Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12224 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

steptstepped

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

Puritas changed it: 583 times in 430 works
Consistency: 98.9% (583 of 589)
Reach if approved: ~619 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stepped
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 589 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (583 changes in 430 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 583)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and goodes can not come. That man is specially touched with this taunte, whiche steptstepped out of all that sorte, to declare his deuotion. As though he should saie …
With rule
… and goodes can not come. That man is specially touched with this taunte, whiche steptstepped out of all that sorte, to declare his deuotion. As though he should saie …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… condemned man, and even going to execution, and hath Chriſt Ieſus in the nick ſteptstepped in with thy pardon both purchaſed and ſealed with his owne moſt pretious blood …
With rule
… condemned man, and even going to execution, and hath Chriſt Ieſus in the nick ſteptstepped in with thy pardon both purchaſed and ſealed with his owne moſt pretious blood …
William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
There is alſo a quality in the minde, which hath ſucceeded or ſteptstepped in place of that light and holineſſe, which was loſt in the fall of …
With rule
There is alſo a quality in the minde, which hath ſucceeded or ſteptstepped in place of that light and holineſſe, which was loſt in the fall of …
Robert Rollock · Gods Effectual Calling · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the sixt, French king: he the same Thomas of Glocester vncle to the king steptstepped vp and vvithstode that match: hauing belike in these former experiences obserued the truth …
With rule
… the sixt, French king: he the same Thomas of Glocester vncle to the king steptstepped vp and vvithstode that match: hauing belike in these former experiences obserued the truth …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… vaine preſumption and pride in our walking. It was the Phariſie you know that ſteptstepped forth and ſaid, O God I thanke thee that I am not as other …
With rule
… vaine preſumption and pride in our walking. It was the Phariſie you know that ſteptstepped forth and ſaid, O God I thanke thee that I am not as other …
Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 412 · Open in the reader
Printed
… day or night. But what were the consequents of this cockering? When he was steptstepped further into yeeres, besides a world of miseries and molestations created to his Grandfather …
With rule
… day or night. But what were the consequents of this cockering? When he was steptstepped further into yeeres, besides a world of miseries and molestations created to his Grandfather …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the like proceeding. And therefore Elihu, who tooke both Gods part and Iobs, and ſteptstepped up as a moderator, and as one in Gods ſtead to decide the matter …
With rule
… the like proceeding. And therefore Elihu, who tooke both Gods part and Iobs, and ſteptstepped up as a moderator, and as one in Gods ſtead to decide the matter …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Debate / Ambicion / and so forth. And when that wolde no longar serue him / he steptstepped to the playne storye / and brought forth out of that / Wyclef / Husse / and Luther …
With rule
… Debate / Ambicion / and so forth. And when that wolde no longar serue him / he steptstepped to the playne storye / and brought forth out of that / Wyclef / Husse / and Luther …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 23 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 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 Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

Printed
SteptStepped to his purſes, and began to thinke
With rule
SteptStepped to his purſes, and began to thinke
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 78 · Open in the reader