Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12603 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

breedebreed

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

Puritas changed it: 635 times in 321 works
Consistency: 99.6% (635 of 637)
Reach if approved: ~669 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: breed
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 637 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (635 changes in 321 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 635)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… telling M. Some, that he hath therein quickned a dead controuersy, not vnlike to breedebreed stirs through the wrangling spirits of this age. &c. And why may not he …
With rule
… telling M. Some, that he hath therein quickned a dead controuersy, not vnlike to breedebreed stirs through the wrangling spirits of this age. &c. And why may not he …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… suborne; a manifest token how much they triumph and ioy in these thinges. They breedebreed griefe of minde in a number that are godly minded, and haue Antichristianitie in …
With rule
… suborne; a manifest token how much they triumph and ioy in these thinges. They breedebreed griefe of minde in a number that are godly minded, and haue Antichristianitie in …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the whole world; dangerous to the eternall ſaluation both of the actours and ſpectatours; breedebreed many inconueniences whereſoeuer they come; procure the judgments of God to the whole kingdome …
With rule
… the whole world; dangerous to the eternall ſaluation both of the actours and ſpectatours; breedebreed many inconueniences whereſoeuer they come; procure the judgments of God to the whole kingdome …
Alexander Leighton · A Short Treatise Against Stage Plays · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
They breedebreed Cockatrices egs, & weaue the spiders web: Whosoeuer e…eth of their egs dieth, but …
With rule
They breedebreed Cockatrices egs, & weaue the spiders web: Whosoeuer e…eth of their egs dieth, but …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
5. And alſo to breedebreed an Antipathie, and hatred betweene the Papiſts, and Proteſtants, they are taught to beleeve …
With rule
5. And alſo to breedebreed an Antipathie, and hatred betweene the Papiſts, and Proteſtants, they are taught to beleeve …
Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the goodnesse and trueth of God and of his mercie in Christ should breedebreed confidence and boldnesse in the heart of a guilty …, and …o …ple can be …
With rule
… of the goodnesse and trueth of God and of his mercie in Christ should breedebreed confidence and boldnesse in the heart of a guilty …, and …o …ple can be …
William Perkins · Conscience · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
Of all that aire, earth, waters breedebreed.
With rule
Of all that aire, earth, waters breedebreed.
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… hearte. Alſo this muſt needs bee confeſſed, that all things, which do nouriſh and breedebreed vncleane luſts are condemned here: as ſōges of ribaldry, filthy and light communication, enticing …
With rule
… hearte. Alſo this muſt needs bee confeſſed, that all things, which do nouriſh and breedebreed vncleane luſts are condemned here: as ſōges of ribaldry, filthy and light communication, enticing …
George Gifford · A Catechism · 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 Christians Daily Sacrifice A19284

Printed
6 BreedeBreed policy, and so decei… euen in many professors. Genes. 20. 11. And
With rule
6 BreedeBreed policy, and so decei… euen in many professors. Genes. 20. 11. And
Thomas Cooper · The Christians Daily Sacrifice · p. 218 · Open in the reader