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universitieuniversity

ie for a final y, y for i: mercie → mercy, tyme → time.

Puritas changed it
275 times in 141 works
Consistency
87.3% (275 of 315)
Reach if approved
~331 places (estimated)
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Agrees: university
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
315 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (275 changes in 141 works, 87.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 275)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … have all the helps that Art can afford them. I was never of any UniversitieUniversity, nor had one Months assistance of any Tutor in all my Studies, of Sciences …
    With rule
    … have all the helps that Art can afford them. I was never of any UniversitieUniversity, nor had one Months assistance of any Tutor in all my Studies, of Sciences …

    Richard Baxter · Baxters Narrative of His Life and Times · p. 221 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    To send it to the UniversitieUniversity
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    To send it to the UniversitieUniversity

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    CAMBRIDGE: Printed by John Field, Printer to the UniverſitieUniversity. Anno Dom. MDCLVII.
    With rule
    CAMBRIDGE: Printed by John Field, Printer to the UniverſitieUniversity. Anno Dom. MDCLVII.

    John Frost · Sermons Preached Upon Sundry Occasions · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not ſtand upon forms. The godly people at Rome were never brought up at UniverſitieUniversity: yet the Apoſtle telleth them they had logick enough to argue themſelves to be …
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    … not ſtand upon forms. The godly people at Rome were never brought up at UniverſitieUniversity: yet the Apoſtle telleth them they had logick enough to argue themſelves to be …

    William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … By RI. HOLDSVVORTH D. D. Maſter of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, Vicechancellour of the UniverſitieUniversity, and one of His MAJESTIES Chaplains.
    With rule
    … By RI. HOLDSVVORTH D. D. Maſter of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, Vicechancellour of the UniverſitieUniversity, and one of His MAJESTIES Chaplains.

    Richard Holdsworth · The Peoples Happiness · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    There were in Nea…daa (the residence and UniversitieUniversity of the Jewes in Babylona) two brethren named Asinaeus and Anilaeus, or in their …
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    There were in Nea…daa (the residence and UniversitieUniversity of the Jewes in Babylona) two brethren named Asinaeus and Anilaeus, or in their …

    John Lightfoot · Commentary Upon Acts · p. 299 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Cambridge (to which I ow my education for my first seven yeares in that UniversitieUniversity) giveth for parcel of her Arms, amongst many other rich Coats, the Crosse of …
    With rule
    … Cambridge (to which I ow my education for my first seven yeares in that UniversitieUniversity) giveth for parcel of her Arms, amongst many other rich Coats, the Crosse of …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … have no acceſſe into this Sanctum Sanctorum: they are incorporated into the moſt renowned UniverſitieUniversity, the Celeſtiall Syon, which I may well call the mountaine of viſion, as the …
    With rule
    … have no acceſſe into this Sanctum Sanctorum: they are incorporated into the moſt renowned UniverſitieUniversity, the Celeſtiall Syon, which I may well call the mountaine of viſion, as the …

    John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 126 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (40)

13 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 are listed here. 27 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Purple Island A00977

  • Printed
    ¶ Printed by the Printers to the UNIVERSITIEUNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE. 1633.
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    ¶ Printed by the Printers to the UNIVERSITIEUNIVERSITY of CAMBRIDGE. 1633.

    Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · Open in the reader

The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 A41688

  • Printed
    … who Polit. l. 3. c. 6. demonſtrates, That the Legiſlative power belongs to the people, and univerſitieuniversity of Citizens, or to their Repreſentatives congregated in ſome general Aſſemblie. This politic Hypotheſis …
    With rule
    … who Polit. l. 3. c. 6. demonſtrates, That the Legiſlative power belongs to the people, and univerſitieuniversity of Citizens, or to their Repreſentatives congregated in ſome general Aſſemblie. This politic Hypotheſis …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to prudent men; and yet the approbation and confirmation of them appertain to the univerſitieuniversity or commun multitude. (3) The multitude may commit the whole of Legiſlation to certain Repreſentatives …
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    … to prudent men; and yet the approbation and confirmation of them appertain to the univerſitieuniversity or commun multitude. (3) The multitude may commit the whole of Legiſlation to certain Repreſentatives …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 179 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of Perfection, and its peculiar appropriation to God. Al perfection importes ſome kind of univerſitieuniversity: becauſe that is perfect, to which there is nothing wanting: whence the more any …
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    … of Perfection, and its peculiar appropriation to God. Al perfection importes ſome kind of univerſitieuniversity: becauſe that is perfect, to which there is nothing wanting: whence the more any …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … perfection. Now God having the whole of eſſence in himſelf, muſt neceſſarily have an univerſitieuniversity of perfection. God has al kinds, extents, and degrees of perfection in him either …
    With rule
    … perfection. Now God having the whole of eſſence in himſelf, muſt neceſſarily have an univerſitieuniversity of perfection. God has al kinds, extents, and degrees of perfection in him either …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … under: he needs nothing as an additament to his felicitie, having in himſelf an univerſitieuniversity of perfection; and giving forth to al his Creatures according to their indigence. Hence …
    With rule
    … under: he needs nothing as an additament to his felicitie, having in himſelf an univerſitieuniversity of perfection; and giving forth to al his Creatures according to their indigence. Hence …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 4 · p. 270 · Open in the reader

Lex Rex A57975

  • Printed
    … father, no lesse then this or that subject is the Kings subject. For the universitieuniversity of Subjects are either the King, or the King subjects: for all the kingdome …
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    … father, no lesse then this or that subject is the Kings subject. For the universitieuniversity of Subjects are either the King, or the King subjects: for all the kingdome …

    Samuel Rutherford · Lex Rex · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Object. 4. The universitieuniversity is ruled by lawes, Ergo, they are inferior to the King who ruleth all …
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    Object. 4. The universitieuniversity is ruled by lawes, Ergo, they are inferior to the King who ruleth all …

    Samuel Rutherford · Lex Rex · p. 158 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet Called the Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel A70152

  • Printed
    … to be opened to all luſt & villanie. Therfore alſo did Gerſon Chancellour of the univerſitieuniversity of Paris deplore (de vita ſpirituali animae lect. 4. coroll. 14) That the places of the …
    With rule
    … to be opened to all luſt & villanie. Therfore alſo did Gerſon Chancellour of the univerſitieuniversity of Paris deplore (de vita ſpirituali animae lect. 4. coroll. 14) That the places of the …

    William Guild · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet Called the Touchstone of the Reformed Gospel · p. 290 · Open in the reader

Treatise of Civil Policy A92147

  • Printed
    … father, no leſſe then this or that ſubject is the Kings ſubject. For the univerſitieuniversity of Subjects are either the King, or the King ſubjects: for all the kingdome …
    With rule
    … father, no leſſe then this or that ſubject is the Kings ſubject. For the univerſitieuniversity of Subjects are either the King, or the King ſubjects: for all the kingdome …

    Samuel Rutherford · Treatise of Civil Policy · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Object. 4. The univerſitieuniversity is ruled by lawes, Ergo, they are inferior to the King who ruleth all …
    With rule
    Object. 4. The univerſitieuniversity is ruled by lawes, Ergo, they are inferior to the King who ruleth all …

    Samuel Rutherford · Treatise of Civil Policy · p. 158 · Open in the reader