Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12555 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

weakenesweakness

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

Puritas changed it: 941 times in 386 works
Consistency: 100% (941 of 941)
Reach if approved: ~989 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: weakness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 941 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (941 changes in 386 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 941)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… might openly beholde, that the folyſhenes of god is wiſer then men, and the weakenesweakness of god is ſtronger then men. But ſuch is the eſtate & condicion of men …
With rule
… might openly beholde, that the folyſhenes of god is wiſer then men, and the weakenesweakness of god is ſtronger then men. But ſuch is the eſtate & condicion of men …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… that if, notwithstanding the former, it comes to whisper in thine eares thine owne weakenesweakness; yet it may be hindered by the latter from diuulging it to thy shame.
With rule
… that if, notwithstanding the former, it comes to whisper in thine eares thine owne weakenesweakness; yet it may be hindered by the latter from diuulging it to thy shame.
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſome other courſe? but remember, that the Power of God is made perfect through weakenesweakness: and that as it was a greater honour to God, to ouerthrow the walles …
With rule
… ſome other courſe? but remember, that the Power of God is made perfect through weakenesweakness: and that as it was a greater honour to God, to ouerthrow the walles …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diſtreſſed Soule comes to a ſtand with it ſelfe, and he ſeeth ſo much weakenesweakness in his duties, that he almoſt leaves off all, ſaying: I had as good …
With rule
… diſtreſſed Soule comes to a ſtand with it ſelfe, and he ſeeth ſo much weakenesweakness in his duties, that he almoſt leaves off all, ſaying: I had as good …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… remaines vnregenerate; Who is of ſo weake vnderſtanding, as not plainely to ſee the weakenesweakness of this argument? For, what though it be granted, that the man which lay …
With rule
… remaines vnregenerate; Who is of ſo weake vnderſtanding, as not plainely to ſee the weakenesweakness of this argument? For, what though it be granted, that the man which lay …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God. As there are some which haue denied God in words, through feare, and weakenesweakness, which yet confessed him in their heart: so are there many who professing God …
With rule
… God. As there are some which haue denied God in words, through feare, and weakenesweakness, which yet confessed him in their heart: so are there many who professing God …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that it cannot be seene, and his bones that were not seene, sticke out. WeakenesWeakness proceedeth from wickednesse: if the Soule had not sinned his body should not haue …
With rule
… that it cannot be seene, and his bones that were not seene, sticke out. WeakenesWeakness proceedeth from wickednesse: if the Soule had not sinned his body should not haue …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you doe well to conclude your reason in a syllogisme, for then by the weakenesweakness therof doth appeare your maior and minor be both false, or at the least …
With rule
… you doe well to conclude your reason in a syllogisme, for then by the weakenesweakness therof doth appeare your maior and minor be both false, or at the least …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 390 · 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.