Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11734 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prophanenessprofaneness

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

Puritas changed it: 1,497 times in 602 works
Consistency: 100% (1,497 of 1,497)
Reach if approved: ~1,574 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: profaneness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,498 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,497 changes in 602 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,497)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… quickly be resolved in the Point of Toleration, Heresies might be easier extinguished, and ProphanenessProfaneness might through all the Land lye under such Discouragement as might much abate it …
With rule
… quickly be resolved in the Point of Toleration, Heresies might be easier extinguished, and ProphanenessProfaneness might through all the Land lye under such Discouragement as might much abate it …
Richard Baxter · Church Concord · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
Ergo a Vow against Schism, (ProphanenessProfaneness and Popery) binds not.
With rule
Ergo a Vow against Schism, (ProphanenessProfaneness and Popery) binds not.
Richard Baxter · The English Nonconformity Under King Charles II and James II · p. 207 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Doctors after made Biſhops,) are taken by the ſaid people for the Captains of ProphaneneſsProfaneness.
With rule
… Doctors after made Biſhops,) are taken by the ſaid people for the Captains of ProphaneneſsProfaneness.
Richard Baxter · Of National Churches · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all that worship of God out of Conscience, which others did before them through prophanenessprofaneness? Did I not think, that of all other, the scorning at the worshippers of …
With rule
… all that worship of God out of Conscience, which others did before them through prophanenessprofaneness? Did I not think, that of all other, the scorning at the worshippers of …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… light, while the light thus clearely ſhineth vnto vs, leſt for our contempt and prophaneneſsprofaneness thy candleſtick be remoued from vs: whatſoeuer iudgement thou wilt pleaſe to afflict thy …
With rule
… light, while the light thus clearely ſhineth vnto vs, leſt for our contempt and prophaneneſsprofaneness thy candleſtick be remoued from vs: whatſoeuer iudgement thou wilt pleaſe to afflict thy …
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and made God himself spew them out. 'Twere endless to go on to the prophanenessprofaneness, to the loose impieties and the bold Atheismes of the Laity, especially of the …
With rule
… and made God himself spew them out. 'Twere endless to go on to the prophanenessprofaneness, to the loose impieties and the bold Atheismes of the Laity, especially of the …
Richard Allestree · A Sermon Preached 12 October 1662 · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
Could I perſwade you but to ſuppreſs Tippling, I ſhould not doubt but prophaneneſsprofaneness would receive its mortal wound. But I muſt adde, Thoſe that undertake this buſineſs …
With rule
Could I perſwade you but to ſuppreſs Tippling, I ſhould not doubt but prophaneneſsprofaneness would receive its mortal wound. But I muſt adde, Thoſe that undertake this buſineſs …
Samuel Annesley · The First Dish at the Wilshire Feast · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we give the Sacrament to those that have lived in gross ignorance, infidelity and prophanenessprofaneness and never manifested credibly, that they repent? You say, that whosoever desireth the Sacrament …
With rule
… we give the Sacrament to those that have lived in gross ignorance, infidelity and prophanenessprofaneness and never manifested credibly, that they repent? You say, that whosoever desireth the Sacrament …
Richard Baxter · Commissioners Petitioning for Review of Book of Common Prayer · p. 125 · 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.