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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12660 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ingageengage

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

Puritas changed it
1,639 times in 743 works
Consistency
98.4% (1,639 of 1,665)
Reach if approved
~1,862 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: engage
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,772 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,639 changes in 743 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,639)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … of faith to beleeve in the Creatour. It was debitum naturae, Natures debt to ingageengage God to make his creature holy and righteous: but now it is of grace …
    With rule
    … of faith to beleeve in the Creatour. It was debitum naturae, Natures debt to ingageengage God to make his creature holy and righteous: but now it is of grace …

    John Yates · The Saints Sufferings and Sinners Sorrows · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Thou muſt do homage; in th'meane time, ingageengage
    With rule
    Thou muſt do homage; in th'meane time, ingageengage

    John Andrewes · The Anatomy of Baseness · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Queſt. 3. How is it likely that a few underſtanding men may probably ingageengage all their country-men to performe the duties of the times they live in …
    With rule
    Queſt. 3. How is it likely that a few underſtanding men may probably ingageengage all their country-men to performe the duties of the times they live in …

    Samuel Annesley · The First Dish at the Wilshire Feast · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … no such Tyrant as sin. Oh the filthy and fearful work, that it doth ingageengage its servants in! would it not pierce a mans heart to see a company …
    With rule
    … no such Tyrant as sin. Oh the filthy and fearful work, that it doth ingageengage its servants in! would it not pierce a mans heart to see a company …

    Joseph Alleine · The Way to True Happiness · p. 124 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … God was manifested, that he might destroy the workes of the Deuill. Did God ingageengage his word for a Redeemer to purge our sinnes? Call his name Iesus: for …
    With rule
    … God was manifested, that he might destroy the workes of the Deuill. Did God ingageengage his word for a Redeemer to purge our sinnes? Call his name Iesus: for …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 295 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … enter into Couenant with thee, that is, I will binde my selfe, I will ingageengage my selfe, I will enter into bond, as it were, I will not be …
    With rule
    … enter into Couenant with thee, that is, I will binde my selfe, I will ingageengage my selfe, I will enter into bond, as it were, I will not be …

    John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … which should restraine and set limits to a Passion, is made a party to ingageengage it, and sewell to foment it, no wonder if a Passion which hath no …
    With rule
    … which should restraine and set limits to a Passion, is made a party to ingageengage it, and sewell to foment it, no wonder if a Passion which hath no …

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … glory that God worketh. They make him only a witnesse to their work, and ingageengage him to recompense their pride with salvation, which deserveth to be condemned. This of …
    With rule
    … glory that God worketh. They make him only a witnesse to their work, and ingageengage him to recompense their pride with salvation, which deserveth to be condemned. This of …

    William Struther · True Happiness · p. 18 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

14 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Help to Holy Walking A30675

  • Printed
    … to Spiritualiſe every Evil and Morall Action; and what ever he doth, he can IngageEngage God for to reward him: he can ſuck ſweetneſs out of all croſs Providences …
    With rule
    … to Spiritualiſe every Evil and Morall Action; and what ever he doth, he can IngageEngage God for to reward him: he can ſuck ſweetneſs out of all croſs Providences …

    Edward Bury · A Help to Holy Walking · p. 332 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and Complaint before Chriſt, as ſomtimes Hezekiah did the Blaſphemous Letter: how doth this IngageEngage God in his Cauſe, if thou maintaineſt Life in theſe two Duties, thou wilt …
    With rule
    … and Complaint before Chriſt, as ſomtimes Hezekiah did the Blaſphemous Letter: how doth this IngageEngage God in his Cauſe, if thou maintaineſt Life in theſe two Duties, thou wilt …

    Edward Bury · A Help to Holy Walking · p. 332 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of them if thou prevail, and be Inſtrumental of their Converſion? how wilt thou IngageEngage them for ever to love thee, and obey thee? but what diſcomfort are they …
    With rule
    … of them if thou prevail, and be Inſtrumental of their Converſion? how wilt thou IngageEngage them for ever to love thee, and obey thee? but what diſcomfort are they …

    Edward Bury · A Help to Holy Walking · p. 345 · Open in the reader

The Young Mans Guide A41668

  • Printed
    1. IngageEngage thy self in a deep design for Eternity. 112
    With rule
    1. IngageEngage thy self in a deep design for Eternity. 112

    Thomas Gouge · The Young Mans Guide · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    1. IngageEngage thy self deeply in a design for Eternity. Resolve for Heaven, and the way …
    With rule
    1. IngageEngage thy self deeply in a design for Eternity. Resolve for Heaven, and the way …

    Thomas Gouge · The Young Mans Guide · p. 112 · Open in the reader

Closet Prayer a Christian Duty A43573

  • Printed
    1 IngageEngage the heart in it 74
    With rule
    1 IngageEngage the heart in it 74

    Oliver Heywood · Closet Prayer a Christian Duty · Open in the reader

A Brief Discourse of Mans Estate A45654

  • Printed
    … we are though not all, yet the worſt tempters and devils to our ſelves. IngageEngage we our ſelves to Chriſt, and Chriſt to us, and there lies our ſafety …
    With rule
    … we are though not all, yet the worſt tempters and devils to our ſelves. IngageEngage we our ſelves to Chriſt, and Chriſt to us, and there lies our ſafety …

    Robert Harris · A Brief Discourse of Mans Estate · p. 64 · Open in the reader

Several Sermons A45658

  • Printed
    … we are though not all, yet the worſt tempters and devils to our ſelves. IngageEngage we our ſelves to Chriſt, and Chriſt to us, and there lies our ſafety …
    With rule
    … we are though not all, yet the worſt tempters and devils to our ſelves. IngageEngage we our ſelves to Chriſt, and Chriſt to us, and there lies our ſafety …

    Robert Harris · Several Sermons · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Pilgrim A56683

  • Printed
    … with true fervour to attend this buſineſs of ſearching out the will of God. IngageEngage your ſelf as ſolemnly as you can to be very diligent in finding out …
    With rule
    … with true fervour to attend this buſineſs of ſearching out the will of God. IngageEngage your ſelf as ſolemnly as you can to be very diligent in finding out …

    Simon Patrick · The Parable of the Pilgrim · p. 30 · Open in the reader

The Heavenly Trade A75725

  • Printed
    3 IngageEngage God with you in all your undertakings 385
    With rule
    3 IngageEngage God with you in all your undertakings 385

    Bartholomew Ashwood · The Heavenly Trade · Open in the reader

England Saved A77363

  • Printed
    … be able to caſt down milſtones upon all your Enemies. Who would not therefore IngageEngage the Name of God more and more in the time of danger? And ſeeing …
    With rule
    … be able to caſt down milſtones upon all your Enemies. Who would not therefore IngageEngage the Name of God more and more in the time of danger? And ſeeing …

    William Bridge · England Saved · p. 14 · Open in the reader

Of the Day of Grace B10034

  • Printed
    … Call your ſelves often to an Account how matters ſtand between God and you. 7. IngageEngage more heartily, ſeriouſly, and conſtantly in the uſe of ſecret Prayer. 8. Improve the ſickneſs …
    With rule
    … Call your ſelves often to an Account how matters ſtand between God and you. 7. IngageEngage more heartily, ſeriouſly, and conſtantly in the uſe of ſecret Prayer. 8. Improve the ſickneſs …

    John Shower · Of the Day of Grace · p. 136 · Open in the reader

The Bonds of Baptism N01628

  • Printed
    … know thy ſelf to be a ſincere Servant of Chriſt, if thou didſt never IngageEngage to ſerve him? How canſt thou know thyſelf to be a faithful Souldier under …
    With rule
    … know thy ſelf to be a ſincere Servant of Chriſt, if thou didſt never IngageEngage to ſerve him? How canſt thou know thyſelf to be a faithful Souldier under …

    Benjamin Wadsworth · The Bonds of Baptism · p. 15 · Open in the reader

True Piety the Best Policy for Times of War N02021

  • Printed
    … cut the Spear in ſunder, and burn the Chariots in fire, Pſal. 46. Let us IngageEngage GOD on our ſide, and then He'll command deliverances for us, and help us …
    With rule
    … cut the Spear in ſunder, and burn the Chariots in fire, Pſal. 46. Let us IngageEngage GOD on our ſide, and then He'll command deliverances for us, and help us …

    Benjamin Wadsworth · True Piety the Best Policy for Times of War · p. 19 · Open in the reader