Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33913 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blyndnesseblindness

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

Puritas changed it: 84 times in 38 works
Consistency: 95.4% (84 of 88)
Reach if approved: ~92 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: blindness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 88 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (84 changes in 38 works, 95.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 84)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… olde tyme alledged when they were by the Prophetes of the Lorde reproued of blyndnesseblindness, vngodlynesse and idolatrie. For they gloriously boasted of the temple. Ceremonies and priesthodes, by …
With rule
… olde tyme alledged when they were by the Prophetes of the Lorde reproued of blyndnesseblindness, vngodlynesse and idolatrie. For they gloriously boasted of the temple. Ceremonies and priesthodes, by …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forſake all errours / and to maynteyne none. Call ye this a leadinge in to blyndneſſeblindness? Then farewell all good enſamples of humilite and repentaunce.
With rule
… forſake all errours / and to maynteyne none. Call ye this a leadinge in to blyndneſſeblindness? Then farewell all good enſamples of humilite and repentaunce.
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… eate the cruſtes of breade, becauſe of the vnclēneſſe of hys ſynnes. O blyndneſſeblindness, blyndneſſeblindness, who is worthy of the leeſte creature of God? yet wyll we not only …
With rule
… eate the cruſtes of breade, becauſe of the vnclēneſſe of hys ſynnes. O blyndneſſeblindness, blyndneſſeblindness, who is worthy of the leeſte creature of God? yet wyll we not only …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Marys Magnificat · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue erred and bene faythlesse thys .xv. h…dred yeres. And we of lyke blyndnesseblindness beleue only by y^• auctoryte of our elders and of lyke pryde thynke that …
With rule
… haue erred and bene faythlesse thys .xv. h…dred yeres. And we of lyke blyndnesseblindness beleue only by y^• auctoryte of our elders and of lyke pryde thynke that …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader
Printed
… were ful of vanitees in your ymaginacyons, your folyshe harte couered wyth a dampnable blyndnesseblindness, for contemning hys truthe, Roma. i. Of nature are we, the fleshly, synfull, and …
With rule
… were ful of vanitees in your ymaginacyons, your folyshe harte couered wyth a dampnable blyndnesseblindness, for contemning hys truthe, Roma. i. Of nature are we, the fleshly, synfull, and …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xciii · Open in the reader
Printed
… wel myngled wyth water. I remembre how Scrupulouse I was in my tym of blyndnesseblindness and ignorauncye, when I shuld saye masse, I haue put in water twyse or …
With rule
… wel myngled wyth water. I remembre how Scrupulouse I was in my tym of blyndnesseblindness and ignorauncye, when I shuld saye masse, I haue put in water twyse or …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Monkes & Freers learning in this Article of Repētaunce was full of great errours & blyndnesseblindness. They could shew no sure coū forth, yee they taught rather theragaynst, that we …
With rule
… the Monkes & Freers learning in this Article of Repētaunce was full of great errours & blyndnesseblindness. They could shew no sure coū forth, yee they taught rather theragaynst, that we …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Weighing and Considering of the Interim · Open in the reader
Printed
… noted, that the couetousnesse in Iudas was the cause and fountaine of so great blyndnesseblindness. VVherby it appeareth that it was worthily called by Paule, 1. Tim. 6. 10. the roote of …
With rule
… noted, that the couetousnesse in Iudas was the cause and fountaine of so great blyndnesseblindness. VVherby it appeareth that it was worthily called by Paule, 1. Tim. 6. 10. the roote of …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 682 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 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.

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

Printed
… and giveth Grace vnto the Humble) but involue Men, still, more and more, in BlyndnesseBlindness, and induration of Heart.
With rule
… and giveth Grace vnto the Humble) but involue Men, still, more and more, in BlyndnesseBlindness, and induration of Heart.
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 158 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Ephesians A17705

Printed
… heere, that after Saynt Paule hath spoken of the vanitie of mynd, he addeth, BlyndnesseBlindness of mynde, or Darkenesse of vnderstanding: and lastly he sayeth, BlyndnesseBlindness or Stubbornesse of …
With rule
… heere, that after Saynt Paule hath spoken of the vanitie of mynd, he addeth, BlyndnesseBlindness of mynde, or Darkenesse of vnderstanding: and lastly he sayeth, BlyndnesseBlindness or Stubbornesse of …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader
Printed
… mynd, he addeth, BlyndnesseBlindness of mynde, or Darkenesse of vnderstanding: and lastly he sayeth, BlyndnesseBlindness or Stubbornesse of hart. This blazing of men after this sort, serues well too …
With rule
… mynd, he addeth, BlyndnesseBlindness of mynde, or Darkenesse of vnderstanding: and lastly he sayeth, BlyndnesseBlindness or Stubbornesse of hart. This blazing of men after this sort, serues well too …
John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader