Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11466 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chauncechance

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

Puritas changed it: 962 times in 264 works
Consistency: 98.1% (962 of 980)
Reach if approved: ~1,030 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chance
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 980 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (962 changes in 264 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 962)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… man. This was myne intent and meaning. I do not know, what ye calle chauncechance medly in the lawe, it is not for my study. I am a scholer …
With rule
… man. This was myne intent and meaning. I do not know, what ye calle chauncechance medly in the lawe, it is not for my study. I am a scholer …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… your god, & ye ſhal be in ſaufegarde, beleue to his prophetes, & all thinges ſhal chauncechance proſperouſe, And whan the people did ſynge praiſes to god in faith, the lorde …
With rule
… your god, & ye ſhal be in ſaufegarde, beleue to his prophetes, & all thinges ſhal chauncechance proſperouſe, And whan the people did ſynge praiſes to god in faith, the lorde …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… theé in his feare, and bridle theé from custome of Sinn. But if thou chauncechance too fall intoo SINNE, (as the infirmitie of mans flesh is very slyppery) wherin …
With rule
… theé in his feare, and bridle theé from custome of Sinn. But if thou chauncechance too fall intoo SINNE, (as the infirmitie of mans flesh is very slyppery) wherin …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · Open in the reader
Printed
… here, that the power of the aduersary, obteyneth rule in the world, not by chauncechance or against the will of Christ, but by his will and pleasure, to take …
With rule
… here, that the power of the aduersary, obteyneth rule in the world, not by chauncechance or against the will of Christ, but by his will and pleasure, to take …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when you breake it it muſt be but accidētes & no God. Moreouer, if it chauncechance you to touche it wyth your teeth, and ſwalowe it downe your throte, make …
With rule
… when you breake it it muſt be but accidētes & no God. Moreouer, if it chauncechance you to touche it wyth your teeth, and ſwalowe it downe your throte, make …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. lxxxvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… thou a pleasaunte thinge vnto him? All this set a parte / yf it shuld chauncechance that some worldly trouth were not in thy wordes / (besydes conscience) thou shuldest vtterly …
With rule
… thou a pleasaunte thinge vnto him? All this set a parte / yf it shuld chauncechance that some worldly trouth were not in thy wordes / (besydes conscience) thou shuldest vtterly …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my wordes, viz: [The diſpoſingꝭ of the chauncechance is ſecret, that it might be chauncechance indeed, & wholy of God, who directed all things.] Doe theis wordes iuſtifie Mr. Gatakers …
With rule
… my wordes, viz: [The diſpoſingꝭ of the chauncechance is ſecret, that it might be chauncechance indeed, & wholy of God, who directed all things.] Doe theis wordes iuſtifie Mr. Gatakers …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… therefore in ordinarie thinges, are hindred by the meanes: inextraordinarie, they ſee nothing but chauncechance: and therefore they ſay, What profite ſhall wee haue yf we pray? The children …
With rule
… therefore in ordinarie thinges, are hindred by the meanes: inextraordinarie, they ſee nothing but chauncechance: and therefore they ſay, What profite ſhall wee haue yf we pray? The children …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 are listed here. 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines A01262

Printed
ChaunceChance and fortune are Gods deuiſed by man and made by our ignorance of the …
With rule
ChaunceChance and fortune are Gods deuiſed by man and made by our ignorance of the …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 205 · Open in the reader

Anti-Prognostication A01297

Printed
… And here by the way where as I vse the wordes of Happen and ChaunceChance, you muste not take me, that I meane the thynge shoulde come by blynde …
With rule
… And here by the way where as I vse the wordes of Happen and ChaunceChance, you muste not take me, that I meane the thynge shoulde come by blynde …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader

Nature and Use of Lots A01545

Printed
… manner the same censure vpon them: that to expect the euent of them from ChaunceChance or Fortune is friuolous, from euill spirits superstitious, from planets ridiculous, from God alone …
With rule
… manner the same censure vpon them: that to expect the euent of them from ChaunceChance or Fortune is friuolous, from euill spirits superstitious, from planets ridiculous, from God alone …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… point confesse else-where against themselues when they say, that The disposing of the ChaunceChance is secrete that it may be ChaunceChance indeed and wholy of God, who directeth …
With rule
… point confesse else-where against themselues when they say, that The disposing of the ChaunceChance is secrete that it may be ChaunceChance indeed and wholy of God, who directeth …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Empire foreshewed him by the fall of the dice affording him the highest ChaunceChance.
With rule
… the Empire foreshewed him by the fall of the dice affording him the highest ChaunceChance.
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as one faith of vnskilfull Physitions, that they indeed cure not their Patients, but ChaunceChance, if any be cured by them: because they minister medicines without ground or good …
With rule
… as one faith of vnskilfull Physitions, that they indeed cure not their Patients, but ChaunceChance, if any be cured by them: because they minister medicines without ground or good …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 344 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dice. As in the euent, that seemeth skill sometime, that is indeed but meere ChaunceChance: so in the act it selfe, that seemeth ChaunceChance sometime, that indeed is sleight …
With rule
… dice. As in the euent, that seemeth skill sometime, that is indeed but meere ChaunceChance: so in the act it selfe, that seemeth ChaunceChance sometime, that indeed is sleight …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 346 · Open in the reader

Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker A03243

Printed
… pag. 143. Why not the latter? if the is Poſitions be true. That which ſeemes ChaunceChance to us, is a certaine Word of God (ſaith Bernard, But Mr. Gatak. tranſlateth …
With rule
… pag. 143. Why not the latter? if the is Poſitions be true. That which ſeemes ChaunceChance to us, is a certaine Word of God (ſaith Bernard, But Mr. Gatak. tranſlateth …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 89 · Open in the reader

A Golden Chain A09339

Printed
… and prouidence cannot stand togither. Ans. We must distinguish betweene chance and meere chance. ChaunceChance is, when any thing comes to passe, the cause thereof beeing vnknowne not simply …
With rule
… and prouidence cannot stand togither. Ans. We must distinguish betweene chance and meere chance. ChaunceChance is, when any thing comes to passe, the cause thereof beeing vnknowne not simply …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 243 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… further. There is one Sect amongst them, called Malabedà, which subiecteth all things to ChaunceChance and to the Starres, not to Diuine Prouidence. There are other called Emozaidi, which …
With rule
… further. There is one Sect amongst them, called Malabedà, which subiecteth all things to ChaunceChance and to the Starres, not to Diuine Prouidence. There are other called Emozaidi, which …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 325 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

Printed
… bee adminiſtred power-fullie by the Omnipotencie of God: but aſcribe very manie to ChaunceChance, Fortune, and humane Wiſedome.
With rule
… bee adminiſtred power-fullie by the Omnipotencie of God: but aſcribe very manie to ChaunceChance, Fortune, and humane Wiſedome.
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… happeneth, beſides their appointment: As he that digging with purpoſe to builde, findeth treaſure. ChaunceChance they call an accidentall cauſe in naturall agentes, whoſe motions haue effects neither proper …
With rule
… happeneth, beſides their appointment: As he that digging with purpoſe to builde, findeth treaſure. ChaunceChance they call an accidentall cauſe in naturall agentes, whoſe motions haue effects neither proper …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 419 · Open in the reader

A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths A20303

Printed
… done in the world, good or euil, by consent, or vnaduisedly, God disposeth al. ChaunceChance, and fortune hath no place, all maner circumstances are at Gods will, to his …
With rule
… done in the world, good or euil, by consent, or vnaduisedly, God disposeth al. ChaunceChance, and fortune hath no place, all maner circumstances are at Gods will, to his …
Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 83 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

Printed
ChaunceChance is not with God. 172
With rule
ChaunceChance is not with God. 172
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader