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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13260 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mainteinemaintain

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

Puritas changed it
595 times in 136 works
Consistency
99.8% (595 of 596)
Reach if approved
~626 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: maintain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
596 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (595 changes in 136 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 595)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … as they neuer writ, or by adding, altering, or diminishing their sayings, to foster & mainteinemaintain corrupt doctrine: And namely, by that Treatise lately come to light, which they cal …
    With rule
    … as they neuer writ, or by adding, altering, or diminishing their sayings, to foster & mainteinemaintain corrupt doctrine: And namely, by that Treatise lately come to light, which they cal …

    Robert Pont · Against Sacrilege · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ill practiſes, cuſtomes and faſhions in townes and companies of men, which vphold and mainteinemaintain the olde world and curſed fellowſhips in it, were ouerthrowen, and with the tables …
    With rule
    … ill practiſes, cuſtomes and faſhions in townes and companies of men, which vphold and mainteinemaintain the olde world and curſed fellowſhips in it, were ouerthrowen, and with the tables …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 577 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … himſelfe to haue erred in the articles, & promiſe by oath, neither to teach nor mainteinemaintain them: & moreouer, openly recant all of them. To this, the Emp. moued him alſo …
    With rule
    … himſelfe to haue erred in the articles, & promiſe by oath, neither to teach nor mainteinemaintain them: & moreouer, openly recant all of them. To this, the Emp. moued him alſo …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 330 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … other while, or any M. Papiste of you all, that hath a forheade to mainteinemaintain this trumperie, for Clemen… the auncient Bishoppes writing. Alas Syr, what if this be …
    With rule
    … other while, or any M. Papiste of you all, that hath a forheade to mainteinemaintain this trumperie, for Clemen… the auncient Bishoppes writing. Alas Syr, what if this be …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of Ceremonies be a corrosiue to such as oppugne them; vndoubtedly to such as mainteinemaintain them, it can be no great pleasure, when they behold how that which they …
    With rule
    … of Ceremonies be a corrosiue to such as oppugne them; vndoubtedly to such as mainteinemaintain them, it can be no great pleasure, when they behold how that which they …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 185 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … iustice: Euen so shall they I doubte not, whiche this daye do possesse and mainteinemaintain that monstriferous authoritie of women, shortlie be compelled to acknowledge, that their studies and …
    With rule
    … iustice: Euen so shall they I doubte not, whiche this daye do possesse and mainteinemaintain that monstriferous authoritie of women, shortlie be compelled to acknowledge, that their studies and …

    John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of a corner, other newe, and vengeance wise fetches and strange trickes wherewith to mainteinemaintain the matter and make it good against these Heretikes: and yet are not at …
    With rule
    … of a corner, other newe, and vengeance wise fetches and strange trickes wherewith to mainteinemaintain the matter and make it good against these Heretikes: and yet are not at …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … euen to excell in ſome trade or gift of minde. For the art will mainteinemaintain the artificer, yea oft the gift, which is excellent, aduaunceth him which is therewith …
    With rule
    … euen to excell in ſome trade or gift of minde. For the art will mainteinemaintain the artificer, yea oft the gift, which is excellent, aduaunceth him which is therewith …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 303 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.