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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12790 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bredthbreadth

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

Puritas changed it
715 times in 371 works
Consistency
96.6% (715 of 740)
Reach if approved
~778 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: breadth
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
740 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (715 changes in 371 works, 96.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 715)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … narrownesse of their present capacity. Christ was full according to all dimensions, length, depth, bredthbreadth, and height of fulnes.
    With rule
    … narrownesse of their present capacity. Christ was full according to all dimensions, length, depth, bredthbreadth, and height of fulnes.

    John Preston · The Fullness of Christ for Us · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … beginnings, but by degrees Successively, it grew and got strength, and both height and bredthbreadth, and so became at length of a blind Brooke, a goodly navigable River, so …
    With rule
    … beginnings, but by degrees Successively, it grew and got strength, and both height and bredthbreadth, and so became at length of a blind Brooke, a goodly navigable River, so …

    William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the Father in thee, that I might be one in both. Ob height, depth, bredthbreadth, and length of thy love! how incomprehensible is thy grace, how heavenly my consolation?
    With rule
    … the Father in thee, that I might be one in both. Ob height, depth, bredthbreadth, and length of thy love! how incomprehensible is thy grace, how heavenly my consolation?

    Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 193 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … neuer haue attained to such extraordinary skill, as to sling stones at an haires bredthbreadth and not faile. The skil which the men of Beniamin (of which Tribe those …
    With rule
    … neuer haue attained to such extraordinary skill, as to sling stones at an haires bredthbreadth and not faile. The skil which the men of Beniamin (of which Tribe those …

    William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not with all thy heart, by ſuch a Faith thou art not one haires bredthbreadth neerer to ſaluation, ſo that the very nature of the ſpeach preſuppoſeth an vnprofitable …
    With rule
    … not with all thy heart, by ſuch a Faith thou art not one haires bredthbreadth neerer to ſaluation, ſo that the very nature of the ſpeach preſuppoſeth an vnprofitable …

    Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … they can goe no higher, ſee yet how this ſinne ſpreads it ſelfe into bredthbreadth. Firſt, in regard of the ſinners themſelues, not ſome one, or ſome few, but …
    With rule
    … they can goe no higher, ſee yet how this ſinne ſpreads it ſelfe into bredthbreadth. Firſt, in regard of the ſinners themſelues, not ſome one, or ſome few, but …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … measured the citie with the (golden) rede .xii M. furlonges, & the length, and ye bredthbreadth, & the height of it, were equall. And he measured the wall therof, an. C …
    With rule
    … measured the citie with the (golden) rede .xii M. furlonges, & the length, and ye bredthbreadth, & the height of it, were equall. And he measured the wall therof, an. C …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 503 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is not yet at hand. Heereby it ſnorts in a carnal ſafety, ſpreads in bredthbreadth, waxeth big, and hie by hardneſſe of heart. It is very foule at the …
    With rule
    … is not yet at hand. Heereby it ſnorts in a carnal ſafety, ſpreads in bredthbreadth, waxeth big, and hie by hardneſſe of heart. It is very foule at the …

    Richard Bernard · Contemplative Pictures with Wholesome Precepts Part 1 · p. 67 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (25)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Scepter of Judah A17243

  • Printed
    The BredthBreadth of the tabernacle, 32.e.
    With rule
    The BredthBreadth of the tabernacle, 32.e.

    Edmund Bunny · The Scepter of Judah · Open in the reader

A New Description of the World A33342

  • Printed
    … one of the goodliest Structures in the World, accounted 520 Feet in Length, aad 385 in BredthBreadth, adorned with Paintings, Tombs, and other choice Pieces of Antiquity, almost Innumerable; the Vatican …
    With rule
    … one of the goodliest Structures in the World, accounted 520 Feet in Length, aad 385 in BredthBreadth, adorned with Paintings, Tombs, and other choice Pieces of Antiquity, almost Innumerable; the Vatican …

    Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of the Bark of a Tree, that Country affords, 20 Feet in Length and 4 in BredthBreadth, yet one of them weighs not 1 Hundred Weight; and on this Coast are many …
    With rule
    … of the Bark of a Tree, that Country affords, 20 Feet in Length and 4 in BredthBreadth, yet one of them weighs not 1 Hundred Weight; and on this Coast are many …

    Samuel Clarke · A New Description of the World · p. 186 · Open in the reader

The Bowels of Tender Mercy Sealed in the Everlasting Covenant A59035

  • Printed
    1. There is a BredthBreadth in them; for they are many and do require manifold duties, and our hearts …
    With rule
    1. There is a BredthBreadth in them; for they are many and do require manifold duties, and our hearts …

    Obadiah Sedgwick · The Bowels of Tender Mercy Sealed in the Everlasting Covenant · p. 675 · Open in the reader

The Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication A92138

  • Printed
    … edification, and teaching us nothing of God, and in ſpecifying the Form, Height, Length, BredthBreadth, Curtains, Candleſticks, Sockets, Rings, of naturall places that contained their bodies; for what ſhould …
    With rule
    … edification, and teaching us nothing of God, and in ſpecifying the Form, Height, Length, BredthBreadth, Curtains, Candleſticks, Sockets, Rings, of naturall places that contained their bodies; for what ſhould …

    Samuel Rutherford · The Divine Right of Church Government and Excommunication · p. 47 · Open in the reader

Christ Under the Law A92967

  • Printed
    And 60 by 6 (in BredthBreadth) is 360: As Days in a year, or years from Their Return, to Antiochus. And …
    With rule
    And 60 by 6 (in BredthBreadth) is 360: As Days in a year, or years from Their Return, to Antiochus. And …

    John Sadler · Christ Under the Law · p. 59 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Apostles Creed B27417

  • Printed
    … when the Apostle speaks, he presents it with Heigth, and Depth, and Length, and BredthBreadth; those foure dimensions of the Cross, noting to us the exactest love that could …
    With rule
    … when the Apostle speaks, he presents it with Heigth, and Depth, and Length, and BredthBreadth; those foure dimensions of the Cross, noting to us the exactest love that could …

    William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 259 · Open in the reader