Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12190 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

intangleentangle

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

Puritas changed it: 723 times in 467 works
Consistency: 99.0% (723 of 730)
Reach if approved: ~831 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: entangle
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 791 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (723 changes in 467 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 723)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… For sinne dividing betwixt God and us, moveth him to leave the soule to intangleentangle it selfe in …s owne wayes. When the conscience is cleare, then there is …
With rule
… For sinne dividing betwixt God and us, moveth him to leave the soule to intangleentangle it selfe in …s owne wayes. When the conscience is cleare, then there is …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 400 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for every thing is ſanctified by prayer, ſo as it ſhall not inſnare nor intangleentangle our hearts: a thing obtained by prayer; as it came from God; ſo a …
With rule
… for every thing is ſanctified by prayer, ſo as it ſhall not inſnare nor intangleentangle our hearts: a thing obtained by prayer; as it came from God; ſo a …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
… charges to others, that they may go whither they will the more freely: and intangleentangle themſelves in ſecular affaires. To conclude, what is it but to ſend Gehazi with …
With rule
… charges to others, that they may go whither they will the more freely: and intangleentangle themſelves in ſecular affaires. To conclude, what is it but to ſend Gehazi with …
Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… experience can testifie; but onely make it a trap and a snare farther to intangleentangle and involve him: & therefore it being an oath against the Lavv of God, of …
With rule
… experience can testifie; but onely make it a trap and a snare farther to intangleentangle and involve him: & therefore it being an oath against the Lavv of God, of …
John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… path. This ſhe doth, not onely to Ieade away captiue the vngodly, but to intangleentangle through the wanton luſts of the fleſh, ſuch as had in deed eſcaped from …
With rule
… path. This ſhe doth, not onely to Ieade away captiue the vngodly, but to intangleentangle through the wanton luſts of the fleſh, ſuch as had in deed eſcaped from …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before our enemies, we are to do it so, as thereby we do not intangleentangle our selues; nor giue any advantage unto our enemies: and hereof we haue a …
With rule
… before our enemies, we are to do it so, as thereby we do not intangleentangle our selues; nor giue any advantage unto our enemies: and hereof we haue a …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heathen Philosophers, Orators and Poets were most hurtfull in this, that they did easily intangleentangle unwary mindes with the sweetnes of their words, and the harmony of their smooth …
With rule
… heathen Philosophers, Orators and Poets were most hurtfull in this, that they did easily intangleentangle unwary mindes with the sweetnes of their words, and the harmony of their smooth …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 789 · Open in the reader
Printed
… againſt charitie and dutie) but to think, that there being ſo many ſnares to intangleentangle men, it may eaſily enough be ſo with them, as wee may ſee it …
With rule
… againſt charitie and dutie) but to think, that there being ſo many ſnares to intangleentangle men, it may eaſily enough be ſo with them, as wee may ſee it …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 204 · 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.

The Light of Faith A17419

Printed
1 IntangleEntangle him not with doubtfull diſputations, Rom. 14. 1.
With rule
1 IntangleEntangle him not with doubtfull diſputations, Rom. 14. 1.
Richard Byfield · The Light of Faith · p. 214 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of the Marriage Song A63268

Printed
VIII. IntangleEntangle not thy ſelf with unprofitable diſputes, and things that tend to diviſion, and to …
With rule
VIII. IntangleEntangle not thy ſelf with unprofitable diſputes, and things that tend to diviſion, and to …
William Troughton · The Mystery of the Marriage Song · Open in the reader