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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33200 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rammeram

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

Puritas changed it
406 times in 165 works
Consistency
99.7% (406 of 407)
Reach if approved
~428 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ram
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
407 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (406 changes in 165 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 406)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … heart in reſpect of oblation, and ſo it may bee acceptable, as the prepared RammeRam which Abraham found in a Buſh and offered it to the Lord. To conclude …
    With rule
    … heart in reſpect of oblation, and ſo it may bee acceptable, as the prepared RammeRam which Abraham found in a Buſh and offered it to the Lord. To conclude …

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 134 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of the world, and prepared herevnto from the ſixt day of the creation: This RammeRam they hold to be one of thoſe 10. things created in the evening of the …
    With rule
    … of the world, and prepared herevnto from the ſixt day of the creation: This RammeRam they hold to be one of thoſe 10. things created in the evening of the …

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 354 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … match and skirmage: the ornament, grace or garland, of euery ebrious Round: the onely RammeRam or Pol-axe to assault, to force, & batter downe; the most flexanimous Eloquence, to …
    With rule
    … match and skirmage: the ornament, grace or garland, of euery ebrious Round: the onely RammeRam or Pol-axe to assault, to force, & batter downe; the most flexanimous Eloquence, to …

    William Prynne · Healths Sickness · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … end of the world hée should bée transformed into the forme of a mightie RammeRam, full of lacks and long fléeces of wooll: & that all that held of his …
    With rule
    … end of the world hée should bée transformed into the forme of a mightie RammeRam, full of lacks and long fléeces of wooll: & that all that held of his …

    Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … see not the meanes for thy deliverance, goe to the Mountaine there is a RammeRam for Isaac: hasten thy obedience, and God which set thee on worke, will hasten …
    With rule
    … see not the meanes for thy deliverance, goe to the Mountaine there is a RammeRam for Isaac: hasten thy obedience, and God which set thee on worke, will hasten …

    Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that is, to bee ordained: When the Prieſt was conſecrat to the Lord, the RammeRam which was to be offered, was called Aries impletionis Exod. 29.31. Becauſe the hand of …
    With rule
    … that is, to bee ordained: When the Prieſt was conſecrat to the Lord, the RammeRam which was to be offered, was called Aries impletionis Exod. 29.31. Becauſe the hand of …

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … life is reaſonable; God therefore is the beſt vnderſtanding. Suffer your ſelues with Abrahams RammeRam, to be perplexed a while in theſe bryers, that you may be prepared to …
    With rule
    … life is reaſonable; God therefore is the beſt vnderſtanding. Suffer your ſelues with Abrahams RammeRam, to be perplexed a while in theſe bryers, that you may be prepared to …

    John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … new edition, corrected and amended. But these and many more voluminous engines (for the rammeram alone had an hundred men to manage it) are now virtually epitomized in the …
    With rule
    … new edition, corrected and amended. But these and many more voluminous engines (for the rammeram alone had an hundred men to manage it) are now virtually epitomized in the …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 39 · 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 History of the Worthies of England A40672

  • Printed
    THOMAS RAMMERAM was born at Windsor in this County, and admitted in Kings Colledge in Cambridge …
    With rule
    THOMAS RAMMERAM was born at Windsor in this County, and admitted in Kings Colledge in Cambridge …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 93 · Open in the reader