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obliuionoblivion

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

Puritas changed it
209 times in 145 works
Consistency
94.1% (209 of 222)
Reach if approved
~233 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: oblivion
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
222 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (209 changes in 145 works, 94.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 209)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … laſciuious liuing, & coward dread, but obſcurely lurke in the depe …onge on of lothſome obliuionoblivion. It is then apparēt that nothyng in this world can eſtabliſh our ſeate in …
    With rule
    … laſciuious liuing, & coward dread, but obſcurely lurke in the depe …onge on of lothſome obliuionoblivion. It is then apparēt that nothyng in this world can eſtabliſh our ſeate in …

    Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … colours mens faults and infirmities, to their greatest disgrace: and yet by silence and obliuionoblivion to burie all their vertues, which are prayse worthie. This ought not to bee …
    With rule
    … colours mens faults and infirmities, to their greatest disgrace: and yet by silence and obliuionoblivion to burie all their vertues, which are prayse worthie. This ought not to bee …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … now that they are, it is beſt to bury them in ſilence and perpetuall obliuionoblivion; but yet ſeeing there are ſuch diſſentions, I will firſt ſhew what exception the …
    With rule
    … now that they are, it is beſt to bury them in ſilence and perpetuall obliuionoblivion; but yet ſeeing there are ſuch diſſentions, I will firſt ſhew what exception the …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The firſt axiome iuſtifieth a certaine obliuionoblivion or forgetfulneſſe in Chriſt, when all the faculties of the ſoule were interrupted through …
    With rule
    The firſt axiome iuſtifieth a certaine obliuionoblivion or forgetfulneſſe in Chriſt, when all the faculties of the ſoule were interrupted through …

    John Smyth · The Bright Morning Star · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … vpholders of Equiuocation, and many other, whose names deserue to be buried in euerlasting obliuionoblivion with the ancient P…iscilianists (whose old, damnable doctrine touching the lawfull vse of …
    With rule
    … vpholders of Equiuocation, and many other, whose names deserue to be buried in euerlasting obliuionoblivion with the ancient P…iscilianists (whose old, damnable doctrine touching the lawfull vse of …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſée the wiſe man and the foole wrapped vnder one couerlet, ouer whelmed in obliuionoblivion. Solomon beholding this in his mind, louing and fauoring wiſdome, being himſelfe very wiſe …
    With rule
    … ſée the wiſe man and the foole wrapped vnder one couerlet, ouer whelmed in obliuionoblivion. Solomon beholding this in his mind, louing and fauoring wiſdome, being himſelfe very wiſe …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of men were shortned, meanes more durable to preserue the lawes of God from obliuionoblivion and corruption grew in vse, not without precise direction from God himselfe. First therefore …
    With rule
    … of men were shortned, meanes more durable to preserue the lawes of God from obliuionoblivion and corruption grew in vse, not without precise direction from God himselfe. First therefore …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … renoumed Philosophers, shuld be by ye, benefit of publishing, redemed from the tyrannye of obliuionoblivion, to the great and hygh profette of countryes, of commen wealthes, of empyres, and …
    With rule
    … renoumed Philosophers, shuld be by ye, benefit of publishing, redemed from the tyrannye of obliuionoblivion, to the great and hygh profette of countryes, of commen wealthes, of empyres, and …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

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

A Peace Offering to God A14755

  • Printed
    … write downe his passions, and giue his Psalmes the title of Record, or Remembrance. ObliuionOblivion is so farre from excusing, that it selfe is the worst kinde of Ingratitude …
    With rule
    … write downe his passions, and giue his Psalmes the title of Record, or Remembrance. ObliuionOblivion is so farre from excusing, that it selfe is the worst kinde of Ingratitude …

    Samuel Ward · A Peace Offering to God · p. 9 · Open in the reader