Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11274 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

childrēchildren

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

Puritas changed it: 1,708 times in 478 works
Consistency: 97.0% (1,708 of 1,760)
Reach if approved: ~1,850 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,761 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: childrē (52)
Taken into joins: 1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,708 changes in 478 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,708)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Which was as much as to ſay, our fathers committed the ſinne, & we their childrēchildren do beare the puniſhmēt & ſmart for it. Thus they did cleere them ſelues, and …
With rule
… Which was as much as to ſay, our fathers committed the ſinne, & we their childrēchildren do beare the puniſhmēt & ſmart for it. Thus they did cleere them ſelues, and …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… Samuel) ſhal be the Lawe of the kīge, which ſhall rule ouer you. Your childrēchildren ſhall he take to ſerue in his chariot, and to be his horſe men …
With rule
… Samuel) ſhal be the Lawe of the kīge, which ſhall rule ouer you. Your childrēchildren ſhall he take to ſerue in his chariot, and to be his horſe men …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good worcke. Nowe if onelye the Scriptures be Theopnestos, and sufficient to make Gods childrēchildren absolutely perfect, even fully furnished to every good work, what blasphemie is it to …
With rule
… good worcke. Nowe if onelye the Scriptures be Theopnestos, and sufficient to make Gods childrēchildren absolutely perfect, even fully furnished to every good work, what blasphemie is it to …
John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as a cursse, plage, or scourge for their vnfaithful nes. I shal giue you childrēchildren (saith the Lord) to be your princes, & babes shal haue rule ouer you. Esa …
With rule
… as a cursse, plage, or scourge for their vnfaithful nes. I shal giue you childrēchildren (saith the Lord) to be your princes, & babes shal haue rule ouer you. Esa …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… out theſe two things which I haue named, the ability to teach the obedient childrēchildren of the Church, and the ſkill to oppoſe himſelfe againſt the enemies of the …
With rule
… out theſe two things which I haue named, the ability to teach the obedient childrēchildren of the Church, and the ſkill to oppoſe himſelfe againſt the enemies of the …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vntill by the fathers authoritie and conſente, more full power be giuen to their childrēchildren, becauſe of their yeeres and diſcretion. Numb. 30. 4. When a woman hath vewed a vowe …
With rule
… vntill by the fathers authoritie and conſente, more full power be giuen to their childrēchildren, becauſe of their yeeres and diſcretion. Numb. 30. 4. When a woman hath vewed a vowe …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuccéeded D. Crāmer, Lambert in the meane time being deliuered, returned to Lond. & taught childrēchildren about y^e Stocks.
With rule
… ſuccéeded D. Crāmer, Lambert in the meane time being deliuered, returned to Lond. & taught childrēchildren about y^e Stocks.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is said, that the ryuer Rhene in Germany wyll drowne basterd childrēchildren that be cast in it, but dryue alonde them that be lawfully begotten.
With rule
It is said, that the ryuer Rhene in Germany wyll drowne basterd childrēchildren that be cast in it, but dryue alonde them that be lawfully begotten.
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.