Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11540 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

inabledenabled

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

Puritas changed it: 1,757 times in 745 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,757 of 1,762)
Reach if approved: ~1,870 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: enabled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,780 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,757 changes in 745 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,757)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be a meanes to draw others on in the ſame way, wherein God hath inabledenabled us to walke, 2 King. 7.9. There they ſay, Wee doe not well, this day is …
With rule
… be a meanes to draw others on in the ſame way, wherein God hath inabledenabled us to walke, 2 King. 7.9. There they ſay, Wee doe not well, this day is …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the eaſe of their charge in the Vniuerſities till ſeuen yeares ſtudy haue inabledenabled them to prouide and care for themſelues; ſo that you haue at this houre …
With rule
… for the eaſe of their charge in the Vniuerſities till ſeuen yeares ſtudy haue inabledenabled them to prouide and care for themſelues; ſo that you haue at this houre …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · Open in the reader
Printed
… ariſing amongſt their bretheren: it was by the Spirit, that Ahohab, and Bezaliel were inabledenabled to worke all curious workes about the tabernacle: it was the Spirit that made …
With rule
… ariſing amongſt their bretheren: it was by the Spirit, that Ahohab, and Bezaliel were inabledenabled to worke all curious workes about the tabernacle: it was the Spirit that made …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
BY their owne Bible a man is wholly diſ-inabledenabled of his own naturall will, though neuer ſo well morally qualified, truely to will …
With rule
BY their owne Bible a man is wholly diſ-inabledenabled of his own naturall will, though neuer ſo well morally qualified, truely to will …
Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 247 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in feasting, in attire, in sports and pleasures, that so we may be better inabledenabled to doe iustice in giuing vnto the poore, for hereby commonly men are disabled …
With rule
… in feasting, in attire, in sports and pleasures, that so we may be better inabledenabled to doe iustice in giuing vnto the poore, for hereby commonly men are disabled …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man; if he have the spirit, he shall obtaine it, would a man be inabledenabled to pray, would a man bee inabledenabled to beare losses and crosses: would a …
With rule
… man; if he have the spirit, he shall obtaine it, would a man be inabledenabled to pray, would a man bee inabledenabled to beare losses and crosses: would a …
John Preston · Remains · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obtained out of the hand of the great Angell, and greedilie and sweetlie swallowed, inabledenabled, and stirred them, by the right measuring reed, to examine the church, and thereby …
With rule
… obtained out of the hand of the great Angell, and greedilie and sweetlie swallowed, inabledenabled, and stirred them, by the right measuring reed, to examine the church, and thereby …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no good in all things made for mans vſe, by which he may be inabledenabled and helped both to liue, and to order his life according to wiſedome, and …
With rule
… no good in all things made for mans vſe, by which he may be inabledenabled and helped both to liue, and to order his life according to wiſedome, and …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Light from Christ Leading Unto Christ A28901

Printed
Secondly, InabledEnabled by the ſpirit of Chriſt, to know, believe, and feel; and be affected in …
With rule
Secondly, InabledEnabled by the ſpirit of Chriſt, to know, believe, and feel; and be affected in …
Immanuel Bourne · A Light from Christ Leading Unto Christ · p. 244 · Open in the reader

The Civil Right of Tithes A38604

Printed
… thy Providence I have had Opportunity, by thy Grace been Directed, by thy Power InabledEnabled to lay together theſe things, conducing, I truſt, to Thy Honor and Glory; I …
With rule
… thy Providence I have had Opportunity, by thy Grace been Directed, by thy Power InabledEnabled to lay together theſe things, conducing, I truſt, to Thy Honor and Glory; I …
Christopher Elderfield · The Civil Right of Tithes · p. 335 · Open in the reader