Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11391 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pleasauntpleasant

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

Puritas changed it: 610 times in 176 works
Consistency: 99.0% (610 of 616)
Reach if approved: ~647 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pleasant
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 616 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (610 changes in 176 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 610)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… folyshe iudgemēt / bycause he is ledde of a contrarye sprete / yet were they right pleasauntpleasant to their lorde God / in whose kyngedom nowe they rest with Abraham / Isaac / and …
With rule
… folyshe iudgemēt / bycause he is ledde of a contrarye sprete / yet were they right pleasauntpleasant to their lorde God / in whose kyngedom nowe they rest with Abraham / Isaac / and …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to haue spoken at thys tyme suche thynges as myght haue bene confortable and pleasauntpleasant for you to heare.
With rule
… to haue spoken at thys tyme suche thynges as myght haue bene confortable and pleasauntpleasant for you to heare.
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… beare the punishmentes of sinne. It seeketh after such thinges as are sweete and pleasauntpleasant: but troubles and trauells it can not beare. Wherefore either it flieth altogither from …
With rule
… beare the punishmentes of sinne. It seeketh after such thinges as are sweete and pleasauntpleasant: but troubles and trauells it can not beare. Wherefore either it flieth altogither from …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of men, by the onely grace of the holy Ghoſt from heauen. The moſt pleaſauntpleasant and comfortable ſunne Ieſus Chriſt maketh this daye, whom the Scripture hereupon calleth the …
With rule
… of men, by the onely grace of the holy Ghoſt from heauen. The moſt pleaſauntpleasant and comfortable ſunne Ieſus Chriſt maketh this daye, whom the Scripture hereupon calleth the …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 241 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hi hol… scriptures another doctrine, euen the doctrine of the gospell, that most sweete, pleasauntpleasant, and ioyful tidings of our saluacion, which cō forteth, chereth, & maketh merye weake consciences …
With rule
… hi hol… scriptures another doctrine, euen the doctrine of the gospell, that most sweete, pleasauntpleasant, and ioyful tidings of our saluacion, which cō forteth, chereth, & maketh merye weake consciences …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. iii · Open in the reader
Printed
… cleaue to me alone wyth all thy harte, attempte no thyng but that is pleasauntpleasant in my syght, order thy lyfe in all poyntes accordyng to my holy wyll …
With rule
… cleaue to me alone wyth all thy harte, attempte no thyng but that is pleasauntpleasant in my syght, order thy lyfe in all poyntes accordyng to my holy wyll …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
… come. The houses that you leue behinde you here, be they neuer so gorgious & pleasauntpleasant, are but earthy made of clay, and wether beaten stones, & shall in proces of …
With rule
… come. The houses that you leue behinde you here, be they neuer so gorgious & pleasauntpleasant, are but earthy made of clay, and wether beaten stones, & shall in proces of …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 322 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, may afterwarde in pure and perfect iustice offer them selues as a most pleasauntpleasant hoste and oblation vnto our Lord. But this question of purgatory paines I will …
With rule
… God, may afterwarde in pure and perfect iustice offer them selues as a most pleasauntpleasant hoste and oblation vnto our Lord. But this question of purgatory paines I will …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 106 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Goodly Gallery A01313

Printed
A GOODLY GALLERYE WITH A MOST PLEAsauntPleasant Prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all …
With rule
A GOODLY GALLERYE WITH A MOST PLEAsauntPleasant Prospect, into the garden of naturall contemplation, to behold the naturall causes of all …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
PleasauntPleasant.
With rule
PleasauntPleasant.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
PleasauntPleasant.
With rule
PleasauntPleasant.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
PleasauntPleasant sportyng twoo w…yes vsed.
With rule
PleasauntPleasant sportyng twoo w…yes vsed.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
PleasauntPleasant answeres contrary to our lokyng, delite muche.
With rule
PleasauntPleasant answeres contrary to our lokyng, delite muche.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader