Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #16764 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ingagementsengagements

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

Puritas changed it: 607 times in 331 works
Consistency: 99.8% (607 of 608)
Reach if approved: ~657 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: engagements
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 625 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (607 changes in 331 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 607)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hath ingaged himſelf to us, by many great and precious Promiſes. Gods Promiſes are ingagementsengagements upon him. God hath made himſelf our Debter, Not by receiving any thing from …
With rule
… hath ingaged himſelf to us, by many great and precious Promiſes. Gods Promiſes are ingagementsengagements upon him. God hath made himſelf our Debter, Not by receiving any thing from …
Samuel Bolton · The Dead Saint Speaking to Saints and Sinners Living · p. 366 · Open in the reader
Printed
… known truth. Now at such a time to put people in minde of their ingagementsengagements unto God, & to discover how such & such practises are contrary to their Covenant obligations …
With rule
… known truth. Now at such a time to put people in minde of their ingagementsengagements unto God, & to discover how such & such practises are contrary to their Covenant obligations …
John Brown · Relation of the Sufferings of Ministers in Scotland Since 1660 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinke) that they doe nothing againſt the light of their conſciences; for why? their ingagementsengagements keepe off the ſtrength of truth, that it comes not to a full conviction …
With rule
… thinke) that they doe nothing againſt the light of their conſciences; for why? their ingagementsengagements keepe off the ſtrength of truth, that it comes not to a full conviction …
Jeremiah Burroughs · An Exposition of Hosea 1-3 · p. 413 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they have received an earnest penny of God; they do not know Gods ingagementsengagements of himself unto them; Therefore if thou wouldest get assurance, try and prove all …
With rule
… that they have received an earnest penny of God; they do not know Gods ingagementsengagements of himself unto them; Therefore if thou wouldest get assurance, try and prove all …
Edmund Calamy · Evidence for Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
2. Their manifold ingagementsengagements to the Lord, require it.
With rule
2. Their manifold ingagementsengagements to the Lord, require it.
Thomas Cobbet · A Practical Discourse of Prayer · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinne, discomfort, and despaire. The honours pleasures and profits that are got by base ingagementsengagements to the humours of men, what are these to Christ? when the soule is …
With rule
… sinne, discomfort, and despaire. The honours pleasures and profits that are got by base ingagementsengagements to the humours of men, what are these to Christ? when the soule is …
Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 364 · Open in the reader
Printed
… looked on the Pottage, and it was ſo red; ſo they looke upon their ingagementsengagements, and they are ſo full of content; it is ſo grievous to be taken …
With rule
… looked on the Pottage, and it was ſo red; ſo they looke upon their ingagementsengagements, and they are ſo full of content; it is ſo grievous to be taken …
Jeremiah Burroughs · The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit · p. 397 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the rescuing of him from some temporal imminent Danger: How much dearer and stronger IngagementsEngagements bind us to serve our Redeemer, who has freed us from the Power as …
With rule
… the rescuing of him from some temporal imminent Danger: How much dearer and stronger IngagementsEngagements bind us to serve our Redeemer, who has freed us from the Power as …
William Bates · The Way to the Highest Honor · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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 Dissonant Harmony of Sacred Public Oaths A70864

Printed
CONCORDIA DISCORS, OR THE DISSONANT HARMONY OF Sacred PUBLIqUE OATHES, PROTESTATIONS, LEAGUES, COVENANTS, INGAGEMENTSENGAGEMENTS, lately taken by many TIME-SERVING SAINTS, Officers, without ſcruple of Conſcience; making a …
With rule
CONCORDIA DISCORS, OR THE DISSONANT HARMONY OF Sacred PUBLIqUE OATHES, PROTESTATIONS, LEAGUES, COVENANTS, INGAGEMENTSENGAGEMENTS, lately taken by many TIME-SERVING SAINTS, Officers, without ſcruple of Conſcience; making a …
William Prynne · The Dissonant Harmony of Sacred Public Oaths · Open in the reader