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abiureabjure

i standing for j: Iesus → Jesus, iudge → judge.

Puritas changed it
181 times in 78 works
Consistency
99.4% (181 of 182)
Reach if approved
~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: abjure
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (181 changes in 78 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 181)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … dealing of the times, they were constrained to recant, and many of them to abiureabjure their opinions, yet their good will to the truth is manifest: and it is …
    With rule
    … dealing of the times, they were constrained to recant, and many of them to abiureabjure their opinions, yet their good will to the truth is manifest: and it is …

    Thomas Bedford · Luthers Predecessors · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … brought with him to Antiochia a great number of Monkes to compell Flavianus to abiureabjure the Councell of Chalcedon. The towne supported their Bishop against a raskall number of …
    With rule
    … brought with him to Antiochia a great number of Monkes to compell Flavianus to abiureabjure the Councell of Chalcedon. The towne supported their Bishop against a raskall number of …

    Patrick Simson · The History of the Church Since the Days of Christ · p. 358 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    2. Yet is this their law also vniust, to suffer an heretike to abiureabjure but once, being contrarie to the saying of our Sauiour here, and of S …
    With rule
    2. Yet is this their law also vniust, to suffer an heretike to abiureabjure but once, being contrarie to the saying of our Sauiour here, and of S …

    Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · p. 207 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and the importunitie of the Clergie, hee yeelded once or tvvise to recant, and abiureabjure the true doctrine vvhich hee helde, yet hee had many scholers, vvho by his …
    With rule
    … and the importunitie of the Clergie, hee yeelded once or tvvise to recant, and abiureabjure the true doctrine vvhich hee helde, yet hee had many scholers, vvho by his …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … bowels plucked out of his body by the cruel Turkes, becauſe he would not abiureabjure Chriſt, tooke his guts in his hand (if any will beleeue it) and ſo …
    With rule
    … bowels plucked out of his body by the cruel Turkes, becauſe he would not abiureabjure Chriſt, tooke his guts in his hand (if any will beleeue it) and ſo …

    Robert Abbot · The Danger of Popery · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … iudge of his eſtate before God, ſo a true Chriſtian may be forced to abiureabjure Chriſtianity, and yet ſtill remaine a true Chriſtian, all the Tyrants in the world …
    With rule
    … iudge of his eſtate before God, ſo a true Chriſtian may be forced to abiureabjure Chriſtianity, and yet ſtill remaine a true Chriſtian, all the Tyrants in the world …

    Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · p. 350 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    I wyll neyther abiureabjure, nor yet recant Gods glorye.
    With rule
    I wyll neyther abiureabjure, nor yet recant Gods glorye.

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and suche like matters.) I will aduise you first and aboue all thyng to abiureabjure all your frendes, all your frendeshyp, leaue not one vnabiured: it is they that …
    With rule
    … and suche like matters.) I will aduise you first and aboue all thyng to abiureabjure all your frendes, all your frendeshyp, leaue not one vnabiured: it is they that …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · 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.

Answer to Thomas More B16147

  • Printed
    AbiureAbjure / whi manye abiureabjure and faulle. Note. lxx
    With rule
    AbiureAbjure / whi manye abiureabjure and faulle. Note. lxx

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader