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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33909 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

brimmebrim

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

Puritas changed it
81 times in 59 works
Consistency
100% (81 of 81)
Reach if approved
~85 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: brim
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
81 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (81 changes in 59 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 81)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … sides be not a quarter filled; on the other side fill it to the brimmebrim with feathers, and it will still tosse up and downe for want of due …
    With rule
    … sides be not a quarter filled; on the other side fill it to the brimmebrim with feathers, and it will still tosse up and downe for want of due …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … hart of the earth: but the graue is not in the hart, but the brimmebrim of the earth: Ergo, we must needes vnderstand Hell, which is in the midst …
    With rule
    … hart of the earth: but the graue is not in the hart, but the brimmebrim of the earth: Ergo, we must needes vnderstand Hell, which is in the midst …

    Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 607 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wonderfull, that it overfloweth all humane capacitie. When a vessell is filled to the brimmebrim, it must at last overflow. When our heart is filled with that which is …
    With rule
    … wonderfull, that it overfloweth all humane capacitie. When a vessell is filled to the brimmebrim, it must at last overflow. When our heart is filled with that which is …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Balm of Gilead Prepared for the Sick · p. 261 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Chriſt? A mouth wide open, will be a meanes to fill the heart full, brimmebrim full of Chriſt. That man comes happily to the Sacrament indeed, that can ſay …
    With rule
    … Chriſt? A mouth wide open, will be a meanes to fill the heart full, brimmebrim full of Chriſt. That man comes happily to the Sacrament indeed, that can ſay …

    Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 463 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … mud in our bottome, even when our affections are liquid and cleare in the brimmebrim, especially the sensitive part is clayie and drimmely water. 2. Grace is a good stirseman …
    With rule
    … mud in our bottome, even when our affections are liquid and cleare in the brimmebrim, especially the sensitive part is clayie and drimmely water. 2. Grace is a good stirseman …

    Samuel Rutherford · Sermon 31 January 1644 · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Church, and the Conſolations of God towards His People, That their joy may be brimmebrim full. The higher the enemies rage againſt the Church, Riſeth, the higher ſhall the …
    With rule
    … Church, and the Conſolations of God towards His People, That their joy may be brimmebrim full. The higher the enemies rage againſt the Church, Riſeth, the higher ſhall the …

    Hezekiah Woodward · Three Kingdoms Made One by Covenant · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … pieces, and halfe pieces, and duckats, and double duckats are currant but to the brimmebrim of the grave, there they ceaſe: and wee juſtly laugh at the folly of …
    With rule
    … pieces, and halfe pieces, and duckats, and double duckats are currant but to the brimmebrim of the grave, there they ceaſe: and wee juſtly laugh at the folly of …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 426 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … But can that which is a place of ioyfull and happy reſt, be the brimmebrim of hell? can that which is, and is called a glorious kingdome be hell …
    With rule
    … But can that which is a place of ioyfull and happy reſt, be the brimmebrim of hell? can that which is, and is called a glorious kingdome be hell …

    Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 65 · 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.