Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13358 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stedfastnessesteadfastness

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

Puritas changed it: 622 times in 307 works
Consistency: 97.6% (622 of 637)
Reach if approved: ~670 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: steadfastness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 638 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (622 changes in 307 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 622)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for ever unto me in faithfulnesse. And in this promise they must seeke their stedfastnessesteadfastness.
With rule
… for ever unto me in faithfulnesse. And in this promise they must seeke their stedfastnessesteadfastness.
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 333 · Open in the reader
Printed
… anie that hath the ſpirit of adoption may loſe him: then where is the ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness of faith which Saint Peter heere requireth, in reſiſting the Diuel? If it come …
With rule
… anie that hath the ſpirit of adoption may loſe him: then where is the ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness of faith which Saint Peter heere requireth, in reſiſting the Diuel? If it come …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on fully in it, with all his ſtrength, with all cheerfulneſs, and with all ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness: Yea, filled with all the fulneſſe of God, not with the fulneſſe of his …
With rule
… on fully in it, with all his ſtrength, with all cheerfulneſs, and with all ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness: Yea, filled with all the fulneſſe of God, not with the fulneſſe of his …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Whether euer their faith was ſound, becauſe they haue not attained vnto the ſame ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness of perſwaſion in Gods loue, that ſtrength againſt doubting, and that meaſure of ſpirituall …
With rule
… Whether euer their faith was ſound, becauſe they haue not attained vnto the ſame ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness of perſwaſion in Gods loue, that ſtrength againſt doubting, and that meaſure of ſpirituall …
Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… borne of a woman that he ſhould be iuſt? Iob. 15.14. God hath found no ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness in his ſaints; yea the heauens are not cleane in his ſight, how much …
With rule
… borne of a woman that he ſhould be iuſt? Iob. 15.14. God hath found no ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness in his ſaints; yea the heauens are not cleane in his ſight, how much …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many ignorant and unstable nominall Christians have beene before you;) fall from your owne stedfastnessesteadfastness, faith and Christian vertues, into a sinke of hellish vices, to your eternall ruine …
With rule
… many ignorant and unstable nominall Christians have beene before you;) fall from your owne stedfastnessesteadfastness, faith and Christian vertues, into a sinke of hellish vices, to your eternall ruine …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 997 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not for ought, that is in thee, but lookes to himſelfe, then, thou haſt ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness by the grace of God, as ye may collect of the 4. chap. to the …
With rule
… not for ought, that is in thee, but lookes to himſelfe, then, thou haſt ſtedfaſtneſſesteadfastness by the grace of God, as ye may collect of the 4. chap. to the …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to receiue the grace of God in vaine, 2 Cor. 6.1, not to fall from their stedfastnessesteadfastness, 2 Pet. 3.17 &c. If they cannot fall into them, doth the Lord use words in …
With rule
… to receiue the grace of God in vaine, 2 Cor. 6.1, not to fall from their stedfastnessesteadfastness, 2 Pet. 3.17 &c. If they cannot fall into them, doth the Lord use words in …
Henry Ainsworth · Censure Upon the Dialogue of the Anabaptists · p. 20 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons on Galatians A17706

Printed
StedfaſtneſſeSteadfastness Looke Conſtancie and Perſeuerance.
With rule
StedfaſtneſſeSteadfastness Looke Conſtancie and Perſeuerance.
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

A Confutation of Standishs Treatise A19466

Printed
StedfaſtneſſeSteadfastness in the waye of gods trueth is to be commended. And an euident token …
With rule
StedfaſtneſſeSteadfastness in the waye of gods trueth is to be commended. And an euident token …
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance A53688

Printed
… the Unchangeable Continuance of his Love unto us; Proceed we now to consider the StedfastnesseSteadfastness, and Immutability of his Purposes, which he frequently asserts, as another Ground of Assurance …
With rule
… the Unchangeable Continuance of his Love unto us; Proceed we now to consider the StedfastnesseSteadfastness, and Immutability of his Purposes, which he frequently asserts, as another Ground of Assurance …
John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them apt to make conclusions of wantonnesse and rebellion, upon the account of the StedfastnesseSteadfastness of the Love and Kindnesse of God to them. I shall not judge any …
With rule
… them apt to make conclusions of wantonnesse and rebellion, upon the account of the StedfastnesseSteadfastness of the Love and Kindnesse of God to them. I shall not judge any …
John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
The order of our method first proposed would here call me to handle our StedfastnesseSteadfastness with God, and the Glory created upon our Grace of Sanctification: But because some …
With rule
The order of our method first proposed would here call me to handle our StedfastnesseSteadfastness with God, and the Glory created upon our Grace of Sanctification: But because some …
John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 158 · Open in the reader

The Morning Exercise Methodized A81247

Printed
3. StedfaſtneſſeSteadfastness in the doctrine of the Goſpel, verſe 8, 19, 20,—24.
With rule
3. StedfaſtneſſeSteadfastness in the doctrine of the Goſpel, verſe 8, 19, 20,—24.
Thomas Case · The Morning Exercise Methodized · p. 15 · Open in the reader