Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7564 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

couetousnescovetousness

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

Puritas changed it: 1,589 times in 413 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,589 of 1,590)
Reach if approved: ~1,671 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: covetousness
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 (1,589 changes in 413 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,589)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Zani's, whelpes, vnderling Theeues ending their dayes at the Gallowes. I can shew you CouetousnesCovetousness sweating for gaine, crowching, ramping, playing Ape, Lion, or Deuill, for Money: I can …
With rule
… Zani's, whelpes, vnderling Theeues ending their dayes at the Gallowes. I can shew you CouetousnesCovetousness sweating for gaine, crowching, ramping, playing Ape, Lion, or Deuill, for Money: I can …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyth your ſacrifice for the quycke & the dead, making it a cloke for your couetouſnescovetousness and a buckler for the pompe and rigorous authoritie, you chalendge ouer my litle …
With rule
… wyth your ſacrifice for the quycke & the dead, making it a cloke for your couetouſnescovetousness and a buckler for the pompe and rigorous authoritie, you chalendge ouer my litle …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… to hardnesse of hart, hardnes of hart to headlong destruction: Balaam sinned thorough greedie couetousnescovetousness, and perished among the vncircumcised: the sonnes of Heli sinned, & fell before their enemies …
With rule
… to hardnesse of hart, hardnes of hart to headlong destruction: Balaam sinned thorough greedie couetousnescovetousness, and perished among the vncircumcised: the sonnes of Heli sinned, & fell before their enemies …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
… his crosse. They shall mortyfie theyr fl…shly members, sleyng al fornicatiō, filthynes, …dolatry, couetousnescovetousness, pride anger, and malice.
With rule
… his crosse. They shall mortyfie theyr fl…shly members, sleyng al fornicatiō, filthynes, …dolatry, couetousnescovetousness, pride anger, and malice.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
They that do not so, or doe otherwaies, couet an euil couetousnescovetousness to their house. And a man were as good put a coale of fire …
With rule
They that do not so, or doe otherwaies, couet an euil couetousnescovetousness to their house. And a man were as good put a coale of fire …
Robert Horne · Points of Instruction for the Ignorant · Open in the reader
Printed
2 Good Magiſtrates for peace and warre, theſe muſt 1 feare God, 2 hate couetouſnescovetousness, 3 be diligent, 4 reſpect no perſons, 5 ſeeke the glory of God, the good of the …
With rule
2 Good Magiſtrates for peace and warre, theſe muſt 1 feare God, 2 hate couetouſnescovetousness, 3 be diligent, 4 reſpect no perſons, 5 ſeeke the glory of God, the good of the …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… the olde man are mentioned. Col. 3. verſ. 5. fornication, vncleanneſſe, inordinate affection, euill concupiſcence, and couetouſnescovetousness.
With rule
… the olde man are mentioned. Col. 3. verſ. 5. fornication, vncleanneſſe, inordinate affection, euill concupiſcence, and couetouſnescovetousness.
John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their dayly labours. Whiche they doe hyde, and conceale, least the gready Princes, for couetousnescovetousness of the metall, should ouerturne and destroye their lande. The golde mynes, are contrarywyse …
With rule
… their dayly labours. Whiche they doe hyde, and conceale, least the gready Princes, for couetousnescovetousness of the metall, should ouerturne and destroye their lande. The golde mynes, are contrarywyse …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 66 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.