figleavesfig leaves
Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.
- Puritas changed it
- 19 times in 18 works
- Consistency
- 46.3% (19 of 41)
- Reach if approved
- ~43 places (estimated)
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- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 41 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19 changes in 18 works, 46.3% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19)
- Printed… but alwaies covered over with Samuels mantle: There is no sinne hath more foreign and foreign, FigleavesFig leaves and religious cloaks to cover it, then this sinne. By this meanes the Pope …With rule… but alwaies covered over with Samuels mantle: There is no sinne hath more foreign and foreign, FigleavesFig leaves and religious cloaks to cover it, then this sinne. By this meanes the Pope …
Edmund Calamy · The Monster of Sinful Self-Seeking · p. 25 · Open in the reader
- Printed… of our time, a Refutation of all their Cavills, and removing of all those FigleavesFig leaves, under which they would hide themselves.With rule… of our time, a Refutation of all their Cavills, and removing of all those FigleavesFig leaves, under which they would hide themselves.
Thomas Hall · The Loathsomeness of Long Hair · Open in the reader
- Printed… wherefore Sin (that it may be welcome to the Will) covers it self with FigleavesFig leaves as Adam, it veils its face like Tamar, it paints and tires like Jezabel …With rule… wherefore Sin (that it may be welcome to the Will) covers it self with FigleavesFig leaves as Adam, it veils its face like Tamar, it paints and tires like Jezabel …
Edward Polhill · The Divine Will Considered in its Eternal Decrees and Holy Execution · p. 499 · Open in the reader
- Printed… Gift from Heaven. But this Tympany of Pride muſt be prickt, our Rags, our FigleavesFig leaves, our Plaiſters muſt be pluckt away, that our Shame, Nakedneſs and Sores may appear …With rule… Gift from Heaven. But this Tympany of Pride muſt be prickt, our Rags, our FigleavesFig leaves, our Plaiſters muſt be pluckt away, that our Shame, Nakedneſs and Sores may appear …
Samuel Tomlyns · Jehovah Our Righteousness · p. 358 · Open in the reader
- Printed… Divine to pawn his own honour and that of Divinity too, in sowing together FigleavesFig leaves to palliate it.With rule… Divine to pawn his own honour and that of Divinity too, in sowing together FigleavesFig leaves to palliate it.
Edward Stillingfleet · Answer to Several Late Treatises · p. 164 · Open in the reader
- Printed… from the Eye of God's Allſeeing Knowledge) his ſpiritual Nakedneſs and Deformity, with the FigleavesFig leaves of his own Performances. Somewhat he muſt do, in order to help and ſave …With rule… from the Eye of God's Allſeeing Knowledge) his ſpiritual Nakedneſs and Deformity, with the FigleavesFig leaves of his own Performances. Somewhat he muſt do, in order to help and ſave …
James Barry · The Only Refuge of a Troubled Soul · p. 15 · Open in the reader
- Printed… as before, they conſider the rule more Impartially than they did; they know that FigleavesFig leaves and ſorry Pretences and Excuſes will not ſerve their turn when God ſhall judge …With rule… as before, they conſider the rule more Impartially than they did; they know that FigleavesFig leaves and ſorry Pretences and Excuſes will not ſerve their turn when God ſhall judge …
Solomon Stoddard · The Efficacy of the Fear of Hell to Restrain Men from Sin · p. 8 · Open in the reader
- Printed… your excuſes are taken away, and all proved vaine coverings, even no better then FigleavesFig leaves, which though they may ſeeme to cover thy nakedneſſe from ſuch as thy ſelfe …With rule… your excuſes are taken away, and all proved vaine coverings, even no better then FigleavesFig leaves, which though they may ſeeme to cover thy nakedneſſe from ſuch as thy ſelfe …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 227 · Open in the reader
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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)
0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.