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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11471 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

womāwoman

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

Puritas changed it
566 times in 203 works
Consistency
98.9% (566 of 572)
Reach if approved
~602 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
573 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
womā (6)
Taken into joins
1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (566 changes in 203 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 566)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … head For his spouse is a churche that suffreth / & not the pr…de gentyll womāwoman that, mustreth with myters / canapees / copes / crysmatoryes / crosses / cruettes / and candelstyckes. A comp…nye …
    With rule
    … head For his spouse is a churche that suffreth / & not the pr…de gentyll womāwoman that, mustreth with myters / canapees / copes / crysmatoryes / crosses / cruettes / and candelstyckes. A comp…nye …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … they are (ſayth he) like vnto a cloth beſpotted with the flowers of a womāwoman. O ſhameleſſe hypocrites that can preſent the moſte holy God, with the ſhamefull cloutes …
    With rule
    … they are (ſayth he) like vnto a cloth beſpotted with the flowers of a womāwoman. O ſhameleſſe hypocrites that can preſent the moſte holy God, with the ſhamefull cloutes …

    Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Actes of the Apostles. When Paule preached to the womenne, there was a silke womāwoman Cuius cor deus aperuit, whose herte god opened. None coulde open it but god …
    With rule
    … Actes of the Apostles. When Paule preached to the womenne, there was a silke womāwoman Cuius cor deus aperuit, whose herte god opened. None coulde open it but god …

    Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of Satan, & the excedyng consolacion of man. I wyl set enimite betwene the & an womāwoman, betwene thy seed and her seed, that selfe seed shall treade downe thy head …
    With rule
    … of Satan, & the excedyng consolacion of man. I wyl set enimite betwene the & an womāwoman, betwene thy seed and her seed, that selfe seed shall treade downe thy head …

    Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … prayer they yt were sycke of ye palseye, were made whole. By prayer the womāwoman of Canane obtayned health for her doughter. By Prayer dyuers men obtayned helth for …
    With rule
    … prayer they yt were sycke of ye palseye, were made whole. By prayer the womāwoman of Canane obtayned health for her doughter. By Prayer dyuers men obtayned helth for …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ye longest continue. For these and for al true Christen people, euery man and womāwoman say, a Pater noster, & an Aue. Deu… misereatur nostri, &c, cum Gloria patri, &c.
    With rule
    … ye longest continue. For these and for al true Christen people, euery man and womāwoman say, a Pater noster, & an Aue. Deu… misereatur nostri, &c, cum Gloria patri, &c.

    Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 236 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … woman dispatched: But alas we what colour or likelyhood of reason? For first this womāwoman desireth none of them all to be her spokesman, but crieth vnto the Maister …
    With rule
    … woman dispatched: But alas we what colour or likelyhood of reason? For first this womāwoman desireth none of them all to be her spokesman, but crieth vnto the Maister …

    William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … not haue bene your firſte counſele or queſtion, who ſhulde be your Quene, what womāwoman you ſhul de crowne, if you had bene preferrers of Goddes glorie, and wiſe …
    With rule
    … not haue bene your firſte counſele or queſtion, who ſhulde be your Quene, what womāwoman you ſhul de crowne, if you had bene preferrers of Goddes glorie, and wiſe …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 53 · 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.