Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12351 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sliptslipped

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

Puritas changed it: 604 times in 456 works
Consistency: 99.6% (604 of 606)
Reach if approved: ~637 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: slipped
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 606 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (604 changes in 456 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 604)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of ſinning? ſo Pſal. 73.2. My feet were almoſt gone, my ſteps had wel-nigh ſliptslipped. And if I be not deceived, the cariage of the Text ſwayeth to ſuch …
With rule
… of ſinning? ſo Pſal. 73.2. My feet were almoſt gone, my ſteps had wel-nigh ſliptslipped. And if I be not deceived, the cariage of the Text ſwayeth to ſuch …
William Sclater · Sermons Experimental · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Wee muſt thus be anſwerable in our penitence, to our ſinne; when we have ſliptslipped from God, wee muſt catch a faſter hold upon him; and by ſo much …
With rule
… Wee muſt thus be anſwerable in our penitence, to our ſinne; when we have ſliptslipped from God, wee muſt catch a faſter hold upon him; and by ſo much …
Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… toward God, or our neighbour, or our selfe. Psal. 73, 2. My foote had well nigh sliptslipped.
With rule
… toward God, or our neighbour, or our selfe. Psal. 73, 2. My foote had well nigh sliptslipped.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 452 · Open in the reader
Printed
… laid too soft, and lazily, upon the …ed of case, and earthly mindednesse; and sliptslipped into a slumber of security and selfe-love, vers. 2. Her wellbeloved knocks, and calls …
With rule
… laid too soft, and lazily, upon the …ed of case, and earthly mindednesse; and sliptslipped into a slumber of security and selfe-love, vers. 2. Her wellbeloved knocks, and calls …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 487 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abide, but was ſcared, and went ſtraight away. One of the great Diuels was ſliptslipped, ere he was aware, into Sarah Williams legge: where finding himſelf caught within the …
With rule
… abide, but was ſcared, and went ſtraight away. One of the great Diuels was ſliptslipped, ere he was aware, into Sarah Williams legge: where finding himſelf caught within the …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heads too highly ouer him, looke too bigly vpon him, if his foot hath ſliptslipped, and hee by occaſion hath fallen into a ſinne; but that we labour to …
With rule
… heads too highly ouer him, looke too bigly vpon him, if his foot hath ſliptslipped, and hee by occaſion hath fallen into a ſinne; but that we labour to …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on looking; Adam out of Paradise, the place ingrossing all earthly pleasures, and Iudas sliptslipped out of our Saviours schoole into Satans cell. I could tell you here why …
With rule
… on looking; Adam out of Paradise, the place ingrossing all earthly pleasures, and Iudas sliptslipped out of our Saviours schoole into Satans cell. I could tell you here why …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the waters were like to goe over him: but when his feet had almost sliptslipped, in regard of his outward and inward troubles, for he was at the very …
With rule
… the waters were like to goe over him: but when his feet had almost sliptslipped, in regard of his outward and inward troubles, for he was at the very …
John Preston · A Lifeless Life · p. 17 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

The Tradesmans Calling A61398

Printed
… great God at work every day every where. Jeſus Chriſt went about doing good: SliptSlipped his Breakfaſt to be at his Work; Mat. 21. 18, 23. wav'd his Dinner to diſpatch it …
With rule
… great God at work every day every where. Jeſus Chriſt went about doing good: SliptSlipped his Breakfaſt to be at his Work; Mat. 21. 18, 23. wav'd his Dinner to diſpatch it …
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · p. 91 · Open in the reader