Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11317 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nombernumber

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

Puritas changed it: 795 times in 149 works
Consistency: 99.1% (795 of 802)
Reach if approved: ~843 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: number
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 802 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (795 changes in 149 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 795)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as, Looke what number of ſtarres there be in the heauens, ſo many in nombernumber ſhall thy ſeede be: ſaide God to Abraham. Whoſe contradictions, are the deniall of …
With rule
… as, Looke what number of ſtarres there be in the heauens, ſo many in nombernumber ſhall thy ſeede be: ſaide God to Abraham. Whoſe contradictions, are the deniall of …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Apostles, calleth Peter the first: it is to childish & friuolous. For in euery nombernumber, one or other must be the first & it seemeth that Peter was first called …
With rule
… the Apostles, calleth Peter the first: it is to childish & friuolous. For in euery nombernumber, one or other must be the first & it seemeth that Peter was first called …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
11 Before the .iiii. Beastes was it opened also by this nombernumber of godlye teachers. Which Beastes are the pryuate congregacions of the lorde / remayninge here …
With rule
11 Before the .iiii. Beastes was it opened also by this nombernumber of godlye teachers. Which Beastes are the pryuate congregacions of the lorde / remayninge here …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Scarlet, thei shalbe made as why…e as Snow: & albeit in multitude thei passed nombernumber, yet so shal thei be … out, y^• none of them shal appear to dā …
With rule
… Scarlet, thei shalbe made as why…e as Snow: & albeit in multitude thei passed nombernumber, yet so shal thei be … out, y^• none of them shal appear to dā …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
His worthy werkes in nombernumber mo than fyue
With rule
His worthy werkes in nombernumber mo than fyue
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader
Printed
… Satā thorow Christ. The tente y^• sacrifice of prayse. These ten are equal in nombernumber w^t the strynges of Dauids Harpe, which also ware tē as it appereth by …
With rule
… Satā thorow Christ. The tente y^• sacrifice of prayse. These ten are equal in nombernumber w^t the strynges of Dauids Harpe, which also ware tē as it appereth by …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… the people of Israell, that afterwarde God should gyue them a kinge of the nombernumber of theyr brothers, which should be theyr rulers as all nacions haue thorowe out …
With rule
… the people of Israell, that afterwarde God should gyue them a kinge of the nombernumber of theyr brothers, which should be theyr rulers as all nacions haue thorowe out …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… I call the corrupt maners of that worlde and age, the quantitie is the nombernumber of the yeres. And as for the qualitie, ther is no doute therof, when …
With rule
… I call the corrupt maners of that worlde and age, the quantitie is the nombernumber of the yeres. And as for the qualitie, ther is no doute therof, when …
Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 A02825

Printed
… iudgement of this secrete to the witte of manne / some wryters hath deducted thys NomberNumber out of serten Greke wordes / betokeninge thys great Antichrist / because thys present Reuelacion was …
With rule
… iudgement of this secrete to the witte of manne / some wryters hath deducted thys NomberNumber out of serten Greke wordes / betokeninge thys great Antichrist / because thys present Reuelacion was …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet contayne they after the Greke rewles / neyther more nor lesse than thys sett NomberNumber. And all this maye stande both with scripture and reason. For he that ys …
With rule
… yet contayne they after the Greke rewles / neyther more nor lesse than thys sett NomberNumber. And all this maye stande both with scripture and reason. For he that ys …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

Printed
AN ANSWER TO A GREAT NOMBERNUMBER of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal Predestination. AND …
With rule
AN ANSWER TO A GREAT NOMBERNUMBER of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal Predestination. AND …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 1 · Open in the reader

Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed A10250

Printed
PRINCIPLES TOVCHING THE NOMBERNUMBER OF THE SACRAMENTS OF THE NEVV TESTAMENT. LVII.
With rule
PRINCIPLES TOVCHING THE NOMBERNUMBER OF THE SACRAMENTS OF THE NEVV TESTAMENT. LVII.
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 169 · Open in the reader

A Pastime for Parents A20191

Printed
… diuers from ours: cleareneſſe, becauſe that which was obſcurely ſhadowed, is now clearely reuealed: NomberNumber, béecauſe they had a great multitude of Sacramentall figures, wée as few in number …
With rule
… diuers from ours: cleareneſſe, becauſe that which was obſcurely ſhadowed, is now clearely reuealed: NomberNumber, béecauſe they had a great multitude of Sacramentall figures, wée as few in number …
Arthur Dent · A Pastime for Parents · Open in the reader