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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11436 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beleeuingbelieving

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

Puritas changed it
3,959 times in 564 works
Consistency
100% (3,959 of 3,959)
Reach if approved
~4,160 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: believing
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,959 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,959 changes in 564 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,959)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of Hell, cast the dumbe and deafe spirit out of the Childe of a beleeuingbelieving Father, Mark. 9. The spirit cryed, and rent him sore, and came out of him …
    With rule
    … of Hell, cast the dumbe and deafe spirit out of the Childe of a beleeuingbelieving Father, Mark. 9. The spirit cryed, and rent him sore, and came out of him …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    7. The multitudes of the beleeuingbelieving Iewes, or their aboundant multiplying. (2 part of verſ. 8.)
    With rule
    7. The multitudes of the beleeuingbelieving Iewes, or their aboundant multiplying. (2 part of verſ. 8.)

    Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … body, and drinke his blood; therefore by eating and drinking, he meaneth nothing but beleeuingbelieving. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud (saith he) hath eternall life …
    With rule
    … body, and drinke his blood; therefore by eating and drinking, he meaneth nothing but beleeuingbelieving. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my bloud (saith he) hath eternall life …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 306 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the ſame to her corrupt and falſe iudgement, maye iuſtly be called a falſe beleeuingbelieving church.
    With rule
    … the ſame to her corrupt and falſe iudgement, maye iuſtly be called a falſe beleeuingbelieving church.

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 107 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … guides, and louers of darknes more then the light, who are ſo farre from beleeuingbelieving that any cataract or filme is on their eyes, that they are rather perſwaded …
    With rule
    … guides, and louers of darknes more then the light, who are ſo farre from beleeuingbelieving that any cataract or filme is on their eyes, that they are rather perſwaded …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … hee that was ſent of God, who heereby teſtified of his Sonne, that by beleeuingbelieving in the Sonne, wee might haue life through him, not through our ſelues, nor …
    With rule
    … hee that was ſent of God, who heereby teſtified of his Sonne, that by beleeuingbelieving in the Sonne, wee might haue life through him, not through our ſelues, nor …

    Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    The benefit of beleeuingbelieving is multiple.
    With rule
    The benefit of beleeuingbelieving is multiple.

    Henry Greenwood · The Jailors Jail · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Firſt, a gracious heart puts his hand and ſeale vnto euery diuine truth, beleeuingbelieving and embracing all thoſe truths he meets withal, whether they be threatnings, promiſes, or …
    With rule
    Firſt, a gracious heart puts his hand and ſeale vnto euery diuine truth, beleeuingbelieving and embracing all thoſe truths he meets withal, whether they be threatnings, promiſes, or …

    Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 108 · 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.