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sollicitesolicit

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
451 times in 318 works
Consistency
98.0% (451 of 460)
Reach if approved
~483 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: solicit
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
460 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (451 changes in 318 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 451)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … friends of exquiſite iudgement, hearing that this worke was in my hand, did earneſtly ſollicitesolicit me to turne it to common good. Amongst the reſt, a learned worthy vnderſtanding …
    With rule
    … friends of exquiſite iudgement, hearing that this worke was in my hand, did earneſtly ſollicitesolicit me to turne it to common good. Amongst the reſt, a learned worthy vnderſtanding …

    William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … notice of the wrongs, and iniuries that were offred vnto them, and did daily sollicitesolicit the King to releeue them, would it not be a great matter of comfort …
    With rule
    … notice of the wrongs, and iniuries that were offred vnto them, and did daily sollicitesolicit the King to releeue them, would it not be a great matter of comfort …

    William Bradshaw · A Plain and Pithy Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Gods holy will bee done in him, whoſe mercy I daily by my prayers ſollicitesolicit for him, and in the infiniteneſſe of Gods mercy alone is all the remainders …
    With rule
    … Gods holy will bee done in him, whoſe mercy I daily by my prayers ſollicitesolicit for him, and in the infiniteneſſe of Gods mercy alone is all the remainders …

    Richard Byfield · The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated · p. 223 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … deſired the Senate to perſeuer in their old religiō: but not preuailing, they did ſollicitesolicit the aſſembly of the Empire at Spires, who ſent a ſolemne Embaſſade to Strauſborough …
    With rule
    … deſired the Senate to perſeuer in their old religiō: but not preuailing, they did ſollicitesolicit the aſſembly of the Empire at Spires, who ſent a ſolemne Embaſſade to Strauſborough …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 427 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Romish church-governement and the appendants thereto, and for the extirpation of such as sollicitesolicit the displanting & remove thereof: doth not this their triumphing proclayme to the world, aswel …
    With rule
    … Romish church-governement and the appendants thereto, and for the extirpation of such as sollicitesolicit the displanting & remove thereof: doth not this their triumphing proclayme to the world, aswel …

    Henry Jacob · To Prince James · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    CHAP. III. Before the Diuell come to sollicitesolicit to Witchcraft, hee sindeth some preparednesse in such parties, to giue him hope to …
    With rule
    CHAP. III. Before the Diuell come to sollicitesolicit to Witchcraft, hee sindeth some preparednesse in such parties, to giue him hope to …

    Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to fill his h…art, and Paul had a messenger of Satan too, to sollicitesolicit him, and to trouble him, and to ioine with his lusts, to make them …
    With rule
    … to fill his h…art, and Paul had a messenger of Satan too, to sollicitesolicit him, and to trouble him, and to ioine with his lusts, to make them …

    John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 237 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … knovv your place to be in all subiection & peaceable patience, vvith your prayers to sollicitesolicit the Lorde for his church, for this common vveale, and for the Queen: that …
    With rule
    … knovv your place to be in all subiection & peaceable patience, vvith your prayers to sollicitesolicit the Lorde for his church, for this common vveale, and for the Queen: that …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Caveat for Sureties A17318

  • Printed
    … the counsell which God giueth vnto Suerties they are three. 1. Go humble thy selfe. 2. SolliciteSolicit thy frends. 3. Giue no sleepe to thine eies, nor slumber to thine eie lids.
    With rule
    … the counsell which God giueth vnto Suerties they are three. 1. Go humble thy selfe. 2. SolliciteSolicit thy frends. 3. Giue no sleepe to thine eies, nor slumber to thine eie lids.

    William Burton · A Caveat for Sureties · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The second part of Gods counsell is this: SolliciteSolicit thy friends. Some thinke this to be read in the plurall number, but it …
    With rule
    The second part of Gods counsell is this: SolliciteSolicit thy friends. Some thinke this to be read in the plurall number, but it …

    William Burton · A Caveat for Sureties · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in the plurall number, but it is not so, though it may be so. SolliciteSolicit thy frend of thy neighbor (as Tremelius saith) that is, stir him vp (for …
    With rule
    … in the plurall number, but it is not so, though it may be so. SolliciteSolicit thy frend of thy neighbor (as Tremelius saith) that is, stir him vp (for …

    William Burton · A Caveat for Sureties · p. 79 · Open in the reader

Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction A26858

  • Printed
    … agree, a Mans Age is little enough to go all over the World to SolliciteSolicit and bring them to such Agreement.
    With rule
    … agree, a Mans Age is little enough to go all over the World to SolliciteSolicit and bring them to such Agreement.

    Richard Baxter · Against the Revolt to a Foreign Jurisdiction · p. 397 · Open in the reader

Chronological History of Popes Intolerable Usurpations A91186

  • Printed
    This Archbiſhop Hincmarus in his Epiſtola 1. ad Ludovicum Balbum Regem, c. 9. reſolves thus: SolliciteSolicit unicutque ambulandum eſt cum Deo ſuo, et Regi praecipue, qui ſub tantis erit poenis …
    With rule
    This Archbiſhop Hincmarus in his Epiſtola 1. ad Ludovicum Balbum Regem, c. 9. reſolves thus: SolliciteSolicit unicutque ambulandum eſt cum Deo ſuo, et Regi praecipue, qui ſub tantis erit poenis …

    William Prynne · Chronological History of Popes Intolerable Usurpations · p. 202 · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

  • Printed
    SolliciteSolicit, as I ſee moſt Suiters can;
    With rule
    SolliciteSolicit, as I ſee moſt Suiters can;

    George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 91 · Open in the reader