Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12023 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wandredwandered

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

Puritas changed it: 760 times in 471 works
Consistency: 99.4% (760 of 764)
Reach if approved: ~803 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wandered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 764 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (760 changes in 471 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 760)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and ſimple without ſeame. Ioh. 19 23. and many, whom the world was not worthy of, wandredwandered about in ſheepe-skinnes. Hebr. 11.37. that is, in leather coates, being deſtitute, afflicted, and …
With rule
… and ſimple without ſeame. Ioh. 19 23. and many, whom the world was not worthy of, wandredwandered about in ſheepe-skinnes. Hebr. 11.37. that is, in leather coates, being deſtitute, afflicted, and …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… such workes as haue bene deuised by mens fantasies besides the scripture. We haue wandredwandered on vaine pil gremages, offering vp mony, candels, and tapers to Images and reliques …
With rule
… such workes as haue bene deuised by mens fantasies besides the scripture. We haue wandredwandered on vaine pil gremages, offering vp mony, candels, and tapers to Images and reliques …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… might cōceiue against the beleeuers spoken of before. For, it being said, that they wandredwandered vp and downe, Some man might thinke thus: no meruaile though they wandredwandered vp …
With rule
… might cōceiue against the beleeuers spoken of before. For, it being said, that they wandredwandered vp and downe, Some man might thinke thus: no meruaile though they wandredwandered vp …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 556 · Open in the reader
Printed
… goatskinnes, being deſtitute, afflicted, and tormented. Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandredwandered in Wilderneſſes and mountaines, and dens, and e…ues of the earth. And in …
With rule
… goatskinnes, being deſtitute, afflicted, and tormented. Whom the world was not worthie of: they wandredwandered in Wilderneſſes and mountaines, and dens, and e…ues of the earth. And in …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to vs with the more worthy servants of God going before vs, who* have wandredwandered in wildernesses and mountaines and dennes and caves of the earth.
With rule
… to vs with the more worthy servants of God going before vs, who* have wandredwandered in wildernesses and mountaines and dennes and caves of the earth.
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finde that I haue gone aſtray as a ſheepe that is loſt, I haue wandredwandered a long time in the by-pathes of ſin and wickedneſſe, and I will …
With rule
… finde that I haue gone aſtray as a ſheepe that is loſt, I haue wandredwandered a long time in the by-pathes of ſin and wickedneſſe, and I will …
Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any be curable, they might repēt frō there errours, by which being seduced they wandredwandered oute of the way, and so escape the euils hanging ouer them.
With rule
… any be curable, they might repēt frō there errours, by which being seduced they wandredwandered oute of the way, and so escape the euils hanging ouer them.
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… way, in the company of their frends and neighbours: They doe not ſuſpect him wandredwandered into the ſolitary fields, but when euening came, they go to ſeeke him among …
With rule
… way, in the company of their frends and neighbours: They doe not ſuſpect him wandredwandered into the ſolitary fields, but when euening came, they go to ſeeke him among …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 338 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Virtues History A11081

Printed
WandredWandered through many a dale and weary hill,
With rule
WandredWandered through many a dale and weary hill,
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader