Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7560 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

couetousnessecovetousness

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

Puritas changed it: 3,012 times in 526 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,012 of 3,013)
Reach if approved: ~3,167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: covetousness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,014 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,012 changes in 526 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,012)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vncleannesse, whether he be not a yong-man & vnmaried: if he be humbled with couetousnessecovetousness, whether he be not old, because diuers countries, callings, ages, conditions and estates of …
With rule
… vncleannesse, whether he be not a yong-man & vnmaried: if he be humbled with couetousnessecovetousness, whether he be not old, because diuers countries, callings, ages, conditions and estates of …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
Thirdly, from the like preſident, Heb. 13.5, 6. Let your conuerſation be without couetouſneſſecovetousness, and be content with thoſe things that yee haue: for hee hath ſaid, I …
With rule
Thirdly, from the like preſident, Heb. 13.5, 6. Let your conuerſation be without couetouſneſſecovetousness, and be content with thoſe things that yee haue: for hee hath ſaid, I …
Robert Harris · Two Sermons 2 · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… commodities of this life, & in the ſame ſence is called oftentimes in the ſcriptures couetouſneſſecovetousness. This is called idolatrie, the roote of all euill, which ſhould not be ſo …
With rule
… commodities of this life, & in the ſame ſence is called oftentimes in the ſcriptures couetouſneſſecovetousness. This is called idolatrie, the roote of all euill, which ſhould not be ſo …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… the whole body, that all the flesh appeares moyst and spungy. Our spirituall Dropsie couetousnessecovetousness, is a disease bred in the soule, through defect of faith and vnderstanding. It …
With rule
… the whole body, that all the flesh appeares moyst and spungy. Our spirituall Dropsie couetousnessecovetousness, is a disease bred in the soule, through defect of faith and vnderstanding. It …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… English tongue, & as conuenient for the truth of the thing it is to say, couetousnessecovetousness is the worshipping of images, and the couetous man is a worshipper of images …
With rule
… English tongue, & as conuenient for the truth of the thing it is to say, couetousnessecovetousness is the worshipping of images, and the couetous man is a worshipper of images …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wedge of gold, and make it their god by cleaning thereto through vnſatiable couetouſneſſecovetousness; cruell oppreſſors of the poore, that grind the faces of the needle, denying reliefe …
With rule
… the wedge of gold, and make it their god by cleaning thereto through vnſatiable couetouſneſſecovetousness; cruell oppreſſors of the poore, that grind the faces of the needle, denying reliefe …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he cannot be caſt forth, and ſinne ſtill remaine in force. If pride, enuie, couetouſneſſecovetousness, hatred, malice, ſelfe-loue, fornication, or any other ſuch ſinne doe raigne and rule …
With rule
… he cannot be caſt forth, and ſinne ſtill remaine in force. If pride, enuie, couetouſneſſecovetousness, hatred, malice, ſelfe-loue, fornication, or any other ſuch ſinne doe raigne and rule …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them; for with their mouthes they make ieaſts, and their hearts goeth after their couetouſneſſecovetousness. And loe, thou art to them as a ieaſting ſong of one that hath …
With rule
… them; for with their mouthes they make ieaſts, and their hearts goeth after their couetouſneſſecovetousness. And loe, thou art to them as a ieaſting ſong of one that hath …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Ten Sermons for the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper A20536

Printed
1 COuetouſneſſeCovetousness, and all deſire of our neighbours goods, albeit through feare or ſhame wee cannot …
With rule
1 COuetouſneſſeCovetousness, and all deſire of our neighbours goods, albeit through feare or ſhame wee cannot …
John Dod · Ten Sermons for the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · p. 8 · Open in the reader