Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12078 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

incouragementsencouragements

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

Puritas changed it: 670 times in 362 works
Consistency: 100% (670 of 670)
Reach if approved: ~720 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: encouragements
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 685 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (670 changes in 362 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 670)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but being perceiued and duely entertayned, they turne into Testimonials vnto vs, yea to incouragementsencouragements vnto farther degrees of grace. But if thou aske mee againe, how thou shalt …
With rule
… but being perceiued and duely entertayned, they turne into Testimonials vnto vs, yea to incouragementsencouragements vnto farther degrees of grace. But if thou aske mee againe, how thou shalt …
Francis Rous · The Art of Happiness · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the good things we have by Christ, &c. and together with propounding these excellent incouragementsencouragements and motives, the spirit strongly works upon the disposition, upon the will, and affections …
With rule
… the good things we have by Christ, &c. and together with propounding these excellent incouragementsencouragements and motives, the spirit strongly works upon the disposition, upon the will, and affections …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 248 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſure word: euen the certaine promiſes of God. Let vs, as we haue more incouragementsencouragements then they, turne to God. But to conclude this poynt, I would ſay as …
With rule
… ſure word: euen the certaine promiſes of God. Let vs, as we haue more incouragementsencouragements then they, turne to God. But to conclude this poynt, I would ſay as …
Richard Stock · Sermon 2 November 1606 · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
In this our spirituall warfare wee haue many great incouragementsencouragements to fight valiantly: first, our weapons are good, a complet armour: secondly, our Captaine …
With rule
In this our spirituall warfare wee haue many great incouragementsencouragements to fight valiantly: first, our weapons are good, a complet armour: secondly, our Captaine …
John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to wit, in labouring to winne them to religion and sinceritie, in praying, admonition, incouragementsencouragements, and such like needfull duties: and these are the best workes of mercie that …
With rule
… to wit, in labouring to winne them to religion and sinceritie, in praying, admonition, incouragementsencouragements, and such like needfull duties: and these are the best workes of mercie that …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be ſeruiceable, and inſtruments of publicke welfare: only take in the cautions, with the incouragementsencouragements, which are theſe.
With rule
… be ſeruiceable, and inſtruments of publicke welfare: only take in the cautions, with the incouragementsencouragements, which are theſe.
John Davenport · A Royal Edict for Military Exercises · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… great, and so constantly committed against so much knowledge, against so many comforts, and incouragementsencouragements, against so many vowes and protestations, are much more heavy, and yet you see …
With rule
… great, and so constantly committed against so much knowledge, against so many comforts, and incouragementsencouragements, against so many vowes and protestations, are much more heavy, and yet you see …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs bee exhorted to liue this life of grace, seeing we haue so great incouragementsencouragements: I say, if you obserue throughout the scriptures, and aboue all other places from …
With rule
… vs bee exhorted to liue this life of grace, seeing we haue so great incouragementsencouragements: I say, if you obserue throughout the scriptures, and aboue all other places from …
John Preston · Spiritual Life and Death · p. 27 · 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.