Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11340 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

imploymentemployment

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

Puritas changed it: 4,034 times in 1,408 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,034 of 4,036)
Reach if approved: ~4,480 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: employment
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,264 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,034 changes in 1,408 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,034)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Cain into the Land of Nod, into what place he will, or to what imploymentemployment he will: ſo that proud man ſhall feele ſomething within, for his wickedneſſe, when …
With rule
… Cain into the Land of Nod, into what place he will, or to what imploymentemployment he will: ſo that proud man ſhall feele ſomething within, for his wickedneſſe, when …
Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
COnſcience hath great imploymentemployment, and much buſineſſe, with the whole Man; with all his thoughts, words, and deeds …
With rule
COnſcience hath great imploymentemployment, and much buſineſſe, with the whole Man; with all his thoughts, words, and deeds …
Richard Bernard · Christian See to Thy Conscience · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… power, much lesse a vertue to worke miracles, which cannot be effected without the imploymentemployment of the divine Omnipotencie.
With rule
… power, much lesse a vertue to worke miracles, which cannot be effected without the imploymentemployment of the divine Omnipotencie.
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no businesse of more then ordinary weight did he lightly undertake without some such imploymentemployment. It is said of Cornelius, Thy prayers and thine almes, and these two constantly …
With rule
… no businesse of more then ordinary weight did he lightly undertake without some such imploymentemployment. It is said of Cornelius, Thy prayers and thine almes, and these two constantly …
Thomas Gataker · The Decrease of Lazarus · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Divines from their calling; ſo hee the tempter and the accuſer from his imploymentemployment; & by this his long experience & abſervation he hath his foreign 2 Cor. 2. 11. his ſet and compoſed …
With rule
… or Divines from their calling; ſo hee the tempter and the accuſer from his imploymentemployment; & by this his long experience & abſervation he hath his foreign 2 Cor. 2. 11. his ſet and compoſed …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Carpenters putting aſide of a worne Inſtrument, unfit for any longer ſervice, or imploymentemployment; what is Death to Gods children, but as a gueſt making haſt out of …
With rule
… the Carpenters putting aſide of a worne Inſtrument, unfit for any longer ſervice, or imploymentemployment; what is Death to Gods children, but as a gueſt making haſt out of …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… falling into ſuch a iourney as before I ſpake of; there is one maine imploymentemployment, and that concernes the ſoule, it is like a grand triall at the law …
With rule
… falling into ſuch a iourney as before I ſpake of; there is one maine imploymentemployment, and that concernes the ſoule, it is like a grand triall at the law …
Samuel Hieron · The Christians Life-Lode · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his darts of temptations; as firſt Solitarineſſe whether in regrad of cōpany, or of imploymentemployment, for ſo he watched to find Eue alone from her Husband, and then ſet …
With rule
… his darts of temptations; as firſt Solitarineſſe whether in regrad of cōpany, or of imploymentemployment, for ſo he watched to find Eue alone from her Husband, and then ſet …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 309 · 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.

Plea for the Lords A91243

Printed
… by mouth, of heinous matters; and therefore prayed TO BE DISCHARGED OF THE SAID IMPLOYMENTEMPLOYMENT, untill the ſaid accuſations and complaints were tried, and found true, or not true …
With rule
… by mouth, of heinous matters; and therefore prayed TO BE DISCHARGED OF THE SAID IMPLOYMENTEMPLOYMENT, untill the ſaid accuſations and complaints were tried, and found true, or not true …
William Prynne · Plea for the Lords · p. 48 · Open in the reader

Answer to the Narration of the Practices of the Churches in New England A96167

Printed
… compleate organicall body Hence …heſe objections alſo in his Marg anſwered, OF WANT OF IMPLOYMENTEMPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE for the Officers, in regard of their ſmall number.
With rule
… compleate organicall body Hence …heſe objections alſo in his Marg anſwered, OF WANT OF IMPLOYMENTEMPLOYMENT AND MAINTENANCE for the Officers, in regard of their ſmall number.
Thomas Weld · Answer to the Narration of the Practices of the Churches in New England · p. 14 · Open in the reader