Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11649 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

enclineincline

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

Puritas changed it: 1,212 times in 685 works
Consistency: 100% (1,212 of 1,212)
Reach if approved: ~1,292 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: incline
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,230 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,212 changes in 685 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,212)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… which your youthfull affections are most endeared, else you will neuer be able to enclineincline and enlarge them to the pursuit and practise of so excellent and Glorious a …
With rule
… which your youthfull affections are most endeared, else you will neuer be able to enclineincline and enlarge them to the pursuit and practise of so excellent and Glorious a …
Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · Open in the reader
Printed
EnclineIncline your eares, and come vnto mee: heare, and your soule shall liue, and I …
With rule
EnclineIncline your eares, and come vnto mee: heare, and your soule shall liue, and I …
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that are a priuate man, would gladly know to which part you may ſafely enclineincline, and what to reſt vpon as the alone truth in this caſe. My aduiſe …
With rule
… that are a priuate man, would gladly know to which part you may ſafely enclineincline, and what to reſt vpon as the alone truth in this caſe. My aduiſe …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is Chriſtianity enough: as for putting off of luſts, to which naturally their hearts enclineincline, they thinke it needleſſe, and that God, who hath made, and knoweth our natures …
With rule
… is Chriſtianity enough: as for putting off of luſts, to which naturally their hearts enclineincline, they thinke it needleſſe, and that God, who hath made, and knoweth our natures …
Paul Baynes · The Christians Garment · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whole duty of man is to feare God and to keepe his commandements, and enclineincline our hearts vnto theſe, and not vnto couetouſnes. Let vs not be forgetfull hearers …
With rule
… whole duty of man is to feare God and to keepe his commandements, and enclineincline our hearts vnto theſe, and not vnto couetouſnes. Let vs not be forgetfull hearers …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 570 · Open in the reader
Printed
… words of the Pſalme, Make their loines tremble, terrifie and affright their conſciences. Some, EnclineIncline their wils to euill, that they may neuer be able to doe good, though …
With rule
… words of the Pſalme, Make their loines tremble, terrifie and affright their conſciences. Some, EnclineIncline their wils to euill, that they may neuer be able to doe good, though …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God: yea this conscience is apt also to checke and curb vs when wee enclineincline to euill: so Dauid saith, Psal. 16. his r…ines did correct him in the …
With rule
… God: yea this conscience is apt also to checke and curb vs when wee enclineincline to euill: so Dauid saith, Psal. 16. his r…ines did correct him in the …
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ancient is very doubtfull. Yet that report in Pliny of Taprobane seemes more to enclineincline for Zeilan. For hee saith, that in Claudius time, a seruant of Annius Plocamus …
With rule
… Ancient is very doubtfull. Yet that report in Pliny of Taprobane seemes more to enclineincline for Zeilan. For hee saith, that in Claudius time, a seruant of Annius Plocamus …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 460 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.