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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33800 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

imbecillitieimbecility

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

Puritas changed it
100 times in 76 works
Consistency
97.0% (100 of 103)
Reach if approved
~108 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: imbecility
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
103 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 76 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to saluation, the same doubt remaineth stil: therfore those two other exceptions concerning their imbecillitieimbecility, which P. Martyr mentioneth, as that it happened by their owne default, and that …
    With rule
    … to saluation, the same doubt remaineth stil: therfore those two other exceptions concerning their imbecillitieimbecility, which P. Martyr mentioneth, as that it happened by their owne default, and that …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Romans · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … habilitie receiued of the Lorde, to further this ioyful worke, I, (acknowledging otherwiſe mine imbecillitieimbecility,) haue tranſported by painefull trauell into mine owne Countrie three ſeuerall ſtones, wel ſquared …
    With rule
    … habilitie receiued of the Lorde, to further this ioyful worke, I, (acknowledging otherwiſe mine imbecillitieimbecility,) haue tranſported by painefull trauell into mine owne Countrie three ſeuerall ſtones, wel ſquared …

    Henrich Bullinger · The Sum of the Four Evangelists · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ye leaſt thei wil complaine, that he hath no greater regard to eaſe their imbecillitieimbecility. it is a merueilous mater, ſai thei, yt ſeīg god hath borne vs thus …
    With rule
    … ye leaſt thei wil complaine, that he hath no greater regard to eaſe their imbecillitieimbecility. it is a merueilous mater, ſai thei, yt ſeīg god hath borne vs thus …

    John Calvin · Four Sermons Against the Pollution of Idolatries · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … it, and Christs Disciples in Davids Example. For this Seneca says, Necessitie and humane imbecillitieimbecility breaks every Law. So he that Answers that Libel — (The long Parliament Revived) speaking …
    With rule
    … it, and Christs Disciples in Davids Example. For this Seneca says, Necessitie and humane imbecillitieimbecility breaks every Law. So he that Answers that Libel — (The long Parliament Revived) speaking …

    Archibald Argyll · Speech and Plea to the Parliament of Scotland · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … wāt of worke, do so wreke their tine on seely pore women, whose weake imbecillitieimbecility the more strēgth it lacketh by natural imperfection, the more it ought to be …
    With rule
    … wāt of worke, do so wreke their tine on seely pore women, whose weake imbecillitieimbecility the more strēgth it lacketh by natural imperfection, the more it ought to be …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1980 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … cānot be made ſtraight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbred. There is imbecillitieimbecility in mans workes, and that ſo great, that hée can not make that ſtraight …
    With rule
    … cānot be made ſtraight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbred. There is imbecillitieimbecility in mans workes, and that ſo great, that hée can not make that ſtraight …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … wil grinde him to pouder. Wherefore either let vs fal vpon it by our imbecillitieimbecility and weakenes, by denying our ſelues, & ſo be broken, or els he will breake …
    With rule
    … wil grinde him to pouder. Wherefore either let vs fal vpon it by our imbecillitieimbecility and weakenes, by denying our ſelues, & ſo be broken, or els he will breake …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … reason teach, that craftinesse, and deceipt argue men to be conscious of their own imbecillitieimbecility, and weaknesse, one way, or other; which makes them (Hare-like) to trust to …
    With rule
    … reason teach, that craftinesse, and deceipt argue men to be conscious of their own imbecillitieimbecility, and weaknesse, one way, or other; which makes them (Hare-like) to trust to …

    John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 101 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 A41681

  • Printed
    … Being, either to Virtue, or Happineſſe its reward; but being ignorant of his own ImbecillitieImbecility, he taught, that for every good worke a man ſhould confide in his own …
    With rule
    … Being, either to Virtue, or Happineſſe its reward; but being ignorant of his own ImbecillitieImbecility, he taught, that for every good worke a man ſhould confide in his own …

    Theophilus Gale · The Court of the Gentiles Part 3 · p. 161 · Open in the reader