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innouationinnovation

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

Puritas changed it
134 times in 64 works
Consistency
85.9% (134 of 156)
Reach if approved
~164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: innovation
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (134 changes in 64 works, 85.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 134)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … eyed Popelings? It is well▪ you cannot vpbraide the Church of England with any innouationinnovation of doctrine for these three score yeeres well nie, since the first thorough reformation …
    With rule
    … eyed Popelings? It is well▪ you cannot vpbraide the Church of England with any innouationinnovation of doctrine for these three score yeeres well nie, since the first thorough reformation …

    Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … such other like circumstances, which all bee easily shewed in euery such reuolte or innouationinnovation: because th… vigilant care of the Pastors of Christs flocke, haue bin alwaies so …
    With rule
    … such other like circumstances, which all bee easily shewed in euery such reuolte or innouationinnovation: because th… vigilant care of the Pastors of Christs flocke, haue bin alwaies so …

    Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … records and histories, and exquisitely to set downe where, when and by whom the innouationinnovation was begunne. He contented himselfe with the Scriptures, and went no farther then the …
    With rule
    … records and histories, and exquisitely to set downe where, when and by whom the innouationinnovation was begunne. He contented himselfe with the Scriptures, and went no farther then the …

    John Cameron · Examination of those Plausible Appearances in the Romish Church · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Councell. The Councell therefore determined, that there should not then, nor afterwards bee any innouationinnovation, but the aforesaid Bishops should according to the antient custome, which hath the force …
    With rule
    … Councell. The Councell therefore determined, that there should not then, nor afterwards bee any innouationinnovation, but the aforesaid Bishops should according to the antient custome, which hath the force …

    George Downame · A Defense of the Sermon Preached at the Consecration of the Bishop of Bath · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … onely, Take, eate, indefinitely: but when hee tooke the Cup (as fore-ſeeing this innouationinnovation of Papiſts) he did adde an vniuerſall note, bibite omnes, drinke ye, drinke all …
    With rule
    … onely, Take, eate, indefinitely: but when hee tooke the Cup (as fore-ſeeing this innouationinnovation of Papiſts) he did adde an vniuerſall note, bibite omnes, drinke ye, drinke all …

    John Boys · Exposition of the Proper Psalms · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that neither the liuing can walke, nor the dead sleepe, in quiet. Affecters of innouationinnovation, that are euer finding fault with the present times: any thing pleaseth them but …
    With rule
    … that neither the liuing can walke, nor the dead sleepe, in quiet. Affecters of innouationinnovation, that are euer finding fault with the present times: any thing pleaseth them but …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … innouations, with the Kings declarations, yet our Prelats violating them all, dayly bring in innouationinnovation, not onely to the troubling of the Kings beſt ſubiects, but to the putting …
    With rule
    … innouations, with the Kings declarations, yet our Prelats violating them all, dayly bring in innouationinnovation, not onely to the troubling of the Kings beſt ſubiects, but to the putting …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … condemne them, as Heathenish, and absurd; Pope Anicetus was the first that made this innouationinnovation: as Gratian. Distinctio. 33. Polyd. Virgil. De Inuent. Rerum. lib. 4. cap. 8. and Lorinus on Leuit …
    With rule
    … condemne them, as Heathenish, and absurd; Pope Anicetus was the first that made this innouationinnovation: as Gratian. Distinctio. 33. Polyd. Virgil. De Inuent. Rerum. lib. 4. cap. 8. and Lorinus on Leuit …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

14 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 are listed here. 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Retractive from the Romish Religion A06106

  • Printed
    … to haue beene vſed by our Sauiour Chriſt, and therefore muſt needs bee an InnouationInnovation. Their putting the Sacrament not into the hands, but into the mouths of the …
    With rule
    … to haue beene vſed by our Sauiour Chriſt, and therefore muſt needs bee an InnouationInnovation. Their putting the Sacrament not into the hands, but into the mouths of the …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 390 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … breake off their faſt at the ſixt: theſe be Bellarmines reaſons to maintaine this InnouationInnovation: whereby we may both behold what ſilly props hee hath to vphold his rotten …
    With rule
    … breake off their faſt at the ſixt: theſe be Bellarmines reaſons to maintaine this InnouationInnovation: whereby we may both behold what ſilly props hee hath to vphold his rotten …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 392 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … tongues. Now theſe ancient tranſlations doe euidently proue this Romiſh doctrine to bee an InnouationInnovation.
    With rule
    … tongues. Now theſe ancient tranſlations doe euidently proue this Romiſh doctrine to bee an InnouationInnovation.

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 396 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … that it is a variation from the firſt inſtitution, and therefore without queſtion an InnouationInnovation.
    With rule
    … that it is a variation from the firſt inſtitution, and therefore without queſtion an InnouationInnovation.

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 406 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … though in generall, prayer for the dead bee ancient, yet Romiſh prayer is an InnouationInnovation declining from antiquity, both in the obiect and ſubiect, manner and end.
    With rule
    … though in generall, prayer for the dead bee ancient, yet Romiſh prayer is an InnouationInnovation declining from antiquity, both in the obiect and ſubiect, manner and end.

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 414 · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

  • Printed
    … stood ever since, it being his Majesteyes expresse commaund that there should be no InnouationInnovation in the least degree in any Church Ceremonies, or Matters of Ecclesiasticall Discipline.
    With rule
    … stood ever since, it being his Majesteyes expresse commaund that there should be no InnouationInnovation in the least degree in any Church Ceremonies, or Matters of Ecclesiasticall Discipline.

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 183 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    His Mayesteye therefore deeming it an InnouationInnovation, & declaring thus his dislike of all Innouations; this order is so farre from giving …
    With rule
    His Mayesteye therefore deeming it an InnouationInnovation, & declaring thus his dislike of all Innouations; this order is so farre from giving …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … well considered they have little cause to be thus incouraged to require & make this InnouationInnovation as they generally doe, not being ashamed or afrayed to give it in charge …
    With rule
    … well considered they have little cause to be thus incouraged to require & make this InnouationInnovation as they generally doe, not being ashamed or afrayed to give it in charge …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 186 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … SHALL WEE EVER GIVE WAY TO THE AUTHORIZINGE OF ANY THINGE WHERE BY ANY INNOUATIONINNOVATION MAY STEALE OR CREEP INTO THE CHURCH, but preserue the vnity of Doctrine & discipline …
    With rule
    … SHALL WEE EVER GIVE WAY TO THE AUTHORIZINGE OF ANY THINGE WHERE BY ANY INNOUATIONINNOVATION MAY STEALE OR CREEP INTO THE CHURCH, but preserue the vnity of Doctrine & discipline …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 188 · Open in the reader

Ignatius Conclave A20624

  • Printed
    … there; of which Sex they haue euer made their profite, which haue attempted any InnouationInnovation in religion; with how much diligence were the two Empresses Pulcheria & Eudoxia sollicited by …
    With rule
    … there; of which Sex they haue euer made their profite, which haue attempted any InnouationInnovation in religion; with how much diligence were the two Empresses Pulcheria & Eudoxia sollicited by …

    John Donne · Ignatius Conclave · p. 106 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … shee satisfied the infirmity of her Sex, if shee suffered any: for a little InnouationInnovation might serue her, who was but a little a woman. Neither dare I say …
    With rule
    … shee satisfied the infirmity of her Sex, if shee suffered any: for a little InnouationInnovation might serue her, who was but a little a woman. Neither dare I say …

    John Donne · Ignatius Conclave · p. 106 · Open in the reader

The Rule of Faith A69028

  • Printed
    … which ſhould the more comfort the godly when they are ſlandered and charged with InnouationInnovation, Schiſme, Sedition, or to be enemies to Princes, or the like. But eſpecially hence …
    With rule
    … which ſhould the more comfort the godly when they are ſlandered and charged with InnouationInnovation, Schiſme, Sedition, or to be enemies to Princes, or the like. But eſpecially hence …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 363 · Open in the reader