Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #17674 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sleightedslighted

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

Puritas changed it: 642 times in 366 works
Consistency: 100% (642 of 642)
Reach if approved: ~675 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 642 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (642 changes in 366 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 642)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Corinthians being notedly infamous for lust and wantonnes; and it was also as much sleightedslighted there as any where, many of them thinking that the ^l body was made …
With rule
… Corinthians being notedly infamous for lust and wantonnes; and it was also as much sleightedslighted there as any where, many of them thinking that the ^l body was made …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… help of depraved fancie and affection, all ſound reaſons, that croſſe that humour, are ſleightedslighted; and the contrary are magnified. And therefore, in this caſe, we ſhould labour to …
With rule
… help of depraved fancie and affection, all ſound reaſons, that croſſe that humour, are ſleightedslighted; and the contrary are magnified. And therefore, in this caſe, we ſhould labour to …
John Sym · Lifes Preservative Against Self-Killing · p. 320 · Open in the reader
Printed
That sleightedslighted those Protections bee,
With rule
That sleightedslighted those Protections bee,
George Wither · The Hymns and Songs of the Church · p. 197 · Open in the reader
Printed
But this place ought not so to bee sleightedslighted. For it doth ex professo teach, that salvation and all the degrees thereof, as …
With rule
But this place ought not so to bee sleightedslighted. For it doth ex professo teach, that salvation and all the degrees thereof, as …
George Downame · A Treatise of Justification · p. 459 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have, while the humble increase by making much of every little help, which is sleightedslighted and neglected by the proud, and by shunning all those spending courses, which the …
With rule
… have, while the humble increase by making much of every little help, which is sleightedslighted and neglected by the proud, and by shunning all those spending courses, which the …
Richard Baxter · Directions for Weak Distempered Christians · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not how wee may ſay any thing is light, whereby the divine Majeſty is ſleightedslighted. Secondly, admitting that ſome ſinnes are to bee accounted no bigger than moats, yet …
With rule
… not how wee may ſay any thing is light, whereby the divine Majeſty is ſleightedslighted. Secondly, admitting that ſome ſinnes are to bee accounted no bigger than moats, yet …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 654 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Idols. He that railed on Belsebub, pulled all Ekrom about his eares: he that sleightedslighted Melchom, prouoked the Ammonites. But he that condemnes Mammon, speakes against all the world.
With rule
… Idols. He that railed on Belsebub, pulled all Ekrom about his eares: he that sleightedslighted Melchom, prouoked the Ammonites. But he that condemnes Mammon, speakes against all the world.
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
KInd frend. Forced fauours vvere euer sleightedslighted, & thankles. But voluntary respects had euer vvith the best, and most noble minds courteous …
With rule
KInd frend. Forced fauours vvere euer sleightedslighted, & thankles. But voluntary respects had euer vvith the best, and most noble minds courteous …
William Loe · Songs of Zion · p. 147 · 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.