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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11866 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

séemethseemeth

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

Puritas changed it
769 times in 100 works
Consistency
100% (769 of 769)
Reach if approved
~808 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: seemeth
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
769 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (769 changes in 100 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 769)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    5. In praying to bee rich it ſéemethseemeth wee are not content to depend vppon God.
    With rule
    5. In praying to bee rich it ſéemethseemeth wee are not content to depend vppon God.

    Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to be cryed downe or inhaunced, than coyne of siluer and gold, as which séemethseemeth to followe the willes of princes? And yet notwithstanding, for all their ordinances and …
    With rule
    … to be cryed downe or inhaunced, than coyne of siluer and gold, as which séemethseemeth to followe the willes of princes? And yet notwithstanding, for all their ordinances and …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 357 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … eſt is ſet for habeo, and therfore the word I, which in the Engliſh ſéemethseemeth to be the nominatiue caſe, is put into the datiue in the Latin by …
    With rule
    … eſt is ſet for habeo, and therfore the word I, which in the Engliſh ſéemethseemeth to be the nominatiue caſe, is put into the datiue in the Latin by …

    John Stockwood · Rules of Construction in English Grammar · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … both by the Scriptures, and our owne experience, how the Lord promiseth, and then séemethseemeth to withdrawe his hand, he promised the lande of Canaan to the Israelites, and …
    With rule
    … both by the Scriptures, and our owne experience, how the Lord promiseth, and then séemethseemeth to withdrawe his hand, he promised the lande of Canaan to the Israelites, and …

    John Udall · Amendment of Life · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … by their euill life they did offend the Congregation, in which ſence the Apoſtle ſéemethseemeth to take that which he writeth in 2. Corin. 7. where the old Interpreter calleth Apologian …
    With rule
    … by their euill life they did offend the Congregation, in which ſence the Apoſtle ſéemethseemeth to take that which he writeth in 2. Corin. 7. where the old Interpreter calleth Apologian …

    John Bradford · The Complaint of Verity · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … off the people, and the beaſts, the birdes, and the fiſhes alſo; and this ſéemethseemeth to be a great cauſe of that generall deſtruction, becauſe they did worſhip and …
    With rule
    … off the people, and the beaſts, the birdes, and the fiſhes alſo; and this ſéemethseemeth to be a great cauſe of that generall deſtruction, becauſe they did worſhip and …

    Francis Bunny · A Guide Unto Godliness · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … euery indifferent man may sée is in woordes, and not in matter, but it séemethseemeth, that our proude Censor hath not viewed any, but the vulgar Latine translation, whiche …
    With rule
    … euery indifferent man may sée is in woordes, and not in matter, but it séemethseemeth, that our proude Censor hath not viewed any, but the vulgar Latine translation, whiche …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſure: and that which is ſo groſe & abſurd that a childe may laugh at, ſéemethseemeth to them a verye ſtrong piller to leane vnto. Ther néedeth no more when …
    With rule
    … ſure: and that which is ſo groſe & abſurd that a childe may laugh at, ſéemethseemeth to them a verye ſtrong piller to leane vnto. Ther néedeth no more when …

    George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · 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.