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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7522 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thynkethink

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

Puritas changed it
1,562 times in 186 works
Consistency
98.2% (1,562 of 1,590)
Reach if approved
~1,671 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: think
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,590 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,562 changes in 186 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,562)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Christians. O Lorde be mercifull to vs, I am sure he wyll scasely thynkethink them worthy to take the breathe of the ayer.
    With rule
    … the Christians. O Lorde be mercifull to vs, I am sure he wyll scasely thynkethink them worthy to take the breathe of the ayer.

    Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … her home agayne as good a mayde as he left her. Is not thys (thynkethink you) a stronge argument to proue that all prestes maye lyue chast? This telleth …
    With rule
    … her home agayne as good a mayde as he left her. Is not thys (thynkethink you) a stronge argument to proue that all prestes maye lyue chast? This telleth …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    As I spake I thought, & styll thynkethink by saynt Iohan
    With rule
    As I spake I thought, & styll thynkethink by saynt Iohan

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as ys a fore ſpoken. Butt tell me thys. Vvhat godlye wyſe manne can thynkethink that churche holye or good, whych ſeeth not in ſo manye years a traytoure …
    With rule
    … as ys a fore ſpoken. Butt tell me thys. Vvhat godlye wyſe manne can thynkethink that churche holye or good, whych ſeeth not in ſo manye years a traytoure …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … more wyues then one, we maye not therefore attempte to walke inordinatly and to thynkethink that we may take also many wyues.
    With rule
    … more wyues then one, we maye not therefore attempte to walke inordinatly and to thynkethink that we may take also many wyues.

    Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    I thynkethink it is nocht neceſſare,
    With rule
    I thynkethink it is nocht neceſſare,

    David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … dyd not ſpare to tempte Chriſte himſelfe both god and the ſonne of god, thynkethink not thy ſelfe ſo ſuer nor ſo well defenſed, that he wyll be affrayd …
    With rule
    … dyd not ſpare to tempte Chriſte himſelfe both god and the ſonne of god, thynkethink not thy ſelfe ſo ſuer nor ſo well defenſed, that he wyll be affrayd …

    Martin Luther · Sermon on Matthew 18 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ter. They call Christ theyr sauiour, yet walke they nothynge worthye his kyndenes. They thynkethink thē selues the sonnes of lyghte, but they exercise the workes of darknes. Oh …
    With rule
    … ter. They call Christ theyr sauiour, yet walke they nothynge worthye his kyndenes. They thynkethink thē selues the sonnes of lyghte, but they exercise the workes of darknes. Oh …

    Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (28)

24 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.

Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan A02658

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    ThynkeThink not me to faſt, bycauſe I wolde yow to faſt,
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    ThynkeThink not me to faſt, bycauſe I wolde yow to faſt,

    John Bale · Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan · Open in the reader

Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country A02788

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    ThynkeThink not that …ne be so blynde in this age / but they perseyue your craftye …
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    ThynkeThink not that …ne be so blynde in this age / but they perseyue your craftye …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

  • Printed
    … hole to Rone to, yf daunger happen to them of ther dedes here after. ThynkeThink yow that my lorde of London wyll be founde fawtye in thys acte, in …
    With rule
    … hole to Rone to, yf daunger happen to them of ther dedes here after. ThynkeThink yow that my lorde of London wyll be founde fawtye in thys acte, in …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 25 · Open in the reader

The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty A05142

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    ThynkeThink not because he was slayne in battell, that God was displeased wyth him. For …
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    ThynkeThink not because he was slayne in battell, that God was displeased wyth him. For …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

A Most Faithful Sermon A05156

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    … that he sought, yet was he strykē with the lepre, and so openlye shamed. ThynkeThink on this ye that are brybers when ye goo secreatelye aboute suche thynges, haue …
    With rule
    … that he sought, yet was he strykē with the lepre, and so openlye shamed. ThynkeThink on this ye that are brybers when ye goo secreatelye aboute suche thynges, haue …

    Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader

Admonition to the Germans A06507

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    … paraduenture policies, fetches & diuises in your heades, but take hede least they deceyue you. ThynkeThink not ye god is boūd to your policies & drifts. I neuer sawe, nor heard …
    With rule
    … paraduenture policies, fetches & diuises in your heades, but take hede least they deceyue you. ThynkeThink not ye god is boūd to your policies & drifts. I neuer sawe, nor heard …

    Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader

The New Policy of War A06920

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    I ThynkeThink ther is no man so farre estrasiged from ciuile humanite, whiche knowethe not, howe …
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    I ThynkeThink ther is no man so farre estrasiged from ciuile humanite, whiche knowethe not, howe …

    Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    I ThynkeThink ther is no man, that hath ye Christen fayth dwellyng in his harte, and …
    With rule
    I ThynkeThink ther is no man, that hath ye Christen fayth dwellyng in his harte, and …

    Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

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    … as God gaue them, to be content with thy state, & to desyre no more. ThynkeThink for a suertie that it is thy duetie to beautifie & order that person that …
    With rule
    … as God gaue them, to be content with thy state, & to desyre no more. ThynkeThink for a suertie that it is thy duetie to beautifie & order that person that …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … by the deuyll. Thereof dothe Christ prophecie long before in the tenth of Mathew: ThynkeThink not that I came to send peace into the earth, I came not to …
    With rule
    … by the deuyll. Thereof dothe Christ prophecie long before in the tenth of Mathew: ThynkeThink not that I came to send peace into the earth, I came not to …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … was before. But I pray thee is absolution and Baptisme therefore of no strength? ThynkeThink not so, but hyghly esteme them, for that they are belongyng to the administration …
    With rule
    … was before. But I pray thee is absolution and Baptisme therefore of no strength? ThynkeThink not so, but hyghly esteme them, for that they are belongyng to the administration …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … are vnfaythfull, because they would not embrace the truthe, that they myght be saued. ThynkeThink thou those to be the true signes and miracles, wherwith Christe & the Apostles through …
    With rule
    … are vnfaythfull, because they would not embrace the truthe, that they myght be saued. ThynkeThink thou those to be the true signes and miracles, wherwith Christe & the Apostles through …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Suppose, that the longe sufferyng of the Lord is saluation. That is to say: ThynkeThink it to be your saluation, and that it is done for youre sake, that …
    With rule
    … Suppose, that the longe sufferyng of the Lord is saluation. That is to say: ThynkeThink it to be your saluation, and that it is done for youre sake, that …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 85 · Open in the reader

An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross A16576

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    … been out of the way, and his diſciples, to folow hym and beeleue hym. ThynkeThink you, y• whiles he lay in hys graue, men dyd not poynt wyth theyr …
    With rule
    … been out of the way, and his diſciples, to folow hym and beeleue hym. ThynkeThink you, y• whiles he lay in hys graue, men dyd not poynt wyth theyr …

    John Bradford · An Exhortation to the Carrying of Christs Cross · p. 25 · Open in the reader

The Hurt of Hearing Mass A16588

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    … he cannot but with Samuel thinking, Eliab had bene he whom god had choſen, ThynkeThink this to be the catholike church and ſpouſe of chriſt. But this ſē tence …
    With rule
    … he cannot but with Samuel thinking, Eliab had bene he whom god had choſen, ThynkeThink this to be the catholike church and ſpouſe of chriſt. But this ſē tence …

    John Bradford · The Hurt of Hearing Mass · Open in the reader

What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do A17688

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    … euery mā in his houſe and that god be there not with ſtādyng diſhonoured? ThynkeThink we that a houſholde deſerueth to proſper in whiche god is not ye ſoueraigne …
    With rule
    … euery mā in his houſe and that god be there not with ſtādyng diſhonoured? ThynkeThink we that a houſholde deſerueth to proſper in whiche god is not ye ſoueraigne …

    John Calvin · What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do · Open in the reader

A Confutation of Standishs Treatise A19466

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    … not forgeue us / whan he loued us firſt? Can he loue / and not forgeue? ThynkeThink ye god to be of the nature of thoſe / which forgeue and loue not …
    With rule
    … not forgeue us / whan he loued us firſt? Can he loue / and not forgeue? ThynkeThink ye god to be of the nature of thoſe / which forgeue and loue not …

    Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader

Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper A19571

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    ThynkeThink that the bloud of saluacion floweth out of the pure and godly syde of …
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    ThynkeThink that the bloud of saluacion floweth out of the pure and godly syde of …

    Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · p. 36 · Open in the reader

Pleasure and Pain Heaven and Hell A19667

  • Printed
    ThynkeThink you the heade
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    ThynkeThink you the heade

    Robert Crowley · Pleasure and Pain Heaven and Hell · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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    … cruell deuils, going about wt false delusions, vtterly to destroy you both bodies & soules? ThynkeThink you to be more sure then vnder your captaine Christ? Doe you promise your …
    With rule
    … cruell deuils, going about wt false delusions, vtterly to destroy you both bodies & soules? ThynkeThink you to be more sure then vnder your captaine Christ? Doe you promise your …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1705 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and lusty: the other is starke of his limmes, and almoste dead for feeblenes. ThynkeThink you that to runne through this man with a speare is not a goodly …
    With rule
    … and lusty: the other is starke of his limmes, and almoste dead for feeblenes. ThynkeThink you that to runne through this man with a speare is not a goodly …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1763 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Marys Magnificat A68425

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    … we beynge come to anguyſhe and lowlyneſſe, God maye entre in to hys workes. ThynkeThink ye by your ſelues, yf he ſhuld fyl you, before ye were hōgry or …
    With rule
    … we beynge come to anguyſhe and lowlyneſſe, God maye entre in to hys workes. ThynkeThink ye by your ſelues, yf he ſhuld fyl you, before ye were hōgry or …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Marys Magnificat · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

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    … and excellent Patriarch Abraham, whō no maner of workes coulde iuſtifye, but fayth onely. ThynkeThink you yt S. Paule doth ſpeake here of the workes of the ould lawe …
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    … and excellent Patriarch Abraham, whō no maner of workes coulde iuſtifye, but fayth onely. ThynkeThink you yt S. Paule doth ſpeake here of the workes of the ould lawe …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 229 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

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    … iudgemente is gyuen, whiche ſerueth to maynteyne our cace, and he is our aduocate. ThynkeThink wee not that hee will make the bitter death auaylable which he indured for …
    With rule
    … iudgemente is gyuen, whiche ſerueth to maynteyne our cace, and he is our aduocate. ThynkeThink wee not that hee will make the bitter death auaylable which he indured for …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 331 · Open in the reader