Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11205 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

raignedreigned

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

Puritas changed it: 1,999 times in 482 works
Consistency: 97.5% (1,999 of 2,049)
Reach if approved: ~2,154 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: reigned
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,050 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,999 changes in 482 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,999)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be glad and reioyce, and giue glory to the Lord God Almightie, who hath raignedreigned. Let vs with our spirituall musicke giue glory to him: because the mariage of …
With rule
… be glad and reioyce, and giue glory to the Lord God Almightie, who hath raignedreigned. Let vs with our spirituall musicke giue glory to him: because the mariage of …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · Open in the reader
Printed
Afterward, when the Kings of Iuda raignedreigned euen vntill the captiuitie, what gréeuous complaints are made againſt them? A great part …
With rule
Afterward, when the Kings of Iuda raignedreigned euen vntill the captiuitie, what gréeuous complaints are made againſt them? A great part …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… roote of all diseases: and therefore to pray against sudden death, which hath sometime raignedreigned in the Church, though now wee bee free from it, and manifold diseases, which …
With rule
… roote of all diseases: and therefore to pray against sudden death, which hath sometime raignedreigned in the Church, though now wee bee free from it, and manifold diseases, which …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 560 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a change it wrought in him, how it mortified that lust that had so raignedreigned in him before; he became presently a most liberall man, as you may see …
With rule
… a change it wrought in him, how it mortified that lust that had so raignedreigned in him before; he became presently a most liberall man, as you may see …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 733 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaid, that being in ſome ſtraits, he tooke his eldeſt ſonne that ſhould haue raignedreigned in his ſtead, and offered him for a burnt offering vpon the wall.
With rule
… ſaid, that being in ſome ſtraits, he tooke his eldeſt ſonne that ſhould haue raignedreigned in his ſtead, and offered him for a burnt offering vpon the wall.
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a pure Fable? For where did we euer read of a King Coſtus that raignedreigned at Alexandria, whoſe daughter they make her to be, or of an Emperour Maxentius …
With rule
… a pure Fable? For where did we euer read of a King Coſtus that raignedreigned at Alexandria, whoſe daughter they make her to be, or of an Emperour Maxentius …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
Zimry conspired against Ela king of Israell, slew him and raignedreigned in his steade. But shortly after he was driuen to suche misery and straytes …
With rule
Zimry conspired against Ela king of Israell, slew him and raignedreigned in his steade. But shortly after he was driuen to suche misery and straytes …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… the loue of God, which is in Chriſt Ieſus our Lord. If when Chriſt raignedreigned in humilitie the diuels were conſtrained to aske him leaue, howe ſhall they nowe …
With rule
… the loue of God, which is in Chriſt Ieſus our Lord. If when Chriſt raignedreigned in humilitie the diuels were conſtrained to aske him leaue, howe ſhall they nowe …
Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 220 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (50)

43 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 are listed here. 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Churchs Deliverance A19286

Printed
… on earth, how great then may we imagine our reward to be in Heauen. RaignedReigned] in that the holy Ghoſt implies a peaceable ſubiection of ſo many diuers Prouinces …
With rule
… on earth, how great then may we imagine our reward to be in Heauen. RaignedReigned] in that the holy Ghoſt implies a peaceable ſubiection of ſo many diuers Prouinces …
Thomas Cooper · The Churchs Deliverance · p. 3 · Open in the reader

A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government A29737

Printed
… against the Saxons, and foure yeares Raigne, died. After whom succeeded Malgo Conanus, and RaignedReigned six yeares. After him Careticus, who setting upon the Saxons and beaten, …led into …
With rule
… against the Saxons, and foure yeares Raigne, died. After whom succeeded Malgo Conanus, and RaignedReigned six yeares. After him Careticus, who setting upon the Saxons and beaten, …led into …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they were ready to Depose him; but howsoever hee lived not long after, having RaignedReigned one and twenty yeares. His yongest sonne Neoto, was much addicted to learning, and …
With rule
… they were ready to Depose him; but howsoever hee lived not long after, having RaignedReigned one and twenty yeares. His yongest sonne Neoto, was much addicted to learning, and …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into the Saxon Tongue, which was then the Mother tongue of the Land. He RaignedReigned fifteen… yeares, Dyed at Glocest…r, and was buryed at Mamesbery, in the yeare …
With rule
… into the Saxon Tongue, which was then the Mother tongue of the Land. He RaignedReigned fifteen… yeares, Dyed at Glocest…r, and was buryed at Mamesbery, in the yeare …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could he not runne so fast, but that death quickely overtooke him; For having RaignedReigned onely foure yeares and some moneths, he dyed at Oxford … and was buryed at …
With rule
… could he not runne so fast, but that death quickely overtooke him; For having RaignedReigned onely foure yeares and some moneths, he dyed at Oxford … and was buryed at …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place he dyed, on the 19. day of October, in the yeare 1216. when he had RaignedReigned seventeene yeares and sixe moneths; Lived one and fifty: He was buryed, his bowels …
With rule
… place he dyed, on the 19. day of October, in the yeare 1216. when he had RaignedReigned seventeene yeares and sixe moneths; Lived one and fifty: He was buryed, his bowels …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 103 · Open in the reader

The Application of Redemption A44342

Printed
… God and the free Gift by Grace … unto many to … and life that … Sin RaignedReigned unto death So Grace might raigne … Eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
With rule
… God and the free Gift by Grace … unto many to … and life that … Sin RaignedReigned unto death So Grace might raigne … Eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Thomas Hooker · The Application of Redemption · p. 74 · Open in the reader

Observations of all the Kings of England A50052

Printed
… things of all our own Kings and Governours, who have for so many years RaignedReigned amongst us. Examples of Superiours especially are very prevalent, which of the Rulers believed …
With rule
… things of all our own Kings and Governours, who have for so many years RaignedReigned amongst us. Examples of Superiours especially are very prevalent, which of the Rulers believed …
Edward Leigh · Observations of all the Kings of England · Open in the reader