Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11493 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chusingchoosing

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

Puritas changed it: 2,428 times in 1,025 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,428 of 2,429)
Reach if approved: ~2,552 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: choosing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,429 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,428 changes in 1,025 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,428)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Papiſts & Anabaptiſts, &c. In all which, this man oppoſeth, what he can: thus chuſingchoosing rather to ſtrengthen ſuch in their errors, then he vvill ſeem to haue erred …
With rule
… the Papiſts & Anabaptiſts, &c. In all which, this man oppoſeth, what he can: thus chuſingchoosing rather to ſtrengthen ſuch in their errors, then he vvill ſeem to haue erred …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as he did to the Iſraelites, to bring them to ſee their wickedneſſe in chuſingchoosing a King. Untill God thunder'd and lighten'd from Heaven fearfully, they layd not to …
With rule
… as he did to the Iſraelites, to bring them to ſee their wickedneſſe in chuſingchoosing a King. Untill God thunder'd and lighten'd from Heaven fearfully, they layd not to …
Nicholas Lockyer · Christs Communion with his Church Militant · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be choſen, though we chooſe things for their goodneſſe: The cauſe of Gods chuſingchoosing is his will. It is the gift of the Diuine will, not the deſert …
With rule
… to be choſen, though we chooſe things for their goodneſſe: The cauſe of Gods chuſingchoosing is his will. It is the gift of the Diuine will, not the deſert …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Temple: yea and in this one circumstance passe Salomons wisdome, in not chusingchoosing ouerseers of themselues, to cause them to worship. The Lord Iesus strengthen his Highnes …
With rule
… in the Temple: yea and in this one circumstance passe Salomons wisdome, in not chusingchoosing ouerseers of themselues, to cause them to worship. The Lord Iesus strengthen his Highnes …
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to that holy work, without a prayer▪ Sanctifie them through thy truth. In the chusingchoosing of those seuen Deacons, they first prayed, and then laid their hands vpon them …
With rule
… to that holy work, without a prayer▪ Sanctifie them through thy truth. In the chusingchoosing of those seuen Deacons, they first prayed, and then laid their hands vpon them …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of practicall principles, and naturall discerning between iust and vniust. And foreign, conscience chideing for chusingchoosing euill, and approuing for doing good. The one makes the proposition, the other the …
With rule
… of practicall principles, and naturall discerning between iust and vniust. And foreign, conscience chideing for chusingchoosing euill, and approuing for doing good. The one makes the proposition, the other the …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in ſetting out or ordaining this or that man, as the colledge is in chuſingchoosing, when ſhe taketh the man whom the ſtatute of her Founder doth manifeſtly deſigne …
With rule
… in ſetting out or ordaining this or that man, as the colledge is in chuſingchoosing, when ſhe taketh the man whom the ſtatute of her Founder doth manifeſtly deſigne …
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… immortall creature, and wee diſcover it by its acts; as in man, by conceiving, chuſingchoosing and refuſing a thing.
With rule
… immortall creature, and wee diſcover it by its acts; as in man, by conceiving, chuſingchoosing and refuſing a thing.
Thomas Hooker · The Pattern of Perfection Exhibited in Gods Image on Adam · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will N05663

Printed
… CHUSES to behave Himself. Here in these last Words, he speaks of Liberty of CHUSINGCHOOSING, according as he CHUSES. So that the Behaviour which he speaks of as subject …
With rule
… CHUSES to behave Himself. Here in these last Words, he speaks of Liberty of CHUSINGCHOOSING, according as he CHUSES. So that the Behaviour which he speaks of as subject …
Jonathan Edwards · Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will · p. 93 · Open in the reader