Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11592 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fauourablefavorable

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

Puritas changed it: 1,081 times in 403 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,081 of 1,084)
Reach if approved: ~1,141 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: favourable
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,086 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,081 changes in 403 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,081)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… I vowed the dedication thereof vnto your Ladiſhip; Nor may it ſeeme vnworthy your fauourablefavorable acceptance (the principall aime of my expectance) in regard of that ſingular testimony which …
With rule
… I vowed the dedication thereof vnto your Ladiſhip; Nor may it ſeeme vnworthy your fauourablefavorable acceptance (the principall aime of my expectance) in regard of that ſingular testimony which …
Samuel Hieron · The Spiritual Fishing · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they ſhould flatter themſelues in an euill cuſtome, becauſe God hath beene more fauourablefavorable to them then to theſe: but they ſee the deſtruction of others, in their …
With rule
… that they ſhould flatter themſelues in an euill cuſtome, becauſe God hath beene more fauourablefavorable to them then to theſe: but they ſee the deſtruction of others, in their …
Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will bee more fully exemplified in the following diſcourſe; which I leaue to your fauourablefavorable conſtruction, and kinde acceptation: your ſelues alſo to Gods more abundant retribution, my ſelfe …
With rule
… will bee more fully exemplified in the following diſcourſe; which I leaue to your fauourablefavorable conſtruction, and kinde acceptation: your ſelues alſo to Gods more abundant retribution, my ſelfe …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · Open in the reader
Printed
… with vs? Thus y^e bloud of Chriſt muſt be the meane to make God fauourablefavorable vnto vs, before wee can haue any maner of feeling of his fatherly loue …
With rule
… with vs? Thus y^e bloud of Chriſt muſt be the meane to make God fauourablefavorable vnto vs, before wee can haue any maner of feeling of his fatherly loue …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
… defacing those Emperours that were enimies to images, wherein he hath the idolatrous historians fauourablefavorable, not sparing to report what so euer their malicious enimies could inuent, to slaunder …
With rule
… defacing those Emperours that were enimies to images, wherein he hath the idolatrous historians fauourablefavorable, not sparing to report what so euer their malicious enimies could inuent, to slaunder …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yeeres … your owne comfort, and the goo… of the Church, as alſo to be fauourablefavorable vnto the holy Miniſtrie, which hath many yeeres continued in your congregation, in which …
With rule
… yeeres … your owne comfort, and the goo… of the Church, as alſo to be fauourablefavorable vnto the holy Miniſtrie, which hath many yeeres continued in your congregation, in which …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
The Lord continue ſtill his fauourablefavorable kindneſſe, goodneſſe, and mercy towards you, in powring downe ſtill his manifold bleſſings vpon …
With rule
The Lord continue ſtill his fauourablefavorable kindneſſe, goodneſſe, and mercy towards you, in powring downe ſtill his manifold bleſſings vpon …
Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · Open in the reader
Printed
… and you and wee ſhall ſpeed the better at that harueſt. Thus praying your fauourablefavorable conſtruction and acceptance of theſe rude lines, with humble thanks for all your loue …
With rule
… and you and wee ſhall ſpeed the better at that harueſt. Thus praying your fauourablefavorable conſtruction and acceptance of theſe rude lines, with humble thanks for all your loue …
Robert Harris · Samuels Funeral · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
His gracious accepting of vs, and mercifull readinesse to do vs good. Psal. 51, 18. Be FauourableFavorable to Sion.
With rule
His gracious accepting of vs, and mercifull readinesse to do vs good. Psal. 51, 18. Be FauourableFavorable to Sion.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 148 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
FauourableFavorable.
With rule
FauourableFavorable.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
To what ende Gods shewing of himselfe FauourableFavorable vnto vs doth serue.
With rule
To what ende Gods shewing of himselfe FauourableFavorable vnto vs doth serue.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader