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prouocationprovocation

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

Puritas changed it
347 times in 192 works
Consistency
96.9% (347 of 358)
Reach if approved
~376 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: provocation
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
358 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (347 changes in 192 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 347)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … with a sudden destruction? His patience so farre tempted, and with such an vnworthie prouocationprovocation, can suffer no longer: But at his command Moses striketh the Rulers; and at …
    With rule
    … with a sudden destruction? His patience so farre tempted, and with such an vnworthie prouocationprovocation, can suffer no longer: But at his command Moses striketh the Rulers; and at …

    Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 243 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … earely, conſecrate your ſelues Nazarites vnto the Lord, touch no vncleane thing giue no prouocationprovocation to the fleſh, Striue with the Cooke in watchfulneſſe, and riſe with the chirping …
    With rule
    … earely, conſecrate your ſelues Nazarites vnto the Lord, touch no vncleane thing giue no prouocationprovocation to the fleſh, Striue with the Cooke in watchfulneſſe, and riſe with the chirping …

    Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to stirre vp their hearers to the necessary awe of Gods iudgements, with much prouocationprovocation of vertuous life. S. Augustine hath the selfe same discourse, almost no word thereof …
    With rule
    … to stirre vp their hearers to the necessary awe of Gods iudgements, with much prouocationprovocation of vertuous life. S. Augustine hath the selfe same discourse, almost no word thereof …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the chace of my good ſucceſſe: Thou ſhouldeſt haue conſidered of this before thy prouocationprovocation: It is now too late, to moue vnto forbearance: but, as a man that …
    With rule
    … the chace of my good ſucceſſe: Thou ſhouldeſt haue conſidered of this before thy prouocationprovocation: It is now too late, to moue vnto forbearance: but, as a man that …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 146 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … we haue aſſaid ſomewhat to taſt of the goodneſſe of God, following herein the prouocationprovocation of the Prophete, whiche calleth men to the conſideration of Gods mercy by this …
    With rule
    … we haue aſſaid ſomewhat to taſt of the goodneſſe of God, following herein the prouocationprovocation of the Prophete, whiche calleth men to the conſideration of Gods mercy by this …

    Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … carnall, and ye walke as men. You are carnall, you follow the force and prouocationprovocation of your fleſh, your ſenſuality, your concupiſcence, and ye walke as men: Ye walke …
    With rule
    … carnall, and ye walke as men. You are carnall, you follow the force and prouocationprovocation of your fleſh, your ſenſuality, your concupiſcence, and ye walke as men: Ye walke …

    Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … for euer: and God is still their father, though an angrie father through the prouocationprovocation of their sinnes. Secondly, grace in Scripture is taken for the gifts of grace …
    With rule
    … for euer: and God is still their father, though an angrie father through the prouocationprovocation of their sinnes. Secondly, grace in Scripture is taken for the gifts of grace …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Adam in innocencie, but rather with a seruile feare. And although by hunger or prouocationprovocation, or feare of their owne danger, they sometimes rebell, yet otherwise there remaines some …
    With rule
    … Adam in innocencie, but rather with a seruile feare. And although by hunger or prouocationprovocation, or feare of their owne danger, they sometimes rebell, yet otherwise there remaines some …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    … ſhall be found, next to publike ordinances, the moſt profitable. Firſt, for Comfort. Secondly, ProuocationProvocation. Thirdly, Encreaſe. Fourthly, Confirmation.
    With rule
    … ſhall be found, next to publike ordinances, the moſt profitable. Firſt, for Comfort. Secondly, ProuocationProvocation. Thirdly, Encreaſe. Fourthly, Confirmation.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 193 · Open in the reader

Englands Hallelujah A14379

  • Printed
    Yea, in the midst of This, much ProuocationProvocation.
    With rule
    Yea, in the midst of This, much ProuocationProvocation.

    John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A15525

  • Printed
    … remnants of sinne, the benefites of afflictions, the Constancie of Beleeuers, Election, Reprobation, Reiection, ProuocationProvocation of the Iewes; Morrall, Ecclesiasticall, and Politicall duties, Christian Liberty, familiar matters.
    With rule
    … remnants of sinne, the benefites of afflictions, the Constancie of Beleeuers, Election, Reprobation, Reiection, ProuocationProvocation of the Iewes; Morrall, Ecclesiasticall, and Politicall duties, Christian Liberty, familiar matters.

    Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 3 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … and it is not the Lorde that hath doone this thing. By this worde ProuocationProvocation, hee meaneth the pride that is in men, accordinglie also as hee doeth in …
    With rule
    … and it is not the Lorde that hath doone this thing. By this worde ProuocationProvocation, hee meaneth the pride that is in men, accordinglie also as hee doeth in …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 1145 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    ProuocationProvocation.
    With rule
    ProuocationProvocation.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The meaning of these words, that god feared the ProuocationProvocation of the enimie.
    With rule
    The meaning of these words, that god feared the ProuocationProvocation of the enimie.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Pseudo-Martyr A20647

  • Printed
    … written, either for Ostentation of any ability or faculty in my selfe; or for ProuocationProvocation, to draw them to an aunswere, and so continue a Booke-warre; or for …
    With rule
    … written, either for Ostentation of any ability or faculty in my selfe; or for ProuocationProvocation, to draw them to an aunswere, and so continue a Booke-warre; or for …

    John Donne · Pseudo-Martyr · Open in the reader