Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12243 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

recompencedrecompensed

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

Puritas changed it: 831 times in 532 works
Consistency: 98.5% (831 of 843)
Reach if approved: ~886 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: recompensed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 843 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (831 changes in 532 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 831)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Albeit the opening of the mouth is a ſmal matter, yet it ſhall be recompencedrecompensed by the Lord with great bleſſings, when it is done in wiſedome. For ſuch …
With rule
Albeit the opening of the mouth is a ſmal matter, yet it ſhall be recompencedrecompensed by the Lord with great bleſſings, when it is done in wiſedome. For ſuch …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yeare shall this be, if the losses which learning hath sustained be as well recompencedrecompensed. Iunius of Leiden, Tossaine of Heilderberg, Perkins of Cambridge, haue this yeare bin taken …
With rule
… yeare shall this be, if the losses which learning hath sustained be as well recompencedrecompensed. Iunius of Leiden, Tossaine of Heilderberg, Perkins of Cambridge, haue this yeare bin taken …
William Perkins · Christian Equity and Moderation · Open in the reader
Printed
… frequent are they: so that the littlenesse of the Healthes, is made vp and recompencedrecompensed with the multitude, and number of them, (one small and little Health beginning, and …
With rule
… frequent are they: so that the littlenesse of the Healthes, is made vp and recompencedrecompensed with the multitude, and number of them, (one small and little Health beginning, and …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sayd, that God gaue them up to vile affections, and as a just Iudge recompencedrecompensed thereby their former sins, to wit, as otherwise, so by ordering that corruption which …
With rule
… sayd, that God gaue them up to vile affections, and as a just Iudge recompencedrecompensed thereby their former sins, to wit, as otherwise, so by ordering that corruption which …
John Robinson · Defense of the Synod of Dort · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… looke to eſcape the revenging hand of a juſt God? Behold, the righteous ſhalbe recompencedrecompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the ſinner: Pro. 11. 31.
With rule
… looke to eſcape the revenging hand of a juſt God? Behold, the righteous ſhalbe recompencedrecompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the ſinner: Pro. 11. 31.
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beene his counseller? Or, who hath first giuen to him, and it shall bee recompencedrecompensed vnto him againe? And generally of all his workes, Iob 9. 12. Who will say vnto …
With rule
… beene his counseller? Or, who hath first giuen to him, and it shall bee recompencedrecompensed vnto him againe? And generally of all his workes, Iob 9. 12. Who will say vnto …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the whole? Here, in this law of God good wil is no better recompencedrecompensed, but that it be no looſer: Shall a couetous deſire then ſo richly be …
With rule
… with the whole? Here, in this law of God good wil is no better recompencedrecompensed, but that it be no looſer: Shall a couetous deſire then ſo richly be …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that lendeth to the Lorde, that shevveth mercie to the poore, and it be recompencedrecompensed him to the vttermost, as our Sauiour Christe sayth: Geue, and it shalbe geuen …
With rule
… that lendeth to the Lorde, that shevveth mercie to the poore, and it be recompencedrecompensed him to the vttermost, as our Sauiour Christe sayth: Geue, and it shalbe geuen …
Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Existence and Attributes of God A32723

Printed
… firſt given to God; Who hath firſt given to him; And it ſhall be RecompencedRecompensed to him again? The Duty of the Creature, and Gods gift of Eternal Life …
With rule
… firſt given to God; Who hath firſt given to him; And it ſhall be RecompencedRecompensed to him again? The Duty of the Creature, and Gods gift of Eternal Life …
Stephen Charnock · Existence and Attributes of God · p. 579 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Psalm 119 A51842

Printed
… righteous shall be recompencedrecompensed in the earth, much more the wicked and the sinner. RecompencedRecompensed, that is, with a recompence of punishment, so Peter reads it out of the …
With rule
… righteous shall be recompencedrecompensed in the earth, much more the wicked and the sinner. RecompencedRecompensed, that is, with a recompence of punishment, so Peter reads it out of the …
Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… righteous shall be recompencedrecompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. RecompencedRecompensed in the earth, that is, punished for his sins: Compare with it 1 Pet. 4. 18. And …
With rule
… righteous shall be recompencedrecompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner. RecompencedRecompensed in the earth, that is, punished for his sins: Compare with it 1 Pet. 4. 18. And …
Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 157 · Open in the reader