Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11527 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

writtēwritten

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

Puritas changed it: 766 times in 306 works
Consistency: 99.8% (766 of 767)
Reach if approved: ~806 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 767 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: writtē (1)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (766 changes in 306 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 766)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
4 Vpon thys be astes head was writtēwritten the names of blasphemye agaynst the lorde and hys Christ. Which are non other …
With rule
4 Vpon thys be astes head was writtēwritten the names of blasphemye agaynst the lorde and hys Christ. Which are non other …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… collected out of the ſcripture, are of like authority with thoſe which are directly writtēwritten in it. Whē Paul being at Theſſalonica went into the ſynagogue of the Iewes …
With rule
… collected out of the ſcripture, are of like authority with thoſe which are directly writtēwritten in it. Whē Paul being at Theſſalonica went into the ſynagogue of the Iewes …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 158 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ordinances touching outwarde gouernement and ceremonies, to be no matters of faith, neither writtēwritten at all. Surelie this is ſtrange diuinitie. It is an ordinance not onely concerning …
With rule
… the ordinances touching outwarde gouernement and ceremonies, to be no matters of faith, neither writtēwritten at all. Surelie this is ſtrange diuinitie. It is an ordinance not onely concerning …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Egipte. Pharao was not drouned alone (as in another letter / I haue more plainly writtēwritten) neither yet foūd Ionathas mercy / as touchinge lyfe corporal / in the daye when Gods …
With rule
… Egipte. Pharao was not drouned alone (as in another letter / I haue more plainly writtēwritten) neither yet foūd Ionathas mercy / as touchinge lyfe corporal / in the daye when Gods …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… that decline from God walking in their own waies, to whom as it is writtēwritten in the .xxv of Mathewe is said: Ite maledicti in ignem eternum. Go ye …
With rule
… that decline from God walking in their own waies, to whom as it is writtēwritten in the .xxv of Mathewe is said: Ite maledicti in ignem eternum. Go ye …
Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… Legacie bequeathed by will, or the p… per and parchment in which the will… writtēwritten is in propriety of speech with… any figure, either foreign in Greeke, Testamentum in Latine …
With rule
… Legacie bequeathed by will, or the p… per and parchment in which the will… writtēwritten is in propriety of speech with… any figure, either foreign in Greeke, Testamentum in Latine …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to his witnesses, saying, it behoueth that all things should be fulfilled y^t are writtēwritten of me in y^e law & in y^t Prophets & in y^e Psalms. But it is …
With rule
… to his witnesses, saying, it behoueth that all things should be fulfilled y^t are writtēwritten of me in y^e law & in y^t Prophets & in y^e Psalms. But it is …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
Whatſoeuer things were written afore time, were writtēwritten for our lerning.
With rule
Whatſoeuer things were written afore time, were writtēwritten for our lerning.
William Gouge · A Short Catechism · p. 2 · 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.