Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11187 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

waightweight

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

Puritas changed it: 2,061 times in 623 works
Consistency: 99.3% (2,061 of 2,074)
Reach if approved: ~2,179 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: weight
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,074 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,061 changes in 623 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,061)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… whose workes he doth, a thing equally and tustly answering vnto the time and waightweight of his travailes rather then to a voluntarie or bountifull gift. If I say …
With rule
… whose workes he doth, a thing equally and tustly answering vnto the time and waightweight of his travailes rather then to a voluntarie or bountifull gift. If I say …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Nature of Pride · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… according to the rules preſcribed in the word of God, & all ſuch matters of waightweight and moment. Chiefly vntill by the fathers authority and conſent, more full power be …
With rule
… according to the rules preſcribed in the word of God, & all ſuch matters of waightweight and moment. Chiefly vntill by the fathers authority and conſent, more full power be …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did Thorp maintaine the trueth, againſt the archbiſhop. Who, among many arguments of no waightweight, alledged the examples of P. Rampington (who now perſecuted the brethren, although he had …
With rule
… did Thorp maintaine the trueth, againſt the archbiſhop. Who, among many arguments of no waightweight, alledged the examples of P. Rampington (who now perſecuted the brethren, although he had …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 301 · Open in the reader
Printed
… friends. But when the ſword of iuſtice is drawn, and inflicted according to the waightweight and meaſure of their deteſtable deſignes, we ſhall, I hope, haue fewer of them …
With rule
… friends. But when the ſword of iuſtice is drawn, and inflicted according to the waightweight and meaſure of their deteſtable deſignes, we ſhall, I hope, haue fewer of them …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
Theſe thrée I ioyned together as hauing no waightweight. Ye ſay I anſwere by playne contradiction, without Scripture, or proofe. In déede you …
With rule
Theſe thrée I ioyned together as hauing no waightweight. Ye ſay I anſwere by playne contradiction, without Scripture, or proofe. In déede you …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Chriſts preſence and aſſiſtance, of his bright and laſt appearance, and of the waightweight of glorie laide vp in heauen, where Chriſt now is, and where we ſhall …
With rule
… of Chriſts preſence and aſſiſtance, of his bright and laſt appearance, and of the waightweight of glorie laide vp in heauen, where Chriſt now is, and where we ſhall …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · Open in the reader
Printed
Gods mercies to vs shall vie waightweight and number with theirs. We are if not their paralell; yet their second in …
With rule
Gods mercies to vs shall vie waightweight and number with theirs. We are if not their paralell; yet their second in …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſubiect to ther limitations herein: and ſo deliuer Gods people their bread by waightweight, and their water by meaſaure, not ſuffering the hungry to be ſatiſfied with the …
With rule
… be ſubiect to ther limitations herein: and ſo deliuer Gods people their bread by waightweight, and their water by meaſaure, not ſuffering the hungry to be ſatiſfied with the …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
… people, and those, over whom they domineere! It is then a work of great WaightWeight and Worthinesse, to winne a great man to the waies of God. Hereby the …
With rule
… people, and those, over whom they domineere! It is then a work of great WaightWeight and Worthinesse, to winne a great man to the waies of God. Hereby the …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · Open in the reader
Printed
… Man will take Christ for his Husband, till Hee come to know & feele the WaightWeight of Satans yoke. Till that time, Hee will never come to take upon Him …
With rule
… Man will take Christ for his Husband, till Hee come to know & feele the WaightWeight of Satans yoke. Till that time, Hee will never come to take upon Him …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 144 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

Printed
… a meaſure comprehended the Duſt of the Earth, and weighed the Mountaines with a WaightWeight, and the Hils in a Ballance? Who then is like vnto our God? or …
With rule
… a meaſure comprehended the Duſt of the Earth, and weighed the Mountaines with a WaightWeight, and the Hils in a Ballance? Who then is like vnto our God? or …
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 110 · Open in the reader

The Christian Sabbath Vindicated A78427

Printed
… comes to in ſeven) between the Continuance and Frequency: On vvhich ſide the greateſt WaightWeight ſhould be put, whether on the Continuance, to make that as large as may …
With rule
… comes to in ſeven) between the Continuance and Frequency: On vvhich ſide the greateſt WaightWeight ſhould be put, whether on the Continuance, to make that as large as may …
Daniel Cawdry · The Christian Sabbath Vindicated · p. 128 · Open in the reader

Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves A95888

Printed
… ſheep and horſes, from the Country people, which being timely made known to Colonell WaightWeight, who moſt valiantly kept and commanded Burleigh-houſe, upon the edge of that Countie …
With rule
… ſheep and horſes, from the Country people, which being timely made known to Colonell WaightWeight, who moſt valiantly kept and commanded Burleigh-houſe, upon the edge of that Countie …
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he had been, at that time, taken priſoner. And upon a ſecond charge Colonell WaightWeight ſo bravely beſtirr'd himſelf with his valiant aſſociates, that though he had his horſe …
With rule
… he had been, at that time, taken priſoner. And upon a ſecond charge Colonell WaightWeight ſo bravely beſtirr'd himſelf with his valiant aſſociates, that though he had his horſe …
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and prevented; And the brave defeat given to the Belvoir Cormorants, by renowned Colonell WaightWeight.
With rule
… and prevented; And the brave defeat given to the Belvoir Cormorants, by renowned Colonell WaightWeight.
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
Col. WaightWeight beats the Kings Cormorants of Belvoir. 110
With rule
Col. WaightWeight beats the Kings Cormorants of Belvoir. 110
John Vicars · Gods Ark Overtopping the Worlds Waves · Open in the reader