Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35892 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

welwisherwell-wisher

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

Puritas changed it: 9 times in 9 works
Consistency: 75.0% (9 of 12)
Reach if approved: ~13 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: wellwisher
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 12 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (9 changes in 9 works, 75.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 9)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
To this I answer, that I have alwaies been a real friend, and welwisherwell-wisher to this Army from their first modelling til now, in what ever they have …
With rule
To this I answer, that I have alwaies been a real friend, and welwisherwell-wisher to this Army from their first modelling til now, in what ever they have …
William Prynne · Speech 4 December 1648 · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
Aberd. 1637. Your soul's welwisherwell-wisher & Christ prisoner, S. R.
With rule
Aberd. 1637. Your soul's welwisherwell-wisher & Christ prisoner, S. R.
Samuel Rutherford · Letters in Two Parts · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
How cordial a welwiſherwell-wisher, and forward an incourager you have alwaies been of the Orthodox Clergy, all that …
With rule
How cordial a welwiſherwell-wisher, and forward an incourager you have alwaies been of the Orthodox Clergy, all that …
Nathaniel Hardy · Divinity in Mortality · Open in the reader
Printed
… good friends, M^r. Iames Bisse, and M^r. Edward Bisse, Esquires: with his very kinde welwisherwell-wisher, M^r. Robert Groue. TO HIS LOVING and assured friends, Master Iohn Bernard, and M^r …
With rule
… good friends, M^r. Iames Bisse, and M^r. Edward Bisse, Esquires: with his very kinde welwisherwell-wisher, M^r. Robert Groue. TO HIS LOVING and assured friends, Master Iohn Bernard, and M^r …
Richard Bernard · A Staff of Comfort to Stay the Weak · Open in the reader
Printed
… one to another, We had a Preacher, we had a Teacher, we had a welwisherwell-wisher, and a lover of of our souls amongst us; but we did not improve …
With rule
… one to another, We had a Preacher, we had a Teacher, we had a welwisherwell-wisher, and a lover of of our souls amongst us; but we did not improve …
George Evanke · Farewell Sermon · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
Your poor afflicted Brother and welwisherwell-wisher.
With rule
Your poor afflicted Brother and welwisherwell-wisher.
John Brown · The History of the Indulgence · Open in the reader
Printed
… by sending in some worldly person (yet under the pretence of a friend, and welwisherwell-wisher) who shall counsel you not to be too forward, and shall tell you, none …
With rule
… by sending in some worldly person (yet under the pretence of a friend, and welwisherwell-wisher) who shall counsel you not to be too forward, and shall tell you, none …
Phineas Fletcher · A Fathers Testament · p. 163 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thy Soul's reall welwiſherwell-wisher. O. J.
With rule
Thy Soul's reall welwiſherwell-wisher. O. J.
John Oldfield · The Generation of Seekers · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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