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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33284 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

proouesproves

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

Puritas changed it
318 times in 128 works
Consistency
99.3% (318 of 320)
Reach if approved
~336 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: proves
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
320 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (318 changes in 128 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 318)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … conceit or imagination: for this coniunction is in truth a reall coniunction. Iohn 17. 22. Christ proouesproves that all beleeuers may be one with him as he is one with the …
    With rule
    … conceit or imagination: for this coniunction is in truth a reall coniunction. Iohn 17. 22. Christ proouesproves that all beleeuers may be one with him as he is one with the …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ancient, established, professed and vndoubted Doctrines of our Church, (as this whole Antithesis infallibly proouesproves them:) that so our Church and Kingdome, (which being diuided against themselues by these …
    With rule
    … ancient, established, professed and vndoubted Doctrines of our Church, (as this whole Antithesis infallibly proouesproves them:) that so our Church and Kingdome, (which being diuided against themselues by these …

    William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … him: and this ſight aggreageth their hatred. By the workes, I vnderſtand all the proouesproves the Lord gaue of his Diuinitie to the worlde; whether they were the miraculous …
    With rule
    … him: and this ſight aggreageth their hatred. By the workes, I vnderſtand all the proouesproves the Lord gaue of his Diuinitie to the worlde; whether they were the miraculous …

    Robert Rollock · Twenty-Five Lectures Upon the Lords Last Sermon and Conference · p. 122 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … firſt and condemne after, becauſe our words are no authorities: hee concludes firſt and proouesproves after: neuer any iudge did condemne ſo manie together. Salomon reſolued all the queſtions …
    With rule
    … firſt and condemne after, becauſe our words are no authorities: hee concludes firſt and proouesproves after: neuer any iudge did condemne ſo manie together. Salomon reſolued all the queſtions …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 826 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … and …hosen no mean…, Iudges, therefore it standeth you in hande, to bring substantiall proouesproves.
    With rule
    … and …hosen no mean…, Iudges, therefore it standeth you in hande, to bring substantiall proouesproves.

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Prophet Dauid ſpeaketh; Pſal. 95.7. muſt be vnderſtood of the ſpirituall reſt. So Act. 2.29. Peter proouesproves Dauids ſpeech to be meant of Chriſt; Secondly, by comparing one place with another …
    With rule
    … Prophet Dauid ſpeaketh; Pſal. 95.7. muſt be vnderſtood of the ſpirituall reſt. So Act. 2.29. Peter proouesproves Dauids ſpeech to be meant of Chriſt; Secondly, by comparing one place with another …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 175 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    It eyther proouesproves our Church is true,
    With rule
    It eyther proouesproves our Church is true,

    Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … markes muſt be deuiſed, injoyned, and appointed: by the ſecond Beaſt or Antichriſt, as proouesproves the text, Reuel. 13.16. Fiftly, theſe marks muſt be vniuerſall vpon all men, rich and …
    With rule
    … markes muſt be deuiſed, injoyned, and appointed: by the ſecond Beaſt or Antichriſt, as proouesproves the text, Reuel. 13.16. Fiftly, theſe marks muſt be vniuerſall vpon all men, rich and …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Golden Chain A09339

  • Printed
    … gouernour of all things, distinguished into the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost. ProouesProves out of the word of God.
    With rule
    … gouernour of all things, distinguished into the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost. ProouesProves out of the word of God.

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1029 · Open in the reader