Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13075 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hindringhindering

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

Puritas changed it: 846 times in 552 works
Consistency: 98.6% (846 of 858)
Reach if approved: ~902 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hindering
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 858 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (846 changes in 552 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 846)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſounded. O vile death, I hate thee for nothing ſo much, as for thy hindringhindering mee in this ſervice? O cruell grave, I abhorre thee ſo much for nothing …
With rule
… ſounded. O vile death, I hate thee for nothing ſo much, as for thy hindringhindering mee in this ſervice? O cruell grave, I abhorre thee ſo much for nothing …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoule fixed? oh ſaith the text, They tooke pleaſure in unrighteouſneſſe, in contemning, oppoſing, hindringhindering, and deſpiſing the good Word of God, and therefore they ſhall be damned: when …
With rule
… ſoule fixed? oh ſaith the text, They tooke pleaſure in unrighteouſneſſe, in contemning, oppoſing, hindringhindering, and deſpiſing the good Word of God, and therefore they ſhall be damned: when …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… muſt conſider the ſtrong battell which this ſtrong man the diuell & his Angels make (hindringhindering the entrance of Gods kingdome nationally or perſonally) to all ſincere ordinances of God …
With rule
… muſt conſider the ſtrong battell which this ſtrong man the diuell & his Angels make (hindringhindering the entrance of Gods kingdome nationally or perſonally) to all ſincere ordinances of God …
Paul Baynes · Two Treatises, The Lords Prayer, The Six Principles · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſerue for Saints knowledge, from Abraham; how can the Papiſts looke on this Text, hindringhindering the people from the Scripture? When firſt Abraham exhorts to the hearing of Moſes …
With rule
… ſerue for Saints knowledge, from Abraham; how can the Papiſts looke on this Text, hindringhindering the people from the Scripture? When firſt Abraham exhorts to the hearing of Moſes …
Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seeking to draw backe others from the loue or practise of religion, or in hindringhindering the good meanes whereby religion is begun and furthered in men; for if either …
With rule
… seeking to draw backe others from the loue or practise of religion, or in hindringhindering the good meanes whereby religion is begun and furthered in men; for if either …
William Perkins · The Combat Between Christ and the Devil Displayed · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the matter of the guifts of the Holy Ghoſt, and therefore this was a hindringhindering cauſe, that he might haue no hand in it, but yet this exempted him …
With rule
… the matter of the guifts of the Holy Ghoſt, and therefore this was a hindringhindering cauſe, that he might haue no hand in it, but yet this exempted him …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 224 · Open in the reader
Printed
… follow amplifications of their fact in receiuing the Word of God; firſt, by the hindringhindering cauſe of entertayning the Goſpell, which with holy reſolution they learnd to contemne, and …
With rule
… follow amplifications of their fact in receiuing the Word of God; firſt, by the hindringhindering cauſe of entertayning the Goſpell, which with holy reſolution they learnd to contemne, and …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pleasures and treasures of this City are more, so much worse is the cause hindringhindering our entrance. You may iudge by this taste, how farre spirituall sickenesse is more …
With rule
… pleasures and treasures of this City are more, so much worse is the cause hindringhindering our entrance. You may iudge by this taste, how farre spirituall sickenesse is more …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 94 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons Volume 2 A51846

Printed
… thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Temptations only make them more violent. 2. HindringHindering us from that which is good; either it draweth away the heart from duty …
With rule
… thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Temptations only make them more violent. 2. HindringHindering us from that which is good; either it draweth away the heart from duty …
Thomas Manton · Sermons Volume 2 · p. 125 · Open in the reader