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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33154 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fannefan

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it
476 times in 202 works
Consistency
100% (476 of 476)
Reach if approved
~500 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fan
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
476 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (476 changes in 202 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 476)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … a great bulke of chaffe: and Mat. 3. since Christ vouchsafed to come with his fannefan to purge it of the chaffe, it now shewes it selfe with greater eminence …
    With rule
    … a great bulke of chaffe: and Mat. 3. since Christ vouchsafed to come with his fannefan to purge it of the chaffe, it now shewes it selfe with greater eminence …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to seperate vs from the wicked, for which cause it is compared to a fannefan, and the diuell is said to winnowe vs, and hee will not vse a …
    With rule
    … to seperate vs from the wicked, for which cause it is compared to a fannefan, and the diuell is said to winnowe vs, and hee will not vse a …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 640 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … inquiſition: Zephanie 2.1. or to driue away the chaffe of occaſion, before his wind or fannefan come, which will purge them with iudgment, becauſe they haue not purged by repentance …
    With rule
    … inquiſition: Zephanie 2.1. or to driue away the chaffe of occaſion, before his wind or fannefan come, which will purge them with iudgment, becauſe they haue not purged by repentance …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … croſſing of the finger, what fether more light? ſure not the feathers of the fannefan of which Hierom, in that they driue away the flies they haue an eligant …
    With rule
    … croſſing of the finger, what fether more light? ſure not the feathers of the fannefan of which Hierom, in that they driue away the flies they haue an eligant …

    Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … it is that the Prophets so often call vpon the people to search and fannefan themselues, that they might be acquainted with their owne estate. Till you know this …
    With rule
    … it is that the Prophets so often call vpon the people to search and fannefan themselues, that they might be acquainted with their owne estate. Till you know this …

    William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 313 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … gold; at his nauill a rich greene stone, and in his left hand a fannefan of pretious feathers of greene, azure, and yellow, which came forth of a looking …
    With rule
    … gold; at his nauill a rich greene stone, and in his left hand a fannefan of pretious feathers of greene, azure, and yellow, which came forth of a looking …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 666 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … S. Iohn Baptiſt ſpeaking of our Sauiour, ſaith, that he will come with his fannefan in his hand, and will make cleane the floore, and gather his wheat into …
    With rule
    … S. Iohn Baptiſt ſpeaking of our Sauiour, ſaith, that he will come with his fannefan in his hand, and will make cleane the floore, and gather his wheat into …

    John Salkeld · A Treatise of Paradise · p. 314 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … but as his fire, and furnare to make his, pure gold; and as his fannefan to make them cleane corne for his own vſe, and as his mill to …
    With rule
    … but as his fire, and furnare to make his, pure gold; and as his fannefan to make them cleane corne for his own vſe, and as his mill to …

    Thomas Sparke · Sermon 22 November 1593 · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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