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cō fessionconfession

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
53 times in 43 works
Consistency
96.3% (53 of 55, in those works)
Reach if approved
~58 places (estimated)
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Matches
Phrase, any case
In our text
55 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
cōfession (2)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (53 changes in 43 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 53)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … is no repentance for al thys geare, but they rather defend and …intaine that cō fessionconfession of theyrs▪ … wold besydes, y• euery simple subiect shulde (by hys obedience and ayde …
    With rule
    … is no repentance for al thys geare, but they rather defend and …intaine that cō fessionconfession of theyrs▪ … wold besydes, y• euery simple subiect shulde (by hys obedience and ayde …

    Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … God & man the man Iesus Christ. The second is, that they in practise make cō fessionconfession of their sinnes not onely to God but to the Saints departed: in that …
    With rule
    … God & man the man Iesus Christ. The second is, that they in practise make cō fessionconfession of their sinnes not onely to God but to the Saints departed: in that …

    William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 327 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Secondly, vncouer them often to God by humble cō fessionconfession; the more thou vncouerest them to him, the more thou couerest them, and the …
    With rule
    Secondly, vncouer them often to God by humble cō fessionconfession; the more thou vncouerest them to him, the more thou couerest them, and the …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … returned vpon themselues: for Bellarmine saith, that Peter lost not his faith, but the cō fessionconfession onely, lib. 4. de Roman. pontif. cap. 8. And another saith, Petrus non fidem Christi, sed …
    With rule
    … returned vpon themselues: for Bellarmine saith, that Peter lost not his faith, but the cō fessionconfession onely, lib. 4. de Roman. pontif. cap. 8. And another saith, Petrus non fidem Christi, sed …

    Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ye moſt part breathed out of worldly tyrants againſt the S. for their open cō feſſionconfession and teſtimonies of their faith & truth of the Goſpell, ſo moſt cōmonly the cauſes …
    With rule
    … ye moſt part breathed out of worldly tyrants againſt the S. for their open cō feſſionconfession and teſtimonies of their faith & truth of the Goſpell, ſo moſt cōmonly the cauſes …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 295 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … pure doctrine of the ſacraments & cal vpon the name of god wt libertie & make cō feſſionconfession our faith, but vnto him which doeth chaſtiſe vs wt this ſo miſerable want …
    With rule
    … pure doctrine of the ſacraments & cal vpon the name of god wt libertie & make cō feſſionconfession our faith, but vnto him which doeth chaſtiſe vs wt this ſo miſerable want …

    John Calvin · Four Sermons Against the Pollution of Idolatries · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … villaynes tyme out of minde, or elles he is a villayne by his owne cō fessionconfession in court of recorde, so that all villaynes either they be borne villaynes, or …
    With rule
    … villaynes tyme out of minde, or elles he is a villayne by his owne cō fessionconfession in court of recorde, so that all villaynes either they be borne villaynes, or …

    Richard Taverner · The Principal Laws of England · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … did my mother conceiue me, whereas thou louest trueth in the inward partes. This cō fessionconfession of Dauid therefore, is sufficient to cleare the Lorde from all vnrighteousnesse, and to …
    With rule
    … did my mother conceiue me, whereas thou louest trueth in the inward partes. This cō fessionconfession of Dauid therefore, is sufficient to cleare the Lorde from all vnrighteousnesse, and to …

    William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 16 · 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.