Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11879 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wrastlewrestle

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

Puritas changed it: 650 times in 362 works
Consistency: 99.3% (650 of 654)
Reach if approved: ~687 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wrestle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 654 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (650 changes in 362 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 650)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… we may stād stedfast against y^e crafty as…autes of the deuyl. For wee wrastlewrestle not against the flesh and bloud, but agaynst rule, agaynste power, and against worldly …
With rule
… we may stād stedfast against y^e crafty as…autes of the deuyl. For wee wrastlewrestle not against the flesh and bloud, but agaynst rule, agaynste power, and against worldly …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is halting be turned out of the way. Hebr. 12. 13. For as those that wrastlewrestle and t…e masteries, looke warily to themselues, lest they be supplanted by their …
With rule
… which is halting be turned out of the way. Hebr. 12. 13. For as those that wrastlewrestle and t…e masteries, looke warily to themselues, lest they be supplanted by their …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 461 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the pardon is generall, therefore what should hinder vs? Vrge GOD vpon his promise, wrastlewrestle with GOD, as Iacob did, and let him not goe without a blessing; wrastling …
With rule
… the pardon is generall, therefore what should hinder vs? Vrge GOD vpon his promise, wrastlewrestle with GOD, as Iacob did, and let him not goe without a blessing; wrastling …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or any man but Momus, any such question. Howbeit granting this, which you so wrastlewrestle for, what say you then to Momus; I meane to the argument implied in …
With rule
… or any man but Momus, any such question. Howbeit granting this, which you so wrastlewrestle for, what say you then to Momus; I meane to the argument implied in …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take there effecte, yea thoughe Sathan and all his garde of souldiours resiste and wrastlewrestle against the same. (Lord god almightie) god alone bycause he can do all thinges …
With rule
… take there effecte, yea thoughe Sathan and all his garde of souldiours resiste and wrastlewrestle against the same. (Lord god almightie) god alone bycause he can do all thinges …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mare mortuum: but when Christ puts fire to this water, no maruell if they wrastlewrestle. The deuill stirres not till God rowse him; as the wild boare sleepes till …
With rule
… Mare mortuum: but when Christ puts fire to this water, no maruell if they wrastlewrestle. The deuill stirres not till God rowse him; as the wild boare sleepes till …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. That the faithfull may ſee with whom they wraſtlewrestle in all the miſeries and euils of this preſent life, Epheſ. 6.12. Ignorant people thinke …
With rule
4. That the faithfull may ſee with whom they wraſtlewrestle in all the miſeries and euils of this preſent life, Epheſ. 6.12. Ignorant people thinke …
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we had the more neede to ſtriue, it is no eaſie thing to out-wraſtlewrestle a ſickneſſe; beſide the nature of ſickneſſe, doth make men indiſpoſed to reſiſt it …
With rule
… we had the more neede to ſtriue, it is no eaſie thing to out-wraſtlewrestle a ſickneſſe; beſide the nature of ſickneſſe, doth make men indiſpoſed to reſiſt it …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 288 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.