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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11765 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

floudflood

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

Puritas changed it
2,592 times in 782 works
Consistency
100% (2,592 of 2,592)
Reach if approved
~2,726 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: flood
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,594 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,592 changes in 782 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,592)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … was the firfte parente of the Hebrewes, & the original of mankynde, and before the floudflood, as a Patriarche, or aunceſtour, to the godly fathers Abell, Seth: after the flowde …
    With rule
    … was the firfte parente of the Hebrewes, & the original of mankynde, and before the floudflood, as a Patriarche, or aunceſtour, to the godly fathers Abell, Seth: after the flowde …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it by faith and a holy life. If we would be ſafe in the floudflood-time, in the day of Gods wrath, we muſt be buſie now about the …
    With rule
    … it by faith and a holy life. If we would be ſafe in the floudflood-time, in the day of Gods wrath, we muſt be buſie now about the …

    William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 262 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … a kéeper of the priſon. Which both, (after puniſhments ſuſtayned) were ſtrangled in the floudflood Iſter.
    With rule
    … a kéeper of the priſon. Which both, (after puniſhments ſuſtayned) were ſtrangled in the floudflood Iſter.

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſelues in beſt health and ſtrength; or outwardly by inundation of Deluge, as Noahs FloudFlood, When men were eating and drinking, the FloudFlood came; or by caſualtie, as by …
    With rule
    … ſelues in beſt health and ſtrength; or outwardly by inundation of Deluge, as Noahs FloudFlood, When men were eating and drinking, the FloudFlood came; or by caſualtie, as by …

    John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … heere sings, vers. 6. Hee turned the Sea into dry land: they vvent through the floudflood on foote, there did wee reioyce in him. And the fire in an Ouen …
    With rule
    … heere sings, vers. 6. Hee turned the Sea into dry land: they vvent through the floudflood on foote, there did wee reioyce in him. And the fire in an Ouen …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſacramentall water is eſpecially figured per aquas dilu…ij, by the water of the floudflood: Gen. 7. for as that water drowned the old world, ſo water in Baptiſme (as …
    With rule
    … ſacramentall water is eſpecially figured per aquas dilu…ij, by the water of the floudflood: Gen. 7. for as that water drowned the old world, ſo water in Baptiſme (as …

    Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … inventions and deviſes in Gods worſhip, ſhould by their form of reaſoning open the floudflood-gates wide for all ſuperſtitious, idolatrous, antichriſtian deviſes and impieties, as this reaſon doth …
    With rule
    … inventions and deviſes in Gods worſhip, ſhould by their form of reaſoning open the floudflood-gates wide for all ſuperſtitious, idolatrous, antichriſtian deviſes and impieties, as this reaſon doth …

    John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 117 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … hidden partes of the earth at length recouereth her former hugenes: Or how the floudflood M…ander which hath exerciſed the wits of the moſt famous poets of all …
    With rule
    … hidden partes of the earth at length recouereth her former hugenes: Or how the floudflood M…ander which hath exerciſed the wits of the moſt famous poets of all …

    Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · 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.