Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11488 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thréethree

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

Puritas changed it: 1,795 times in 161 works
Consistency: 100% (1,795 of 1,795)
Reach if approved: ~1,890 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: three
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,799 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 4 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,795 changes in 161 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,795)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… come to the councell of Constance, at which time there were no lesse then thréethree Popes at once. Iohn the 23. of some called 24. Gregory the 12. and Benner the 13. All …
With rule
… come to the councell of Constance, at which time there were no lesse then thréethree Popes at once. Iohn the 23. of some called 24. Gregory the 12. and Benner the 13. All …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
Theſe thréethree I ioyned together as hauing no waight. Ye ſay I anſwere by playne contradiction …
With rule
Theſe thréethree I ioyned together as hauing no waight. Ye ſay I anſwere by playne contradiction …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. No: For ſuch a Tranſubstantiation, is moſt contrary to this ſpirituall banquet, for thréethree reaſons.
With rule
A. No: For ſuch a Tranſubstantiation, is moſt contrary to this ſpirituall banquet, for thréethree reaſons.
James Balmford · A Short Catechism · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our ſelues and our thoughts by meditations a part by times, ſome two or thréethree daies, that we may come prepared (after the example of the Paſſeouer, Exod. 12.3, 6.) So …
With rule
… our ſelues and our thoughts by meditations a part by times, ſome two or thréethree daies, that we may come prepared (after the example of the Paſſeouer, Exod. 12.3, 6.) So …
Robert Jenison · The Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
A. ThréeThree.
With rule
A. ThréeThree.
John Mayer · Catechism Abridged · Open in the reader
Printed
… departed his bodie, they should not straightway burie him, for he saide, that within thréethree dayes hée would ascen… into heauen: but hereby appeared that he was a false …
With rule
… departed his bodie, they should not straightway burie him, for he saide, that within thréethree dayes hée would ascen… into heauen: but hereby appeared that he was a false …
Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Sauiour and redeemer, and to God the holie Ghost our comforter, and sanctifier, thréethree persons and one true and euerlasting God, be all honour, glorie, praise, dominion & thanksgiuing …
With rule
… our Sauiour and redeemer, and to God the holie Ghost our comforter, and sanctifier, thréethree persons and one true and euerlasting God, be all honour, glorie, praise, dominion & thanksgiuing …
Philip Stubbes · A Perfect Pathway to Felicity · Open in the reader
Printed
After that, by the ſpace of two or thréethree yéeres, was burned at Amerſham, Thomas Barnard, a huſbandmā, & Iames Morden, a labourer: they …
With rule
After that, by the ſpace of two or thréethree yéeres, was burned at Amerſham, Thomas Barnard, a huſbandmā, & Iames Morden, a labourer: they …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 404 · 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.