Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11484 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

indeuourendeavor

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

Puritas changed it: 1,022 times in 253 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,022 of 1,025)
Reach if approved: ~1,118 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: endeavour
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,064 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,022 changes in 253 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,022)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… spirite: and that he may become a perfect man in Christ Iesus, his earnest indeuourendeavor must bee, to tame, and subdue the flesh, & to strengthen and confirme the spirit.
With rule
… spirite: and that he may become a perfect man in Christ Iesus, his earnest indeuourendeavor must bee, to tame, and subdue the flesh, & to strengthen and confirme the spirit.
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · Open in the reader
Printed
… deserue the hatred of God, or by how much so euer a man doeth indeuourendeavor to dispose himselfe to grace, that he sinneth so much the more grieuously. This …
With rule
… deserue the hatred of God, or by how much so euer a man doeth indeuourendeavor to dispose himselfe to grace, that he sinneth so much the more grieuously. This …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not againſt the wiſe and learned trauailes of godly men, whoſe whole purpoſe and indeuourendeavor, is to profite the Church, and to further the knowledge and religion of the …
With rule
… not againſt the wiſe and learned trauailes of godly men, whoſe whole purpoſe and indeuourendeavor, is to profite the Church, and to further the knowledge and religion of the …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee are reuerently afraide of them and resolue to suppresse them with all our indeuourendeavor.
With rule
… wee are reuerently afraide of them and resolue to suppresse them with all our indeuourendeavor.
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Seeſt thou ſuch beauty in the vertue of Chaſtity, that thou wilt euery way indeuourendeavor to haue the looſeneſſe of the fleſh bridled, and curbed whatſoeuer it coſteth thee …
With rule
… Seeſt thou ſuch beauty in the vertue of Chaſtity, that thou wilt euery way indeuourendeavor to haue the looſeneſſe of the fleſh bridled, and curbed whatſoeuer it coſteth thee …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Worldlings withall. For vnlesse I were Cleane either indeede, or in desire or indeuourendeavor, I should suspect the feare of God had neuer once come into my heart …
With rule
… of Worldlings withall. For vnlesse I were Cleane either indeede, or in desire or indeuourendeavor, I should suspect the feare of God had neuer once come into my heart …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from fleſhly luſts that fight againſt the ſoule, which as vtter enemies doe their indeuourendeavor to hinder vs, and to keepe vs out of our Soules Countrey. Euen as …
With rule
… from fleſhly luſts that fight againſt the ſoule, which as vtter enemies doe their indeuourendeavor to hinder vs, and to keepe vs out of our Soules Countrey. Euen as …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the children of God, when wee loue God and keepe his commandements (that is, indeuourendeavor to keep; the beginning of the action, being put for the whole.) 3. For this …
With rule
… the children of God, when wee loue God and keepe his commandements (that is, indeuourendeavor to keep; the beginning of the action, being put for the whole.) 3. For this …
William Perkins · How a Man May Know Whether he be a Son of God · p. 23 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance A12260

Printed
… yee that are wearie and loaden with ſinne, and I will eaſe you. Thirdly, IndeuourEndeavor to be quit of it, Doctr. and be loath to take in on againe.
With rule
… yee that are wearie and loaden with ſinne, and I will eaſe you. Thirdly, IndeuourEndeavor to be quit of it, Doctr. and be loath to take in on againe.
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 13 · Open in the reader

Confutation of the Popes Bull A17167

Printed
… Bishop, that is to say, to an ouerséer or steward of the Church, sayth: IndeuourEndeavor to yeeld thy selfe an allowable workman vnto God, not to be ashamed of …
With rule
… Bishop, that is to say, to an ouerséer or steward of the Church, sayth: IndeuourEndeavor to yeeld thy selfe an allowable workman vnto God, not to be ashamed of …
Henrich Bullinger · Confutation of the Popes Bull · p. 12 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

Printed
… lord hath ſheweth thee aboundantly enough of life and pleaſure celeſtial at this preſent. IndeuourEndeavor now only, that the deuill, the world & Antichriſt troden vnder, thou mayeſt aſpire and …
With rule
… lord hath ſheweth thee aboundantly enough of life and pleaſure celeſtial at this preſent. IndeuourEndeavor now only, that the deuill, the world & Antichriſt troden vnder, thou mayeſt aſpire and …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 669 · Open in the reader