Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #10989 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

favourfavor

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

Puritas changed it: 39,641 times in 4,142 works
Consistency: 99.9% (39,641 of 39,645)
Reach if approved: ~41,658 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: favour
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 39,647 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (39,641 changes in 4,142 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 39,641)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wise men of the East: he prospered in his infancie; for he grew in favourfavor, with God and men: he prospered in his baptisme: for There came a voice …
With rule
… wise men of the East: he prospered in his infancie; for he grew in favourfavor, with God and men: he prospered in his baptisme: for There came a voice …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bee avenged seaventie folde. And be he of what degree soever, who for Bribe, … favourfavor, like Iudas, or Pilat, hath betrayed or delivered Christ i… his poore members, and …
With rule
… bee avenged seaventie folde. And be he of what degree soever, who for Bribe, … favourfavor, like Iudas, or Pilat, hath betrayed or delivered Christ i… his poore members, and …
William Guild · The Humble Address Both of Church and Poor to Britains Monarch · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for monie either of a mans owne, or of his frends, or by private favourfavor or frendſhip or beholdinges to men, and ſo corruptly to become a Paſtor over …
With rule
… for monie either of a mans owne, or of his frends, or by private favourfavor or frendſhip or beholdinges to men, and ſo corruptly to become a Paſtor over …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then yeeld to that which so many of my fathers embraced, and yet found favourfavor in the sight of God? Curse Meroz, saith the Lord, curse her inhabitants, because …
With rule
… then yeeld to that which so many of my fathers embraced, and yet found favourfavor in the sight of God? Curse Meroz, saith the Lord, curse her inhabitants, because …
Richard Hooker · Justification Works and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſciences may have quiet if we can be truly aſſured of Gods love and favourfavor in the pardon of them. The Apoſtle proveth that the ſacrifices of the law …
With rule
… conſciences may have quiet if we can be truly aſſured of Gods love and favourfavor in the pardon of them. The Apoſtle proveth that the ſacrifices of the law …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Salt should haue lost its savour: the Spouse should haue beene out of favourfavor: the Pillar should haue beene over-throwne: and, the Church of CHRIST, should not …
With rule
… the Salt should haue lost its savour: the Spouse should haue beene out of favourfavor: the Pillar should haue beene over-throwne: and, the Church of CHRIST, should not …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fault and hath ſlipped away from his fellow Mutiners, is in duty boundnot to favourfavor thoſe his quondam-Mates, but rather for the better demonſtration of his alleagiance, is …
With rule
… fault and hath ſlipped away from his fellow Mutiners, is in duty boundnot to favourfavor thoſe his quondam-Mates, but rather for the better demonſtration of his alleagiance, is …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Shee rejoyceth not ſo much in the gift as in the giver; and his favourfavor more in this that her prayer was anſwered, then in the thing obtained: this …
With rule
… Shee rejoyceth not ſo much in the gift as in the giver; and his favourfavor more in this that her prayer was anſwered, then in the thing obtained: this …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 166 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Beams of Former Light A89788

Printed
… and in being, equity, reaſon, the Law of Nature, God and Man do all FAVOURFAVOR, ſaith Hooker.
With rule
… and in being, equity, reaſon, the Law of Nature, God and Man do all FAVOURFAVOR, ſaith Hooker.
Philip Nye · Beams of Former Light · p. 186 · Open in the reader

Historical Vindication Part 2 A91269

Printed
… it was not onely Lawful by the Laws, but THAT HE SHOULD MERIT GODS FAVOURFAVOR, AND HEAVEN BY IT; and thereupon gave him remiſſion of all his ſins, and …
With rule
… it was not onely Lawful by the Laws, but THAT HE SHOULD MERIT GODS FAVOURFAVOR, AND HEAVEN BY IT; and thereupon gave him remiſſion of all his ſins, and …
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 2 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Original Sin N06399

Printed
… of God, this might convince them of the great Need they had of the FAVOURFAVOR of the Lawgiver, and oblige them, by Faith in his GOODNESS, to fly to …
With rule
… of God, this might convince them of the great Need they had of the FAVOURFAVOR of the Lawgiver, and oblige them, by Faith in his GOODNESS, to fly to …
Jonathan Edwards · The Doctrine of Original Sin · p. 15 · Open in the reader