Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12085 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

momentanymomentary

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

Puritas changed it: 738 times in 353 works
Consistency: 99.8% (738 of 739)
Reach if approved: ~776 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: momentany
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 739 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (738 changes in 353 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 738)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… then to loſe and forgoe vs vtterly, by ſuffering vs to enioy vncertaine and momentanymomentary proſperitie and the pleaſures of ſinne for a while. Of this hauing ſpoken what …
With rule
… then to loſe and forgoe vs vtterly, by ſuffering vs to enioy vncertaine and momentanymomentary proſperitie and the pleaſures of ſinne for a while. Of this hauing ſpoken what …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 592 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mic. 5. 7. grasse] as the people sometime are likened to grasse, for their fraile and momentanymomentary state, Esay 40. 6, 7. so here they are likened to grasse & herbs, which grow by the …
With rule
… Mic. 5. 7. grasse] as the people sometime are likened to grasse, for their fraile and momentanymomentary state, Esay 40. 6, 7. so here they are likened to grasse & herbs, which grow by the …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fifthly, God turnes them to be bleſſings to his owne people, they are momentanymomentary and light: wherein God aſſiſts thoſe that in them truſt in him, that they …
With rule
Fifthly, God turnes them to be bleſſings to his owne people, they are momentanymomentary and light: wherein God aſſiſts thoſe that in them truſt in him, that they …
John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Paul eying, counted his afflictions (which to vs would haue beene intollerable) light and momentanymomentary, not worthy the naming in comparison: which made him not onely, not weepe and …
With rule
… Paul eying, counted his afflictions (which to vs would haue beene intollerable) light and momentanymomentary, not worthy the naming in comparison: which made him not onely, not weepe and …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the flaming fire? Or rather like ſelfe-murtherers, who to free themſelues from ſome momentanymomentary anguiſh in this world, caſt themſelues into hell torments, which is endleſſe, and eaſeleſſe?
With rule
… the flaming fire? Or rather like ſelfe-murtherers, who to free themſelues from ſome momentanymomentary anguiſh in this world, caſt themſelues into hell torments, which is endleſſe, and eaſeleſſe?
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 192 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how little would we regard the ſhort and deare-prized pleaſures, of this our momentanymomentary and fading life? But, becauſe God is ſo farre out of our ſight, and …
With rule
… how little would we regard the ſhort and deare-prized pleaſures, of this our momentanymomentary and fading life? But, becauſe God is ſo farre out of our ſight, and …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of thy Saints before mine eyes alwaies, that I may the better beare theſe momentanymomentary afflictions, which are not to be compared vnto that ineſtimable ioy. Make me ſtedfaſtly …
With rule
… of thy Saints before mine eyes alwaies, that I may the better beare theſe momentanymomentary afflictions, which are not to be compared vnto that ineſtimable ioy. Make me ſtedfaſtly …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 571 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as the Apostle saith, Through manifold tribulations we must enter into heauen. And this momentanymomentary affliction causeth to vs an infinite weight of glory: not that it deserues or …
With rule
… as the Apostle saith, Through manifold tribulations we must enter into heauen. And this momentanymomentary affliction causeth to vs an infinite weight of glory: not that it deserues or …
William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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