Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11783 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

séemeseem

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

Puritas changed it: 1,297 times in 120 works
Consistency: 100% (1,297 of 1,297)
Reach if approved: ~1,363 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: seem
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,297 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,297 changes in 120 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,297)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that he was a yong man, hee was a Lordes ſonne, & as it ſhould ſéemeseem, the only ſon of his father, and yet woulde not take mariage in hand …
With rule
… that he was a yong man, hee was a Lordes ſonne, & as it ſhould ſéemeseem, the only ſon of his father, and yet woulde not take mariage in hand …
Eusebius Pagit · Sermon 9 June 1572 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the gyfts and calling of God be without repentance, Rom. 11. And therfore, though they ſéemeseem to be ſo raked vp & couered wyth aſhes, that they are not ſéene nor …
With rule
… the gyfts and calling of God be without repentance, Rom. 11. And therfore, though they ſéemeseem to be ſo raked vp & couered wyth aſhes, that they are not ſéene nor …
Thomas Sparke · To All Christians Troubled and Disquieted · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe good kings Ezechiah & Ioſiah then theſe were. Wherefore theſe things now ſhould not ſéemeseem ſtrange or wonderful vnto vs. And theſe Kings of Eccleſiaſticus, in the greater number …
With rule
… thoſe good kings Ezechiah & Ioſiah then theſe were. Wherefore theſe things now ſhould not ſéemeseem ſtrange or wonderful vnto vs. And theſe Kings of Eccleſiaſticus, in the greater number …
Francis Trigge · Defense of our Days over the Days of our Forefathers · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God when he createth men (as the Catholikes ſay) obnoxious vnto this crime, may ſéemeseem to create thē for the deuill. For all as many as are infected with …
With rule
… God when he createth men (as the Catholikes ſay) obnoxious vnto this crime, may ſéemeseem to create thē for the deuill. For all as many as are infected with …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
Although this translation séemeseem more pregnante and full, for prayers and sacrifices to the dead, yet is the …
With rule
Although this translation séemeseem more pregnante and full, for prayers and sacrifices to the dead, yet is the …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… calleth them to repentaunce, ſhall bee caſt into Hell. But they blinde themſelues, & wil ſéemeseem to beleeue quite contrary vnto y^t which God affirmeth: this is not to ſhut …
With rule
… calleth them to repentaunce, ſhall bee caſt into Hell. But they blinde themſelues, & wil ſéemeseem to beleeue quite contrary vnto y^t which God affirmeth: this is not to ſhut …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the limits both of grace and mercy. Though their weeping in hell may ſéemeseem penitentiary, yet they doe but lugere poenas non peccata: they doe but mourne their …
With rule
… of the limits both of grace and mercy. Though their weeping in hell may ſéemeseem penitentiary, yet they doe but lugere poenas non peccata: they doe but mourne their …
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not opiniater & wilfull in trifill maters, or ouer precise in things indifferent, least thou séemeseem indiscreit & sawcie: bot rather yéeld to the desire and will of vthers.
With rule
… not opiniater & wilfull in trifill maters, or ouer precise in things indifferent, least thou séemeseem indiscreit & sawcie: bot rather yéeld to the desire and will of vthers.
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 64 · 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.