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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12150 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

certencertain

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

Puritas changed it
1,132 times in 143 works
Consistency
98.7% (1,132 of 1,146)
Reach if approved
~1,204 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: certain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,146 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,132 changes in 143 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,132)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … nedes condemne them to the deuel / that we may haue / vſe & reteine the pure & certencertain holy ſacrament acordīg to the inſtitucyon of chriſt with true faith.
    With rule
    … nedes condemne them to the deuel / that we may haue / vſe & reteine the pure & certencertain holy ſacrament acordīg to the inſtitucyon of chriſt with true faith.

    Martin Luther · Last Will and Confession · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Tryf…lynge and Vyle thynges: and despyce thynges whyche are muche … the most nigh, certencertain and suer waye to cōe vnto teue felicitee▪ welth ioye or pleasure, whē he …
    With rule
    … Tryf…lynge and Vyle thynges: and despyce thynges whyche are muche … the most nigh, certencertain and suer waye to cōe vnto teue felicitee▪ welth ioye or pleasure, whē he …

    Thomas Becon · The Physic of the Soul · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … haue the determination of a generall Councill: for whether these things compasse or no, certencertain it is that they are bound in conscience to receiue and beleeue the auncient …
    With rule
    … haue the determination of a generall Councill: for whether these things compasse or no, certencertain it is that they are bound in conscience to receiue and beleeue the auncient …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 835 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … at this instant, and in this very state (God as yet hauing but laid certencertain beginnings of true cō uersion in his heart) is the very child of God …
    With rule
    … at this instant, and in this very state (God as yet hauing but laid certencertain beginnings of true cō uersion in his heart) is the very child of God …

    William Perkins · A Grain of Mustard Seed · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … araigned as guilty of the crime before the maiestie of Christian princes in a certencertain publike and generall councell, before whom you ought long sithence haue byn put to …
    With rule
    … araigned as guilty of the crime before the maiestie of Christian princes in a certencertain publike and generall councell, before whom you ought long sithence haue byn put to …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … folowynge (whiche was from Christes incarnacyon .DCCCC. and .lxxvi.) sent into Scotlande for a certencertain lerned Byshop, which was knowne both eloquent & wytty, to dys…te the matter with …
    With rule
    … folowynge (whiche was from Christes incarnacyon .DCCCC. and .lxxvi.) sent into Scotlande for a certencertain lerned Byshop, which was knowne both eloquent & wytty, to dys…te the matter with …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ouer you is not in this world, your kīgdom being here. But be ye certencertain & sure of it, ye shal be ouercō to your much more rebuke at ye …
    With rule
    … ouer you is not in this world, your kīgdom being here. But be ye certencertain & sure of it, ye shal be ouercō to your much more rebuke at ye …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … all, though not ſimply? If they be, then ſeing they are not written, nor certencertain, nor perpetuall (as here by you is affirmed) it will follow that neither the …
    With rule
    … all, though not ſimply? If they be, then ſeing they are not written, nor certencertain, nor perpetuall (as here by you is affirmed) it will follow that neither the …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

9 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.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 A02825

  • Printed
    … soluted / for that is the vpholdynge of theyr kyngedom / wyth manye other lyke blasphemyes. CertenCertain other great thynges are vttered by this mouthe / which now I passe ouer least …
    With rule
    … soluted / for that is the vpholdynge of theyr kyngedom / wyth manye other lyke blasphemyes. CertenCertain other great thynges are vttered by this mouthe / which now I passe ouer least …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

  • Printed
    CertenCertain fygurs haue I here added both to the texte and gloſe, appoyntynge therbye the …
    With rule
    CertenCertain fygurs haue I here added both to the texte and gloſe, appoyntynge therbye the …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians 1-5 A09383

  • Printed
    … obedience of Christ against the fierce wrath of God, against hell, death, and condemnation. CertenCertain beasts, when they are pursued, flie the next way to their dennes, where they …
    With rule
    … obedience of Christ against the fierce wrath of God, against hell, death, and condemnation. CertenCertain beasts, when they are pursued, flie the next way to their dennes, where they …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 122 · Open in the reader

Mans Imaginations A09465

  • Printed
    … but where is that man that reformeth his life according to that he heareth? CertenCertain it is, as their conscience can witnesse, few turne vnto God vnfainedly, fewe doe …
    With rule
    … but where is that man that reformeth his life according to that he heareth? CertenCertain it is, as their conscience can witnesse, few turne vnto God vnfainedly, fewe doe …

    William Perkins · Mans Imaginations · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Our Lords Family A73571

  • Printed
    … much for them; profitable, as I deme, for all ſtudie touching our Lords Familie. CertenCertain further helpes ſhalbe added as tyme ſerueth. But thus endeth the explicationes of both …
    With rule
    … much for them; profitable, as I deme, for all ſtudie touching our Lords Familie. CertenCertain further helpes ſhalbe added as tyme ſerueth. But thus endeth the explicationes of both …

    Hugh Broughton · Our Lords Family · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

  • Printed
    … of drawing, ſaiyng: It is neither in yt runner nor in the willer. &c. CertenCertain altogether abſteine from well doing, ſaying, if I be choſen, it is enough. But …
    With rule
    … of drawing, ſaiyng: It is neither in yt runner nor in the willer. &c. CertenCertain altogether abſteine from well doing, ſaying, if I be choſen, it is enough. But …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … cauſes they are ſente, and that they maye be tourned away by dewe repentaunce. CertenCertain referre theſe thinges abſolutely to chaunce and fortune, ſome agayne to the naturall cauſes …
    With rule
    … cauſes they are ſente, and that they maye be tourned away by dewe repentaunce. CertenCertain referre theſe thinges abſolutely to chaunce and fortune, ſome agayne to the naturall cauſes …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 188 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the apparell of the Antichriſtianes is, there is no man ignoraunt at this daye. CertenCertain of it differeth not much from whoriſhe. Conſequently he declareth more fully and more …
    With rule
    … the apparell of the Antichriſtianes is, there is no man ignoraunt at this daye. CertenCertain of it differeth not much from whoriſhe. Conſequently he declareth more fully and more …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 316 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Empire ſo afflicted, that it was lyke enough to haue fallē to decaie. CertenCertain prouinces reuolted. Galba, Ottho, and Vitellius, fought emonges themſelues, and made ciuile warres. This …
    With rule
    … the Empire ſo afflicted, that it was lyke enough to haue fallē to decaie. CertenCertain prouinces reuolted. Galba, Ottho, and Vitellius, fought emonges themſelues, and made ciuile warres. This …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 373 · Open in the reader