Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #33976 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

flaggeflag

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

Puritas changed it: 86 times in 59 works
Consistency: 86.0% (86 of 100)
Reach if approved: ~105 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: flag
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 100 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (86 changes in 59 works, 86.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 86)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is here prefixed, and it is this. In prayer we muſt not faint, nor flaggeflag. This the point. And this is preſſed from the ſucceſſe, and that is argued …
With rule
… is here prefixed, and it is this. In prayer we muſt not faint, nor flaggeflag. This the point. And this is preſſed from the ſucceſſe, and that is argued …
Robert Harris · Several Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… working of the ſpirit to quicken and ſtir up his graces which began to flaggeflag, impatience and paſſion began to ſtifle his zeale and readineſſe in his miniſtery, but …
With rule
… working of the ſpirit to quicken and ſtir up his graces which began to flaggeflag, impatience and paſſion began to ſtifle his zeale and readineſſe in his miniſtery, but …
Joseph Symonds · The Case and Cure of a Deserted Soul · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is here prefixed, and it is this. In prayer wee muſt not faint, nor flaggeflag. This the Point. And this is preſſed from the ſucceſſe, and that is argued …
With rule
… is here prefixed, and it is this. In prayer wee muſt not faint, nor flaggeflag. This the Point. And this is preſſed from the ſucceſſe, and that is argued …
Robert Harris · Sermon Preached 25 May 1642 · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for Jeruſalem. Some pray now and then, when the humor takes them, but they flaggeflag and hold not out: they are not wraſtlers with God as Jacob, they are …
With rule
… for Jeruſalem. Some pray now and then, when the humor takes them, but they flaggeflag and hold not out: they are not wraſtlers with God as Jacob, they are …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there, that like Eagles we must so…re aloft vp to heauen, and not flaggeflag downeward, nor creepe below vpon the ground, if wee will come at Christs body …
With rule
… there, that like Eagles we must so…re aloft vp to heauen, and not flaggeflag downeward, nor creepe below vpon the ground, if wee will come at Christs body …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and goodnesse, exceeded by a new-found stuffe of a certaine sedge or water-flaggeflag, which groweth infinitely, and with little paines of boiling yeeldeth great quantitie of sundrie …
With rule
… and goodnesse, exceeded by a new-found stuffe of a certaine sedge or water-flaggeflag, which groweth infinitely, and with little paines of boiling yeeldeth great quantitie of sundrie …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 635 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the South, Ruben, Simeon, and Gad, under the ſigne of a man in the flaggeflag: To the Weſt, Ephraim, Manaſſes and Benjamin, with the banner bearing the ſigne of …
With rule
… the South, Ruben, Simeon, and Gad, under the ſigne of a man in the flaggeflag: To the Weſt, Ephraim, Manaſſes and Benjamin, with the banner bearing the ſigne of …
John Yates · The Honor of Gods House · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ones; but the wicked have their bodies black and heavy, they cannot flie, but flaggeflag in the air, and the Angels do not bear, but dragge them to the …
With rule
… ones; but the wicked have their bodies black and heavy, they cannot flie, but flaggeflag in the air, and the Angels do not bear, but dragge them to the …
Isaac Ambrose · The Last things · p. 105 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Old Jacobs Altar Newly Repaired A65931

Printed
… and his patience; hath brought you again into your own Nation; where the White FlaggeFlag is held forth, and the unſearchable riches of Chriſt are fully diſplayed in the …
With rule
… and his patience; hath brought you again into your own Nation; where the White FlaggeFlag is held forth, and the unſearchable riches of Chriſt are fully diſplayed in the …
Nathaniel Whiting · Old Jacobs Altar Newly Repaired · Open in the reader

A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged A81485

Printed
… Wine-cellar, and his Banner over me was love. The uſe of the Banner, FlaggeFlag, or Enſigne in Warre, is (at the ſound of the Trumpet or Drumme) to …
With rule
… Wine-cellar, and his Banner over me was love. The uſe of the Banner, FlaggeFlag, or Enſigne in Warre, is (at the ſound of the Trumpet or Drumme) to …
Robert Dingley · A Sincere Believer Comforted and Encouraged · p. 267 · Open in the reader

The Saints Dangers Deliverances and Duties A96434

Printed
… and his patience; hath brought you again into your own Nation; where the White FlaggeFlag is held forth, and the unſearchable riches of Chriſt are fully diſplayed in the …
With rule
… and his patience; hath brought you again into your own Nation; where the White FlaggeFlag is held forth, and the unſearchable riches of Chriſt are fully diſplayed in the …
Nathaniel Whiting · The Saints Dangers Deliverances and Duties · Open in the reader