Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11127 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thāthan

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

Puritas changed it: 1,797 times in 269 works
Consistency: 96.8% (1,797 of 1,856)
Reach if approved: ~1,988 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,892 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: thā (59)
Taken into joins: 5 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,797 changes in 269 works, 96.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,797)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… gained by this crueltie, it is woorth the knowing by the teſtimonie of him, thāthan whom no more plentifull witnes can be brought foorth in this kind. That is …
With rule
… gained by this crueltie, it is woorth the knowing by the teſtimonie of him, thāthan whom no more plentifull witnes can be brought foorth in this kind. That is …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eat & drinke the Lordes very ſoupper (as for their Idolatry, it is alway dānable) thāthan y^e body doeth in beholdig an other eate & dryncke, & thou receyuinge no part therof.
With rule
… eat & drinke the Lordes very ſoupper (as for their Idolatry, it is alway dānable) thāthan y^e body doeth in beholdig an other eate & dryncke, & thou receyuinge no part therof.
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader
Printed
With Ioke, & Thom, thāthan tuke thay yare vayage
With rule
With Ioke, & Thom, thāthan tuke thay yare vayage
David Lindsay · A Dialogue Betwixt Experience and a Courtier · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, and his inſtitutiō, which (with their praiers) doth giue theſe creatures another propertie thāthan they had although they keep their former properties & ſubſtance ſtill, even that they might …
With rule
… God, and his inſtitutiō, which (with their praiers) doth giue theſe creatures another propertie thāthan they had although they keep their former properties & ſubſtance ſtill, even that they might …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and diuine Scriptures, as Bristow seemeth to make it, then is it no better thāthan a name of Heretikes, and so the name of Catholikes, boasted of by them …
With rule
… and diuine Scriptures, as Bristow seemeth to make it, then is it no better thāthan a name of Heretikes, and so the name of Catholikes, boasted of by them …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
Men more miſerable thāthan beaſts, how. 135
With rule
Men more miſerable thāthan beaſts, how. 135
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… agre / but helde yche one agaynst other in that opynyon. These were my wordes thāthan / yf ye remembre it.
With rule
… agre / but helde yche one agaynst other in that opynyon. These were my wordes thāthan / yf ye remembre it.
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader
Printed
… almous, quhē thay ar geuin for thaim that god sudle deale mair mercy fullie, thāthan thair synnis had deserued, hidderto Augustine, marke how this godlie Doctor & Byschope affirmes the …
With rule
… almous, quhē thay ar geuin for thaim that god sudle deale mair mercy fullie, thāthan thair synnis had deserued, hidderto Augustine, marke how this godlie Doctor & Byschope affirmes the …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 87 · 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.