Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #10985 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thēthen

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 29,006 times in 1,466 works
Consistency: 98.1% (29,006 of 29,563)
Reach if approved: ~31,738 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 30,206 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: thē (550), the (5), thee (1), th (1)
Taken into joins: 549 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (29,006 changes in 1,466 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 29,006)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
9 Some take vpon thēthen to note the very particuler place, as hauing ſome marke at this time, ſo …
With rule
9 Some take vpon thēthen to note the very particuler place, as hauing ſome marke at this time, ſo …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… we muſt pollute and marre, not dooing any ſeruice or honor, no not giuing thēthen any eſtimation, 2. Cor. 6. & 17. Eſai. 30. 22. 2. Chron. 29. 5. Hitherto of certaine particulars forbidden. Nowe followe ſome commaunded …
With rule
… we muſt pollute and marre, not dooing any ſeruice or honor, no not giuing thēthen any eſtimation, 2. Cor. 6. & 17. Eſai. 30. 22. 2. Chron. 29. 5. Hitherto of certaine particulars forbidden. Nowe followe ſome commaunded …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne businesse. That he recall his prodigall eyes, like wandring Dinahs, home; and teach thēthen another while to looke inward. That he be busie in repairing his own hart …
With rule
… owne businesse. That he recall his prodigall eyes, like wandring Dinahs, home; and teach thēthen another while to looke inward. That he be busie in repairing his own hart …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did give thēthen ful poſſeſſion of them by imprinting them in their harts, & ſealing thēthen in their ſoules. For that which Chriſt ſaith to his diſcip. (whē he promiſeth …
With rule
… did give thēthen ful poſſeſſion of them by imprinting them in their harts, & ſealing thēthen in their ſoules. For that which Chriſt ſaith to his diſcip. (whē he promiſeth …
John Forbes · Letter to Merchants · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… plant vineyards, & shall inhabit the land confidently, when I shal execute iudgement against all thēthen, that shal stand against them rounde about them. &c. And againe in the 34. chapter …
With rule
… plant vineyards, & shall inhabit the land confidently, when I shal execute iudgement against all thēthen, that shal stand against them rounde about them. &c. And againe in the 34. chapter …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… same occasion of departing from God, that the images was to the worshipper of thēthen. So if we will speake vnproperly, as the Apostle saith, their belly is their …
With rule
… same occasion of departing from God, that the images was to the worshipper of thēthen. So if we will speake vnproperly, as the Apostle saith, their belly is their …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be a meere mortall man, howsoeuer some of them haue made him more thēthen a man, yea, a GOD aboue all Gods, some neither GOD nor man, but …
With rule
… to be a meere mortall man, howsoeuer some of them haue made him more thēthen a man, yea, a GOD aboue all Gods, some neither GOD nor man, but …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paternes resembling the truth of their principals, to which he doth also there oppose thēthen. And not we, but the Monke Maximus aunciently expounding him, Marke you (saith he …
With rule
… paternes resembling the truth of their principals, to which he doth also there oppose thēthen. And not we, but the Monke Maximus aunciently expounding him, Marke you (saith he …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 95 · 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.