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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #17141 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obteineobtain

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

Puritas changed it
641 times in 163 works
Consistency
100% (641 of 641)
Reach if approved
~674 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: obtain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
641 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (641 changes in 163 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 641)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … which being such as are able to dispose men, and make them apt to obteineobtain the grace of God, of a certaine congruity, they hold to procéede of the …
    With rule
    … which being such as are able to dispose men, and make them apt to obteineobtain the grace of God, of a certaine congruity, they hold to procéede of the …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … haue ben releaſed at her hands whom I promiſed, I could by no meanes obteineobtain it. I haue therfore at the laſt ſo nigh as I could, ſet down …
    With rule
    … haue ben releaſed at her hands whom I promiſed, I could by no meanes obteineobtain it. I haue therfore at the laſt ſo nigh as I could, ſet down …

    George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … renued in the ſpirit of their minde, in Ieſus Chriſt. For therethrough wee all obteineobtain and enioy, in the vpright righteouſneſſe and holineſſe which GOD eſteemeth, the making aliue …
    With rule
    … renued in the ſpirit of their minde, in Ieſus Chriſt. For therethrough wee all obteineobtain and enioy, in the vpright righteouſneſſe and holineſſe which GOD eſteemeth, the making aliue …

    John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … finde ſome good, which, after poſſeſſion once had, is loſt of vs, or to obteineobtain ſom good thing wch we yet neuer enioyed. See how Mary and Ioſeph ſought …
    With rule
    … finde ſome good, which, after poſſeſſion once had, is loſt of vs, or to obteineobtain ſom good thing wch we yet neuer enioyed. See how Mary and Ioſeph ſought …

    Paul Baynes · A Counterbane Against Earthly Carefulness · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … for them selfes a good foūdacyō agaynste the tyme to come, that they maye obteineobtain euerlastynge life thorow Iesu Christ thy sōne and our Lorde. Amen.
    With rule
    … for them selfes a good foūdacyō agaynste the tyme to come, that they maye obteineobtain euerlastynge life thorow Iesu Christ thy sōne and our Lorde. Amen.

    Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. xxxii · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and would know how … might ouermaster them, hee must begin with his heart, and obteineobtain and reteine within it the feare of God, which onely is able to ouerrule …
    With rule
    … and would know how … might ouermaster them, hee must begin with his heart, and obteineobtain and reteine within it the feare of God, which onely is able to ouerrule …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … members and one with him, that we ſhould endeuour after the ſame, and may obteineobtain to make it our meat and drinke to doe that which is pleaſing to …
    With rule
    … members and one with him, that we ſhould endeuour after the ſame, and may obteineobtain to make it our meat and drinke to doe that which is pleaſing to …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 506 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vnder an other kinde naturally and in deede but inuisibly. First bicause faith should obteineobtain a more excellent rewarde, where mans reason is not able by proofe to attaine …
    With rule
    … vnder an other kinde naturally and in deede but inuisibly. First bicause faith should obteineobtain a more excellent rewarde, where mans reason is not able by proofe to attaine …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 85 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.