Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11256 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wandringwandering

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

Puritas changed it: 3,733 times in 1,491 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,733 of 3,735)
Reach if approved: ~3,927 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wandering
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,737 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,733 changes in 1,491 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,733)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and Egypt the reſemblance of a mans miſery under ſin and Sathan; and their wandringwandering in the wilderneſſe was like the humbling and breaking of the ſoule, that the …
With rule
… and Egypt the reſemblance of a mans miſery under ſin and Sathan; and their wandringwandering in the wilderneſſe was like the humbling and breaking of the ſoule, that the …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are vncomfortable seasons. Nox & erroris & terroris plenissima. The night is full of wondring, of wandringwandering. Imagine the Egyptians case in that grosse and palpable darkenesse: the longest naturall night …
With rule
… are vncomfortable seasons. Nox & erroris & terroris plenissima. The night is full of wondring, of wandringwandering. Imagine the Egyptians case in that grosse and palpable darkenesse: the longest naturall night …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beaſtly, that they died ſhortly after. They which eſcaped to the woods, and went wandringwandering by mountains, were taken, and ſet in gallies, or els were ſlaine outright: many …
With rule
… beaſtly, that they died ſhortly after. They which eſcaped to the woods, and went wandringwandering by mountains, were taken, and ſet in gallies, or els were ſlaine outright: many …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 489 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with all crueltie; that good shepherd knowing no other way to bring home a wandringwandering sheep then by worrying him to death. He fully and freely promised the undertakers …
With rule
… with all crueltie; that good shepherd knowing no other way to bring home a wandringwandering sheep then by worrying him to death. He fully and freely promised the undertakers …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to conceive them as one, but onely in one: yet our undertakings how ever wandringwandering, or unable to conceive them as one infinite being, can no way make any …
With rule
… to conceive them as one, but onely in one: yet our undertakings how ever wandringwandering, or unable to conceive them as one infinite being, can no way make any …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… confusion to themselues, vnstable Lightes, C…r…ed about with euery wind of doctrine: WandringWandering Starres, as Jude sayth, for whom is reserued (not this shyning in glory, but …
With rule
… confusion to themselues, vnstable Lightes, C…r…ed about with euery wind of doctrine: WandringWandering Starres, as Jude sayth, for whom is reserued (not this shyning in glory, but …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Grand-mother speake; whose roving eye lost vs all. Let Dinah speake, her wandringwandering eye lost her virginitie, caused the effusion of much blood. Let the Iewes speak …
With rule
… our Grand-mother speake; whose roving eye lost vs all. Let Dinah speake, her wandringwandering eye lost her virginitie, caused the effusion of much blood. Let the Iewes speak …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and looke well to your hearts, to keepe them from drowsinesse and senslesnesse, from wandringwandering and roving, that when you pray, you may pray with fervency, and feeling of …
With rule
… and looke well to your hearts, to keepe them from drowsinesse and senslesnesse, from wandringwandering and roving, that when you pray, you may pray with fervency, and feeling of …
Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Foot out of the Snare A01576

Printed
THE WANDRINGWANDERING SAINTS.
With rule
THE WANDRINGWANDERING SAINTS.
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 96 · Open in the reader

Some New Blazing Stars Styling Themselves New Lights A91187

Printed
… of Dignities: Theſe are raging waves of the Sea, foaming out their own ſhame; WANDRINGWANDERING STARS, for whom is reſerved the Blackneſſe of Darkneſſe for ever. Jude 8. 13.
With rule
… of Dignities: Theſe are raging waves of the Sea, foaming out their own ſhame; WANDRINGWANDERING STARS, for whom is reſerved the Blackneſſe of Darkneſſe for ever. Jude 8. 13.
William Prynne · Some New Blazing Stars Styling Themselves New Lights · Open in the reader