Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11031 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wherbywhereby

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

Puritas changed it: 7,336 times in 1,269 works
Consistency: 100% (7,336 of 7,336)
Reach if approved: ~7,708 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: whereby
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 7,336 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7,336 changes in 1,269 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 7,336)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… when we were slaues to sinne) but a spirt of boldnesse, loue, and liberty, wherbywhereby we cry Abba father. ver. 15.
With rule
… when we were slaues to sinne) but a spirt of boldnesse, loue, and liberty, wherbywhereby we cry Abba father. ver. 15.
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offend any mans conscience, yet I do disedefie the enemy, and do that thing wherbywhereby the enemy is scandalized, and taketh an occasion to blaspheme God his trueth, his …
With rule
… offend any mans conscience, yet I do disedefie the enemy, and do that thing wherbywhereby the enemy is scandalized, and taketh an occasion to blaspheme God his trueth, his …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… also the elect, of whome the Apostle especially speaketh, disswading them from receiuing vnworthily, wherbywhereby, as by other sinnes, they pro uoke God to punish them, & deserue eternal damnation …
With rule
… also the elect, of whome the Apostle especially speaketh, disswading them from receiuing vnworthily, wherbywhereby, as by other sinnes, they pro uoke God to punish them, & deserue eternal damnation …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 649 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all. Now whereas many and sundry, yea infinite in a manner are the meanes wherbywhereby questions and controuersies are determined, of all these it is some casualtie or casuall …
With rule
… all. Now whereas many and sundry, yea infinite in a manner are the meanes wherbywhereby questions and controuersies are determined, of all these it is some casualtie or casuall …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aright, with ſound comfort, but alſo a ſpeciall gift of wiſdome and true vnderſtanding, wherbywhereby the man is directed.
With rule
… aright, with ſound comfort, but alſo a ſpeciall gift of wiſdome and true vnderſtanding, wherbywhereby the man is directed.
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… be brought in of our prophet as a flatterynge illuſion of y^e falſe prophet, wherbywhereby thei did kepe the people ſtyll in the cōtēpt of god & the true prophets …
With rule
… be brought in of our prophet as a flatterynge illuſion of y^e falſe prophet, wherbywhereby thei did kepe the people ſtyll in the cōtēpt of god & the true prophets …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… put for the whole by a Sinechdothe, the titles, which is, his name & memoriall wherbywhereby he is knowen for his works, worde, Sacramentes, and myſteries, &c.) be put a …
With rule
… put for the whole by a Sinechdothe, the titles, which is, his name & memoriall wherbywhereby he is knowen for his works, worde, Sacramentes, and myſteries, &c.) be put a …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
First therefore as God hath given to every creature a certaine nature, wherbywhereby it is fitted for any worke or end, and hath in it selfe a …
With rule
First therefore as God hath given to every creature a certaine nature, wherbywhereby it is fitted for any worke or end, and hath in it selfe a …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 108 · 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.