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grauesgraves

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

Puritas changed it
822 times in 324 works
Consistency
92.1% (822 of 892)
Reach if approved
~937 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: graves
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
892 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (822 changes in 324 works, 92.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 822)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … for Pluto, whom they feigned to bee God of hell, and not God of grauesgraves: and and if they woulde stand with vs in this point, wee might beate …
    With rule
    … for Pluto, whom they feigned to bee God of hell, and not God of grauesgraves: and and if they woulde stand with vs in this point, wee might beate …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … had beene, not fast asleepe in our beds, but dead and buried in our grauesgraves when wee did it.
    With rule
    … had beene, not fast asleepe in our beds, but dead and buried in our grauesgraves when wee did it.

    Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a pit, ſhall fall into it. A prouerbiall ſentence taken from thoſe that make grauesgraves, or deepe pittes, which often vnawares fall into the ſame themſelues. In thoſe Countries …
    With rule
    … a pit, ſhall fall into it. A prouerbiall ſentence taken from thoſe that make grauesgraves, or deepe pittes, which often vnawares fall into the ſame themſelues. In thoſe Countries …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 259 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … iustyces / prestes / lawers / and relygyouse shall not suffre their bodyes to be putte in grauesgraves. But be these wytnesses ones iudged heretykes by the clergye / ād so condempned by …
    With rule
    … iustyces / prestes / lawers / and relygyouse shall not suffre their bodyes to be putte in grauesgraves. But be these wytnesses ones iudged heretykes by the clergye / ād so condempned by …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Christ: shall we therefore make such dead lie epitaphes and set them vpon their grauesgraves; They denied the foundation of faith directly; they are damned; there is no salvation …
    With rule
    … Christ: shall we therefore make such dead lie epitaphes and set them vpon their grauesgraves; They denied the foundation of faith directly; they are damned; there is no salvation …

    Richard Hooker · Justification Works and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Lo, hee termeth them putrified, feſtred and rotten in theyr grauesgraves, from whom theſe boaſt theyr birth. And Cicero in ſcoffe, rightly termed Piſos aged …
    With rule
    Lo, hee termeth them putrified, feſtred and rotten in theyr grauesgraves, from whom theſe boaſt theyr birth. And Cicero in ſcoffe, rightly termed Piſos aged …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    5 The grauesgraves did open, Verſe 52.
    With rule
    5 The grauesgraves did open, Verſe 52.

    Edmund Littleton · A Brief Catechism · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … verse to the 34… especially in that comparison verse 27. where they are resembled to white grauesgraves, swarming with wormes, and stinking with rott…nnesse. Aboue all the rest, how zealous …
    With rule
    … verse to the 34… especially in that comparison verse 27. where they are resembled to white grauesgraves, swarming with wormes, and stinking with rott…nnesse. Aboue all the rest, how zealous …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 263 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (70)

46 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 37 are listed here. 24 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Happiness of the Church A01956

  • Printed
    … tend to the preseruation of our temporall estates, euen from our Cradles to our GrauesGraves. This is true in Doctrine, and in Example. In Doctrine: There shall no euill …
    With rule
    … tend to the preseruation of our temporall estates, euen from our Cradles to our GrauesGraves. This is true in Doctrine, and in Example. In Doctrine: There shall no euill …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Of the Rich Man and Lazarus A03696

  • Printed
    … therfore they that refuſe grace by it, ſhall no way receiue it from the GrauesGraves of the dead.
    With rule
    … therfore they that refuſe grace by it, ſhall no way receiue it from the GrauesGraves of the dead.

    Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 123 · Open in the reader

Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies A04901

  • Printed
    … S. Iohn teſtifieth, that they which haue doone good, ſhall come foorth of the GrauesGraves, vnto the reſurrection of life? With what trueth or in what ſence can it …
    With rule
    … S. Iohn teſtifieth, that they which haue doone good, ſhall come foorth of the GrauesGraves, vnto the reſurrection of life? With what trueth or in what ſence can it …

    John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 61 · Open in the reader

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

  • Printed
    THe said Iohn Browne passing to GrauesGraves-end in a Barge, a Priest began to swell and stomack that he should …
    With rule
    THe said Iohn Browne passing to GrauesGraves-end in a Barge, a Priest began to swell and stomack that he should …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 219 · Open in the reader

The English Catechism Explained A07350

  • Printed
    … the houre of his comming, and then the dead being raiſed out of their GrauesGraves, euen all from the firſt Adam, ſhall be ioyned with the liuing, (who ſhall …
    With rule
    … the houre of his comming, and then the dead being raiſed out of their GrauesGraves, euen all from the firſt Adam, ſhall be ioyned with the liuing, (who ſhall …

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 84 · Open in the reader

Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth A09810

  • Printed
    … they could two o… three foot in the ground, within it was full of GrauesGraves, some bigger, and some lesse, some were also paled about & others had like an …
    With rule
    … they could two o… three foot in the ground, within it was full of GrauesGraves, some bigger, and some lesse, some were also paled about & others had like an …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … about & others had like an Indian-house made over them, but not matted those GrauesGraves were more sumptuous then those at Corne-hill, yet we digged none of them …
    With rule
    … about & others had like an Indian-house made over them, but not matted those GrauesGraves were more sumptuous then those at Corne-hill, yet we digged none of them …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … life, that they may rise againe, as it is written , I will open your GrauesGraves, and cause yon to come out of your Sepulchres, &c. The like is written …
    With rule
    … life, that they may rise againe, as it is written , I will open your GrauesGraves, and cause yon to come out of your Sepulchres, &c. The like is written …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 150 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … made great slaughter, killing all the race of Iacob, opening his Sepulchre, and the GrauesGraves of other noblemen, which had bin at the battell of Darbent against his father …
    With rule
    … made great slaughter, killing all the race of Iacob, opening his Sepulchre, and the GrauesGraves of other noblemen, which had bin at the battell of Darbent against his father …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 319 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

  • Printed
    Limit therefore this ſleepe to the Bodie; whence I thinke it is, that our GrauesGraves are called our Beds; wherein our Bodies, not our Soules, reſt from their labours.
    With rule
    Limit therefore this ſleepe to the Bodie; whence I thinke it is, that our GrauesGraves are called our Beds; wherein our Bodies, not our Soules, reſt from their labours.

    William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 322 · Open in the reader

Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance A12260

  • Printed
    … Hezekiah chattered like a Swallow, & mourned like a Doue, for it is well ſayd, GrauesGraves curoe tacent, leues loquutur. Weight… cares are ſilent, and little ſpeake. Gods children doe …
    With rule
    … Hezekiah chattered like a Swallow, & mourned like a Doue, for it is well ſayd, GrauesGraves curoe tacent, leues loquutur. Weight… cares are ſilent, and little ſpeake. Gods children doe …

    Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 31 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    … indeed and in truth; outwardly appearing righteous, and being inwardly full of Iniquity; like GrauesGraves or painted Tombes. Math. 23, 27. Woe to you Hipocrites. Mat. 6, 2. and 7, 5.
    With rule
    … indeed and in truth; outwardly appearing righteous, and being inwardly full of Iniquity; like GrauesGraves or painted Tombes. Math. 23, 27. Woe to you Hipocrites. Mat. 6, 2. and 7, 5.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 228 · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

  • Printed
    GrauesGraves. Those which are in the grauesgraves, doe heare the voyce of the sonne of …
    With rule
    GrauesGraves. Those which are in the grauesgraves, doe heare the voyce of the sonne of …

    John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

  • Printed
    … careth not for the Serpents hissing, nor for the Cockatrices denne, nor for the GrauesGraves gaping, nor for Deathes dungeon, nor for the Popes Purgatorie, his pardons, his dirges …
    With rule
    … careth not for the Serpents hissing, nor for the Cockatrices denne, nor for the GrauesGraves gaping, nor for Deathes dungeon, nor for the Popes Purgatorie, his pardons, his dirges …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 361 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … neuer see the face of God: Shall not their bodies come out of their GrauesGraves? If the Heauens and the Earth passe away, what part can they be in …
    With rule
    … neuer see the face of God: Shall not their bodies come out of their GrauesGraves? If the Heauens and the Earth passe away, what part can they be in …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 628 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Others interprete to bee baptized for dead, not for the dead, or about the GrauesGraves of these that are buried▪ but for dead, say they, that is, as dead …
    With rule
    Others interprete to bee baptized for dead, not for the dead, or about the GrauesGraves of these that are buried▪ but for dead, say they, that is, as dead …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 634 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … but that was wonderfull! Think yee that after that, they did returne to their GrauesGraves?
    With rule
    … but that was wonderfull! Think yee that after that, they did returne to their GrauesGraves?

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 637 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of mortalitie, the place of silence? Must I abide the long nights among the GrauesGraves, places fearfull to the liuing, where men make no resort?
    With rule
    … of mortalitie, the place of silence? Must I abide the long nights among the GrauesGraves, places fearfull to the liuing, where men make no resort?

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1133 · Open in the reader

The Marrow of the Oracles of God A17397

  • Printed
    … it is a very Golgotha, a place of dead men; we liue amongst the GrauesGraves: almost all we see, or haue to deale with, are but men truely dead …
    With rule
    … it is a very Golgotha, a place of dead men; we liue amongst the GrauesGraves: almost all we see, or haue to deale with, are but men truely dead …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Marrow of the Oracles of God · p. 734 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … as God had giuē them. In remembrance whereof the same place was named the GrauesGraves of Luste. Also there was another murmuring for water, insomuch that whereas they should …
    With rule
    … as God had giuē them. In remembrance whereof the same place was named the GrauesGraves of Luste. Also there was another murmuring for water, insomuch that whereas they should …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 408 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    GrauesGraves.
    With rule
    GrauesGraves.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Of the GrauesGraves of lust, & what doctrine we are to gather thereof.
    With rule
    Of the GrauesGraves of lust, & what doctrine we are to gather thereof.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths A20303

  • Printed
    … case we sée like authoritie, we will alow the better of M. Hardings saying. GrauesGraves as it may be thought, were neuer called so, churches had that name long …
    With rule
    … case we sée like authoritie, we will alow the better of M. Hardings saying. GrauesGraves as it may be thought, were neuer called so, churches had that name long …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 140 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

  • Printed
    … but within are full of dead mens bones, and of all corruption: and to GrauesGraves, that do not appeare, that men which walke vpon them are aware of. So …
    With rule
    … but within are full of dead mens bones, and of all corruption: and to GrauesGraves, that do not appeare, that men which walke vpon them are aware of. So …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … rent a ſunder from the top vnto the bottome; Rockes flew in pieces, the GrauesGraves were opened, and the Bodies of many dead Saints did ariſe; when hee wrung …
    With rule
    … rent a ſunder from the top vnto the bottome; Rockes flew in pieces, the GrauesGraves were opened, and the Bodies of many dead Saints did ariſe; when hee wrung …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … when hee commeth to Iudgement, but ſhall bee ſent to their bodies in the GrauesGraves, from thence to be taken vp and preſented before him.
    With rule
    … when hee commeth to Iudgement, but ſhall bee ſent to their bodies in the GrauesGraves, from thence to be taken vp and preſented before him.

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 536 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and many bodies of the Saints which ſlept, aroſe, and came out of the GrauesGraves after his Reſurrection, and went into the holy Citie, and appeared vnto many. Which …
    With rule
    … and many bodies of the Saints which ſlept, aroſe, and came out of the GrauesGraves after his Reſurrection, and went into the holy Citie, and appeared vnto many. Which …

    John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 545 · Open in the reader

Coals from the Altar A20939

  • Printed
    … Churchyards round about the Churches, to the end that men may paſſe by the GrauesGraves before they preſent themſelues before God: that is, to thinke and meditate well of …
    With rule
    … Churchyards round about the Churches, to the end that men may paſſe by the GrauesGraves before they preſent themſelues before God: that is, to thinke and meditate well of …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Coals from the Altar · p. 13 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    … fell in company with a promoter, which dogged them and followed them again to GrauesGraves…ad, into the towne, and layed the house for them where they were, and …
    With rule
    … fell in company with a promoter, which dogged them and followed them again to GrauesGraves…ad, into the towne, and layed the house for them where they were, and …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2082 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    … the mouth of that Caue, his enemies had laid themſelues downe in their owne GrauesGraves: The Wiſdome of God thinkes fit to hide from euill men, and ſpirits, thoſe …
    With rule
    … the mouth of that Caue, his enemies had laid themſelues downe in their owne GrauesGraves: The Wiſdome of God thinkes fit to hide from euill men, and ſpirits, thoſe …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1099 · Open in the reader

The Rule of Faith A69028

  • Printed
    … were three, the Earthquake, the rending of the Rockes, and the opening of the GrauesGraves, Matth. 27. 51, 52.
    With rule
    … were three, the Earthquake, the rending of the Rockes, and the opening of the GrauesGraves, Matth. 27. 51, 52.

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 431 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … receiue their ſoules into their owne bodies, & be quickned, and riſe out of the GrauesGraves, or other places of the earth, or waters wherin they haue lyen, Rev. 20. 13. and …
    With rule
    … receiue their ſoules into their owne bodies, & be quickned, and riſe out of the GrauesGraves, or other places of the earth, or waters wherin they haue lyen, Rev. 20. 13. and …

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · p. 517 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    GrauesGraves open. page. 432
    With rule
    GrauesGraves open. page. 432

    Nicholas Byfield · The Rule of Faith · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

  • Printed
    … too remember in this ſentence. Alſo it is to bee noted vpon this worde GrauesGraves, that we bee beſieged, not with any one kind of death, but with many …
    With rule
    … too remember in this ſentence. Alſo it is to bee noted vpon this worde GrauesGraves, that we bee beſieged, not with any one kind of death, but with many …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 331 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … beſet vs round about. And ſo ye ſee why Iob vſeth the plurall number GrauesGraves. It had bene ynough for him too haue ſayde, The graue is prepared for …
    With rule
    … beſet vs round about. And ſo ye ſee why Iob vſeth the plurall number GrauesGraves. It had bene ynough for him too haue ſayde, The graue is prepared for …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 331 · Open in the reader

The Great Assize B08096

  • Printed
    … The houre ſhall come (ſaith CHRIST) in the which, all that are in the GrauesGraves ſhall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God, and come forth, Iohn 5.28. And …
    With rule
    … The houre ſhall come (ſaith CHRIST) in the which, all that are in the GrauesGraves ſhall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God, and come forth, Iohn 5.28. And …

    Samuel Smith · The Great Assize · p. 137 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … IESVS at the day of Iudgement, and wee cannot but come forth of our GrauesGraves vnto Iudgement: Oh let vs now obey his Voyce in the Miniſterie of the …
    With rule
    … IESVS at the day of Iudgement, and wee cannot but come forth of our GrauesGraves vnto Iudgement: Oh let vs now obey his Voyce in the Miniſterie of the …

    Samuel Smith · The Great Assize · p. 138 · Open in the reader