Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13720 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

imployingemploying

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

Puritas changed it: 669 times in 433 works
Consistency: 97.2% (669 of 688)
Reach if approved: ~752 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: employing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 716 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (669 changes in 433 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 669)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hath giuen forth inſtruction for particular callinges, from whiche (by reaſon of more particular imployingemploying of benefites mutualy one vpon another) there ariſeth more particular duetie of the one …
With rule
… hath giuen forth inſtruction for particular callinges, from whiche (by reaſon of more particular imployingemploying of benefites mutualy one vpon another) there ariſeth more particular duetie of the one …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perform his commandement. Secondly, Chriſt ſpeakes not here thus to this yong man, as imployingemploying abilitie in him to keepe the commandements, but to anſwer to the pride of …
With rule
… perform his commandement. Secondly, Chriſt ſpeakes not here thus to this yong man, as imployingemploying abilitie in him to keepe the commandements, but to anſwer to the pride of …
Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
… knowing how ill occupied the malefactors be in the priſon, they might by good imployingemploying of them in ſome honeſt labour, not only get ſomewhat toward their keeping, (many …
With rule
… knowing how ill occupied the malefactors be in the priſon, they might by good imployingemploying of them in ſome honeſt labour, not only get ſomewhat toward their keeping, (many …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 769 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them to their county adorne them when they come there, ſpecially if the ſo imployingemploying of themſelues & their eſtate, be a meanes to keepe them from the enioying of …
With rule
… them to their county adorne them when they come there, ſpecially if the ſo imployingemploying of themſelues & their eſtate, be a meanes to keepe them from the enioying of …
Richard Stock · The Churchs Lamentation for the Loss of the Godly · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in vaine and unprofitable things: or in the unjust holding and possessing, and not imployingemploying of them when necessitie requireth, Simler.
With rule
… in vaine and unprofitable things: or in the unjust holding and possessing, and not imployingemploying of them when necessitie requireth, Simler.
Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 343 · Open in the reader
Printed
… foorth of the shippe to come first vnto him, but much rather by diligent imployingemploying himselfe about those that he left behinde him. Another example sufficient to shewe, how …
With rule
… foorth of the shippe to come first vnto him, but much rather by diligent imployingemploying himselfe about those that he left behinde him. Another example sufficient to shewe, how …
Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 382 · Open in the reader
Printed
… most principal duties of man; namely to heare, read, record, and converse with it, imployingemploying his time in it. Art thou a Minister of the word? then hast thou …
With rule
… most principal duties of man; namely to heare, read, record, and converse with it, imployingemploying his time in it. Art thou a Minister of the word? then hast thou …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. VVE muſt perſeuere and continue in well imployingemploying the graces of Gods Spirit to our defence: thus may we better ſtand in …
With rule
4. VVE muſt perſeuere and continue in well imployingemploying the graces of Gods Spirit to our defence: thus may we better ſtand in …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 116 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Hold Fast A01580

Printed
… packt ouer, they kept him in their Chamber cloſe Priſoner without Bayle or Mainepriſe: ImployingEmploying of him there in tranſcribing certaine idle papers of theirs, pretended for the Preſſe …
With rule
… packt ouer, they kept him in their Chamber cloſe Priſoner without Bayle or Mainepriſe: ImployingEmploying of him there in tranſcribing certaine idle papers of theirs, pretended for the Preſſe …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 34 · Open in the reader

The Christians Daily Sacrifice A19284

Printed
Eightly, ImployingEmploying our selues in some honest calling. 2. Thess. 3. 11, 12. and that
With rule
Eightly, ImployingEmploying our selues in some honest calling. 2. Thess. 3. 11, 12. and that
Thomas Cooper · The Christians Daily Sacrifice · p. 117 · Open in the reader

The Tradesmans Calling A61398

Printed
1. ImployingEmploying all the Faculties of the Mind. 78
With rule
1. ImployingEmploying all the Faculties of the Mind. 78
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · Open in the reader
Printed
1. In the ſerious ImployingEmploying all the Faculties of your Mind about your Trade and Calling. Your Fancies, your …
With rule
1. In the ſerious ImployingEmploying all the Faculties of your Mind about your Trade and Calling. Your Fancies, your …
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. This Diligence requires the ImployingEmploying all your Strength of Body in the buſineſs of your Trades. Have you a …
With rule
2. This Diligence requires the ImployingEmploying all your Strength of Body in the buſineſs of your Trades. Have you a …
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. This Diligence requires the ImployingEmploying the ſubſtance of your Time in the affairs of your Trades. As the Servant's …
With rule
3. This Diligence requires the ImployingEmploying the ſubſtance of your Time in the affairs of your Trades. As the Servant's …
Richard Steele · The Tradesmans Calling · p. 79 · Open in the reader

The Lords Day Vindicated A63259

Printed
… excellent, the moſt happy and bleſſed that it can be imployed in, being the ImployingEmploying of the moſt noble Faculties of the Soul, in their moſt excellent Acts, about …
With rule
… excellent, the moſt happy and bleſſed that it can be imployed in, being the ImployingEmploying of the moſt noble Faculties of the Soul, in their moſt excellent Acts, about …
George Trosse · The Lords Day Vindicated · p. 103 · Open in the reader