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leuilevi

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

Puritas changed it
729 times in 255 works
Consistency
98.2% (729 of 742)
Reach if approved
~780 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: levi
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
742 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (729 changes in 255 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 729)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … grand-father? Heb. 7.20. Many alterations, corruptions, and changes came between, yet God purpoſed that LeuiLevi ſhould be ſo borne, that is of the feede of Abraham, and not all …
    With rule
    … grand-father? Heb. 7.20. Many alterations, corruptions, and changes came between, yet God purpoſed that LeuiLevi ſhould be ſo borne, that is of the feede of Abraham, and not all …

    Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 326 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … odious to the visi…le Kirk: To wit, to the posteritie of Arahon and LeuiLevi, who then rewled in Ierusalem, then hes the light of the Euangell bene, of …
    With rule
    … odious to the visi…le Kirk: To wit, to the posteritie of Arahon and LeuiLevi, who then rewled in Ierusalem, then hes the light of the Euangell bene, of …

    John Knox · Answer to a Jesuit · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … tabernacle / or any thing belonging to the seruice of God / but the sonnes of LeuiLevi / whome the Lord appointed for his owne seruice. So that if anye sacrifice were …
    With rule
    … tabernacle / or any thing belonging to the seruice of God / but the sonnes of LeuiLevi / whome the Lord appointed for his owne seruice. So that if anye sacrifice were …

    Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of that countrie, ſaw her, and defiled her, and for this cauſe Simeon and LeuiLevi, ſlew Shechem and all the towne with the edge of the ſworde. The vſe …
    With rule
    … of that countrie, ſaw her, and defiled her, and for this cauſe Simeon and LeuiLevi, ſlew Shechem and all the towne with the edge of the ſworde. The vſe …

    Josias Nichols · An Order of Household Instruction · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … worse? Cease complaints, and fall to amendment. Ye Deputies of Moses, and Sonnes of LeuiLevi, sharpen both your swords. Consecrate and courage your hands and voyces to the vastation …
    With rule
    … worse? Cease complaints, and fall to amendment. Ye Deputies of Moses, and Sonnes of LeuiLevi, sharpen both your swords. Consecrate and courage your hands and voyces to the vastation …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 241 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Egypt thréescore & ten yéeres, there passed but thréescore yéeres vntill ye birth of Moses. LeuiLevi an other of the xii. Patriarks, liued 23. yeres after Ioseph, whose daughter Iacobed was …
    With rule
    … Egypt thréescore & ten yéeres, there passed but thréescore yéeres vntill ye birth of Moses. LeuiLevi an other of the xii. Patriarks, liued 23. yeres after Ioseph, whose daughter Iacobed was …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    2. He ſaw him: Chriſt ſaw LeuiLevi, and not LeuiLevi Chriſt, which ſhewes the preuenting grace of Chriſt.
    With rule
    2. He ſaw him: Chriſt ſaw LeuiLevi, and not LeuiLevi Chriſt, which ſhewes the preuenting grace of Chriſt.

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 161 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … your selfe. Howsoeuer they haue some differences, yet herein they concur as Simeon and LeuiLevi brethren in euill, that both are vsed as inducements to most hainous sins, thereby …
    With rule
    … your selfe. Howsoeuer they haue some differences, yet herein they concur as Simeon and LeuiLevi brethren in euill, that both are vsed as inducements to most hainous sins, thereby …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 74 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Romans A15414

  • Printed
    … And so Origen rehearsing here that place of the Apostle, expoundeth it: ex momentance & leuilevi tribulationum nostrarum labore semina quaedam collecta, immensum nobis gloria pendus preparabunt: certaine seeds gathered …
    With rule
    … And so Origen rehearsing here that place of the Apostle, expoundeth it: ex momentance & leuilevi tribulationum nostrarum labore semina quaedam collecta, immensum nobis gloria pendus preparabunt: certaine seeds gathered …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 396 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Daniel A15415

  • Printed
    … shepheard at Rome vnder Claudius, did stay the rage and fiercenesse of a lyon, leuilevi iniectu oper…o capite, his head beeing couered with some light thing cast vpon …
    With rule
    … shepheard at Rome vnder Claudius, did stay the rage and fiercenesse of a lyon, leuilevi iniectu oper…o capite, his head beeing couered with some light thing cast vpon …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 185 · Open in the reader

The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity A16557

  • Printed
    … a corrūpt office, Matthew the Publican. Other Euangelists in relating this history cals him leuilevi, but he cals himselfe by that name he was best knowne, he confessed his …
    With rule
    … a corrūpt office, Matthew the Publican. Other Euangelists in relating this history cals him leuilevi, but he cals himselfe by that name he was best knowne, he confessed his …

    John Boys · The Third Part from John Baptists Nativity · p. 87 · Open in the reader

Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues A68078

  • Printed
    … quod est huius disputationis caput: Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, sicut ipse in euangelio loquitur, leuilevi iugo suo nos subdidisse & sarcinae leuilevi. Vnde sacramentis numero paucissimis, obseruatione facillimis, significatione praestantissimis …
    With rule
    … quod est huius disputationis caput: Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, sicut ipse in euangelio loquitur, leuilevi iugo suo nos subdidisse & sarcinae leuilevi. Vnde sacramentis numero paucissimis, obseruatione facillimis, significatione praestantissimis …

    William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 353 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … nostrum Iesum Christum, sicut ipse in euangelio loquitur, leuilevi iugo suo nos subdidisse & sarcinae leuilevi. Vnde sacramentis numero paucissimis, obseruatione facillimis, significatione praestantissimis, societatem noui populi colligauit, sicut est …
    With rule
    … nostrum Iesum Christum, sicut ipse in euangelio loquitur, leuilevi iugo suo nos subdidisse & sarcinae leuilevi. Vnde sacramentis numero paucissimis, obseruatione facillimis, significatione praestantissimis, societatem noui populi colligauit, sicut est …

    William Fulke · Three Pillars and Arch-patriarchs of the Popish Synagogues · p. 353 · Open in the reader