Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11832 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wholsomwholesome

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

Puritas changed it: 678 times in 405 works
Consistency: 98.4% (678 of 689)
Reach if approved: ~724 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wholesome
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 689 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (678 changes in 405 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 678)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… God. Which moſt wholſome doctrine, the examples of the moſt miſerable ſhould make moſt wholſomwholesome vnto vs, which then begin to be effectuall, when we are ſo affected as …
With rule
… God. Which moſt wholſome doctrine, the examples of the moſt miſerable ſhould make moſt wholſomwholesome vnto vs, which then begin to be effectuall, when we are ſo affected as …
Martin Luther · Fourteen Points of Consolation · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or deſeruings. Wherefore that we are iustified by faith onely, it is a most wholſomwholesome doctrin &c. Thus we ſee the honor of faith onely: that is to iuſtifie …
With rule
… or deſeruings. Wherefore that we are iustified by faith onely, it is a most wholſomwholesome doctrin &c. Thus we ſee the honor of faith onely: that is to iuſtifie …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Titus the Apoſt…e expoundeth Didactico… to be able to exho…t with wholſomwholesome doctryne & to convince the gainſay…es: how then ſhal ſome of the Elders be …
With rule
… in Titus the Apoſt…e expoundeth Didactico… to be able to exho…t with wholſomwholesome doctryne & to convince the gainſay…es: how then ſhal ſome of the Elders be …
John Smyth · The Differences of the Churches of the Separation · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… malice do turne to their owne destruction whatsoeuer is offred them, though it be wholsomwholesome. So it commeth to passe, that the Gospell to them that willinglye perishe, is …
With rule
… malice do turne to their owne destruction whatsoeuer is offred them, though it be wholsomwholesome. So it commeth to passe, that the Gospell to them that willinglye perishe, is …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 439 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtatutes already indighted, and to remoue a dangerous thing already founde guiltye by other wholſomwholesome lawes, was neuer inconuenient. As for the maintaining of ciuilians, as the law already …
With rule
… ſtatutes already indighted, and to remoue a dangerous thing already founde guiltye by other wholſomwholesome lawes, was neuer inconuenient. As for the maintaining of ciuilians, as the law already …
John Penry · A Humble Motion · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fourth thing that your selues haue done, namely, by devising and enacting good and wholsomwholesome lawes against their errors, superstitions, impieties &c. seing this cannot be done by subiects …
With rule
… fourth thing that your selues haue done, namely, by devising and enacting good and wholsomwholesome lawes against their errors, superstitions, impieties &c. seing this cannot be done by subiects …
Henry Ainsworth · Counterpoison Considerations · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pharao, with the same lye of obstinacie, & deceipt: yet whē we come to the wholsomwholesome water, and sanctification of Baptisme, we muste knowe, and beleue, that there, the Deuill …
With rule
… Pharao, with the same lye of obstinacie, & deceipt: yet whē we come to the wholsomwholesome water, and sanctification of Baptisme, we muste knowe, and beleue, that there, the Deuill …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
Their wholsomwholesome waters, I tourned into bloude,
With rule
Their wholsomwholesome waters, I tourned into bloude,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Church Concord A26897

Printed
… with common consultation and consent.] And so he proceedeth distinctly to prove this, 1. Safe. 2. WholsomWholesome. 3. An Ordinance, adding this Caution, which we accept. [To see that this Consociation of …
With rule
… with common consultation and consent.] And so he proceedeth distinctly to prove this, 1. Safe. 2. WholsomWholesome. 3. An Ordinance, adding this Caution, which we accept. [To see that this Consociation of …
Richard Baxter · Church Concord · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Present State of London A37482

Printed
… and the Commons; in which is ſuch a Co-ordination of Power, ſuch a WholſomWholesome mixture betwixt Prince and Commonalty, during the time of Conſultation, that they make but …
With rule
… and the Commons; in which is ſuch a Co-ordination of Power, ſuch a WholſomWholesome mixture betwixt Prince and Commonalty, during the time of Conſultation, that they make but …
Thomas De Laune · The Present State of London · p. 142 · Open in the reader

Paradise Lost A50919

Printed
WholsomWholesome and cool, and mild, but with … Air
With rule
WholsomWholesome and cool, and mild, but with … Air
John Milton · Paradise Lost · Open in the reader

Concerning the Holy Spirit A53720

Printed
… Tree of the Cross being cast into the Waters of Affliction hath rendred them WholsomWholesome and Medicinal. And as the Lord Christ being the Head of the Covenant, all …
With rule
… Tree of the Cross being cast into the Waters of Affliction hath rendred them WholsomWholesome and Medicinal. And as the Lord Christ being the Head of the Covenant, all …
John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 391 · Open in the reader

Works A62040

Printed
… Shop of an Apothecary, in which there are many Cordial Iulips, Purging Potions, and WholsomWholesome Drugs, but also some poisonous, which need strong correctives, and therefore they must be …
With rule
… Shop of an Apothecary, in which there are many Cordial Iulips, Purging Potions, and WholsomWholesome Drugs, but also some poisonous, which need strong correctives, and therefore they must be …
George Swinnock · Works · p. 262 · Open in the reader

Thirty-Six Sermons A62128

Printed
… or Indiscretion in the Pulpit, will sower a great lump of Truth and of WholsomWholesome Doctrine: As also because personal matters can hardly be so dealt in, (especially in …
With rule
… or Indiscretion in the Pulpit, will sower a great lump of Truth and of WholsomWholesome Doctrine: As also because personal matters can hardly be so dealt in, (especially in …
Robert Sanderson · Thirty-Six Sermons · p. 420 · Open in the reader