Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11109 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nedeneed

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

Puritas changed it: 2,017 times in 229 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,017 of 2,019)
Reach if approved: ~2,121 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: need
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,019 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,017 changes in 229 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,017)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… other. The one shuld be so faythfull to the other / that neyther shuld he nedeneed to sweare / nor the other nedeneed to put hym to an othe. And suerlye …
With rule
… other. The one shuld be so faythfull to the other / that neyther shuld he nedeneed to sweare / nor the other nedeneed to put hym to an othe. And suerlye …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
That he shall not nedeneed, to perysh in hys weakenesse.
With rule
That he shall not nedeneed, to perysh in hys weakenesse.
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… reason that they did fal from iustice to sinne, & frō obediēce to dissobediēce & therefore nedeneed they a redemer, a phisicion, ād one to giue thē life. because y^t they …
With rule
… reason that they did fal from iustice to sinne, & frō obediēce to dissobediēce & therefore nedeneed they a redemer, a phisicion, ād one to giue thē life. because y^t they …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to haue my byls warranted. If I haue done truly and vprightlie what shuld nedeneed me to geue a penye to haue my bylles warraunted? if I haue done …
With rule
… to haue my byls warranted. If I haue done truly and vprightlie what shuld nedeneed me to geue a penye to haue my bylles warraunted? if I haue done …
Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
God wate if we haue nedeneed of lyues food
With rule
God wate if we haue nedeneed of lyues food
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader
Printed
… perilous enemie about vs, euer redy and laboryng to diſtroy vs. For els what nedeneed we y^e aydeand coſtodie of ſo many Angelles, vnleſſe we were in great daunger …
With rule
… perilous enemie about vs, euer redy and laboryng to diſtroy vs. For els what nedeneed we y^e aydeand coſtodie of ſo many Angelles, vnleſſe we were in great daunger …
Martin Luther · Sermon on Matthew 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you) then leaue out Matthew, Marke, Iohn, and Paule in his other Epistles. What nedeneed that I pray you? Is there no difference betwene leauing out a title whereof …
With rule
… you) then leaue out Matthew, Marke, Iohn, and Paule in his other Epistles. What nedeneed that I pray you? Is there no difference betwene leauing out a title whereof …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reueale his will and appoyntment. Which (if we vnfaynedly folowe in our doings) we nedeneed no more to doute, then if God ſhulde now ſpeake vnto vs out of …
With rule
… reueale his will and appoyntment. Which (if we vnfaynedly folowe in our doings) we nedeneed no more to doute, then if God ſhulde now ſpeake vnto vs out of …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Lawful and Unlawful Usury Amongst Christians A07941

Printed
NedeNeed is a ſharpe ſhaft. Theſe wretches forced by nedeneed come vnto thee, of whoſe …
With rule
NedeNeed is a ſharpe ſhaft. Theſe wretches forced by nedeneed come vnto thee, of whoſe …
Wolfgang Musculus · Lawful and Unlawful Usury Amongst Christians · Open in the reader