Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12219 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sickenessesickness

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

Puritas changed it: 665 times in 295 works
Consistency: 100% (665 of 665)
Reach if approved: ~700 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sickness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 666 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (665 changes in 295 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 665)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Job hee ſhall ſcape drowning, and with Jonah come ſafe to land againe. If ſickeneſſesickness ſhould overtake him, then the Lord will bee his Phyſitian, and Comforter: Or if …
With rule
… Job hee ſhall ſcape drowning, and with Jonah come ſafe to land againe. If ſickeneſſesickness ſhould overtake him, then the Lord will bee his Phyſitian, and Comforter: Or if …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sure signe of grace, because it may come by reason of some easie▪ lingering sickenessesickness. Considering therefore wee haue no title vnto this grace of repentance, to clayme it …
With rule
… sure signe of grace, because it may come by reason of some easie▪ lingering sickenessesickness. Considering therefore wee haue no title vnto this grace of repentance, to clayme it …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… property, a Pageant, which health like the day sets out, and the night of sickenessesickness takes in againe? Sicknesse hides pride from a man, saith Elihu,
With rule
… property, a Pageant, which health like the day sets out, and the night of sickenessesickness takes in againe? Sicknesse hides pride from a man, saith Elihu,
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 For her body: 1 In ſickeneſſesickness to prouide all things needfull for her; as ſome to tend her, Phyſick for …
With rule
2 For her body: 1 In ſickeneſſesickness to prouide all things needfull for her; as ſome to tend her, Phyſick for …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so far from pittying and praying for them, that they censure them in their sickenessesickness, not onely not helpe, but euen hurt them all they can; not feede but …
With rule
… so far from pittying and praying for them, that they censure them in their sickenessesickness, not onely not helpe, but euen hurt them all they can; not feede but …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
… old age giueth to Gods ſeruice: the other from the incommodities of mans laſt ſickeneſſesickness.
With rule
… old age giueth to Gods ſeruice: the other from the incommodities of mans laſt ſickeneſſesickness.
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that hee doth more ſeeke to get himſelfe healed of ſinne, the ſoules deadly ſickeneſſesickness; more ſeek to haue grace ſuſtained and increaſed; more ſeeke to haue integrity and …
With rule
… that hee doth more ſeeke to get himſelfe healed of ſinne, the ſoules deadly ſickeneſſesickness; more ſeek to haue grace ſuſtained and increaſed; more ſeeke to haue integrity and …
Paul Baynes · A Counterbane Against Earthly Carefulness · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of that little prieſt of Surrey, who bade his maide in her extreamitie of ſickeneſſesickness ſay, Magnificat, ſay Magnificat?
With rule
… of that little prieſt of Surrey, who bade his maide in her extreamitie of ſickeneſſesickness ſay, Magnificat, ſay Magnificat?
Martin Marprelate · The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior · 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.