Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11912 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

entertainemententertainment

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

Puritas changed it: 579 times in 303 works
Consistency: 99.4% (579 of 582)
Reach if approved: ~612 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: entertainment
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 582 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (579 changes in 303 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 579)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Be pleaſed I pray you to giue entertainemententertainment to this point alſo. It deſerueth to bee harboured. It is the glorie of …
With rule
Be pleaſed I pray you to giue entertainemententertainment to this point alſo. It deſerueth to bee harboured. It is the glorie of …
Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… should shut vp, and silence all clamorous lips. For, it is the ouer-good entertainemententertainment that the slanderous tongue findeth that cherisheth it, and it is the sterne countenance …
With rule
… should shut vp, and silence all clamorous lips. For, it is the ouer-good entertainemententertainment that the slanderous tongue findeth that cherisheth it, and it is the sterne countenance …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… God doth, as he did by vs, giue vs a King, great before his entertainemententertainment amongſt vs, whoſe power might the better procure our weale, and ſecure our peace …
With rule
… God doth, as he did by vs, giue vs a King, great before his entertainemententertainment amongſt vs, whoſe power might the better procure our weale, and ſecure our peace …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 396 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but once in hande. You ſee how I haue delt with Deane Iohn / your entertainemententertainment ſhalbe alike. But Thomas Cartwright / thou art T.C. ſo is Tom Cooper too …
With rule
… but once in hande. You ſee how I haue delt with Deane Iohn / your entertainemententertainment ſhalbe alike. But Thomas Cartwright / thou art T.C. ſo is Tom Cooper too …
Martin Marprelate · Work for a Cooper 2 · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… then (when they deserue an enemies reward) come to craue of God a friends entertainemententertainment. Some thinke to snatch Heauen in a moment, which the best can scarce attaine …
With rule
… then (when they deserue an enemies reward) come to craue of God a friends entertainemententertainment. Some thinke to snatch Heauen in a moment, which the best can scarce attaine …
William Perkins · Deaths Knell · Open in the reader
Printed
… Grace dares not peepe in at the gates; or if it doth, with colde entertainemententertainment. I haue heard report of a generation of men, that carry Fire in the …
With rule
… Grace dares not peepe in at the gates; or if it doth, with colde entertainemententertainment. I haue heard report of a generation of men, that carry Fire in the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prepare the way of the Lord, to make the paths ſtraight, fit for the entertainemententertainment of the Meſſias; ſo was this Ecce to that Church of Philadelphia, and to …
With rule
… prepare the way of the Lord, to make the paths ſtraight, fit for the entertainemententertainment of the Meſſias; ſo was this Ecce to that Church of Philadelphia, and to …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in it: sometimes the giving ones body to bee burnt, will have but cold entertainemententertainment: and sometimes the giving but a cup of cold water, shall bee counted a …
With rule
… in it: sometimes the giving ones body to bee burnt, will have but cold entertainemententertainment: and sometimes the giving but a cup of cold water, shall bee counted a …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Choice Sermons A68783

Printed
… another thing which I will runne over briefely, beſides the office: The Hoſpituim, the EntertainementEntertainment of the Miniſtrie in the world.
With rule
… another thing which I will runne over briefely, beſides the office: The Hoſpituim, the EntertainementEntertainment of the Miniſtrie in the world.
John Stoughton · Choice Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader