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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7503 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

warreswars

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

Puritas changed it
5,140 times in 1,161 works
Consistency
99.9% (5,140 of 5,145)
Reach if approved
~5,406 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wars
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
5,145 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,140 changes in 1,161 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,140)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in Meſſenicis, and by Strabo lib. 8.) that if any man refuſed to goe to warreswars, or being in the field caſt downe his weapons and ranne away, he ſhould …
    With rule
    … in Meſſenicis, and by Strabo lib. 8.) that if any man refuſed to goe to warreswars, or being in the field caſt downe his weapons and ranne away, he ſhould …

    Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and peace of the Churche, with suche ciuill mutines, disordered discordes, seditious Butles, horrible warreswars, cruel cursinges as the Romishe Ru…ians haue doone, geeuing therin most exe…rable …
    With rule
    … and peace of the Churche, with suche ciuill mutines, disordered discordes, seditious Butles, horrible warreswars, cruel cursinges as the Romishe Ru…ians haue doone, geeuing therin most exe…rable …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … But I have no calling and lesse comfort to prosecute these bloudy dissensions: For warreswars of Christians against Infidels, are like the heat of exercise which serveth to keep …
    With rule
    … But I have no calling and lesse comfort to prosecute these bloudy dissensions: For warreswars of Christians against Infidels, are like the heat of exercise which serveth to keep …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 211 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Politikes, to be furniſhed for the gouernment of Cities and Commonweales, and for the warreswars? Looke vnto all others which trauaile in any ſcience, and the paines of ſuch …
    With rule
    … Politikes, to be furniſhed for the gouernment of Cities and Commonweales, and for the warreswars? Looke vnto all others which trauaile in any ſcience, and the paines of ſuch …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … will enter. And as Davids elder brother charged David, when he came into the warreswars, This is the pride and the naughtineſſe of thy heart, gueſſing at his by …
    With rule
    … will enter. And as Davids elder brother charged David, when he came into the warreswars, This is the pride and the naughtineſſe of thy heart, gueſſing at his by …

    Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſoeuer happened to the City, or prouinces of Rome, whether famine, peſtilence, earth-quakes, warreswars, vnſeaſonable weather, the Chriſtians were thought to be the cauſes thereof: whereupon roſe great …
    With rule
    … ſoeuer happened to the City, or prouinces of Rome, whether famine, peſtilence, earth-quakes, warreswars, vnſeaſonable weather, the Chriſtians were thought to be the cauſes thereof: whereupon roſe great …

    Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Who euer found Dauid thus tempted, thus foyled in the dayes of his buſie warreswars? Now only doe I ſee the King of Iſrael, riſing from his bed in …
    With rule
    … Who euer found Dauid thus tempted, thus foyled in the dayes of his buſie warreswars? Now only doe I ſee the King of Iſrael, riſing from his bed in …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 233 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … wytnesseth Rhegino pruniensis / whan Charles the seconde Emprour returned agayne into Almanye from his warreswars with the Norm̄ nes / he founde Limphardus the bysshop of Versell (which was his …
    With rule
    … wytnesseth Rhegino pruniensis / whan Charles the seconde Emprour returned agayne into Almanye from his warreswars with the Norm̄ nes / he founde Limphardus the bysshop of Versell (which was his …

    John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Epigrams A08687

  • Printed
    WArresWars wounding Weapons hurt not so my He…t,
    With rule
    WArresWars wounding Weapons hurt not so my He…t,

    John Owen · Epigrams · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

  • Printed
    … and his good quarrell, effectually at this time, TO MAKE AN END OF HIS WARRESWARS BY WAY OF PEACE OR ELSE BY FORCE. And that for Letters, words, nor …
    With rule
    … and his good quarrell, effectually at this time, TO MAKE AN END OF HIS WARRESWARS BY WAY OF PEACE OR ELSE BY FORCE. And that for Letters, words, nor …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties A56227

  • Printed
    … then raigned were alwayes kept in want and diſtreſſe, the people conſumed with CIVILL WARRESWARS; and by ſuch wicked Counſels as theſe, ſome of our Princes have been brought …
    With rule
    … then raigned were alwayes kept in want and diſtreſſe, the people conſumed with CIVILL WARRESWARS; and by ſuch wicked Counſels as theſe, ſome of our Princes have been brought …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties · p. 34 · Open in the reader

Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties 2 A91263

  • Printed
    … then raigned were alwayes kept in want and diſtreſſe, the people conſumed with CIVIL WARRESWARS: and by ſuch wicked Counſels as theſe, ſome of our Princes have been brought …
    With rule
    … then raigned were alwayes kept in want and diſtreſſe, the people conſumed with CIVIL WARRESWARS: and by ſuch wicked Counſels as theſe, ſome of our Princes have been brought …

    William Prynne · Vindication of Old Fundamental Liberties 2 · p. 34 · Open in the reader