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Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cō tentioncontention

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
11 times in 10 works
Consistency
100% (11 of 11, in those works)
Reach if approved
~12 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Phrase, any case
In our text
11 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11 changes in 10 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    IN al other causes the state is gathered without cō tentioncontention, and seuerally handled vpon good aduisement as he shal thynke best that professeth to …
    With rule
    IN al other causes the state is gathered without cō tentioncontention, and seuerally handled vpon good aduisement as he shal thynke best that professeth to …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … not withoute daunger / wa…t… nes / the deſyre of Empire ād to liue in cō tentioncontention of battaill / intertaine frowardnes / vaine Philoſophy ād ſuche like thinges. All the which thinges …
    With rule
    … not withoute daunger / wa…t… nes / the deſyre of Empire ād to liue in cō tentioncontention of battaill / intertaine frowardnes / vaine Philoſophy ād ſuche like thinges. All the which thinges …

    Ulrich Zwingli · Certain Precepts of the Instruction of Youth · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … desire no farther advantage of this general rule, but only that marriage by domestical cō tentioncontention bee not dissolved: a small matter in comparison of that, which therevpon hee might …
    With rule
    … desire no farther advantage of this general rule, but only that marriage by domestical cō tentioncontention bee not dissolved: a small matter in comparison of that, which therevpon hee might …

    Edmund Bunny · Of Divorce for Adultery · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſhoweth that here the Apoſtles wer taxed of ambition by Chriſt, becauſe of the cō tentioncontention of ſome for preheminence aboue the reſt. Which was equally forbidden to all, and …
    With rule
    … ſhoweth that here the Apoſtles wer taxed of ambition by Chriſt, becauſe of the cō tentioncontention of ſome for preheminence aboue the reſt. Which was equally forbidden to all, and …

    William Guild · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet Called the Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of the Church be distinctly expressed in the scripture, or no. As for the cō tentioncontention abroad, I confesse to stand a great part in exposition of that text, wherin …
    With rule
    … of the Church be distinctly expressed in the scripture, or no. As for the cō tentioncontention abroad, I confesse to stand a great part in exposition of that text, wherin …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … did iuſtifie, or ne ceſſarye was alſo to iuſtification the law obſerued. After great cō tentioncontention: Peter expoūded: howe yt the houſe of Cornelius, beyng all gentils, had by his …
    With rule
    … did iuſtifie, or ne ceſſarye was alſo to iuſtification the law obſerued. After great cō tentioncontention: Peter expoūded: howe yt the houſe of Cornelius, beyng all gentils, had by his …

    John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    10 Through meere pride a man maketh cō tentioncontention, but wiſedome is with the well aduiſed.
    With rule
    10 Through meere pride a man maketh cō tentioncontention, but wiſedome is with the well aduiſed.

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hym ye chyfest of all other. Arimenes assuaged with thys excedyng humanite, left hys cō tentioncontention, & his brother beyng now pro claimed kyng, forthwith he saluted & honored hym as kyng …
    With rule
    … hym ye chyfest of all other. Arimenes assuaged with thys excedyng humanite, left hys cō tentioncontention, & his brother beyng now pro claimed kyng, forthwith he saluted & honored hym as kyng …

    Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom Book 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.