Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33816 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

drinessedryness

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

Puritas changed it: 105 times in 72 works
Consistency: 90.5% (105 of 116)
Reach if approved: ~122 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dryness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 116 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (105 changes in 72 works, 90.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 105)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of her eyes, her heart is heauy with sorrow, her bones are withered with drinessedryness, her whole body is cloathed in sackcloth, she lyeth in caues and dennes, beeing …
With rule
… of her eyes, her heart is heauy with sorrow, her bones are withered with drinessedryness, her whole body is cloathed in sackcloth, she lyeth in caues and dennes, beeing …
Laurence Chaderton · Sermon Upon Romans 12:3-8 · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo wet with ſhowers of grace, in the diſpenſations of Goſpel-myſteries, excelling the drineſſedryness of former times.) A fifth ſort there have been, (though a ſcanter number) that …
With rule
… ſo wet with ſhowers of grace, in the diſpenſations of Goſpel-myſteries, excelling the drineſſedryness of former times.) A fifth ſort there have been, (though a ſcanter number) that …
John Collinges · A Cordial for a Fainting Soul · Open in the reader
Printed
… joyes and divine consolations whereon conscience feasteth: but goe on in a kind of drinessedryness of spirit, and fear I shall doe so ever, not knowing well what to …
With rule
… joyes and divine consolations whereon conscience feasteth: but goe on in a kind of drinessedryness of spirit, and fear I shall doe so ever, not knowing well what to …
John Jackson · The Book of Conscience Opened and Read · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… refreſhment, they might gette it in aboundance. And if we felt this thirſt and drineſſedryness of the ſoule, we would ſeeke earneſtly: for there was neuer ſuch a dryneſſe …
With rule
… refreſhment, they might gette it in aboundance. And if we felt this thirſt and drineſſedryness of the ſoule, we would ſeeke earneſtly: for there was neuer ſuch a dryneſſe …
Robert Rollock · Sermons · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a guide; a ſeer, ſilence, in none is ſo hatefull, as in a Preacher; drineſſedryness no where ſo unexpected, as in a Well, a Cloud.
With rule
… a guide; a ſeer, ſilence, in none is ſo hatefull, as in a Preacher; drineſſedryness no where ſo unexpected, as in a Well, a Cloud.
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude 2 · p. 302 · Open in the reader
Printed
But dost thou iudge thy selfe for this hardnesse of thy heart, drinessedryness of thine eyes, &c? som men cannot shed teares, as others can, by reason …
With rule
But dost thou iudge thy selfe for this hardnesse of thy heart, drinessedryness of thine eyes, &c? som men cannot shed teares, as others can, by reason …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their light, and light hath no operation but in heat or cold, moisture or drinessedryness. In this respect, (though we may well obserue the full and the change of …
With rule
… their light, and light hath no operation but in heat or cold, moisture or drinessedryness. In this respect, (though we may well obserue the full and the change of …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 317 · Open in the reader
Printed
… desire drinke, out of a feeling or want thereof by some naturall drought or drinessedryness. Iohn 19, 28. I Thirst.
With rule
… desire drinke, out of a feeling or want thereof by some naturall drought or drinessedryness. Iohn 19, 28. I Thirst.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 487 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

Printed
… mount where the glory of the Lord was revealed. Horeb] or Choreb: which signifieth DrinesseDryness (for this wildernesse was waterlesse, Deut. 8. 15.) it was called also mount Sinai, Act. 7. 30. Exod …
With rule
… mount where the glory of the Lord was revealed. Horeb] or Choreb: which signifieth DrinesseDryness (for this wildernesse was waterlesse, Deut. 8. 15.) it was called also mount Sinai, Act. 7. 30. Exod …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 8 · Open in the reader

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

Printed
DrinesseDryness for their Springs.
With rule
DrinesseDryness for their Springs.
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 91 · Open in the reader

Job Expounded B11451

Printed
19 DrinesseDryness and heate consume the snowe waters: (so) the graue those, who sinne.
With rule
19 DrinesseDryness and heate consume the snowe waters: (so) the graue those, who sinne.
Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader