Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11178 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

somwhatsomewhat

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

Puritas changed it: 2,082 times in 749 works
Consistency: 98.5% (2,082 of 2,112)
Reach if approved: ~2,220 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: somewhat
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,113 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,082 changes in 749 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,082)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… all fynyshed. For some men of wysdome there were in those dayes, which smelled somwhatsomewhat (as Polydorus reporteth) iudgynge yt to be as yt was in dede, verye subtyle …
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… all fynyshed. For some men of wysdome there were in those dayes, which smelled somwhatsomewhat (as Polydorus reporteth) iudgynge yt to be as yt was in dede, verye subtyle …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader
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… here thou reciteth none of the wordes of thyne Authors. In deid there is somwhatsomewhat noted v…ō the merg…. Alexander Epistol… prim… Ireneus Libro primo. Cap. 32. Damascenus Libro …
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… here thou reciteth none of the wordes of thyne Authors. In deid there is somwhatsomewhat noted v…ō the merg…. Alexander Epistol… prim… Ireneus Libro primo. Cap. 32. Damascenus Libro …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
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… being more aagreeably framed & giuen him by an other then by himselfe, might make somwhatsomewhat for the praise of his person, but for defence of his action vnto them …
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… being more aagreeably framed & giuen him by an other then by himselfe, might make somwhatsomewhat for the praise of his person, but for defence of his action vnto them …
Richard Hooker · Answer to Supplication Preferred by Walter Tavers · p. 23 · Open in the reader
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… in the Hebrew is such a word as may signifie to call to mind somwhatsomewhat be efore, or to keepe in mind somewhat for after: and sometimes both as …
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… in the Hebrew is such a word as may signifie to call to mind somwhatsomewhat be efore, or to keepe in mind somewhat for after: and sometimes both as …
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
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That therefore I may returne agayne too speake of that from whiche I haue somwhatsomewhat degressed, thou séest, Chri stian Brother, what CHRIST JESUS hath done, and performed for …
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That therefore I may returne agayne too speake of that from whiche I haue somwhatsomewhat degressed, thou séest, Chri stian Brother, what CHRIST JESUS hath done, and performed for …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · Open in the reader
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… as sand grauell, &c. or els by heate, as chalke, oker &c. And yet somwhatsomewhat more plainly and particularly to discourse vpen these causes, admitting the naturall collour of …
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… as sand grauell, &c. or els by heate, as chalke, oker &c. And yet somwhatsomewhat more plainly and particularly to discourse vpen these causes, admitting the naturall collour of …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader
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… to bethinke her ſelfe; or rather her ghoſtly Father M^r Musket is a man ſomwhatsomewhat nimbler than his Copes-mates. He was the Maſter-gamſter (as I haue heard …
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… to bethinke her ſelfe; or rather her ghoſtly Father M^r Musket is a man ſomwhatsomewhat nimbler than his Copes-mates. He was the Maſter-gamſter (as I haue heard …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 14 · Open in the reader
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… high learnyng, but thei can knowe litle what you meane. Theſe thinges I haue ſomwhatsomewhat touchide, and ſhall d… more here after. You ſay that theſe accidētes are not …
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… high learnyng, but thei can knowe litle what you meane. Theſe thinges I haue ſomwhatsomewhat touchide, and ſhall d… more here after. You ſay that theſe accidētes are not …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. lxxiii · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (30)

24 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture A00415

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SomwhatSomewhat may we iudge of our profiting in this learning. 1 If wee can diſcerne betweene …
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SomwhatSomewhat may we iudge of our profiting in this learning. 1 If wee can diſcerne betweene …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 74 · Open in the reader

Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments A00416

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The better for giftes or abilities to do the duties of his calling. SomwhatSomewhat likewise for bloud according to the good customes of our countrey: Wherby it may …
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The better for giftes or abilities to do the duties of his calling. SomwhatSomewhat likewise for bloud according to the good customes of our countrey: Wherby it may …
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

The Happiness of the Church A01956

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SomwhatSomewhat hath some sauor; giue him at least a thought, a word, a looke (as …
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SomwhatSomewhat hath some sauor; giue him at least a thought, a word, a looke (as …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 393 · Open in the reader

Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ A02749

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SomwhatSomewhat to folowe reason
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SomwhatSomewhat to folowe reason
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Sermons A05143

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… Wo worthe these giftes, they subucrt iustice euery where. Sequuntur retributiones. They folow bribes. SomwhatSomewhat was geuen to them before and they muste neades geue somewhat a gaine, for …
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… Wo worthe these giftes, they subucrt iustice euery where. Sequuntur retributiones. They folow bribes. SomwhatSomewhat was geuen to them before and they muste neades geue somewhat a gaine, for …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

Four Great Liars Striving A09431

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B SomwhatSomewhat milde wether.
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B SomwhatSomewhat milde wether.
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader

Harmony of the Gospels A16078

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… they see, they should not see, and when they heare, they should not vnderstand. SomwhatSomewhat after. 1…. Take heede therefore how ye heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shalbe giuen …
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… they see, they should not see, and when they heare, they should not vnderstand. SomwhatSomewhat after. 1…. Take heede therefore how ye heare: for whosoeuer hath, to him shalbe giuen …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 343 · Open in the reader

The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture A17216

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SOmwhatSomewhat yet wyll we nowe declare farther co…ernynge the tymes of the kynges of …
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SOmwhatSomewhat yet wyll we nowe declare farther co…ernynge the tymes of the kynges of …
Henrich Bullinger · The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

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SomwhatSomewhat more harde is the point that Paule noteth, And he hath renued you together …
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SomwhatSomewhat more harde is the point that Paule noteth, And he hath renued you together …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

A Confutation of Standishs Treatise A19466

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… his fore rehearced wordes / that to his knowlege he neuer taught anye erroneous doctrine. SomwhatSomewhat alſo haue I ſayde vnto you allready concernynge this matter.
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… his fore rehearced wordes / that to his knowlege he neuer taught anye erroneous doctrine. SomwhatSomewhat alſo haue I ſayde vnto you allready concernynge this matter.
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader

Scripture Light the Most Sure Light A29371

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… loſs of firſt Love in the Church of Epheſus, is by Chriſt, called, a SomwhatSomewhat; Nevertheleſs I have ſomwhatsomewhat againſt thee: and yet Chriſt threatens her, that he wil …
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… loſs of firſt Love in the Church of Epheſus, is by Chriſt, called, a SomwhatSomewhat; Nevertheleſs I have ſomwhatsomewhat againſt thee: and yet Chriſt threatens her, that he wil …
William Bridge · Scripture Light the Most Sure Light · p. 393 · Open in the reader

Gospel Conversation A30579

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… for, you make no great proviſion for them, Doth God take care for Oxen? SomwhatSomewhat they have, but little; Doth God take care for wicked and ungodly ones?
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… for, you make no great proviſion for them, Doth God take care for Oxen? SomwhatSomewhat they have, but little; Doth God take care for wicked and ungodly ones?
Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Conversation · p. 310 · Open in the reader

The History of Britain A50902

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… in many Battels for the ſole Empire; but vanquiſh't, in the end ſlew himſelf. SomwhatSomewhat before this time Gratianus Funarius, An. Dom. 350 the Father of Valentinian, afterwards Emperor, An …
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… in many Battels for the ſole Empire; but vanquiſh't, in the end ſlew himſelf. SomwhatSomewhat before this time Gratianus Funarius, An. Dom. 350 the Father of Valentinian, afterwards Emperor, An …
John Milton · The History of Britain · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Paradise Lost A50919

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SomwhatSomewhat extravagant and wilde, perhaps
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SomwhatSomewhat extravagant and wilde, perhaps
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

Works Part 1 A52035

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… the Spirit is received by faith, but the holy Ghost saith it is so. SomwhatSomewhat I would say to witness that, but the time wil not allow it me …
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… the Spirit is received by faith, but the holy Ghost saith it is so. SomwhatSomewhat I would say to witness that, but the time wil not allow it me …
Stephen Marshall · Works Part 1 · p. 39 · Open in the reader

The Husbandmans Calling A61391

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… will help thee to thresh the mountains. God and a worm can do much. SomwhatSomewhat a strange sight to see a worm threshing a mountain, yet so it is …
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… will help thee to thresh the mountains. God and a worm can do much. SomwhatSomewhat a strange sight to see a worm threshing a mountain, yet so it is …
Richard Steele · The Husbandmans Calling · p. 109 · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

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… this while dived deep enough to sound the bottome of this word, Not neglect. SomwhatSomewhat of a moderate Speech, in the smoothnesse of the barke. Not neglect, as if …
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… this while dived deep enough to sound the bottome of this word, Not neglect. SomwhatSomewhat of a moderate Speech, in the smoothnesse of the barke. Not neglect, as if …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 29 · Open in the reader
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L. p. 212. SomwhatSomewhat may be done by the Bishop and Governours of the Church to preserve the …
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L. p. 212. SomwhatSomewhat may be done by the Bishop and Governours of the Church to preserve the …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 302 · Open in the reader
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P. SomwhatSomewhat? Why, you tell us immediately before, that the Pope, or a Bishop may perhaps …
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P. SomwhatSomewhat? Why, you tell us immediately before, that the Pope, or a Bishop may perhaps …
Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 303 · Open in the reader

The Works of Jeremiah Burroughs 8 A77976

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… of eternal miſery. Thus you have ſeen how ſin is againſt our own good. SomwhatSomewhat I would fain ſay by way of APPLICATION in this work.
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… of eternal miſery. Thus you have ſeen how ſin is againſt our own good. SomwhatSomewhat I would fain ſay by way of APPLICATION in this work.
Jeremiah Burroughs · The Works of Jeremiah Burroughs 8 · p. 293 · Open in the reader

A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged A81485

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3. Ʋſe. SomwhatSomewhat by way of triall and examination, Ʋſe. 3 whether you have taſted divine goodneſſe and …
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3. Ʋſe. SomwhatSomewhat by way of triall and examination, Ʋſe. 3 whether you have taſted divine goodneſſe and …
Robert Dingley · A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged · p. 69 · Open in the reader

The Dark Lantern A96745

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SomwhatSomewhat above the term of forty years
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SomwhatSomewhat above the term of forty years
George Wither · The Dark Lantern · p. 40 · Open in the reader

Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow A96786

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SomwhatSomewhat, ere long, more fully will be ſpoke.
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SomwhatSomewhat, ere long, more fully will be ſpoke.
George Wither · Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow · Open in the reader
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SomwhatSomewhat, to be removed, which doth LET,
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SomwhatSomewhat, to be removed, which doth LET,
George Wither · Funeral Poem to Thomas Westrow · p. 66 · Open in the reader