Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11851 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

favouritesfavorites

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

Puritas changed it: 1,195 times in 606 works
Consistency: 100% (1,195 of 1,195)
Reach if approved: ~1,256 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,195 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,195 changes in 606 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,195)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that, but in defiling himselfe; and that which is before him. o… his owne favouritesfavorites that sit next unto him. Christs yoake is easie and his burthen light to …
With rule
… that, but in defiling himselfe; and that which is before him. o… his owne favouritesfavorites that sit next unto him. Christs yoake is easie and his burthen light to …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 656 · Open in the reader
Printed
… parts, never so admirable to carnall eyes, or mightily magnifi dby his flatterers or favouritesfavorites: yet wanting the saving sight of GODs sanctifying Spirit, and the eye of spirituall …
With rule
… parts, never so admirable to carnall eyes, or mightily magnifi dby his flatterers or favouritesfavorites: yet wanting the saving sight of GODs sanctifying Spirit, and the eye of spirituall …
Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trouble to their conſciences, being the very ſame, if not worſe in their owne favouritesfavorites, and aſſociates? Iudge whether ſuch zeale come from conſcience, or from corrupt affection, whether …
With rule
… trouble to their conſciences, being the very ſame, if not worſe in their owne favouritesfavorites, and aſſociates? Iudge whether ſuch zeale come from conſcience, or from corrupt affection, whether …
Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a friend; that this should be the state of Gospel Saints, and of God's favouritesfavorites. 'Tis possible some therefore go yet further to good purposes towards Obedience, and have …
With rule
… a friend; that this should be the state of Gospel Saints, and of God's favouritesfavorites. 'Tis possible some therefore go yet further to good purposes towards Obedience, and have …
Richard Allestree · A Sermon Preached 12 October 1662 · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 But in particular, principally and primarily, ye that are his glorious Angels, the immediate favouritesfavorites and domesticks in the court of heaven, which in infinite number he hath created …
With rule
2 But in particular, principally and primarily, ye that are his glorious Angels, the immediate favouritesfavorites and domesticks in the court of heaven, which in infinite number he hath created …
George Abbot · Notes on the Book of Psalms · p. 748 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the name of Urbane, or the facetious who requiteth his best servants and chiefest favouritesfavorites with jests and riddles- For read my riddle what's this? the Supervisour of a …
With rule
… the name of Urbane, or the facetious who requiteth his best servants and chiefest favouritesfavorites with jests and riddles- For read my riddle what's this? the Supervisour of a …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fruitfull in the good workes of all righteouſneſſe, bring them to be Gods deare favouritesfavorites; they by their prayers alſo previle with God for the removall of much evill …
With rule
… fruitfull in the good workes of all righteouſneſſe, bring them to be Gods deare favouritesfavorites; they by their prayers alſo previle with God for the removall of much evill …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more, 2 Kings 10. they much more truly ſay of their God; therefore ſee the greateſt FavouritesFavorites have been moſt ſerviceable, Moſes more then Aaron, or Miriam, Num. 12. Saint Paul more …
With rule
… more, 2 Kings 10. they much more truly ſay of their God; therefore ſee the greateſt FavouritesFavorites have been moſt ſerviceable, Moſes more then Aaron, or Miriam, Num. 12. Saint Paul more …
William Sclater · Sermons Experimental · p. 170 · 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.