Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11693 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oftneroftener

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

Puritas changed it: 1,640 times in 936 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,640 of 1,645)
Reach if approved: ~1,728 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: oftener
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,645 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,640 changes in 936 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,640)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… learne alſo diuers other far more pleaſant and delightſome. So muſt wee both keepe & oftneroftener practiſe our accuſtomed exerciſes of Religion, and beſides, learne other more, both for our …
With rule
… learne alſo diuers other far more pleaſant and delightſome. So muſt wee both keepe & oftneroftener practiſe our accuſtomed exerciſes of Religion, and beſides, learne other more, both for our …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… translation, Iehoua is very seldome vsed in other speache, no wise man vseth it oftneroftener, than there is good cause why. And when there is cause, we haue no …
With rule
… translation, Iehoua is very seldome vsed in other speache, no wise man vseth it oftneroftener, than there is good cause why. And when there is cause, we haue no …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 531 · Open in the reader
Printed
… superfluous fare and idlenes; and keepe their Ordinary at rich mens tables. Anguish lies oftneroftener on a Downe-bed, then on a pallet: diseases waite vpon luxurie, as close …
With rule
… superfluous fare and idlenes; and keepe their Ordinary at rich mens tables. Anguish lies oftneroftener on a Downe-bed, then on a pallet: diseases waite vpon luxurie, as close …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 346 · Open in the reader
Printed
… knowes them better then a stranger, so) he vseth in his Ministry to meet oftneroftener with them, then a stranger can doe, which is indeed a chiefe thing wherein …
With rule
… knowes them better then a stranger, so) he vseth in his Ministry to meet oftneroftener with them, then a stranger can doe, which is indeed a chiefe thing wherein …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prayed once a day in priuate and coldly, we muſt (after) pray twice, or oftneroftener, and more feruently. If wee haue read and meditated in the word ſeldome, and …
With rule
… prayed once a day in priuate and coldly, we muſt (after) pray twice, or oftneroftener, and more feruently. If wee haue read and meditated in the word ſeldome, and …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good reaſon. Firſt, famine fighteth within, as Vegetius vvell obſerveth, and therefore it prevaileth oftneroftener then the ſword. Secondly, if the Defendant haue to doe with a humane enemy …
With rule
… good reaſon. Firſt, famine fighteth within, as Vegetius vvell obſerveth, and therefore it prevaileth oftneroftener then the ſword. Secondly, if the Defendant haue to doe with a humane enemy …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
¶ THESE wordes haue I reherſed the oftneroftener: bycauſe it maketh muche for the purpoſe, that thys excluſyue be knowen of all …
With rule
¶ THESE wordes haue I reherſed the oftneroftener: bycauſe it maketh muche for the purpoſe, that thys excluſyue be knowen of all …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… Care not so much to be first at the Sermō, or to be there oftneroftener thē other, as to goe with true faith, repentance & a heart hung…ing for …
With rule
… Care not so much to be first at the Sermō, or to be there oftneroftener thē other, as to goe with true faith, repentance & a heart hung…ing for …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 41 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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 Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons A33330

Printed
OftnerOftener than th' Eccho at Pont-Charetoon.
With rule
OftnerOftener than th' Eccho at Pont-Charetoon.
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 56 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
… Custome: That a Parliament should be called together at London TWICE EVERY YEARE, OR OFTNEROFTENER, in time of Peace, to keepe the people of God from sin, that they …
With rule
… Custome: That a Parliament should be called together at London TWICE EVERY YEARE, OR OFTNEROFTENER, in time of Peace, to keepe the people of God from sin, that they …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 12 · Open in the reader