flyesflies
Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.
- Puritas changed it
- 1,002 times in 579 works
- Consistency
- 100% (1,002 of 1,002)
- Reach if approved
- ~1,054 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- Agrees: flies
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 1,003 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,002 changes in 579 works, 100% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,002)
- Printed… all the knees bowed to her, when they reuerenced her burden. They play like flyesflies in his beams, whiles his wealth warnes them. Whilst like some great Oke, he …With rule… all the knees bowed to her, when they reuerenced her burden. They play like flyesflies in his beams, whiles his wealth warnes them. Whilst like some great Oke, he …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 67 · Open in the reader
- Printed… bade Shimei curſe: and he hath kept thee from ſuch groſſe ſinnes, which, as flyesflies, would have putrifyed the oyntment of thy good name, who alſo conceales thoſe thou …With rule… bade Shimei curſe: and he hath kept thee from ſuch groſſe ſinnes, which, as flyesflies, would have putrifyed the oyntment of thy good name, who alſo conceales thoſe thou …
Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 33 · Open in the reader
- Printed… his trouble; and hereafter, when his soule is let out of his body, it flyesflies to heaven without opposition or hinderance, (as Bernard speakes of S. Ambrose when he …With rule… his trouble; and hereafter, when his soule is let out of his body, it flyesflies to heaven without opposition or hinderance, (as Bernard speakes of S. Ambrose when he …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 122 · Open in the reader
- Printed… of no worth, of no reckoning for grace among the people of God. Dead flyesflies (saith Solomon. Eccle. 10.1.) cause the oyntment of the Apothecary to send forth a stinking …With rule… of no worth, of no reckoning for grace among the people of God. Dead flyesflies (saith Solomon. Eccle. 10.1.) cause the oyntment of the Apothecary to send forth a stinking …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 233 · Open in the reader
- Printed… firſt, in the experience of his owne weakenes, he renounceth his owne ſtrength, and flyesflies only to the power of Chriſt, being tempted; and ſecondly, is made more wiſe …With rule… firſt, in the experience of his owne weakenes, he renounceth his owne ſtrength, and flyesflies only to the power of Chriſt, being tempted; and ſecondly, is made more wiſe …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 345 · Open in the reader
- Printed… Then fell they vnto suche blasphemies, that they sayd, it was the battel of flyesflies, and that the deuill wrought it for Christ.With rule… Then fell they vnto suche blasphemies, that they sayd, it was the battel of flyesflies, and that the deuill wrought it for Christ.
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
- Printed… that trust in lying vanities] Ionah. 3. 8. being taught by his owne experience; he that flyesflies away from Gods presence to goe to Tharsis, thinking there to be in safety …With rule… that trust in lying vanities] Ionah. 3. 8. being taught by his owne experience; he that flyesflies away from Gods presence to goe to Tharsis, thinking there to be in safety …
William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 38 · Open in the reader
- PrintedThe Isle of Hispaniola is much infested with FlyesFlies, or Gnats, whose pricking causeth wonderfull swelling: also there is a Worme which creepeth …With ruleThe Isle of Hispaniola is much infested with FlyesFlies, or Gnats, whose pricking causeth wonderfull swelling: also there is a Worme which creepeth …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 742 · Open in the reader
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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)
None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.