Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33370 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

firrefir

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

Puritas changed it: 246 times in 102 works
Consistency: 100% (246 of 246)
Reach if approved: ~258 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fir
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 246 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (246 changes in 102 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 246)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wont to be made of the boughes of goodly trees; as, the mirtle, olive, firrefir, which by reaſon of their fatneſſe, would for a long time retaine their green …
With rule
… wont to be made of the boughes of goodly trees; as, the mirtle, olive, firrefir, which by reaſon of their fatneſſe, would for a long time retaine their green …
Johann II Buxtorf · The Jewish Synagogue · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
FirreFir 86.111.162
With rule
FirreFir 86.111.162
Thomas De Laune · A Key to Open Scripture Metaphors · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christianity. Let the falls of others make us fear, when Cedars fall, let the FirreFir-tree howle. Zach. 11.2. The Falling-sicknesse was never so common as now. One falls …
With rule
… Christianity. Let the falls of others make us fear, when Cedars fall, let the FirreFir-tree howle. Zach. 11.2. The Falling-sicknesse was never so common as now. One falls …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God's Iudgments to come upon all the Cedars and Oaks, (Esay 2.) and when the FirreFir-trees and Oaks are bid to howl (Zech. 11.) the Targum in stead of mentioning …
With rule
… God's Iudgments to come upon all the Cedars and Oaks, (Esay 2.) and when the FirreFir-trees and Oaks are bid to howl (Zech. 11.) the Targum in stead of mentioning …
Joseph Mede · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… is also good Ash, Elme, Willow, Birch, Beech, Saxafras, Iuniper Ciprus, Cedar, Spruce, Pines & FirreFir that will yeeld abundance of Turpentine, Pitch, Tarie, Masts and other materials for building …
With rule
… is also good Ash, Elme, Willow, Birch, Beech, Saxafras, Iuniper Ciprus, Cedar, Spruce, Pines & FirreFir that will yeeld abundance of Turpentine, Pitch, Tarie, Masts and other materials for building …
Francis Higginson · New Englands Plantation · Open in the reader
Printed
… tresses of sixe fingers breadth, which they died blacke with the fume of Sapine, FirreFir, or Rosine. They were alwayes died with this tincture, from the foote vnto the …
With rule
… tresses of sixe fingers breadth, which they died blacke with the fume of Sapine, FirreFir, or Rosine. They were alwayes died with this tincture, from the foote vnto the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 672 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and set foorth? as Isay prophecieth, that the Glory of Lebanon shal come, the FirreFir, Oliue, and Boxe tree to beautifie my sanctuary, Isai. 60.13. which is literally to be …
With rule
… and set foorth? as Isay prophecieth, that the Glory of Lebanon shal come, the FirreFir, Oliue, and Boxe tree to beautifie my sanctuary, Isai. 60.13. which is literally to be …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 370 · Open in the reader
Printed
… takes turnes with them in his walkes and galleries, Cant. 1. 17. Our galleries are of firrefir, yea as one friend fallen in company with another is ſo tyed that hee …
With rule
… takes turnes with them in his walkes and galleries, Cant. 1. 17. Our galleries are of firrefir, yea as one friend fallen in company with another is ſo tyed that hee …
Jeremiah Dyke · The Righteous Mans Tower · p. 26 · 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.