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brauerybravery

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

Puritas changed it
196 times in 108 works
Consistency
98.0% (196 of 200)
Reach if approved
~210 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bravery
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
200 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (196 changes in 108 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 196)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … you haue beene told that this expence in feaſting, in building, in houſhould-ſtuffe, brauerybravery for your ſelues and children, abuſe of plenty would beggar you; beleeue it now …
    With rule
    … you haue beene told that this expence in feaſting, in building, in houſhould-ſtuffe, brauerybravery for your ſelues and children, abuſe of plenty would beggar you; beleeue it now …

    Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … not the dignity of thoſe that come into your aſſemblies in outward pompe and brauerybravery, eſteeming one the more becauſe he hath this, and another the leſſe when he …
    With rule
    … not the dignity of thoſe that come into your aſſemblies in outward pompe and brauerybravery, eſteeming one the more becauſe he hath this, and another the leſſe when he …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … after the vſage of earthly princes. Al which ſtrōgly reprooueth the pompe and ſtarely brauerybravery of Rome. Then meu ſhal not ſay of a certainty and of alocal neceſſity …
    With rule
    … after the vſage of earthly princes. Al which ſtrōgly reprooueth the pompe and ſtarely brauerybravery of Rome. Then meu ſhal not ſay of a certainty and of alocal neceſſity …

    John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to them that are ſecure, that laugh when the Church weepeth, that liue in brauerybravery when the Church is in Sackcloth and Aſhes, that feaſt when the Church doth …
    With rule
    … to them that are ſecure, that laugh when the Church weepeth, that liue in brauerybravery when the Church is in Sackcloth and Aſhes, that feaſt when the Church doth …

    Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 502 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of ye sin: the ambitious man, with excesse of honor: ye proud man, with brauerybravery of raiment: to say al in one word, he tempteth all men, eyther with …
    With rule
    … of ye sin: the ambitious man, with excesse of honor: ye proud man, with brauerybravery of raiment: to say al in one word, he tempteth all men, eyther with …

    John Udall · Peters Fall · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vnto them, as the winde, scattering Chaffe. Alas! who would imagine this (seeing the brauerybravery of this worlds Fauorites) but that the Spirit of God hath sayd it? Now …
    With rule
    … vnto them, as the winde, scattering Chaffe. Alas! who would imagine this (seeing the brauerybravery of this worlds Fauorites) but that the Spirit of God hath sayd it? Now …

    George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 105 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Wasting more then he should in gameing, diet, brauerybravery; such are arrant cutpurses vnto themselves.
    With rule
    Wasting more then he should in gameing, diet, brauerybravery; such are arrant cutpurses vnto themselves.

    John Boys · Exposition of the Principal Scriptures Used in our English Liturgy · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hath borrowed from Bellarmine: which Bellarmine when hee hath cited, addeth withall in a brauerybravery, as if the proofes were so pregnant that there were no gainesaying of them …
    With rule
    … hath borrowed from Bellarmine: which Bellarmine when hee hath cited, addeth withall in a brauerybravery, as if the proofes were so pregnant that there were no gainesaying of them …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 103 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Withers Motto A15662

  • Printed
    Got on the Robes, of Wealth, and BraueryBravery;
    With rule
    Got on the Robes, of Wealth, and BraueryBravery;

    George Wither · Withers Motto · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … is readie to adore theſe continuall Triumps of Peace. Exceſſe and Noueltie, of exſpenſiue BraueryBravery and Oſtentation in publike perſons, giues iuſt cauſe to ſuſpect either vanitie, or a …
    With rule
    … is readie to adore theſe continuall Triumps of Peace. Exceſſe and Noueltie, of exſpenſiue BraueryBravery and Oſtentation in publike perſons, giues iuſt cauſe to ſuſpect either vanitie, or a …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1150 · Open in the reader