Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11389 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

incouragementencouragement

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

Puritas changed it: 2,897 times in 1,092 works
Consistency: 100% (2,897 of 2,897)
Reach if approved: ~3,092 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: encouragement
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,943 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,897 changes in 1,092 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,897)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Doct. Chriſt doth not reiect a weake faith, which ought to be a great incouragementencouragement vnto vs, if ſo be that we can finde in our ſelues any euidence …
With rule
Doct. Chriſt doth not reiect a weake faith, which ought to be a great incouragementencouragement vnto vs, if ſo be that we can finde in our ſelues any euidence …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… servants of sinne whiles they so remayned / not speaking this to giue leaue or incouragementencouragement to presume in the least or first step of sinne / lest GOD leaue them …
With rule
… servants of sinne whiles they so remayned / not speaking this to giue leaue or incouragementencouragement to presume in the least or first step of sinne / lest GOD leaue them …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this haruest should respect but the present fruit of their painefull trauell, a poore incouragementencouragement it were vnto them to continue therein al the daies of their life. But …
With rule
… this haruest should respect but the present fruit of their painefull trauell, a poore incouragementencouragement it were vnto them to continue therein al the daies of their life. But …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and our helper at hand: which cannot be but a great ſpur e of incouragementencouragement to prayer, and to prayer that goeth not out of fained lippes. To heare …
With rule
… and our helper at hand: which cannot be but a great ſpur e of incouragementencouragement to prayer, and to prayer that goeth not out of fained lippes. To heare …
Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lent faſt. For if they ſhould ſee Chriſt eating fleſh in Lent, what an incouragementencouragement would this be (thought they) for the people to doe the like?
With rule
… Lent faſt. For if they ſhould ſee Chriſt eating fleſh in Lent, what an incouragementencouragement would this be (thought they) for the people to doe the like?
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 358 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much: is this a time to ſpredd the infection of this hereſie to their incouragementencouragement? Secondly, this Abaddon ouerthroweth the good which the Church ſhould reape by the Magiſtrates …
With rule
… much: is this a time to ſpredd the infection of this hereſie to their incouragementencouragement? Secondly, this Abaddon ouerthroweth the good which the Church ſhould reape by the Magiſtrates …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a thing with vehemencie and certentie. Againe, our Sauiour Christ giuing both direction and incouragementencouragement to praier, saith thus, Whatsoeuer you desire when ye pray, beleeue that ye shall …
With rule
… a thing with vehemencie and certentie. Againe, our Sauiour Christ giuing both direction and incouragementencouragement to praier, saith thus, Whatsoeuer you desire when ye pray, beleeue that ye shall …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 320 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this Feast, because the Preacher hath execrated it; and deriue at once notice and incouragementencouragement from our terrifying censures: testimonium sibi ferat condemnationis: let him beare in himselfe the …
With rule
… this Feast, because the Preacher hath execrated it; and deriue at once notice and incouragementencouragement from our terrifying censures: testimonium sibi ferat condemnationis: let him beare in himselfe the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 42 · 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.