Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11386 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

disswadedissuade

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

Puritas changed it: 1,342 times in 755 works
Consistency: 99.4% (1,342 of 1,350)
Reach if approved: ~1,418 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dissuade
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,350 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,342 changes in 755 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,342)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… make a man leap over all blocks, Ruth 1.16. Naomi having alledged many arguments to diſſwadedissuade Ruth, marke how ſhe reſolves, intreat me not, for thy God ſhall be my …
With rule
… make a man leap over all blocks, Ruth 1.16. Naomi having alledged many arguments to diſſwadedissuade Ruth, marke how ſhe reſolves, intreat me not, for thy God ſhall be my …
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of it, yet in gencrally I remember the scope of it. He … about to disswadedissuade the king frō his supremicy. In hys perswasions he is very homely, very quicke …
With rule
… of it, yet in gencrally I remember the scope of it. He … about to disswadedissuade the king frō his supremicy. In hys perswasions he is very homely, very quicke …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
IF Sathan or any of his impes goe about to disswadedissuade thee, and to plucke thy minde from studying, readyng or hearyng gods woorde, that …
With rule
IF Sathan or any of his impes goe about to disswadedissuade thee, and to plucke thy minde from studying, readyng or hearyng gods woorde, that …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
Here I came to the firſt reaſon vſed by our Apoſtle to diſſwadedissuade vs from committing ſo vile a ſinne, contained in theſe words; there remaineth no …
With rule
Here I came to the firſt reaſon vſed by our Apoſtle to diſſwadedissuade vs from committing ſo vile a ſinne, contained in theſe words; there remaineth no …
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wildernesse. During which time Satan vndoubtedly wrought mightily vpon his naturall affections, to disswadedissuade him from obedience: which could not chuse but be farre more greeuous vnto his …
With rule
… the wildernesse. During which time Satan vndoubtedly wrought mightily vpon his naturall affections, to disswadedissuade him from obedience: which could not chuse but be farre more greeuous vnto his …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the people of Iſraell and Iudah, from Dan euen to Beer-ſheba; Ioab would diſſwadedissuade him from his purpoſe: Notwithſtaending the Kings word preuailed againſt Ioab and againſt the …
With rule
… the people of Iſraell and Iudah, from Dan euen to Beer-ſheba; Ioab would diſſwadedissuade him from his purpoſe: Notwithſtaending the Kings word preuailed againſt Ioab and againſt the …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not at their table. Hee hath three inducements to perswade, and three defects to disswadedissuade the soule from accepting his loue. If the former induce any to him, let …
With rule
… not at their table. Hee hath three inducements to perswade, and three defects to disswadedissuade the soule from accepting his loue. If the former induce any to him, let …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, then by his wrath and Iustice. Neither neede I a stronger argument to disswadedissuade you from sinne, then by his passion that dyed for vs being enemies. For …
With rule
… God, then by his wrath and Iustice. Neither neede I a stronger argument to disswadedissuade you from sinne, then by his passion that dyed for vs being enemies. For …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 86 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins A20760

Printed
FOVRE TREATISES, TENDING TO DISSWADEDISSUADE ALL CHRISTIANS from foure no leſſe hainous then common ſinnes; namely, the abuſes of …
With rule
FOVRE TREATISES, TENDING TO DISSWADEDISSUADE ALL CHRISTIANS from foure no leſſe hainous then common ſinnes; namely, the abuſes of …
John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · Open in the reader

Twenty Sermons A62137

Printed
… this point of Wisdom: behold how resolute and wilfull they are in their courses. DisswadeDissuade them therefrom with the best art you can devise: they will, it may be …
With rule
… this point of Wisdom: behold how resolute and wilfull they are in their courses. DisswadeDissuade them therefrom with the best art you can devise: they will, it may be …
Robert Sanderson · Twenty Sermons · p. 86 · Open in the reader