Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11853 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

growengrown

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

Puritas changed it: 772 times in 346 works
Consistency: 100% (772 of 772)
Reach if approved: ~811 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: grown
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 772 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (772 changes in 346 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 772)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
To what a corrupt and corrupting habite of sinne was Ierusalem growengrown? like a poysonable welspring it was ever casting out deadlie waters; yea they were …
With rule
To what a corrupt and corrupting habite of sinne was Ierusalem growengrown? like a poysonable welspring it was ever casting out deadlie waters; yea they were …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the flesh, arme yourſelues likewiſe with the ſame minde. But ſuch meditation is now growengrown out of vſe and begon to waxe rare, wherewith notwithſtanding the Epiſtles of Peter …
With rule
… the flesh, arme yourſelues likewiſe with the ſame minde. But ſuch meditation is now growengrown out of vſe and begon to waxe rare, wherewith notwithſtanding the Epiſtles of Peter …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other cause, than that oure fayth is weake and slēder, and not as yet growengrown vnto such perfection, that trustīg ō gods word, is able to lay hande on …
With rule
… other cause, than that oure fayth is weake and slēder, and not as yet growengrown vnto such perfection, that trustīg ō gods word, is able to lay hande on …
Thomas Becon · The Physic of the Soul · Open in the reader
Printed
… wordes we cō clude, that that vſury, which marueylouſly in thys laſt time hath growengrown in the church of Chriſt, is not lawfull but damnable and very farre from …
With rule
… wordes we cō clude, that that vſury, which marueylouſly in thys laſt time hath growengrown in the church of Chriſt, is not lawfull but damnable and very farre from …
Wolfgang Musculus · Lawful and Unlawful Usury Amongst Christians · Open in the reader
Printed
… example. Hereby it appeareth, that when the latine tongue, was either almost, or altogether growengrown out of the common peoples vnderstandings, order was taken that common prayers should be …
With rule
… example. Hereby it appeareth, that when the latine tongue, was either almost, or altogether growengrown out of the common peoples vnderstandings, order was taken that common prayers should be …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… choise, or of a continued ouersight of such as were chosen, diuers abuses haue growengrown in the receiuers, the hearts and the hands of the giuers hauing beene much …
With rule
… choise, or of a continued ouersight of such as were chosen, diuers abuses haue growengrown in the receiuers, the hearts and the hands of the giuers hauing beene much …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 864 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the World hath of many that in their youth were zealous, and afterwards haue growengrown cold, and worldly, makes them to thinke all will do so.
With rule
… the World hath of many that in their youth were zealous, and afterwards haue growengrown cold, and worldly, makes them to thinke all will do so.
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot be one and the ſame thing. And that the papacie is an accident growengrown upon the church, experience it ſelf ſpeaketh. For the ſubject is before his accident …
With rule
… cannot be one and the ſame thing. And that the papacie is an accident growengrown upon the church, experience it ſelf ſpeaketh. For the ſubject is before his accident …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 183 · 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.