to become of a man a beast; of an English-man, a SauageSavage Indian; of a Christian, afiend, saue that he hath a bodie, in the diuersified …
    With rule
    … from GOD, to become of a man a beast; of an English-man, a SauageSavage Indian; of a Christian, afiend, saue that he hath a bodie, in the diuersified …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 697 · Open in the reader

An Antilogy A15395

  • Printed
    … a popish priest: of Babington with other stirred vp by Ballard: Lopez by Parsons: SauageSavage and Yorke by Gifford: Squire by Walpoole a Iebusite. In Fraunce Iames Clement a …
    With rule
    … a popish priest: of Babington with other stirred vp by Ballard: Lopez by Parsons: SauageSavage and Yorke by Gifford: Squire by Walpoole a Iebusite. In Fraunce Iames Clement a …

    Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … attempts against their countrie, and their suborning and exciting of trayterous Parry, Lopez, Squire, SauageSavage, Yorke, with the rest of those detected parricides: for all these wicked conspiracies were …
    With rule
    … attempts against their countrie, and their suborning and exciting of trayterous Parry, Lopez, Squire, SauageSavage, Yorke, with the rest of those detected parricides: for all these wicked conspiracies were …

    Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 138 · Open in the reader

Good News from New England 2 A15591

  • Printed
    … of their comming, at length came to them, welcomming our Gouernour according to their SauageSavage manner, refreshing them verie well with store of venison and other victuals, which they …
    With rule
    … of their comming, at length came to them, welcomming our Gouernour according to their SauageSavage manner, refreshing them verie well with store of venison and other victuals, which they …

    Edward Winslow · Good News from New England 2 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in his generall cariage, very affable, courteous, and louing, especially towards the Captaine. This SauageSavage was now entred into confederacie with the rest, yet to auoid suspition, made many …
    With rule
    … in his generall cariage, very affable, courteous, and louing, especially towards the Captaine. This SauageSavage was now entred into confederacie with the rest, yet to auoid suspition, made many …

    Edward Winslow · Good News from New England 2 · p. 23 · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

  • Printed
    Wondrous inhumane, the SauageSavage bore,
    With rule
    Wondrous inhumane, the SauageSavage bore,

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader