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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7498 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

captiuitiecaptivity

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

Puritas changed it
2,206 times in 468 works
Consistency
100% (2,206 of 2,206)
Reach if approved
~2,318 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: captivity
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,206 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,206 changes in 468 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,206)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … conſider mine owne demerits, I deſerued to bee held in the chaines of ſpirituall captiuitiecaptivity, and to be kept perpetuall priſoner in the dungeon of Error, Superſtition, and blindnes …
    With rule
    … conſider mine owne demerits, I deſerued to bee held in the chaines of ſpirituall captiuitiecaptivity, and to be kept perpetuall priſoner in the dungeon of Error, Superſtition, and blindnes …

    John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … all your boke thorowe, you ſpende all your wittes, to brynge vs vnder the captiuitiecaptivity of thys church, that you might worthily triumphe as you haue done makeinge marchandiſe …
    With rule
    … all your boke thorowe, you ſpende all your wittes, to brynge vs vnder the captiuitiecaptivity of thys church, that you might worthily triumphe as you haue done makeinge marchandiſe …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxv · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … as M. Some tells vs of that poore Church that is there held vnder captiuitiecaptivity, and that many of them in th' agonies and conflictes of death, did wholly …
    With rule
    … as M. Some tells vs of that poore Church that is there held vnder captiuitiecaptivity, and that many of them in th' agonies and conflictes of death, did wholly …

    Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 101 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … haue an eare, let him heare, 13. he that leadeth into captiuitiecaptivity, shall goe into captiuitiecaptivity, 14. Hee that killeth vvith a svvearde, must be killed vvith a svvearde. 15. Heere is …
    With rule
    … haue an eare, let him heare, 13. he that leadeth into captiuitiecaptivity, shall goe into captiuitiecaptivity, 14. Hee that killeth vvith a svvearde, must be killed vvith a svvearde. 15. Heere is …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not possibly come into it; and for seuentie yeares together while they were in captiuitiecaptivity, yet durst they not presume, no, not in this case of necessity, to doe …
    With rule
    … not possibly come into it; and for seuentie yeares together while they were in captiuitiecaptivity, yet durst they not presume, no, not in this case of necessity, to doe …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    After the captiuitiecaptivity they are called by names.
    With rule
    After the captiuitiecaptivity they are called by names.

    George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … whose stife, & crooked necke would neuer yéeld too the Lordes yoke, but when some captiuitiecaptivity or other did oppresse thē. Ouely the CHURCH of ROME shall serue vs in …
    With rule
    … whose stife, & crooked necke would neuer yéeld too the Lordes yoke, but when some captiuitiecaptivity or other did oppresse thē. Ouely the CHURCH of ROME shall serue vs in …

    John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … temporall matters, to wit of casting Saule from his kingdome, and the Iewes into captiuitiecaptivity. But except the persons had bene incurable, God would haue beene intreated to giue …
    With rule
    … temporall matters, to wit of casting Saule from his kingdome, and the Iewes into captiuitiecaptivity. But except the persons had bene incurable, God would haue beene intreated to giue …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 364 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

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