Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11634 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spiltspilled

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

Puritas changed it: 1,255 times in 740 works
Consistency: 99.4% (1,255 of 1,262)
Reach if approved: ~1,326 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spilled
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,262 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,255 changes in 740 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,255)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… selfe to be called the moste blessed virgine, caused so muche bloud to be spiltspilled for establishyng of an vsurped authoritie, I thynte is rare to be founde in …
With rule
… selfe to be called the moste blessed virgine, caused so muche bloud to be spiltspilled for establishyng of an vsurped authoritie, I thynte is rare to be founde in …
John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… weake thinge, inaſmuch as it is eaſily broken, and whatſoeuer is in it, is ſpiltspilled.
With rule
… weake thinge, inaſmuch as it is eaſily broken, and whatſoeuer is in it, is ſpiltspilled.
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 410 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelues many yeares, deuiſed and contriued many a plotte, ſpent verie much coſt and ſpiltspilled exceeding much blood. Harken what God ſaieth of them & to them: Can the black …
With rule
… ſelues many yeares, deuiſed and contriued many a plotte, ſpent verie much coſt and ſpiltspilled exceeding much blood. Harken what God ſaieth of them & to them: Can the black …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is one of the least absurdities in that booke of Parker. No Scholler ever spiltspilled so much wit and learning as this braine-sicke Amsterdamian doth in his Treatise …
With rule
… is one of the least absurdities in that booke of Parker. No Scholler ever spiltspilled so much wit and learning as this braine-sicke Amsterdamian doth in his Treatise …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
A great manie, that you haue spiltspilled. To your Man, (Philomathes) Destroying is Building, and Building is Destroying. Vpon, and by …
With rule
A great manie, that you haue spiltspilled. To your Man, (Philomathes) Destroying is Building, and Building is Destroying. Vpon, and by …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… In his time were many warres with the Scots, and Welch, much Engliſh bloud ſpiltspilled, and himſelfe caſually ſlaine by one of his ſubjects with an arrow ſhot at …
With rule
… In his time were many warres with the Scots, and Welch, much Engliſh bloud ſpiltspilled, and himſelfe caſually ſlaine by one of his ſubjects with an arrow ſhot at …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 361 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beast to the place where the blood of another of his kind hath beene spiltspilled, and he will bury his fellow, and solemnize his funerall with lamentation made ouer …
With rule
… beast to the place where the blood of another of his kind hath beene spiltspilled, and he will bury his fellow, and solemnize his funerall with lamentation made ouer …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet they never doe theſe men good, this unbeleefe makes all meanes to be ſpiltspilled upon the ground, and they never doe good to an unbeleeving heart; as Heb …
With rule
… yet they never doe theſe men good, this unbeleefe makes all meanes to be ſpiltspilled upon the ground, and they never doe good to an unbeleeving heart; as Heb …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 356 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 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.

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

Printed
SpiltSpilled o…h…rs bloud vvithout hiding; theirs vvere spiltspilled vvithout covering.
With rule
SpiltSpilled o…h…rs bloud vvithout hiding; theirs vvere spiltspilled vvithout covering.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 98 · Open in the reader

The Soul of Man A39675

Printed
… glass, which being broken by death, the Soul is irrecoverably gone, as the Water SpiltSpilled on the ground, which by no humane power or art of man can be …
With rule
… glass, which being broken by death, the Soul is irrecoverably gone, as the Water SpiltSpilled on the ground, which by no humane power or art of man can be …
John Flavel · The Soul of Man · p. 120 · Open in the reader

Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church Relating to the Eucharist A56667

Printed
The ſecond Caſe is, When by negligence any thing of the Blood is SpiltSpilled. If it fell upon the Earth, or upon a Board, it muſt be licked …
With rule
The ſecond Caſe is, When by negligence any thing of the Blood is SpiltSpilled. If it fell upon the Earth, or upon a Board, it muſt be licked …
Simon Patrick · Doctrines and Practices of the Ancient Church Relating to the Eucharist · p. 163 · Open in the reader

Divine Poems A66751

Printed
For blood unjuſtly SpiltSpilled, with more deſire
With rule
For blood unjuſtly SpiltSpilled, with more deſire
George Wither · Divine Poems · p. 51 · Open in the reader