Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12834 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

desartdesert

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

Puritas changed it: 1,341 times in 603 works
Consistency: 100% (1,341 of 1,341)
Reach if approved: ~1,409 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: desert
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,341 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,341 changes in 603 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,341)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… We haue done but the duty that we ought, and dew debt is no deſartdesert: quae debuimus facere, fecimus. This is plaine and true, and ſhall we force ſome …
With rule
… We haue done but the duty that we ought, and dew debt is no deſartdesert: quae debuimus facere, fecimus. This is plaine and true, and ſhall we force ſome …
John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there fell to their ſhare ſex civitates, & villae earum. Is there any ſuch a deſartdesert ſo barren, ſo hopeleſſe, ſo waſte, as death and the grave, deſertion of life …
With rule
… there fell to their ſhare ſex civitates, & villae earum. Is there any ſuch a deſartdesert ſo barren, ſo hopeleſſe, ſo waſte, as death and the grave, deſertion of life …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 519 · Open in the reader
Printed
… c. The ſame ends hath God in ſuffering his people to goe through this deſartdesert, barrenneſſe, and darkneſſe, where no light is, and where terrours of the Law doe …
With rule
… c. The ſame ends hath God in ſuffering his people to goe through this deſartdesert, barrenneſſe, and darkneſſe, where no light is, and where terrours of the Law doe …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his first comming in humilitie: so they must bee now voices, crying in the desartdesert of this world, to prepare the way against the Lords second comming in glorie …
With rule
… his first comming in humilitie: so they must bee now voices, crying in the desartdesert of this world, to prepare the way against the Lords second comming in glorie …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
As a voyce in desartdesert, se thu declare the thynge.
With rule
As a voyce in desartdesert, se thu declare the thynge.
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… poſſeſſe mine inheritance: but as for you, Numb. 14.32. Your carkeiſes ſhall fall in the deſartdesert. Where is he that hath Dauids hart, a man after Gods owne hart? he …
With rule
… poſſeſſe mine inheritance: but as for you, Numb. 14.32. Your carkeiſes ſhall fall in the deſartdesert. Where is he that hath Dauids hart, a man after Gods owne hart? he …
William Hubbock · An Apology of Infants · Open in the reader
Printed
… verſ. 3. ſtrangely deſcribed that ſhe ſitteth vpon. And why was hee led into a deſartdesert place to behold this? and touching the more particular deſcription of this Whore, and …
With rule
… verſ. 3. ſtrangely deſcribed that ſhe ſitteth vpon. And why was hee led into a deſartdesert place to behold this? and touching the more particular deſcription of this Whore, and …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 482 · Open in the reader
Printed
… absolute great necessitie, why was it for the space of fourtie yeares in the desartdesert intermitted? and that onely because the Israelites beeing often in iourney, such as were …
With rule
… absolute great necessitie, why was it for the space of fourtie yeares in the desartdesert intermitted? and that onely because the Israelites beeing often in iourney, such as were …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 152 · 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.