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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11752 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prophanedprofaned

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

Puritas changed it
1,525 times in 721 works
Consistency
98.3% (1,525 of 1,551)
Reach if approved
~1,630 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,551 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,525 changes in 721 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,525)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … care in thy heart; that thou speake nothing by which his name may be prophanedprofaned: that thou doe nothing by which it may be blasphemed: For, though God require …
    With rule
    … care in thy heart; that thou speake nothing by which his name may be prophanedprofaned: that thou doe nothing by which it may be blasphemed: For, though God require …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … scepter from the Iewes, according to the notable prophecie of Iacob, & entring the temple, prophanedprofaned the Sanctum sanctorum. But that was done as Iosephus wryteth, in the time of …
    With rule
    … scepter from the Iewes, according to the notable prophecie of Iacob, & entring the temple, prophanedprofaned the Sanctum sanctorum. But that was done as Iosephus wryteth, in the time of …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the expoſitiō of the Lords Prayer, which of many through ignorance is as much prophanedprofaned, as euer God was by ſaying the Pater-noſter in Latine, or repeating other …
    With rule
    … the expoſitiō of the Lords Prayer, which of many through ignorance is as much prophanedprofaned, as euer God was by ſaying the Pater-noſter in Latine, or repeating other …

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to fauour the Proteſtants. Nay, holy places, holy actions, holy things, are by them prophanedprofaned, and muſt be made acceſſory to their villanies. Thus Pope Gregory 7. hired one to …
    With rule
    … to fauour the Proteſtants. Nay, holy places, holy actions, holy things, are by them prophanedprofaned, and muſt be made acceſſory to their villanies. Thus Pope Gregory 7. hired one to …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 121 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … impure Masse of conjuring and charming battologies; whereby the name of God is highly prophanedprofaned; his howse and worship abused; Gods people by it abandoned the sanctuarie; and the …
    With rule
    … impure Masse of conjuring and charming battologies; whereby the name of God is highly prophanedprofaned; his howse and worship abused; Gods people by it abandoned the sanctuarie; and the …

    Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 316 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is a place mentioned by the name of ECCLESIA, not to be despised or prophanedprofaned with common banquettings: at least from the authority of the Fathers, who by their …
    With rule
    … is a place mentioned by the name of ECCLESIA, not to be despised or prophanedprofaned with common banquettings: at least from the authority of the Fathers, who by their …

    Joseph Mede · Churches for Christian Worship · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they were more earneſt to know the Procurour. The Idolatrie (he anſwered) wherwith they prophanedprofaned the Lords Supper, only procured him. They not content therewith, vrged him with torments …
    With rule
    … they were more earneſt to know the Procurour. The Idolatrie (he anſwered) wherwith they prophanedprofaned the Lords Supper, only procured him. They not content therewith, vrged him with torments …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 93 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … holy. For the thing vsed in them is a Lot: and nothing can be prophanedprofaned by them but what is vsed in them: (by Lots, I meane simply as …
    With rule
    … holy. For the thing vsed in them is a Lot: and nothing can be prophanedprofaned by them but what is vsed in them: (by Lots, I meane simply as …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 88 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

14 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England A17912

  • Printed
    … ſoule: and ſo is odious, before God. 5. By this meanes, Gods holy name is ProphanedProfaned. 6. Chriſt not ſuffered to reigne as King over the whole man, but rejected. 7. Such …
    With rule
    … ſoule: and ſo is odious, before God. 5. By this meanes, Gods holy name is ProphanedProfaned. 6. Chriſt not ſuffered to reigne as King over the whole man, but rejected. 7. Such …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 88 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for that purpoſe, they ſay, it is child ſhlie abuſed, yea the words grealy ProphanedProfaned. Laſtly for their other rites and cuſtomes viz. the womans lying in with a …
    With rule
    … for that purpoſe, they ſay, it is child ſhlie abuſed, yea the words grealy ProphanedProfaned. Laſtly for their other rites and cuſtomes viz. the womans lying in with a …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    We com next to their Sacraments, which are (as they ſay▪ ſinfully mangled, ProphanedProfaned, and wickedly ministred: The preſcript ſorme of ſervice, whereby their Lord ſupper is conſecrated …
    With rule
    We com next to their Sacraments, which are (as they ſay▪ ſinfully mangled, ProphanedProfaned, and wickedly ministred: The preſcript ſorme of ſervice, whereby their Lord ſupper is conſecrated …

    John Canne · A Necessity of Separation from the Church of England · p. 103 · Open in the reader

The Divine Appointment of the Lords Day A26918

  • Printed
    12. This is all granted. Sacrificing also was then ProphanedProfaned and Reformed, and polluted and destroyed by Antiochus; And yet we are not still …
    With rule
    12. This is all granted. Sacrificing also was then ProphanedProfaned and Reformed, and polluted and destroyed by Antiochus; And yet we are not still …

    Richard Baxter · The Divine Appointment of the Lords Day · p. 201 · Open in the reader

A Help to Holy Walking A30675

  • Printed
    … do it themſelves, but take Pleaſure in thoſe that do; and the Sabbath is ProphanedProfaned, and few lay it to Heart. Miniſters alſo in their place ſhould ſee to …
    With rule
    … do it themſelves, but take Pleaſure in thoſe that do; and the Sabbath is ProphanedProfaned, and few lay it to Heart. Miniſters alſo in their place ſhould ſee to …

    Edward Bury · A Help to Holy Walking · p. 166 · Open in the reader

The Swearer Silenced A36332

  • Printed
    … Eternal glorious God, the odious Nature of this Sin of Swearing, whereby it is ProphanedProfaned, the infinite distrnce betwixt this Soveraign Jehovah and the abusers of his holy Name …
    With rule
    … Eternal glorious God, the odious Nature of this Sin of Swearing, whereby it is ProphanedProfaned, the infinite distrnce betwixt this Soveraign Jehovah and the abusers of his holy Name …

    Thomas Doolittle · The Swearer Silenced · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of Grace, down upon your Knees; as yet this God whose Name you have ProphanedProfaned, doth sit upon the Mercy-seat; he hath been provoked by you, but is …
    With rule
    … of Grace, down upon your Knees; as yet this God whose Name you have ProphanedProfaned, doth sit upon the Mercy-seat; he hath been provoked by you, but is …

    Thomas Doolittle · The Swearer Silenced · p. 57 · Open in the reader

Davids Harp Strung and Tuned A52303

  • Printed
    2. Thy Holy Temple have they defiled. Vers. 1 ProphanedProfaned the place conſecrated to thy ſervice.
    With rule
    2. Thy Holy Temple have they defiled. Vers. 1 ProphanedProfaned the place conſecrated to thy ſervice.

    William Nicholson · Davids Harp Strung and Tuned · p. 225 · Open in the reader

A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament A52807

  • Printed
    Remark the Second; The Perſons that ProphanedProfaned the Sabbath, ver. 16. The Men of Tyre, who being Infidels (ſaith Menochius) gave the …
    With rule
    Remark the Second; The Perſons that ProphanedProfaned the Sabbath, ver. 16. The Men of Tyre, who being Infidels (ſaith Menochius) gave the …

    Christopher Ness · A Complete History and Mystery of the Old and New Testament · p. 731 · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

  • Printed
    … holy dayes by themſelves, their Servants or Apprentiſes, or have they any other wayes ProphanedProfaned the ſaid dayes? And hath the Kings Declaration concerning the uſe of lawfull ſports …
    With rule
    … holy dayes by themſelves, their Servants or Apprentiſes, or have they any other wayes ProphanedProfaned the ſaid dayes? And hath the Kings Declaration concerning the uſe of lawfull ſports …

    William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 152 · Open in the reader

Three Kingdoms Made One by Covenant A71282

  • Printed
    … his (own) vviſedome by his ſilence and doing nothing; for, Beholding The Lords Day ProphanedProfaned, The Lord of the Day Blaſphemed, The Honours and Service of the Day defiled …
    With rule
    … his (own) vviſedome by his ſilence and doing nothing; for, Beholding The Lords Day ProphanedProfaned, The Lord of the Day Blaſphemed, The Honours and Service of the Day defiled …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Three Kingdoms Made One by Covenant · p. 11 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Haggai Zechariah and Malachi A86932

  • Printed
    … to God and among themſelves, to the duties both of piety and juſtice, Doct. 1. ProphanedProfaned and ſleighted worſhip is oft-times accompanied with groſſe faults againſt the ſecond Table …
    With rule
    … to God and among themſelves, to the duties both of piety and juſtice, Doct. 1. ProphanedProfaned and ſleighted worſhip is oft-times accompanied with groſſe faults againſt the ſecond Table …

    George Hutcheson · Exposition of Haggai Zechariah and Malachi · p. 264 · Open in the reader

The Great Case of Conscience Opened A87229

  • Printed
    … ſhalt do no manner of work, &c. And yet Chriſt ſaith, Mat. 12.5. The Prieſts ProphanedProfaned the Sabbath, and were blameleſſe; and Num. 28.9. On the Sabbath Day, they were to …
    With rule
    … ſhalt do no manner of work, &c. And yet Chriſt ſaith, Mat. 12.5. The Prieſts ProphanedProfaned the Sabbath, and were blameleſſe; and Num. 28.9. On the Sabbath Day, they were to …

    Jeremiah Ives · The Great Case of Conscience Opened · p. 11 · Open in the reader

A Call to Delaying Sinners B02739

  • Printed
    … in? How many Oaths, S… hast thou sworn! How many Holy … baths hast thou ProphanedProfaned! How … …es hast thou derided Godliness? How …y hundred times hast thou neglect… Prayer …
    With rule
    … in? How many Oaths, S… hast thou sworn! How many Holy … baths hast thou ProphanedProfaned! How … …es hast thou derided Godliness? How …y hundred times hast thou neglect… Prayer …

    Thomas Doolittle · A Call to Delaying Sinners · p. 44 · Open in the reader