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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11259 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

connexionconnection

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

Puritas changed it
3,650 times in 1,136 works
Consistency
99.9% (3,650 of 3,653)
Reach if approved
~3,840 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: connexion
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,655 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,650 changes in 1,136 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,650)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … per ſe primò, but onely ex conſequenti, connexione virtutum, by reaſon of the mutuall connexionconnection, & commerce of one vertue with, and dependance upon another. Advertendum eſt (inquit) dupliciter contra …
    With rule
    … per ſe primò, but onely ex conſequenti, connexione virtutum, by reaſon of the mutuall connexionconnection, & commerce of one vertue with, and dependance upon another. Advertendum eſt (inquit) dupliciter contra …

    Henry Jeanes · Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … is ſaid in like manner to have built an Altar before it, Exod. 32.5. This connexionconnection between the Gentile-altars, and Idol-ſtatues or Images, may alſo be gathered out …
    With rule
    … is ſaid in like manner to have built an Altar before it, Exod. 32.5. This connexionconnection between the Gentile-altars, and Idol-ſtatues or Images, may alſo be gathered out …

    Joseph Mede · The Name Altar · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    And first from the ConnexionConnection, I am God All-sufficient; therefore walke before me, and be thou perfect (I …
    With rule
    And first from the ConnexionConnection, I am God All-sufficient; therefore walke before me, and be thou perfect (I …

    John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … visions of Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechary, &c. or by reason of the obscure and strange connexionconnection of one part with another, or of the dependance thereof upon forren learning, or …
    With rule
    … visions of Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechary, &c. or by reason of the obscure and strange connexionconnection of one part with another, or of the dependance thereof upon forren learning, or …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 275 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of Man, it hath appeared that the mayne course of humane life, is a connexionconnection or succession of vnrighteousnesse and wretchednesse. Man liueth as out of the sight of …
    With rule
    … of Man, it hath appeared that the mayne course of humane life, is a connexionconnection or succession of vnrighteousnesse and wretchednesse. Man liueth as out of the sight of …

    Francis Rous · The Art of Happiness · p. 237 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is gashed and diuided: and the reason is, because there was but an artificiall connexionconnection before in the one, there was a naturall conjunction in the other.
    With rule
    … is gashed and diuided: and the reason is, because there was but an artificiall connexionconnection before in the one, there was a naturall conjunction in the other.

    Thomas Gataker · Two Marriage Sermons · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Q. VVHat may bee gathered from connexionconnection of the latter part of the Sixt Petition with the former part?
    With rule
    Q. VVHat may bee gathered from connexionconnection of the latter part of the Sixt Petition with the former part?

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 257 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … this, to theſe two heads may a man refer all preaching. This for the connexionconnection. Now for the Text: in euery mans eye and apprehenſion it diuides it ſelfe …
    With rule
    … this, to theſe two heads may a man refer all preaching. This for the connexionconnection. Now for the Text: in euery mans eye and apprehenſion it diuides it ſelfe …

    Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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 Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures A01074

  • Printed
    A GENERALL CONNExionConnection and Harmony of all those holy Scriptures that are appointed to be read throughout …
    With rule
    A GENERALL CONNExionConnection and Harmony of all those holy Scriptures that are appointed to be read throughout …

    James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 283 · Open in the reader

Sermons Experimental A11603

  • Printed
    COnnexionConnection this; Why all this? Anſw. I beleeved, therefore have I ſpoken; the ſenſe, ſee …
    With rule
    COnnexionConnection this; Why all this? Anſw. I beleeved, therefore have I ſpoken; the ſenſe, ſee …

    William Sclater · Sermons Experimental · p. 95 · Open in the reader

An Holy Connection N00132

  • Printed
    AN HOLY CONNEXIONCONNECTION, Or a true AGREEMENT Between Jehovahs being a WALL of FIRE to his People …
    With rule
    AN HOLY CONNEXIONCONNECTION, Or a true AGREEMENT Between Jehovahs being a WALL of FIRE to his People …

    James Fitch · An Holy Connection · Open in the reader