Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #14489 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forraignforeign

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

Puritas changed it: 951 times in 399 works
Consistency: 99.7% (951 of 953)
Reach if approved: ~1,001 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: foreign
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 953 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (951 changes in 399 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 951)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… loſt Veſſel, lives and all; when you have been in any danger abroad in forraignforeign parts, that the Lord was a preſent help in time of trouble, when there …
With rule
… loſt Veſſel, lives and all; when you have been in any danger abroad in forraignforeign parts, that the Lord was a preſent help in time of trouble, when there …
Jeremiah Burroughs · Gospel Conversation · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… imployed in great services for the common good: So that, not only this, but forraignforeign States, are bound to bless God for you both. Go on in these ways …
With rule
… imployed in great services for the common good: So that, not only this, but forraignforeign States, are bound to bless God for you both. Go on in these ways …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… common good, finding an opportunity to ſell it for five ſhillings the buſhel to ForraignForeign Merchants, inriched himſelf exceedingly thereby, and Corn growing ſuddenly dear, the Counſel called him …
With rule
… common good, finding an opportunity to ſell it for five ſhillings the buſhel to ForraignForeign Merchants, inriched himſelf exceedingly thereby, and Corn growing ſuddenly dear, the Counſel called him …
John Cook · An Appeal to All Rational Men Concerning His Trial · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in ſeeing the ſeveral lights, wiſe in diſcerning the true light, powerful in reſiſting forraignforeign darkneſs; ſince God hath given us this day, qui non humiliabit animam ſuam in …
With rule
… in ſeeing the ſeveral lights, wiſe in diſcerning the true light, powerful in reſiſting forraignforeign darkneſs; ſince God hath given us this day, qui non humiliabit animam ſuam in …
John Donne · Twenty-Six Sermons · p. 274 · Open in the reader
Printed
… should neither heare of Warre between Prince and People, nor feare any Invasion of ForraignForeign Power.
With rule
… should neither heare of Warre between Prince and People, nor feare any Invasion of ForraignForeign Power.
William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Reason) is no extinguishment of it's radical freedom. And as external compulsion, and forraignforeign force put upon the will, would be a violation of it's liberty, so all …
With rule
… and Reason) is no extinguishment of it's radical freedom. And as external compulsion, and forraignforeign force put upon the will, would be a violation of it's liberty, so all …
Vincent Alsop · A Sober Inquiry Into the Reasonings of the Serious Inquiry · p. 285 · Open in the reader
Printed
… solemn and frequent Covenants, not to have our hearts enticed or entangled, with any forraignforeign honors or delights, but only with those of our own Countrey: If thy thoughts …
With rule
… solemn and frequent Covenants, not to have our hearts enticed or entangled, with any forraignforeign honors or delights, but only with those of our own Countrey: If thy thoughts …
Richard Baxter · The Saints Everlasting Rest · p. 638 · Open in the reader
Printed
Their flattering of forraignforeign Churches is not to be regarded, ibid.
With rule
Their flattering of forraignforeign Churches is not to be regarded, ibid.
Robert Baillie · A Dissuasive from the Errors of the time · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

Printed
… the very next words in the Oath it self undenyably manifest, (And that NO FORRAIGNFOREIGN Power, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction, Power …
With rule
… the very next words in the Oath it self undenyably manifest, (And that NO FORRAIGNFOREIGN Power, Person, Prelate, State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction, Power …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Spirituall within this Realm; and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake ALL FORRAIGNFOREIGN Iurisdictions, &c.) Therefore it refers not at all to Parliaments, or their Jurisdiction, Power …
With rule
… or Spirituall within this Realm; and therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake ALL FORRAIGNFOREIGN Iurisdictions, &c.) Therefore it refers not at all to Parliaments, or their Jurisdiction, Power …
William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 104 · Open in the reader