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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7657 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

auoideavoid

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

Puritas changed it
1,722 times in 450 works
Consistency
100% (1,722 of 1,722)
Reach if approved
~1,809 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: avoid
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,722 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,722 changes in 450 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,722)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … vnto an earthly prince, no no… to a man of meane worſhip. But to auoideavoid this rudenes, and to come with due reuerence, yea euen with feare and trembling …
    With rule
    … vnto an earthly prince, no no… to a man of meane worſhip. But to auoideavoid this rudenes, and to come with due reuerence, yea euen with feare and trembling …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſtriue and endeauour according to that meaſure of grace that is giuen him to auoideavoid all ſinnes whatſoeuer, and to pleaſe God in all things, not to offend him …
    With rule
    … ſtriue and endeauour according to that meaſure of grace that is giuen him to auoideavoid all ſinnes whatſoeuer, and to pleaſe God in all things, not to offend him …

    William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 167 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … our Complaint one degree father. Behold, the more we seek outward pleasures and to auoideavoid the inward trouble of minde, the more we hast and runne into it; & suddainely …
    With rule
    … our Complaint one degree father. Behold, the more we seek outward pleasures and to auoideavoid the inward trouble of minde, the more we hast and runne into it; & suddainely …

    Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … archbishop of Canterbury, who whē he was commaunded to aunsweare to his misbehauiour, did auoideavoid it in appealinge to the Courte of Rome, both against the liking of al …
    With rule
    … archbishop of Canterbury, who whē he was commaunded to aunsweare to his misbehauiour, did auoideavoid it in appealinge to the Courte of Rome, both against the liking of al …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his ſtomacke became ſo weake, that Paul muſt admoniſh him as a father, to auoideavoid too much auſteritie, and ſuch beating of his bodie with abſtinence, leaſt hee become …
    With rule
    … his ſtomacke became ſo weake, that Paul muſt admoniſh him as a father, to auoideavoid too much auſteritie, and ſuch beating of his bodie with abſtinence, leaſt hee become …

    Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Well (said M. Featly) if you so easily auoideavoid Gratian, approoued by so many Popes, citing in this very place S. Augustine in …
    With rule
    Well (said M. Featly) if you so easily auoideavoid Gratian, approoued by so many Popes, citing in this very place S. Augustine in …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 296 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … but in al perplexities & most desperate cases wil open a way howe we shall auoideavoid them. For as he sendeth vs affliction and temptation with the one hand, so …
    With rule
    … but in al perplexities & most desperate cases wil open a way howe we shall auoideavoid them. For as he sendeth vs affliction and temptation with the one hand, so …

    William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … set free from further paine, can, by the acceptation of such vn…quall remedies, auoideavoid the scourge of iudgement prepared: except he him selfe voluntaryly receiue (as I woulde …
    With rule
    … set free from further paine, can, by the acceptation of such vn…quall remedies, auoideavoid the scourge of iudgement prepared: except he him selfe voluntaryly receiue (as I woulde …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 167 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.