Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11611 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

amendementamendment

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

Puritas changed it: 613 times in 261 works
Consistency: 94.0% (613 of 652)
Reach if approved: ~686 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: amendment
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 653 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (613 changes in 261 works, 94.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 613)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Wherefore I beséech thée graunt me true repentaunce, amendementamendment of lyfe, perseueraunce in all goodnesse, a stedfast fayth, and a happy death, through …
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Wherefore I beséech thée graunt me true repentaunce, amendementamendment of lyfe, perseueraunce in all goodnesse, a stedfast fayth, and a happy death, through …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · Open in the reader
Printed
… Theeues and Whores, and suche lyke malefactours, who though they make large promises of amendementamendment, yet the punishment being passed, they fall into their former filthinesse agayne: but some …
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… Theeues and Whores, and suche lyke malefactours, who though they make large promises of amendementamendment, yet the punishment being passed, they fall into their former filthinesse agayne: but some …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they do ministre vnto princes euermore / ys not the correccyō of synne / the amendementamendment of lyfe / redresse of the common welthe / prouisyon for the poore / nor the sekynge …
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… that they do ministre vnto princes euermore / ys not the correccyō of synne / the amendementamendment of lyfe / redresse of the common welthe / prouisyon for the poore / nor the sekynge …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the fleſh, and other wicked déeds therein, bicauſe in condemning hereſie the correction and amendementamendment of the perſon is ſought: which Paul doth therefore call foreign, vſing the ſame word …
With rule
… the fleſh, and other wicked déeds therein, bicauſe in condemning hereſie the correction and amendementamendment of the perſon is ſought: which Paul doth therefore call foreign, vſing the ſame word …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 243 · Open in the reader
Printed
… euery one of vs to take … betymes: let vs not … to long with our amendementamendment, least peraducnture we shall com to short: for no dout we … rewarded accordyng vnto …
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… euery one of vs to take … betymes: let vs not … to long with our amendementamendment, least peraducnture we shall com to short: for no dout we … rewarded accordyng vnto …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereby the world is worse and worse whiles we hope (but in vayne) for amendementamendment.
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… whereby the world is worse and worse whiles we hope (but in vayne) for amendementamendment.
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader
Printed
… which I ſpeake not but to your great ſhame, with a deſire of your amendementamendment. And therefore I tell you true, I thinke it a great bleſſing of God …
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… which I ſpeake not but to your great ſhame, with a deſire of your amendementamendment. And therefore I tell you true, I thinke it a great bleſſing of God …
Martin Marprelate · Theses · Open in the reader
Printed
… pure religion, which is the faith of Chriſt & the fruits thereof in true repentāce & amendementamendment of life, by the loue of God & of his neighbor, which two things haue …
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… pure religion, which is the faith of Chriſt & the fruits thereof in true repentāce & amendementamendment of life, by the loue of God & of his neighbor, which two things haue …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (39)

32 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 are listed here. 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

Printed
AmendementAmendment loked for and not had. 6. a
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AmendementAmendment loked for and not had. 6. a
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 A09272

Printed
… all this was no occaſion eyther of Remembrance and Repentance for Sinnes paſt, or AmendementAmendment for after times, whereby to remoue Gods wrath that lay on them. Such carnall …
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… all this was no occaſion eyther of Remembrance and Repentance for Sinnes paſt, or AmendementAmendment for after times, whereby to remoue Gods wrath that lay on them. Such carnall …
William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 94 · Open in the reader

The Amendment of Life A13339

Printed
… kingdome of heauen to be ſo neare vs, ought mightily to induce vs to AmendementAmendment. Vpon this conſideration, to the end to correct the negligence, or rather the brutiſhnes …
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… kingdome of heauen to be ſo neare vs, ought mightily to induce vs to AmendementAmendment. Vpon this conſideration, to the end to correct the negligence, or rather the brutiſhnes …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · Open in the reader
Printed
OF AMENDEMENTAMENDMENT OF LIFE. The firſt Booke. Of the fooliſhneſſe of Man, and that his wiſedome …
With rule
OF AMENDEMENTAMENDMENT OF LIFE. The firſt Booke. Of the fooliſhneſſe of Man, and that his wiſedome …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · Open in the reader
Printed
… death, and to hell fire. And contrariwiſe, that conuerting and turning to God by AmendementAmendment of life, hee turneth his backe to death, to hell, and to the deuill …
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… death, and to hell fire. And contrariwiſe, that conuerting and turning to God by AmendementAmendment of life, hee turneth his backe to death, to hell, and to the deuill …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… holy Scripture is full of exhortations to obedience to the will of God and AmendementAmendment of lyfe, ſo it importeth not onely that wee ſhoulde knowe that wee muſt …
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… holy Scripture is full of exhortations to obedience to the will of God and AmendementAmendment of lyfe, ſo it importeth not onely that wee ſhoulde knowe that wee muſt …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
The fourth cauſe of AmendementAmendment, grounded vpon the title and name Emanuel, attributed to Ieſus Christ. Chap. 4.
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The fourth cauſe of AmendementAmendment, grounded vpon the title and name Emanuel, attributed to Ieſus Christ. Chap. 4.
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 464 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
AmendementAmendment.
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AmendementAmendment.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
Foure hundred yeares respite of repentance and AmendementAmendment giuen by God, and to whome.
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Foure hundred yeares respite of repentance and AmendementAmendment giuen by God, and to whome.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
The maner of our AmendementAmendment when wee haue offended God described.
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The maner of our AmendementAmendment when wee haue offended God described.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
The AmendementAmendment of the Iewes noted, when they sawe they had troden Gods lawe vnder foote.
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The AmendementAmendment of the Iewes noted, when they sawe they had troden Gods lawe vnder foote.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
Eighteene hundred yeres forbearance of the Iewes for their AmendementAmendment.
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Eighteene hundred yeres forbearance of the Iewes for their AmendementAmendment.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Letter to Parishioners A48760

Printed
… God, revealed in his Word, & to their own lawfully ſworn Engagements. Theſe, without Repentance & AmendementAmendment, are in a large worſe condition, than thoſe of the firſt Rark; for their …
With rule
… God, revealed in his Word, & to their own lawfully ſworn Engagements. Theſe, without Repentance & AmendementAmendment, are in a large worſe condition, than thoſe of the firſt Rark; for their …
John Livingstone · Letter to Parishioners · p. 4 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

Printed
AmendementAmendment of lyfe foloweth true faith. 303. b. the ſame to be wiſhed for. 177. b
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AmendementAmendment of lyfe foloweth true faith. 303. b. the ſame to be wiſhed for. 177. b
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader
Printed
AmendementAmendment may, be in all thinges. 393. a
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AmendementAmendment may, be in all thinges. 393. a
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

The Life of Faith in Times of Trial and Affliction A69644

Printed
… because (1.) He is not intending their destruction, as Enemies do; but their Good, their AmendementAmendment, their Repentance, and Returning unto the Lord &c. (2.) He measureth not out their a …
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… because (1.) He is not intending their destruction, as Enemies do; but their Good, their AmendementAmendment, their Repentance, and Returning unto the Lord &c. (2.) He measureth not out their a …
John Brown · The Life of Faith in Times of Trial and Affliction · p. 88 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

Printed
AmendementAmendment of lyfe, requyreth &c. 56
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AmendementAmendment of lyfe, requyreth &c. 56
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · Open in the reader