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mistrismistress

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it
1,050 times in 469 works
Consistency
99.7% (1,050 of 1,053)
Reach if approved
~1,107 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mistress
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,054 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,050 changes in 469 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,050)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … this De…endents cause as Christs true Church and Spouse, and their best beloved MistrisMistress, presuming that he could no way disparage them by joyning this Spirituall Mother with …
    With rule
    … this De…endents cause as Christs true Church and Spouse, and their best beloved MistrisMistress, presuming that he could no way disparage them by joyning this Spirituall Mother with …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Lord of Tame, to tell him if there were any danger meant toward his MistrisMistress this night, saying; certainely I and my fellowes will rather dye, then she should …
    With rule
    … Lord of Tame, to tell him if there were any danger meant toward his MistrisMistress this night, saying; certainely I and my fellowes will rather dye, then she should …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 371 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    The Priſoners are Sins, (as you haue heard before) the Old-man, with MiſtrisMistress Heart, her Maids, and Will her man.
    With rule
    The Priſoners are Sins, (as you haue heard before) the Old-man, with MiſtrisMistress Heart, her Maids, and Will her man.

    Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 122 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … their Littleton, their Bible: and loytering, if not the courting of some Whore or MistrisMistress, the greatest part of their profession; as too too many doe in this voluptuous …
    With rule
    … their Littleton, their Bible: and loytering, if not the courting of some Whore or MistrisMistress, the greatest part of their profession; as too too many doe in this voluptuous …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 504 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Thou art too: quicke I prethee let me see thy MistrisMistress.
    With rule
    Thou art too: quicke I prethee let me see thy MistrisMistress.

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … them all: England is sinfull enough, but she professeth not her selfe a Schoole-mistrismistress of Sinne, as Rome doth of Treason: there it is professed, taught, learned, and …
    With rule
    … them all: England is sinfull enough, but she professeth not her selfe a Schoole-mistrismistress of Sinne, as Rome doth of Treason: there it is professed, taught, learned, and …

    Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … euilly doth one man tempt another, when he enticeth him to ſinne ( whereunto Ioſephs MiſtrisMistress tempted him) or when he aſſayeth to enſnare him, and to bring him into …
    With rule
    … euilly doth one man tempt another, when he enticeth him to ſinne ( whereunto Ioſephs MiſtrisMistress tempted him) or when he aſſayeth to enſnare him, and to bring him into …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 230 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … not whether Hagar & Sarah may dwell together, but which of the two muſt be MiſtrisMistress. The ſpeciall thing: which muſt bee ſought for, muſt be this, to haue an …
    With rule
    … not whether Hagar & Sarah may dwell together, but which of the two muſt be MiſtrisMistress. The ſpeciall thing: which muſt bee ſought for, muſt be this, to haue an …

    Samuel Hieron · The Bridegroom · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Works A02178

  • Printed
    TO THE RIHT VERTVOVS AND GODLY GENTLEWOMEN, MISTRISMISTRESS ANNE BOVVLES, AND MISTRISMISTRESS A. STEVENS, H. H. WISHETH AL COMforts and mercies in …
    With rule
    TO THE RIHT VERTVOVS AND GODLY GENTLEWOMEN, MISTRISMISTRESS ANNE BOVVLES, AND MISTRISMISTRESS A. STEVENS, H. H. WISHETH AL COMforts and mercies in …

    Richard Greenham · Works · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    TO THE RIHT VERTVOVS AND GODLY GENTLEWOMEN, MISTRISMISTRESS ANNE BOVVLES, AND MISTRISMISTRESS A. STEVENS, H. H. WISHETH AL COMforts and mercies in Iesus Christ to be …
    With rule
    TO THE RIHT VERTVOVS AND GODLY GENTLEWOMEN, MISTRISMISTRESS ANNE BOVVLES, AND MISTRISMISTRESS A. STEVENS, H. H. WISHETH AL COMforts and mercies in Iesus Christ to be …

    Richard Greenham · Works · Open in the reader

Improvement of Imprisonment A66756

  • Printed
    The MISTRISMISTRESS of Terreſtrial Potentates,
    With rule
    The MISTRISMISTRESS of Terreſtrial Potentates,

    George Wither · Improvement of Imprisonment · p. 47 · Open in the reader