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abrigementAbridgement

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

Puritas changed it
23 times in 4 works
Consistency
92.0% (23 of 25)
Reach if approved
~26 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abridgement
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
25 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (23 changes in 4 works, 92.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (5 of 23)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … as an Abrigemēt: So as I maruaile howe that shoulde orderly come into the AbrigementAbridgement, whiche is not founde in the bodie of the storie written at large: And …
    With rule
    … as an Abrigemēt: So as I maruaile howe that shoulde orderly come into the AbrigementAbridgement, whiche is not founde in the bodie of the storie written at large: And …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 159 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … falſe doctrine. All this is ſhewed largely by the miniſters of Lincolne in the AbrigementAbridgement, and the like they ſay of the Pſalmes in the booke of common prayer …
    With rule
    … falſe doctrine. All this is ſhewed largely by the miniſters of Lincolne in the AbrigementAbridgement, and the like they ſay of the Pſalmes in the booke of common prayer …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Rome and England by Gualter , Lavater , V…ſinus , Polanus , Ames , the authors of the AbrigementAbridgement , and it holds every way as firme and good in our diſpute.
    With rule
    … Rome and England by Gualter , Lavater , V…ſinus , Polanus , Ames , the authors of the AbrigementAbridgement , and it holds every way as firme and good in our diſpute.

    John Canne · A Stay Against Straying · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Churche: as may be seen in the termes of our Argument, expressed in the AbrigementAbridgement, though in part omitted by the Def. which omission was so approved by the …
    With rule
    … Churche: as may be seen in the termes of our Argument, expressed in the AbrigementAbridgement, though in part omitted by the Def. which omission was so approved by the …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 374 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Def. answered nothing to a maine poynt, upon which this first argument, in the AbrigementAbridgement, doeth depende, namely the rules of Ceremonies, that they should be needfull, and profitable …
    With rule
    … Def. answered nothing to a maine poynt, upon which this first argument, in the AbrigementAbridgement, doeth depende, namely the rules of Ceremonies, that they should be needfull, and profitable …

    William Ames · Against Human Ceremonies in Gods Worship · p. 45 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.