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wiueswives

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

Puritas changed it: 5,796 times in 678 works
Consistency: 99.9% (5,796 of 5,797)
Reach if approved: ~6,091 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wives
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,797 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,796 changes in 678 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,796)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… come vnto their husbands when he ſhall ſend and call for them: as Iacobs wiueswives did, Gen. 3.4. The Scripture regiſtreth the fault of Vaſhti, in not comming to Ahaſhueroſh …
With rule
… come vnto their husbands when he ſhall ſend and call for them: as Iacobs wiueswives did, Gen. 3.4. The Scripture regiſtreth the fault of Vaſhti, in not comming to Ahaſhueroſh …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to passe, that our forefathers in the infancy of the world, had so many wiueswives at once, answeres himselfe. Certè enim fuit consuetudo, non fuit culpa: Whiles it was …
With rule
… to passe, that our forefathers in the infancy of the world, had so many wiueswives at once, answeres himselfe. Certè enim fuit consuetudo, non fuit culpa: Whiles it was …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… neuer saw our Townes and Cities burning; our houses rifled, our Temples spoyled, our wiueswives rauished, our children bleeding dead on the pauements, or sprawling on the mercilesse pikes …
With rule
… neuer saw our Townes and Cities burning; our houses rifled, our Temples spoyled, our wiueswives rauished, our children bleeding dead on the pauements, or sprawling on the mercilesse pikes …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a kinde of ſpeach taken from married folkes, Hoſ. 2. 2. Ezech 16. who cannot abide their wiueswives, ſhoulde giue either in affectiō, or in geſture, countenaunce or any manner of behauiour …
With rule
… a kinde of ſpeach taken from married folkes, Hoſ. 2. 2. Ezech 16. who cannot abide their wiueswives, ſhoulde giue either in affectiō, or in geſture, countenaunce or any manner of behauiour …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… womans beautie, both people, princes, and king himselfe, and vsed Abram well for his wiueswives sake, as verse 14.15.16.
With rule
… womans beautie, both people, princes, and king himselfe, and vsed Abram well for his wiueswives sake, as verse 14.15.16.
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… againe, and take another, and so it is lawfull for hym to haue twoo wiueswives a liue, the one in the bedde, the other diuorced.
With rule
… againe, and take another, and so it is lawfull for hym to haue twoo wiueswives a liue, the one in the bedde, the other diuorced.
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this medicine the popiſh church wil not acknowledge, but will ſeparate them from their wiueswives, as they did in Queene Maries times. S. Ieronym alſo, who was a moſt …
With rule
… this medicine the popiſh church wil not acknowledge, but will ſeparate them from their wiueswives, as they did in Queene Maries times. S. Ieronym alſo, who was a moſt …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… drunkardes, whiche waſt away their goods, whoſe children may well bee counted fatherleſſe, & their wiueswives widdows, doe very vnnaturally ſinne, and breake this commandement of God.
With rule
… drunkardes, whiche waſt away their goods, whoſe children may well bee counted fatherleſſe, & their wiueswives widdows, doe very vnnaturally ſinne, and breake this commandement of God.
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
WIuesWives of Kings, also Nations and Kingdomes, with all their glory.
With rule
WIuesWives of Kings, also Nations and Kingdomes, with all their glory.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 195 · Open in the reader