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Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35753 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

welbelovedswell-beloveds

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
18 times in 14 works
Consistency
81.8% (18 of 22)
Reach if approved
~23 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
22 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (18 changes in 14 works, 81.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 18)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … one of them may ſay, as the Spouſe in the Canticles, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine: Gods delight is in them, and theirs in God …
    With rule
    … one of them may ſay, as the Spouſe in the Canticles, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine: Gods delight is in them, and theirs in God …

    Thomas Bedford · Examination of Antinomianism · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and intereſt in him, poſſeſſion of him; and in another place, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine. She is his, and he is hers: they have …
    With rule
    … and intereſt in him, poſſeſſion of him; and in another place, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine. She is his, and he is hers: they have …

    John Collinges · The Spouses Hidden Glory · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … love) applied by the Spowse vnto him whom her sowl loveth, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and his desire is towards me.
    With rule
    … love) applied by the Spowse vnto him whom her sowl loveth, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and his desire is towards me.

    Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 253 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    10 I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and his deſire is toward me.
    With rule
    10 I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and his deſire is toward me.

    Thomas Brightman · A Commentary on the Song of Solomon · p. 1056 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a secret overpowering, that I am his and he is mine: I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine. He observed that the likeliest means to attain Assurance …
    With rule
    … a secret overpowering, that I am his and he is mine: I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine. He observed that the likeliest means to attain Assurance …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of Rome diſdaines ſuch a ſong as Hereticall preſumption, to ſay, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and he is mine.
    With rule
    … of Rome diſdaines ſuch a ſong as Hereticall preſumption, to ſay, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and he is mine.

    John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of the Song of Solomon · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to sup and dine with him, to be able to say, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine! When you shall consider the world hates you, what …
    With rule
    … to sup and dine with him, to be able to say, I am my welbelovedswell-beloveds, and my welbeloved is mine! When you shall consider the world hates you, what …

    John Preston · Sunbeams of Gospel Light · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of the Lamb? Rev. 22. 1. Every drop of that water is an heaven. O created welbelovedswell-beloveds you are black, and the Sun hath looked on you, when you come out …
    With rule
    … of the Lamb? Rev. 22. 1. Every drop of that water is an heaven. O created welbelovedswell-beloveds you are black, and the Sun hath looked on you, when you come out …

    Samuel Rutherford · Sermon 31 January 1644 · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.