Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12013 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spredspread

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

Puritas changed it: 1,155 times in 526 works
Consistency: 99.4% (1,155 of 1,162)
Reach if approved: ~1,221 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spread
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,162 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,155 changes in 526 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
All this and mair with broken voice, and hands to heaven out-spredspread,
With rule
All this and mair with broken voice, and hands to heaven out-spredspread,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the space of almost nine hundreth yeares? Since the Gospell was preached and spredspread abroad how few doe beleeue▪ And as the Prophet Esay saith, Domine quis credidit …
With rule
… for the space of almost nine hundreth yeares? Since the Gospell was preached and spredspread abroad how few doe beleeue▪ And as the Prophet Esay saith, Domine quis credidit …
William King · The Strait Gate to Heaven · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in propounding the Question of the Visibility of the Church in all Ages, he spredspread a strong Net (as hee thought) to catch D. White and D. Featly, in …
With rule
… in propounding the Question of the Visibility of the Church in all Ages, he spredspread a strong Net (as hee thought) to catch D. White and D. Featly, in …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… that originall sinne, wherein wee are conceiued and borne, and that corruption which hath spredspread from Adam, vpon all mankinde, and that thereby wee are restored to that same …
With rule
… that originall sinne, wherein wee are conceiued and borne, and that corruption which hath spredspread from Adam, vpon all mankinde, and that thereby wee are restored to that same …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doth continue: and all thoſe which are in him, muſt needes feele the ſame ſpredspread vpon them. There is nothing in the worlde beſides this, which is able to …
With rule
… doth continue: and all thoſe which are in him, muſt needes feele the ſame ſpredspread vpon them. There is nothing in the worlde beſides this, which is able to …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… nefario deſtinatos, ſubiectis prunis torrendos: that is, A brazen Idoll, hollow within, his hands ſpredspread abroad, to receiue infants that were through their curſed Idolatry tortured in the fire …
With rule
… nefario deſtinatos, ſubiectis prunis torrendos: that is, A brazen Idoll, hollow within, his hands ſpredspread abroad, to receiue infants that were through their curſed Idolatry tortured in the fire …
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the croce, whereof the sueit odore the delitious and confortable sauour is disparsed & spredspread throghout all, which is the most acceptable oblatiō to God as the apostle witnesseth …
With rule
… of the croce, whereof the sueit odore the delitious and confortable sauour is disparsed & spredspread throghout all, which is the most acceptable oblatiō to God as the apostle witnesseth …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader
Printed
… a writing, and also caused or suffered the same to be copied out and spredspread through the hands of so many, that welnigh al sorts of mē haue it …
With rule
… a writing, and also caused or suffered the same to be copied out and spredspread through the hands of so many, that welnigh al sorts of mē haue it …
Richard Hooker · Answer to Supplication Preferred by Walter Tavers · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan A63069

Printed
… called an Eagle, Jer. 48.49. Xenophon teſtifyeth that Cyrus had in his ſtandard a golden SpredSpread-Eagle, as had after him the Perſian Kings, and likewiſe the Romans: See Matth …
With rule
… called an Eagle, Jer. 48.49. Xenophon teſtifyeth that Cyrus had in his ſtandard a golden SpredSpread-Eagle, as had after him the Perſian Kings, and likewiſe the Romans: See Matth …
John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 149 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Pentateuch A94797

Printed
Ver. 5. SpredSpread not in the skin] So if men mend by admonition, and take up in …
With rule
Ver. 5. SpredSpread not in the skin] So if men mend by admonition, and take up in …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Pentateuch · p. 136 · Open in the reader