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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11506 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reasōreason

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

Puritas changed it
633 times in 269 works
Consistency
97.3% (633 of 650)
Reach if approved
~684 places (estimated)
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
651 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
reasō (17)
Taken into joins
1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (633 changes in 269 works, 97.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 633)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … īstitute our lyfe, as he hath appointed ī his holy scripture, & not as carnal reasōreason imaginethe, or good zeale wtoute knowlege deuiseth cōtrary to ye prescripte of Gods worde …
    With rule
    … īstitute our lyfe, as he hath appointed ī his holy scripture, & not as carnal reasōreason imaginethe, or good zeale wtoute knowlege deuiseth cōtrary to ye prescripte of Gods worde …

    Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … not go to church, is y• perril of infectiō: which is as good a reasōreason, as y• a fowle toad may not come into a cléere spring, to wash …
    With rule
    … not go to church, is y• perril of infectiō: which is as good a reasōreason, as y• a fowle toad may not come into a cléere spring, to wash …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … And when thou hast found these effects of Gods grace in thee, thou maist reasōreason thus against Sathā: If the Lord would haue destroyed me for this sin, he …
    With rule
    … And when thou hast found these effects of Gods grace in thee, thou maist reasōreason thus against Sathā: If the Lord would haue destroyed me for this sin, he …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 635 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and improuē is altogether falles. But he…e I darre not pas by the reasōreason that is here adduced of the diuersitie of prayer, of orations and Almus in …
    With rule
    … and improuē is altogether falles. But he…e I darre not pas by the reasōreason that is here adduced of the diuersitie of prayer, of orations and Almus in …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … them with whom we haue hitherto disputed consider wel, how it can stand with reasōreason to make the bare mādate of sacred scripture the only rule of all good …
    With rule
    … them with whom we haue hitherto disputed consider wel, how it can stand with reasōreason to make the bare mādate of sacred scripture the only rule of all good …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … runne upon ſinne our ſelves: for a well ordered Charitie, as Aquinas gives the reaſōreason, 2, 2ae. q. 43 a. 7. beginneth ever at home, making a man chiefly deſire and endeavour …
    With rule
    … runne upon ſinne our ſelves: for a well ordered Charitie, as Aquinas gives the reaſōreason, 2, 2ae. q. 43 a. 7. beginneth ever at home, making a man chiefly deſire and endeavour …

    Henry Jeanes · Concerning a Christians Careful Abstinence from All Appearance of Evil · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … then I saye, shewe forth thi reasōs before this auditory. Then he without al reasōreason was dom, & could not answer one word.
    With rule
    … then I saye, shewe forth thi reasōs before this auditory. Then he without al reasōreason was dom, & could not answer one word.

    David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſhal lyue euerlaſtyugly, that we knewe not. The miſteries of God be hyd before reaſōreason. The knoweledge of theſe very greate thynges is not graffed & ſet in the hartes …
    With rule
    … ſhal lyue euerlaſtyugly, that we knewe not. The miſteries of God be hyd before reaſōreason. The knoweledge of theſe very greate thynges is not graffed & ſet in the hartes …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · 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.