Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12252 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lothsomeloathsome

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

Puritas changed it: 618 times in 314 works
Consistency: 99.3% (618 of 622)
Reach if approved: ~654 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: loathsome
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 622 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (618 changes in 314 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 618)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… we were moſt filthie and loathſome in Gods eye, no leper or lazer ſo lothſomeloathsome to vs as wee to God: for as the childe new borne lieth tumbling …
With rule
… we were moſt filthie and loathſome in Gods eye, no leper or lazer ſo lothſomeloathsome to vs as wee to God: for as the childe new borne lieth tumbling …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the same? vnlesse they will staine themselues with the tincture and pollution of most lothsomeloathsome ingratitude, and proofe of all Gods creatures, and of all that professe religion, the …
With rule
… the same? vnlesse they will staine themselues with the tincture and pollution of most lothsomeloathsome ingratitude, and proofe of all Gods creatures, and of all that professe religion, the …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · Open in the reader
Printed
… in men) be iudged by vs ſo ſeuerely: thē how ſhal ſuch foule and lothſomeloathsome ſins in the iudgers eſcape the ſentence of God? now thē as this proueth …
With rule
… in men) be iudged by vs ſo ſeuerely: thē how ſhal ſuch foule and lothſomeloathsome ſins in the iudgers eſcape the ſentence of God? now thē as this proueth …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hereunto. Truth is of it selfe: 1. most desireable and amiable, as the contrary is lothsomeloathsome and detestable: That which lookes like gold, or beares a shew of Pearle, but …
With rule
… hereunto. Truth is of it selfe: 1. most desireable and amiable, as the contrary is lothsomeloathsome and detestable: That which lookes like gold, or beares a shew of Pearle, but …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 280 · Open in the reader
Printed
… disobedience. . How can they be but noysome in the eies of God, yea most lothsomeloathsome and abominable? Surely he will say vnto them, Depart from me I know you …
With rule
… disobedience. . How can they be but noysome in the eies of God, yea most lothsomeloathsome and abominable? Surely he will say vnto them, Depart from me I know you …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… eſteemeth them to be things of naught, as it were filths, doung or excrements, lothſomeloathsome things or deteſtable, and abominations, vanities, lyes, unprofitable, falſe-vanities, leaſings, and vaine-iniquitie …
With rule
… eſteemeth them to be things of naught, as it were filths, doung or excrements, lothſomeloathsome things or deteſtable, and abominations, vanities, lyes, unprofitable, falſe-vanities, leaſings, and vaine-iniquitie …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… truſt him for life euerlaſting? With ſuch reaſoning, a man muſt make that ſinne lothſomeloathsome to his ſoule; and then ſeeing himſelfe a maſſe of vnbeleefe, muſt look vnto …
With rule
… truſt him for life euerlaſting? With ſuch reaſoning, a man muſt make that ſinne lothſomeloathsome to his ſoule; and then ſeeing himſelfe a maſſe of vnbeleefe, muſt look vnto …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… For their mortification is to the Romish beleeuing Christians, such a bitter receipte and lothsomeloathsome pill, that it would goe neere to make them burst. If maister Gentianus bee …
With rule
… For their mortification is to the Romish beleeuing Christians, such a bitter receipte and lothsomeloathsome pill, that it would goe neere to make them burst. If maister Gentianus bee …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 326 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

The Unsearchable Riches of Christ B02840

Printed
If ye Object and ſay; that ye have much ſin, that ye are LothſomeLoathsome, and Abominable; Subſcribe this Contract and bargain, and ye have a free and full …
With rule
If ye Object and ſay; that ye have much ſin, that ye are LothſomeLoathsome, and Abominable; Subſcribe this Contract and bargain, and ye have a free and full …
James Durham · The Unsearchable Riches of Christ · p. 70 · Open in the reader