Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12535 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

straitnedstraitened

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

Puritas changed it: 1,018 times in 569 works
Consistency: 99.4% (1,018 of 1,024)
Reach if approved: ~1,076 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: straitened
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,024 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,018 changes in 569 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,018)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of conscience, and feare to offend God by running before they be called, are straitnedstraitened and doe straiten others, from going to forraine plantations.
With rule
… of conscience, and feare to offend God by running before they be called, are straitnedstraitened and doe straiten others, from going to forraine plantations.
William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeruants, nor any to haue the leaſt ſhew of complaining of being pinched and ſtraitnedstraitened.
With rule
… ſeruants, nor any to haue the leaſt ſhew of complaining of being pinched and ſtraitnedstraitened.
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meanes expressed then by frequent and earnest prayers: and indeed his bowells were not straitnedstraitened toward Titus and the Church committed vnto him; seeing he wisheth the verie fountaine …
With rule
… meanes expressed then by frequent and earnest prayers: and indeed his bowells were not straitnedstraitened toward Titus and the Church committed vnto him; seeing he wisheth the verie fountaine …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 750 · Open in the reader
Printed
… end: T…ke vp the manner of his behauiour vnder this disease, he is straitnedstraitened with the extremitie of his disease on the one side, and with the Lords …
With rule
… end: T…ke vp the manner of his behauiour vnder this disease, he is straitnedstraitened with the extremitie of his disease on the one side, and with the Lords …
Robert Bruce · The Way to True Peace and Rest · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reſpects, which may bee no leſſe open to our brother, though our purſe be ſtraitnedstraitened, yea being ſcanted of this outward deuotion, may be more inlarged in ſpirituall almes …
With rule
… reſpects, which may bee no leſſe open to our brother, though our purſe be ſtraitnedstraitened, yea being ſcanted of this outward deuotion, may be more inlarged in ſpirituall almes …
Thomas Cooper · The Converts First Love · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
Where things are fit to be ſtraitnedstraitened to a time, it eſteemeth (according to the nature of the things)
With rule
Where things are fit to be ſtraitnedstraitened to a time, it eſteemeth (according to the nature of the things)
Henry Finch · Law · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee cannot heare: or his hand ſhortned, that he cānot ſave: or his heart ſtraitnedstraitened, and his bowels reſtrained, that he will not: And thus you rob him, and …
With rule
… hee cannot heare: or his hand ſhortned, that he cānot ſave: or his heart ſtraitnedstraitened, and his bowels reſtrained, that he will not: And thus you rob him, and …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… become fellow heires with him, is not leſſened by the multitude of poſſeſſors, nor ſtraitnedstraitened by the number of heires; but it is as great to many as to …
With rule
… become fellow heires with him, is not leſſened by the multitude of poſſeſſors, nor ſtraitnedstraitened by the number of heires; but it is as great to many as to …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 227 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 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 Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God A61474

Printed
… a Fire, a Principle of Wrath, only as He is in the Fleshly Creature, StraitnedStraitened, Imprisoned, and Resisted by the Darkness of the Flesh.
With rule
… a Fire, a Principle of Wrath, only as He is in the Fleshly Creature, StraitnedStraitened, Imprisoned, and Resisted by the Darkness of the Flesh.
Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 138 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
StraitnedStraitened]
With rule
StraitnedStraitened]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 622 · Open in the reader

Christ Crucified A81890

Printed
… In Satisfyin… the Sin-revenging Juſtice of God, both His Soul and Body were StraitnedStraitened, and Streſſed. 4 By His Suffering, there is a Sufficient Satisfaction given to Juſtice, for …
With rule
… In Satisfyin… the Sin-revenging Juſtice of God, both His Soul and Body were StraitnedStraitened, and Streſſed. 4 By His Suffering, there is a Sufficient Satisfaction given to Juſtice, for …
James Durham · Christ Crucified · p. 320 · Open in the reader