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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11616 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cattelcattle

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

Puritas changed it
2,775 times in 804 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,775 of 2,777)
Reach if approved
~2,919 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: cattle
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,778 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,775 changes in 804 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,775)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Conuayed their cattelcattle, and slewe them without measure.
    With rule
    Conuayed their cattelcattle, and slewe them without measure.

    John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … but it is. I wyl fauoure thee and encrease thy goodes, thy corne, thy cattelcattle, thy Oxe, thy shepe, and in al thy busynesse thou shalte prosper and goo …
    With rule
    … but it is. I wyl fauoure thee and encrease thy goodes, thy corne, thy cattelcattle, thy Oxe, thy shepe, and in al thy busynesse thou shalte prosper and goo …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the huſband can ſuffer, that his wife loue her maydes, the houſe, houſhold thinges, cattelcattle, and ſuch like, howbeit he ſuffereth her not to loue any with that loue …
    With rule
    … the huſband can ſuffer, that his wife loue her maydes, the houſe, houſhold thinges, cattelcattle, and ſuch like, howbeit he ſuffereth her not to loue any with that loue …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 396 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Explan. Before we come to the explanation of this; by cattelcattle, whoſe reſt is alſo commanded, are meant their Camels, their Oxen, their Aſſes, &c …
    With rule
    Explan. Before we come to the explanation of this; by cattelcattle, whoſe reſt is alſo commanded, are meant their Camels, their Oxen, their Aſſes, &c …

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 279 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … church, as being loth to part cōpany from that droue of their own coūtrey cattelcattle, that came frō Rome with thē, ibid. they are moſt obſtinate enemies to the …
    With rule
    … church, as being loth to part cōpany from that droue of their own coūtrey cattelcattle, that came frō Rome with thē, ibid. they are moſt obſtinate enemies to the …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … The diuel himſelfe coulde not ſturre one foote forward, to hurt Iob in his cattelcattle, children, or himſelfe, till the Lorde from heauen had firſt ſayd, goe: Nay the …
    With rule
    … The diuel himſelfe coulde not ſturre one foote forward, to hurt Iob in his cattelcattle, children, or himſelfe, till the Lorde from heauen had firſt ſayd, goe: Nay the …

    Oliver Pigg · Treatise on 1 Peter 4 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    4. Yet saith Pharaoh, leaue your cattelcattle; saith the Deuill, leaue your affections behind you. I must be content to let …
    With rule
    4. Yet saith Pharaoh, leaue your cattelcattle; saith the Deuill, leaue your affections behind you. I must be content to let …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Some ſeeke helpe of Witches and Coniurours, when theyr bodyes, their Children, and cattelcattle are hurt: which is to ſeeke at the deuil.
    With rule
    Some ſeeke helpe of Witches and Coniurours, when theyr bodyes, their Children, and cattelcattle are hurt: which is to ſeeke at the deuil.

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue A44384

  • Printed
    CAttelCattle, Pecus,
    With rule
    CAttelCattle, Pecus,

    Charles Hoole · An Easy Entrance to the Latin Tongue · p. 192 · Open in the reader