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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #18028 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

valliesvalleys

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

Puritas changed it
681 times in 370 works
Consistency
100% (681 of 681)
Reach if approved
~717 places (estimated)
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Agrees: valleys
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
682 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (681 changes in 370 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 681)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the humble. The high hills after much tillage are often barren, whereas the low valliesvalleys, by the streames of waters passing through them, are very fruitfull: and the gifts …
    With rule
    … the humble. The high hills after much tillage are often barren, whereas the low valliesvalleys, by the streames of waters passing through them, are very fruitfull: and the gifts …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 400 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and the ſtreets of gold. The roſe of the field: The Lilly of the ValliesValleys: The faireſt amongst women: An Orchard of Pomgranats: A Fountaine of Gardens: A well …
    With rule
    … and the ſtreets of gold. The roſe of the field: The Lilly of the ValliesValleys: The faireſt amongst women: An Orchard of Pomgranats: A Fountaine of Gardens: A well …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … common errour, and chuse the world, as Lot inticed with the fatnesse of the valliesvalleys, chused to dwell in Sodome; but that folly cost him deare, for beside the …
    With rule
    … common errour, and chuse the world, as Lot inticed with the fatnesse of the valliesvalleys, chused to dwell in Sodome; but that folly cost him deare, for beside the …

    William Struther · True Happiness · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the land is sayd to reioyce, when God blessed it with plenty; and the valliesvalleys are sayd to laugh and sing, when they stand thick with corne, so heere …
    With rule
    … the land is sayd to reioyce, when God blessed it with plenty; and the valliesvalleys are sayd to laugh and sing, when they stand thick with corne, so heere …

    William Ward · A Sinners Indictment · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Shall I haunt the thronged valliesvalleys,
    With rule
    Shall I haunt the thronged valliesvalleys,

    George Wither · Fidelia Newly Corrected and Augmented · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … water the earth. They drop down in great plentie: part of them fléete into valliesvalleys, make a floud, and with all ſpéede runne into the ſea. Another part ſinke …
    With rule
    … water the earth. They drop down in great plentie: part of them fléete into valliesvalleys, make a floud, and with all ſpéede runne into the ſea. Another part ſinke …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Oyntment, drop from the beard to the skirts of their cloathing, that the low ValliesValleys may haue the benefit of that fruitfull raine that falleth vpon the Mountaines. Psal …
    With rule
    … Oyntment, drop from the beard to the skirts of their cloathing, that the low ValliesValleys may haue the benefit of that fruitfull raine that falleth vpon the Mountaines. Psal …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the same, and Chrisostome saith, when thou seest the Sunne so low that the valliesvalleys be darke, thou knowest night is néere: much more when it is so low …
    With rule
    … the same, and Chrisostome saith, when thou seest the Sunne so low that the valliesvalleys be darke, thou knowest night is néere: much more when it is so low …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 109 · 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.