Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12197 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

meekenessemeekness

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

Puritas changed it: 1,203 times in 398 works
Consistency: 100% (1,203 of 1,203)
Reach if approved: ~1,266 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: meekness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,205 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,203 changes in 398 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,203)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is most angry, he recollects himselfe, and clappes vpon his heate a Tysan of meekenessemeekness.
With rule
… is most angry, he recollects himselfe, and clappes vpon his heate a Tysan of meekenessemeekness.
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath but bitterneſſe in ſteed of heauenly zeale. For wheras, in ſteed of gentleneſſe, meekeneſſemeekness, patience, mercie, and loue, yee finde wrath, fierceneſſe, intemperat rage, vncharitable condemning and ſlaundering …
With rule
… hath but bitterneſſe in ſteed of heauenly zeale. For wheras, in ſteed of gentleneſſe, meekeneſſemeekness, patience, mercie, and loue, yee finde wrath, fierceneſſe, intemperat rage, vncharitable condemning and ſlaundering …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · Open in the reader
Printed
… should make triall of vs. This will teach vs to possesse our soules in meekenessemeekness and patience; this will strengthen vs to say boldly, Lord if thou send this …
With rule
… should make triall of vs. This will teach vs to possesse our soules in meekenessemeekness and patience; this will strengthen vs to say boldly, Lord if thou send this …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cion. And lyke as he came downe first of all with a p…ssible meekenessemeekness, so came he downe ater y^t wyth an impassyble and inuysible mayiestie. Sodeine was …
With rule
… cion. And lyke as he came downe first of all with a p…ssible meekenessemeekness, so came he downe ater y^t wyth an impassyble and inuysible mayiestie. Sodeine was …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… and forgive, as Chriſt forgave us, Col. 3.12. As the elect of God, put on meekeneſſemeekness, long-ſuffering, forbearing and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrell againſt …
With rule
… and forgive, as Chriſt forgave us, Col. 3.12. As the elect of God, put on meekeneſſemeekness, long-ſuffering, forbearing and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrell againſt …
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into any fault, ye which are ſpirituall, reſtore ſuche one with the ſpirite of meekeneſſemeekness, conſidering thy ſelfe leaſt thou alſo bee tempted,
With rule
… into any fault, ye which are ſpirituall, reſtore ſuche one with the ſpirite of meekeneſſemeekness, conſidering thy ſelfe leaſt thou alſo bee tempted,
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… error, eſpecially then when it creepeth in vnder the maske and appearance of Holineſſe & MeekeneſſeMeekness: and therefore how needfull it is to be preſſed to the quicke, that hee …
With rule
… error, eſpecially then when it creepeth in vnder the maske and appearance of Holineſſe & MeekeneſſeMeekness: and therefore how needfull it is to be preſſed to the quicke, that hee …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… fallen by infirmitie, ſaith the Apoſtle, reſtore ſuch an one with the Spirit of meekeneſſemeekness. When anger is thus ordered, it is ſo farre from being a ſinne, as …
With rule
… fallen by infirmitie, ſaith the Apoſtle, reſtore ſuch an one with the Spirit of meekeneſſemeekness. When anger is thus ordered, it is ſo farre from being a ſinne, as …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 340 · 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.