methusalemMethuselah
Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.
- Puritas changed it
- 67 times in 48 works
- Consistency
- 100% (67 of 67)
- Reach if approved
- ~70 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
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- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 67 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (67 changes in 48 works, 100% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 67)
- Printed… Thunder; yet we could never hallow this name loude enough: If we were as MethusalemMethuselah; and had breathes like eternity; yet we could never hallow this name long enough …With rule… Thunder; yet we could never hallow this name loude enough: If we were as MethusalemMethuselah; and had breathes like eternity; yet we could never hallow this name long enough …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 62 · Open in the reader
- Printed… the floud, who kept the truth in ſinceritie and puritie in their families; Adam, MethuſalemMethuselah, and Noah, and then the Lord drowned the world for wickedneſſe.With rule… the floud, who kept the truth in ſinceritie and puritie in their families; Adam, MethuſalemMethuselah, and Noah, and then the Lord drowned the world for wickedneſſe.
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 93 · Open in the reader
- Printed… Plenus dierum, full of yeares; It is not ſaid ſo in the text of MethuſalemMethuselah, that he dyed full of yeares, and yet he had another manner of Gomer …With rule… Plenus dierum, full of yeares; It is not ſaid ſo in the text of MethuſalemMethuselah, that he dyed full of yeares, and yet he had another manner of Gomer …
John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 807 · Open in the reader
- Printed… time: Such a Child hath lived longer, than he that is as Old as MethuſalemMethuselah, and yet remains ignorant of theſe things; I mean, as to the great ends …With rule… time: Such a Child hath lived longer, than he that is as Old as MethuſalemMethuselah, and yet remains ignorant of theſe things; I mean, as to the great ends …
John Billingsley · The Believers Daily Exercise · p. 57 · Open in the reader
- Printed… considering that the righteous is taken away, from the evill to come, Isa. 57.1. Thus MethusalemMethuselah that godly Patriarch died, the very yeere the flood came. And his name signifieth …With rule… considering that the righteous is taken away, from the evill to come, Isa. 57.1. Thus MethusalemMethuselah that godly Patriarch died, the very yeere the flood came. And his name signifieth …
Edmund Calamy · Englands Looking Glass · p. 15 · Open in the reader
- Printed… ages, which is here added, is a ſtrange way of argumentation, ſuch as that MethuſalemMethuselah might have uſed the very day before his death, to prove that he ſhould …With rule… ages, which is here added, is a ſtrange way of argumentation, ſuch as that MethuſalemMethuselah might have uſed the very day before his death, to prove that he ſhould …
Henry Hammond · A Reply to the Catholic Gentlemans Answer · p. 153 · Open in the reader
- Printed… may be too Bookish, and want a complaisant Humor to render me agreeable. Had MethusalemMethuselah lived to this Age, 'tis like he might have acquired these accomplishments; but our …With rule… may be too Bookish, and want a complaisant Humor to render me agreeable. Had MethusalemMethuselah lived to this Age, 'tis like he might have acquired these accomplishments; but our …
John Tutchin · Poems on Several Occasions · p. 127 · Open in the reader
- Printed… we are willing? I doubt then few would …ver consent, but live longer than MethusalemMethuselah in earthly prosperity and pleasure? And must our Friends never suffer nor die as …With rule… we are willing? I doubt then few would …ver consent, but live longer than MethusalemMethuselah in earthly prosperity and pleasure? And must our Friends never suffer nor die as …
Richard Baxter · Obedient Patience · p. 178 · Open in the reader
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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)
None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.