Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7592 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

woordeswords

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

Puritas changed it: 2,638 times in 182 works
Consistency: 99.8% (2,638 of 2,641)
Reach if approved: ~2,775 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: words
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,641 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,638 changes in 182 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,638)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… seruice was impious, and auailed them nothing▪ And a litle af…er, vpon the woordeswords of God, vttered by the Prophet, saying. In many things they were with me …
With rule
… seruice was impious, and auailed them nothing▪ And a litle af…er, vpon the woordeswords of God, vttered by the Prophet, saying. In many things they were with me …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… priestes after they were ordeined did take wiues. The same is prooued by the woordeswords of the Epistle of Gerardus, which was afterward Archb. of Yorke, vnto Anselm Archb …
With rule
… priestes after they were ordeined did take wiues. The same is prooued by the woordeswords of the Epistle of Gerardus, which was afterward Archb. of Yorke, vnto Anselm Archb …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man wyl wey, ponder, nor consider the cause. Thys people wyl not heare my woordeswords, they talke in the wick… inuencion of their owne harts, they go after other …
With rule
… man wyl wey, ponder, nor consider the cause. Thys people wyl not heare my woordeswords, they talke in the wick… inuencion of their owne harts, they go after other …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… Idolatrye ye vse. If ye say God, How dare ye confesse hym in youre woordeswords and denye hym in youre deedes? Whye do ye not brynge foorth goddes corne …
With rule
… Idolatrye ye vse. If ye say God, How dare ye confesse hym in youre woordeswords and denye hym in youre deedes? Whye do ye not brynge foorth goddes corne …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
Antichriste teacheth in his dotyng and Deuilishe Decree, that after the woordeswords of consecration, This is my bodie, This is my blood: there remaineth no substaunce …
With rule
Antichriste teacheth in his dotyng and Deuilishe Decree, that after the woordeswords of consecration, This is my bodie, This is my blood: there remaineth no substaunce …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… that is miserable, poore, …ow brought, troubled in spirite, & …andeth in awe of my woordeswords.
With rule
… that is miserable, poore, …ow brought, troubled in spirite, & …andeth in awe of my woordeswords.
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this I proteſt before Ieſus Chriſt who ſhall iudge all euen according vnto their woordeswords, and in the preſence of al the world, that the onely ſtaffe & ſtay of …
With rule
… this I proteſt before Ieſus Chriſt who ſhall iudge all euen according vnto their woordeswords, and in the preſence of al the world, that the onely ſtaffe & ſtay of …
John Penry · Equity of a Humble Supplication · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… herſelfe againe, ſhe breaketh forth no doubt, by the ſpirite of God into the woordeswords of my text: Bleſſed be the Lord, thy God which loued thee &c.
With rule
… herſelfe againe, ſhe breaketh forth no doubt, by the ſpirite of God into the woordeswords of my text: Bleſſed be the Lord, thy God which loued thee &c.
John Prime · Sermon Comparing Solomon and Queen Elizabeth · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

Printed
… to goe, till it pleaſed God to open our mouthes, and to putte his WoordesWords therein, ſo that now (his name be praiſed) euen young children doe talke of …
With rule
… to goe, till it pleaſed God to open our mouthes, and to putte his WoordesWords therein, ſo that now (his name be praiſed) euen young children doe talke of …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue in them no peece nor parte neither of hym, nor yet of his WoordesWords or Workes, but are dead at the rootes.
With rule
… haue in them no peece nor parte neither of hym, nor yet of his WoordesWords or Workes, but are dead at the rootes.
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

The Lords Supper with Some other Determinations and Disputations A57277

Printed
… doo godlye and charitablye, which either by their Pen in Writing, or by their WoordesWords in Preaching, doo beare the ſimple people in hand, that thoſe which thus doo …
With rule
… doo godlye and charitablye, which either by their Pen in Writing, or by their WoordesWords in Preaching, doo beare the ſimple people in hand, that thoſe which thus doo …
Nicholas Ridley · The Lords Supper with Some other Determinations and Disputations · p. 5 · Open in the reader