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diuisionsdivisions

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

Puritas changed it
354 times in 170 works
Consistency
93.4% (354 of 379)
Reach if approved
~398 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: divisions
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
379 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (354 changes in 170 works, 93.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 354)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Hence obserue the lawfulnesse of the art of Logicke: for diuisionsdivisions be lawfull (else the holy ghost would not here haue vsed them) and so …
    With rule
    Hence obserue the lawfulnesse of the art of Logicke: for diuisionsdivisions be lawfull (else the holy ghost would not here haue vsed them) and so …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … their persons from one Sée to an other by translations, and their dioceses by diuisionsdivisions; in giuing pastours liuings away …uer their heads by reuersions, or aduowsons; in shaping …
    With rule
    … their persons from one Sée to an other by translations, and their dioceses by diuisionsdivisions; in giuing pastours liuings away …uer their heads by reuersions, or aduowsons; in shaping …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 376 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … breefely to the laſt thing in this common place; that is the kindes or diuiſionsdivisions of conſcience; which are diuerſly aſſigned: firſt, according to the light that directs it …
    With rule
    … breefely to the laſt thing in this common place; that is the kindes or diuiſionsdivisions of conſcience; which are diuerſly aſſigned: firſt, according to the light that directs it …

    William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 248 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The materiall Temple in three diuisionsdivisions, seemed to be a cleare representation of the Church in three degrees. The first …
    With rule
    The materiall Temple in three diuisionsdivisions, seemed to be a cleare representation of the Church in three degrees. The first …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of order or matter: or to ſuch as are ouer curious in multiplying their diuiſionsdivisions, or ouer-tedious in amplifying them. Neither doth this tie all Preachers, at all …
    With rule
    … of order or matter: or to ſuch as are ouer curious in multiplying their diuiſionsdivisions, or ouer-tedious in amplifying them. Neither doth this tie all Preachers, at all …

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 344 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is onely to my remembrance one more, and that is taken from the tumults & diuiſionsdivisions which accompany your doctrine: they ſay it many times breedeth difference euen among thoſe …
    With rule
    … is onely to my remembrance one more, and that is taken from the tumults & diuiſionsdivisions which accompany your doctrine: they ſay it many times breedeth difference euen among thoſe …

    Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſhould there be more Lords then one, contrary to that in 1 Cor. 12.5. There are diuiſionsdivisions of ministeries, but one Lord. Looke as great Lords in earth haue in their …
    With rule
    … ſhould there be more Lords then one, contrary to that in 1 Cor. 12.5. There are diuiſionsdivisions of ministeries, but one Lord. Looke as great Lords in earth haue in their …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 394 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it is easily discerned, by the sloping of it from the Aequator, and the diuisionsdivisions of it into 12. parts, and euery of those 12. into 30. degrees.
    With rule
    … it is easily discerned, by the sloping of it from the Aequator, and the diuisionsdivisions of it into 12. parts, and euery of those 12. into 30. degrees.

    William Pemble · A Brief Introduction to Geography · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (25)

16 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric A00630

  • Printed
    … or crypſis of Methode, whereas they leaue out the former orderly placing of Definitions, DiuiſionsDivisions, and Tranſitions, & do take in diuers repetitions, declarations, makings lightſome, enlargings, or amplifications, prouings …
    With rule
    … or crypſis of Methode, whereas they leaue out the former orderly placing of Definitions, DiuiſionsDivisions, and Tranſitions, & do take in diuers repetitions, declarations, makings lightſome, enlargings, or amplifications, prouings …

    Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions A01379

  • Printed
    … the blessed Apostles in this step: they visite vs in our seuerall Deanries and DiuisionsDivisions, without compelling the remote dwellers to trauell vnto their Consistories.
    With rule
    … the blessed Apostles in this step: they visite vs in our seuerall Deanries and DiuisionsDivisions, without compelling the remote dwellers to trauell vnto their Consistories.

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 44 · Open in the reader

The Whole Armor of God A01979

  • Printed
    A Table of all theſe DiuiſionsDivisions, aud of the diſtinct heads of euery of them is ſet before the Booke …
    With rule
    A Table of all theſe DiuiſionsDivisions, aud of the diſtinct heads of euery of them is ſet before the Booke …

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · Open in the reader

Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens A10177

  • Printed
    … paper to Paralell, and Sampler his seuerall Aduertisements, Prefaces, and Discourses: Concerning Mattens, the DiuisionsDivisions, Vse, Antiquitie, and practise of Canonicall Howers, or Prayer: as the first, the third …
    With rule
    … paper to Paralell, and Sampler his seuerall Aduertisements, Prefaces, and Discourses: Concerning Mattens, the DiuisionsDivisions, Vse, Antiquitie, and practise of Canonicall Howers, or Prayer: as the first, the third …

    William Prynne · Survey and Censure of Mr Cozens · p. 62 · Open in the reader

The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism A10180

  • Printed
    … very obloquie, scorne, derision, and taile of all our neighbour nations: Plagues haue deuoured, DiuisionsDivisions weakned, discontents, decay of Trade, with sundry other grieuances impouerished vs, at home: Enemies …
    With rule
    … very obloquie, scorne, derision, and taile of all our neighbour nations: Plagues haue deuoured, DiuisionsDivisions weakned, discontents, decay of Trade, with sundry other grieuances impouerished vs, at home: Enemies …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … which now is almost ouer-runne with Popery and Arminianisme, with sundry Errors and DiuisionsDivisions, since these haue fallen to decay, and lost their credit with vs. These were …
    With rule
    … which now is almost ouer-runne with Popery and Arminianisme, with sundry Errors and DiuisionsDivisions, since these haue fallen to decay, and lost their credit with vs. These were …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 138 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … selfe, none so much as the Saracens ouerthrowing the Saracens, as their Sects and DiuisionsDivisions make plaine. Neuerthelesse; this dis-joyning and disjoynting notwithstanding, their Religion euen still couereth …
    With rule
    … selfe, none so much as the Saracens ouerthrowing the Saracens, as their Sects and DiuisionsDivisions make plaine. Neuerthelesse; this dis-joyning and disjoynting notwithstanding, their Religion euen still couereth …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 198 · Open in the reader

The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry A15431

  • Printed
    … arguments: Harding. defeus. apolog. p. 625. often innouating and changing of Religion. Rhemist. 2. Corinth. 2. v. 8. DiuisionsDivisions & dissensions among ourselues: Harding. defens. apolog. p. 239. Yea that wee may see how true …
    With rule
    … arguments: Harding. defeus. apolog. p. 625. often innouating and changing of Religion. Rhemist. 2. Corinth. 2. v. 8. DiuisionsDivisions & dissensions among ourselues: Harding. defens. apolog. p. 239. Yea that wee may see how true …

    Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    … so speake, of Wordes with their signifycations: partly, Pragmaticall of things, with their Defynitions, DiuisionsDivisions, and Obseruations Theologicall.
    With rule
    … so speake, of Wordes with their signifycations: partly, Pragmaticall of things, with their Defynitions, DiuisionsDivisions, and Obseruations Theologicall.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · Open in the reader

The Hymns and Songs of the Church A15647

  • Printed
    DiuisionsDivisions were…
    With rule
    DiuisionsDivisions were…

    George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 15 · Open in the reader

The Whole Sum of Christian Religion A17244

  • Printed
    … order, (which I haue continually obſerued) to beginne at their lefte hande in all DiuiſionsDivisions, and to go to the right.
    With rule
    … order, (which I haue continually obſerued) to beginne at their lefte hande in all DiuiſionsDivisions, and to go to the right.

    Edmund Bunny · The Whole Sum of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

The New Covenant A22472

  • Printed
    Popiſh diuiſion of hell, See DiuiſionsDivisions,
    With rule
    Popiſh diuiſion of hell, See DiuiſionsDivisions,

    William Attersoll · The New Covenant · Open in the reader

Exposition of Romans 13-16 B15167

  • Printed
    DiuiſionsDivisions, ſuch as cauſe diuiſionsdivisions contrary to the doctrine of Chriſt, ſerue not Chriſt, 337. a …
    With rule
    DiuiſionsDivisions, ſuch as cauſe diuiſionsdivisions contrary to the doctrine of Chriſt, ſerue not Chriſt, 337. a …

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 13-16 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the parties to be marked and auoyded, is from the Effects, which are two, DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences: They which make DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences, are to be marked and auoyded.
    With rule
    … the parties to be marked and auoyded, is from the Effects, which are two, DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences: They which make DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences, are to be marked and auoyded.

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 13-16 · p. 334 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … auoyded, is from the Effects, which are two, DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences: They which make DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences, are to be marked and auoyded.
    With rule
    … auoyded, is from the Effects, which are two, DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences: They which make DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences, are to be marked and auoyded.

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 13-16 · p. 334 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is taken from the End; the ſecond from the Effect, of them which cauſe DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences.
    With rule
    … is taken from the End; the ſecond from the Effect, of them which cauſe DiuiſionsDivisions and Offences.

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 13-16 · p. 336 · Open in the reader