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equiuocationequivocation

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

Puritas changed it
105 times in 54 works
Consistency
82.0% (105 of 128)
Reach if approved
~134 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: equivocation
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
128 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (105 changes in 54 works, 82.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 105)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſaied / vvithovvt their approbation to vvhom yt apperteineth: he excepteth that there is an equiuocationequivocation, yt being not ſet downe by whom the election ſhould be made. Where beſide …
    With rule
    … ſaied / vvithovvt their approbation to vvhom yt apperteineth: he excepteth that there is an equiuocationequivocation, yt being not ſet downe by whom the election ſhould be made. Where beſide …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCLXII · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … all our contracts we muſt auoyd lying, and that which is equall vnto it, equiuocationequivocation; For the getting of treaſures by a lying tongue, is a vanity toſſed to …
    With rule
    … all our contracts we muſt auoyd lying, and that which is equall vnto it, equiuocationequivocation; For the getting of treaſures by a lying tongue, is a vanity toſſed to …

    John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 323 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … take an oath, ſo it be in truth, not a lye, not with an equiuocationequivocation, or mentall reſeruation to deceiue; in righteouſneſſe, that the matter be iuſt, and in …
    With rule
    … take an oath, ſo it be in truth, not a lye, not with an equiuocationequivocation, or mentall reſeruation to deceiue; in righteouſneſſe, that the matter be iuſt, and in …

    Richard Bernard · Ruths Recompense · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in any part of a proposition, in some sort, affecteth the whole: yet this equiuocationequivocation lieth alwaies in one tearme, to weet, in the subiectum, or praedicatum, if the …
    With rule
    … in any part of a proposition, in some sort, affecteth the whole: yet this equiuocationequivocation lieth alwaies in one tearme, to weet, in the subiectum, or praedicatum, if the …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … And many ſuch like inſtances more might he giuen. When Arius preſumed thus by equiuocationequivocation to deceiue, he was puniſhed with a miſerable, death, voyding out his very bowels …
    With rule
    … And many ſuch like inſtances more might he giuen. When Arius preſumed thus by equiuocationequivocation to deceiue, he was puniſhed with a miſerable, death, voyding out his very bowels …

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 391 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … This he persuadeth by the equiuocating in the name of the Tree (the first equiuocationequivocation wee read of, otherwhere plainely tearmed a lye) charging God with falsehood and malignitie.
    With rule
    … This he persuadeth by the equiuocating in the name of the Tree (the first equiuocationequivocation wee read of, otherwhere plainely tearmed a lye) charging God with falsehood and malignitie.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ſo infinitely increaſed. There is committed alſo in theſe arguments a falſe reaſon of equiuocationequivocation. For, when Paul ſayth: where ſinne hath abounded, there more abounded grace: he ſaith …
    With rule
    … ſo infinitely increaſed. There is committed alſo in theſe arguments a falſe reaſon of equiuocationequivocation. For, when Paul ſayth: where ſinne hath abounded, there more abounded grace: he ſaith …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is trāſlated, a ioint. Ephe. 4.16. This was a groſſe ouerſight: not to cleare the equiuocationequivocation. And ſome who haue a minde to Deſcend to Gehennah, and can not abide …
    With rule
    … is trāſlated, a ioint. Ephe. 4.16. This was a groſſe ouerſight: not to cleare the equiuocationequivocation. And ſome who haue a minde to Deſcend to Gehennah, and can not abide …

    Hugh Broughton · To the Learned Nobility of England Touching Bible Translation · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (23)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net A00602

  • Printed
    … denyals of them, but by the new subtile deuice of refining a lye by EquiuocationEquivocation, and calcining any speech of their own, though neuer so base and drossy a …
    With rule
    … denyals of them, but by the new subtile deuice of refining a lye by EquiuocationEquivocation, and calcining any speech of their own, though neuer so base and drossy a …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … together, may be either cut asunder by Papall Dispensation, or cunningly vntied by Iesuiticall EquiuocationEquivocation. Pray tell me in good earnest: Sprang the doctrine of EquiuocationEquivocation (whereby you defend …
    With rule
    … together, may be either cut asunder by Papall Dispensation, or cunningly vntied by Iesuiticall EquiuocationEquivocation. Pray tell me in good earnest: Sprang the doctrine of EquiuocationEquivocation (whereby you defend …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … vntied by Iesuiticall EquiuocationEquivocation. Pray tell me in good earnest: Sprang the doctrine of EquiuocationEquivocation (whereby you defend, that a man may affirm, nay sweare an vntruth in words …
    With rule
    … vntied by Iesuiticall EquiuocationEquivocation. Pray tell me in good earnest: Sprang the doctrine of EquiuocationEquivocation (whereby you defend, that a man may affirm, nay sweare an vntruth in words …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Southwell, or Tolet, or Parsons, among the Catalogue of Protestant Writers. These vpholders of EquiuocationEquivocation, and many other, whose names deserue to be buried in euerlasting obliuion with the …
    With rule
    … Southwell, or Tolet, or Parsons, among the Catalogue of Protestant Writers. These vpholders of EquiuocationEquivocation, and many other, whose names deserue to be buried in euerlasting obliuion with the …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England A04215

  • Printed
    … nor Aſſumption: And yet the Argument is too bad. It is a fallacie of EquiuocationEquivocation, as wee call it: Wee muſt therefore diſtinguiſh: Mahomets Miniſterie, and Antichriſts Miniſterie, haue …
    With rule
    … nor Aſſumption: And yet the Argument is too bad. It is a fallacie of EquiuocationEquivocation, as wee call it: Wee muſt therefore diſtinguiſh: Mahomets Miniſterie, and Antichriſts Miniſterie, haue …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 42 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Firſt and Second Reaſons. The Seauenth, Eight, and Ninth, haue all the Fallacy of EquiuocationEquivocation, and if you will, the ſame with that, in your Firſt, Second and Sixt …
    With rule
    … Firſt and Second Reaſons. The Seauenth, Eight, and Ninth, haue all the Fallacy of EquiuocationEquivocation, and if you will, the ſame with that, in your Firſt, Second and Sixt …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 79 · Open in the reader

A Retractive from the Romish Religion A06106

  • Printed
    … that which he is not, or denying himſelfe to be that which hee is. EquiuocationEquivocation then is a plaine breach of this Commandement, and therefore a lye at the …
    With rule
    … that which he is not, or denying himſelfe to be that which hee is. EquiuocationEquivocation then is a plaine breach of this Commandement, and therefore a lye at the …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical A09265

  • Printed
    … Minor figuratiuely, which ought not to be in right arguing, which is euer without EquiuocationEquivocation, ambiguitie, & variation in the three tearmes. And thus much touching his firſt poſition, that …
    With rule
    … Minor figuratiuely, which ought not to be in right arguing, which is euer without EquiuocationEquivocation, ambiguitie, & variation in the three tearmes. And thus much touching his firſt poſition, that …

    Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 156 · Open in the reader

Christs Combat and Conquest A13530

  • Printed
    EquiuocationEquivocation a Iesuiticall tricke discouered. 233
    With rule
    EquiuocationEquivocation a Iesuiticall tricke discouered. 233

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · Open in the reader