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mathevvMatthew

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
46 times in 16 works
Consistency
62.1% (46 of 74)
Reach if approved
~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: matthew
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
mathew (28)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (46 changes in 16 works, 62.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 46)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Sinagoges of the Iewes, and there preacheth the goſpel. And our Sauiour Chriſt in MathevvMatthew and Marke commaundeth his apoſtles to goe throughout the whole world, and preach the …
    With rule
    … Sinagoges of the Iewes, and there preacheth the goſpel. And our Sauiour Chriſt in MathevvMatthew and Marke commaundeth his apoſtles to goe throughout the whole world, and preach the …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſacrament to haue confirmed in his genealogy. For when as in Luke, and in MathevvMatthew the names of his progenitors doo vary, in them is mingled adoption, ſo that …
    With rule
    … ſacrament to haue confirmed in his genealogy. For when as in Luke, and in MathevvMatthew the names of his progenitors doo vary, in them is mingled adoption, ſo that …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 203 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … pleaſe too, vve may haue a Chriſt, and the Chriſt: a MathevvMatthew, and the MathevvMatthew: a Iohn, and the Iohn: a Paul, and the Paul: and ſometimes theſe ſhall …
    With rule
    … pleaſe too, vve may haue a Chriſt, and the Chriſt: a MathevvMatthew, and the MathevvMatthew: a Iohn, and the Iohn: a Paul, and the Paul: and ſometimes theſe ſhall …

    Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … tongue, and an other cloſed in his breſt: thus he ſpeaketh, as for S. MathevvMatthew and Ezekias. I did glance at the matter before. Thus Tethys ſonn uttereth his …
    With rule
    … tongue, and an other cloſed in his breſt: thus he ſpeaketh, as for S. MathevvMatthew and Ezekias. I did glance at the matter before. Thus Tethys ſonn uttereth his …

    Hugh Broughton · An Explication of our Lords Soul Going to Paradise · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … serue for all, as if they had béene but one. Saint Augustine nameth not MathevvMatthew, nor Andrevv. Marke good reader, this vntruth. Maister Iuell sayth, Saint Augustine telleth the …
    With rule
    … serue for all, as if they had béene but one. Saint Augustine nameth not MathevvMatthew, nor Andrevv. Marke good reader, this vntruth. Maister Iuell sayth, Saint Augustine telleth the …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Baker, dwellinge in Shordich, Iohn Burton Clarck, of S. Marie Wolmers in Lombard streate. MathevvMatthew Maſon, ſeruant with Maiſter Garlande, dwellinge in Southvvarke: Thomas Peace, ſeruant wt Robert Taſh …
    With rule
    … Baker, dwellinge in Shordich, Iohn Burton Clarck, of S. Marie Wolmers in Lombard streate. MathevvMatthew Maſon, ſeruant with Maiſter Garlande, dwellinge in Southvvarke: Thomas Peace, ſeruant wt Robert Taſh …

    John Field · A Godly Exhortation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Wherefore alſo they put out of the Goſpels, the genealogie of Chriſt deſcribed by MathevvMatthew and Luke, &c. What a ſtrength now ſuch collections as this man maketh, giues …
    With rule
    … Wherefore alſo they put out of the Goſpels, the genealogie of Chriſt deſcribed by MathevvMatthew and Luke, &c. What a ſtrength now ſuch collections as this man maketh, giues …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 158 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … according to Luke his recording of it, then shall we offend against that of MathevvMatthew: and contraily: if we … t…ed to the number and order of the words …
    With rule
    … according to Luke his recording of it, then shall we offend against that of MathevvMatthew: and contraily: if we … t…ed to the number and order of the words …

    Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 138 · 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.