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Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35811 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

northwindenorth wind

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

Puritas changed it
10 times in 9 works
Consistency
100% (10 of 10)
Reach if approved
~11 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: northwind
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
10 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (10 changes in 9 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 10)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … them, with diſcretion, and diſcountenance all ſuch ſmoothers and flatterers. For thē as the NorthwindeNorth wind driueth away the raine: ſo would an angry coūtenance, the ſlandering tong; yea, the …
    With rule
    … them, with diſcretion, and diſcountenance all ſuch ſmoothers and flatterers. For thē as the NorthwindeNorth wind driueth away the raine: ſo would an angry coūtenance, the ſlandering tong; yea, the …

    Richard Stock · Sermon 2 November 1606 · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to be ſtirred up to pray, that God would now ſtirre up a wholeſome NorthwindeNorth wind, to blow favourably upon the Churches beyond the ſeas, and ſtrongly againſt their enemies.
    With rule
    … to be ſtirred up to pray, that God would now ſtirre up a wholeſome NorthwindeNorth wind, to blow favourably upon the Churches beyond the ſeas, and ſtrongly againſt their enemies.

    John Cotton · A Brief Exposition of the Book of the Song of Solomon · p. 140 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … nor receiveth a slander against his neighbour, Psalm 15. 2. let thy countenance be like the NorthwindeNorth wind to back-biting tongues.
    With rule
    … nor receiveth a slander against his neighbour, Psalm 15. 2. let thy countenance be like the NorthwindeNorth wind to back-biting tongues.

    Edward Leigh · Body of Divinity · p. 381 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … blowes. But your Highness hath long since learned of King Solomon, that as the NorthwindeNorth wind driveth away the rain, so does an angry countenance the flattering tongue Prov. 25.23.
    With rule
    … blowes. But your Highness hath long since learned of King Solomon, that as the NorthwindeNorth wind driveth away the rain, so does an angry countenance the flattering tongue Prov. 25.23.

    Richard Younge · The Arraignment of Covetousness and Ambition · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the beape of Clowdes, and againe, that it is the ſcattering winde, or the NorthwindeNorth wind that cauſeth the colde too come. Theſe chaunges heere do ſet forth Gods mightie …
    With rule
    … the beape of Clowdes, and againe, that it is the ſcattering winde, or the NorthwindeNorth wind that cauſeth the colde too come. Theſe chaunges heere do ſet forth Gods mightie …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 743 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … tranſlate, the right hand, ſignifies the Southern parts of the world (Cant. 4.16.) Awake O NorthwindeNorth wind, and come thou South, blow upon my Garden. (Exod. 26.18.) On the South (or right …
    With rule
    … tranſlate, the right hand, ſignifies the Southern parts of the world (Cant. 4.16.) Awake O NorthwindeNorth wind, and come thou South, blow upon my Garden. (Exod. 26.18.) On the South (or right …

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 22-26 · p. 366 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … feet of his Saints, keepeth much more the graces of his Saints. Awake ô NorthwindeNorth wind, and come ô South, blow upon my Garden, that the ſpices thereof may flow …
    With rule
    … feet of his Saints, keepeth much more the graces of his Saints. Awake ô NorthwindeNorth wind, and come ô South, blow upon my Garden, that the ſpices thereof may flow …

    Ralph Robinson · The Christian Completely Armed · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it ſhould tend to thine eternal conſolation: Every wind that blew, whether the nipping NorthwindeNorth wind of adverſity, or the cheriſhing Southwinde of proſperity, ſhould neither of them wrong thee …
    With rule
    … it ſhould tend to thine eternal conſolation: Every wind that blew, whether the nipping NorthwindeNorth wind of adverſity, or the cheriſhing Southwinde of proſperity, ſhould neither of them wrong thee …

    George Swinnock · The Door of Salvation Opened by the Key of Regeneration · p. 249 · Open in the reader

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None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.