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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12328 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

needefullneedful

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

Puritas changed it
1,143 times in 352 works
Consistency
100% (1,143 of 1,143)
Reach if approved
~1,201 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: needful
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,143 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,143 changes in 352 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,143)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … by manye, then by one: I ſhould alſo thinke it beſt. Finally, if all needefullneedful poyntes were handled in any one, then might it ſeeme a vaine trauel, and …
    With rule
    … by manye, then by one: I ſhould alſo thinke it beſt. Finally, if all needefullneedful poyntes were handled in any one, then might it ſeeme a vaine trauel, and …

    George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … barren, but plentiful in good effects, and fruitefull in Godly issues. The former howe needefullneedful it is, the experience of so many as haue beene throwne downe, is a …
    With rule
    … barren, but plentiful in good effects, and fruitefull in Godly issues. The former howe needefullneedful it is, the experience of so many as haue beene throwne downe, is a …

    Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the ſcripture, but if wee conſider our times, wee ſhall ſee it is a needefullneedful doctrine. For whatſoeuer mens profeſſion is, their conuerſation is ſuch, that a man may …
    With rule
    … the ſcripture, but if wee conſider our times, wee ſhall ſee it is a needefullneedful doctrine. For whatſoeuer mens profeſſion is, their conuerſation is ſuch, that a man may …

    Samuel Hieron · The Dignity of the Scripture · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … make on opportunitie for a man to walke in, but the meanes that are needefullneedful for this action, for when the Sunne ſhines ſo that a man may ſee …
    With rule
    … make on opportunitie for a man to walke in, but the meanes that are needefullneedful for this action, for when the Sunne ſhines ſo that a man may ſee …

    Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the griefe, the bying & ſelling the cares that doe accompanie a married eſtate. Howe needefullneedful it is that we ſhould (euen in lawfull thinges) haue our affections temperate: The …
    With rule
    … the griefe, the bying & ſelling the cares that doe accompanie a married eſtate. Howe needefullneedful it is that we ſhould (euen in lawfull thinges) haue our affections temperate: The …

    John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the moſt wicked example of the Zodomites, and increaſed in righteouſnes hereby. It is needefullneedful therefore that theſe offences come, which may be an occaſion to vs to fight …
    With rule
    … the moſt wicked example of the Zodomites, and increaſed in righteouſnes hereby. It is needefullneedful therefore that theſe offences come, which may be an occaſion to vs to fight …

    Martin Luther · Fourteen Points of Consolation · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by this meanes godly defended. And therefore the sunne in his brightnes not more needefullneedful for the increase of the fruites of the earth, nor meate and drinke for …
    With rule
    … by this meanes godly defended. And therefore the sunne in his brightnes not more needefullneedful for the increase of the fruites of the earth, nor meate and drinke for …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … was the astonishment, the teares, the strong crie, the droppes of bloud, the Angell needefullneedful to comfort him, the laste extreeme conflict, in which he cried, my God my …
    With rule
    … was the astonishment, the teares, the strong crie, the droppes of bloud, the Angell needefullneedful to comfort him, the laste extreeme conflict, in which he cried, my God my …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 245 · 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.