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afternooneafternoon

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

Puritas changed it
531 times in 234 works
Consistency
96.7% (531 of 549)
Reach if approved
~577 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: afternoon
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
549 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (531 changes in 234 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 531)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … name of God begins all mischiefe. Whatsoeuer your morning Sacrifice pretend, looke to your afternooneafternoon. You haue done so much the worse, as you haue made a shew of …
    With rule
    … name of God begins all mischiefe. Whatsoeuer your morning Sacrifice pretend, looke to your afternooneafternoon. You haue done so much the worse, as you haue made a shew of …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 213 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … with men that are over-forward in the morning at their buſineſſe, in the afternooneafternoon conſtrained to give over: it is an ill ſigne of perſeverance in good duties …
    With rule
    … with men that are over-forward in the morning at their buſineſſe, in the afternooneafternoon conſtrained to give over: it is an ill ſigne of perſeverance in good duties …

    Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 241 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … relateth, that he comming on a Sunday into one of their Congregations, in the afternooneafternoon hee found on ſitting in the midſt of them in habit not differing from …
    With rule
    … relateth, that he comming on a Sunday into one of their Congregations, in the afternooneafternoon hee found on ſitting in the midſt of them in habit not differing from …

    Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the Lords day, or once a moneth will serve, and for Catechising in the afternooneafternoon, altogether to forbeare expounding, and for the sound food of the Doctrins of Gods …
    With rule
    … the Lords day, or once a moneth will serve, and for Catechising in the afternooneafternoon, altogether to forbeare expounding, and for the sound food of the Doctrins of Gods …

    William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and yet it wrought such effect, that they scarce swore three oathes in an afternooneafternoon, that by proportion of vsuall swearing should haue sworne threescore, if that order had …
    With rule
    … and yet it wrought such effect, that they scarce swore three oathes in an afternooneafternoon, that by proportion of vsuall swearing should haue sworne threescore, if that order had …

    Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the morning we ſhall heare it in our owne Churches afterward, and in the afternooneafternoon we haue heard it there already; and therefore what need we to heare it …
    With rule
    … the morning we ſhall heare it in our owne Churches afterward, and in the afternooneafternoon we haue heard it there already; and therefore what need we to heare it …

    Thomas Stoughton · The Christians Sacrifice Better than all the Legal Sacrifices of Jews · p. 213 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … when I was with you foure yeeres agoe, you did trifle away a whole afternooneafternoon by ambiguous questions, and could not be drawne at all to disputation.
    With rule
    … when I was with you foure yeeres agoe, you did trifle away a whole afternooneafternoon by ambiguous questions, and could not be drawne at all to disputation.

    George Walker · Fishers Folly Unfolded · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … that set times of publike prayer are commendable, as we haue our forenoone, and afternooneafternoon seruice: But at vnseasonable houres, as at midnight, or the rising of the Sunne …
    With rule
    … that set times of publike prayer are commendable, as we haue our forenoone, and afternooneafternoon seruice: But at vnseasonable houres, as at midnight, or the rising of the Sunne …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 262 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates A10189

  • Printed
    … prescribes No Sports to be used but after the end of diuine Service, and AFTERNOONEAFTERNOON SERMON: as Bishop white confesseth in his examination of A and B. p. 131. and …
    With rule
    … prescribes No Sports to be used but after the end of diuine Service, and AFTERNOONEAFTERNOON SERMON: as Bishop white confesseth in his examination of A and B. p. 131. and …

    William Prynne · A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates · p. 71 · Open in the reader

Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops A10190

  • Printed
    … they restraine and inhibit all Ministers to feed their Flocke at all in the AfternooneAfternoon on the Lords dayes, nor at any time to feed them with sound and …
    With rule
    … they restraine and inhibit all Ministers to feed their Flocke at all in the AfternooneAfternoon on the Lords dayes, nor at any time to feed them with sound and …

    William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … iust Iewes there buried) hee will pittie them, and there they giue large almes. AfternooneAfternoon, they shaue, adorne, and bathe themselues, that they may be pure the next day …
    With rule
    … iust Iewes there buried) hee will pittie them, and there they giue large almes. AfternooneAfternoon, they shaue, adorne, and bathe themselues, that they may be pure the next day …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 174 · Open in the reader

Death Judgment Hell and Heaven A16333

  • Printed
    … diligent and laborious, that twice every Lords day hee preached, and Catechized in the AfternooneAfternoon, in which Catechisme he expounded the Creed and ten Commandements in a very exact …
    With rule
    … diligent and laborious, that twice every Lords day hee preached, and Catechized in the AfternooneAfternoon, in which Catechisme he expounded the Creed and ten Commandements in a very exact …

    Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · Open in the reader

For God and the King A17300

  • Printed
    … people cannot heare a word? When they must not preach at all in the AfternooneAfternoon upon the Lords dayes? When they must onely Catechise for halfe an hower, and …
    With rule
    … people cannot heare a word? When they must not preach at all in the AfternooneAfternoon upon the Lords dayes? When they must onely Catechise for halfe an hower, and …

    Henry Burton · For God and the King · p. 149 · Open in the reader

Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife A20648

  • Printed
    … yeeres, since man had his first being. But if we consider him in his AfternooneAfternoon, in his future state, in his life after death, if euery minute of his …
    With rule
    … yeeres, since man had his first being. But if we consider him in his AfternooneAfternoon, in his future state, in his life after death, if euery minute of his …

    John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … respect of that Eternity, which hee is to dwell in. We can expresse mans AfternooneAfternoon, his future Perpetuity, his Euerlastingnesse, but one way; But it is a faire way …
    With rule
    … respect of that Eternity, which hee is to dwell in. We can expresse mans AfternooneAfternoon, his future Perpetuity, his Euerlastingnesse, but one way; But it is a faire way …

    John Donne · Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers Late Wife · p. 70 · Open in the reader

Micro-Cosmography A21075

  • Printed
    … sword that makes wounds, and cures them. It is the common cōsumption of the AfternooneAfternoon, and the murderer, or maker away of a rainy day. It is the Torrid …
    With rule
    … sword that makes wounds, and cures them. It is the common cōsumption of the AfternooneAfternoon, and the murderer, or maker away of a rainy day. It is the Torrid …

    John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … very expensiue of his time, for hee will waite vpon your Staires a whole AfternooneAfternoon, and dance attendance with more patience then a Gentleman-Vsher. Hee is a sore …
    With rule
    … very expensiue of his time, for hee will waite vpon your Staires a whole AfternooneAfternoon, and dance attendance with more patience then a Gentleman-Vsher. Hee is a sore …

    John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

  • Printed
    … in Midleſex neer Hampton Court, preacheth long Sermons and factious on Sundayes in the AfternooneAfternoon, though he hath beene admoniſhed of it, and inhibited by Mr Chancellor of London …
    With rule
    … in Midleſex neer Hampton Court, preacheth long Sermons and factious on Sundayes in the AfternooneAfternoon, though he hath beene admoniſhed of it, and inhibited by Mr Chancellor of London …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 381 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Evening Prayer, (not evening Sermon) import as much, ſome Biſhops grounding their ſuppreſſing of AfternooneAfternoon Sermons on this expreſſion; which Sermons Peter Heylin in his Hiſtory of the Sabbath …
    With rule
    … Evening Prayer, (not evening Sermon) import as much, ſome Biſhops grounding their ſuppreſſing of AfternooneAfternoon Sermons on this expreſſion; which Sermons Peter Heylin in his Hiſtory of the Sabbath …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 505 · Open in the reader