Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7695 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyueslives

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

Puritas changed it: 494 times in 178 works
Consistency: 98.8% (494 of 500)
Reach if approved: ~525 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lives
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 500 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (494 changes in 178 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 494)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… raine. Shortly after followed the warre of Carthage agaynst the Romanes, which cost the lyueslives of many thousandes. Orosius li. 4. Cap. 5.
With rule
… raine. Shortly after followed the warre of Carthage agaynst the Romanes, which cost the lyueslives of many thousandes. Orosius li. 4. Cap. 5.
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader
Printed
Christ pardoneth all our iniquities, and healeth all our dyseases, he delyuereth our lyueslives from destruction, and crowneth vs in iuercye and louynge kindnes.
With rule
Christ pardoneth all our iniquities, and healeth all our dyseases, he delyuereth our lyueslives from destruction, and crowneth vs in iuercye and louynge kindnes.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… themſelues. Neither doo they onely openly ſwarme abroade, but primly lay ſnares for the lyueslives of godly Princes. Is it not to bee ſuppoſed, that theſe will admit moderate …
With rule
… themſelues. Neither doo they onely openly ſwarme abroade, but primly lay ſnares for the lyueslives of godly Princes. Is it not to bee ſuppoſed, that theſe will admit moderate …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · Open in the reader
Printed
… riches, honors, fame and dignitie to liue in earthly pleaſures? Woulde they aduenture their lyueslives ſo boldly, if they ſhould not bee honoured & prayſed of men for the ſame …
With rule
… riches, honors, fame and dignitie to liue in earthly pleaſures? Woulde they aduenture their lyueslives ſo boldly, if they ſhould not bee honoured & prayſed of men for the ſame …
George Gifford · Treatise of True Fortitude · Open in the reader
Printed
And occupyco their lādes, to the detrymēt of their lyueslives.
With rule
And occupyco their lādes, to the detrymēt of their lyueslives.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
Though I drowne the worlde, yet wyll I saue the lyueslives,
With rule
Though I drowne the worlde, yet wyll I saue the lyueslives,
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… daungerous age? Onely lee vs sticke to his truth and studye to conforme our lyueslives to the same, and he shall multiply his knowledge and increase his people, but …
With rule
… daungerous age? Onely lee vs sticke to his truth and studye to conforme our lyueslives to the same, and he shall multiply his knowledge and increase his people, but …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
Vpon the ſee doith loſe thare lyueslives
With rule
Vpon the ſee doith loſe thare lyueslives
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

5 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.

Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame A02358

Printed
… their Paynes after them, by totall Deletion, whome they could not deterre in their LyuesLives, from faythfull Relation: or else so vvoefullie and vvickedlie vitiating their Workes, that Corruption …
With rule
… their Paynes after them, by totall Deletion, whome they could not deterre in their LyuesLives, from faythfull Relation: or else so vvoefullie and vvickedlie vitiating their Workes, that Corruption …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 265 · Open in the reader

The Acts of English Votaries A02573

Printed
… their abhomynable practyses and examples of fylthynesse, by their owne legendes, chronycles, and sayntes LyuesLives, that all men maye knowe what legerdemaynes they haue vsed, and what lecherouse lyueslives …
With rule
… their abhomynable practyses and examples of fylthynesse, by their owne legendes, chronycles, and sayntes LyuesLives, that all men maye knowe what legerdemaynes they haue vsed, and what lecherouse lyueslives …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and subduynge therunto all pryncelye Powers. Yow that are exercysed in Chronycles and Sayntes LyuesLives, marke for that age what ys written of Columbanus, Colomannus, Totimannus, Vuenefridus, Vuilibrordus, Vuilibaldus …
With rule
… and subduynge therunto all pryncelye Powers. Yow that are exercysed in Chronycles and Sayntes LyuesLives, marke for that age what ys written of Columbanus, Colomannus, Totimannus, Vuenefridus, Vuilibrordus, Vuilibaldus …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 45 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

Printed
… doe shewe any desire too ouerliue themselues, ne know how to liue, & therefore their LyuesLives doe vanish away with their bloud, and is extinguished with their bodies. If euer …
With rule
… doe shewe any desire too ouerliue themselues, ne know how to liue, & therefore their LyuesLives doe vanish away with their bloud, and is extinguished with their bodies. If euer …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 244 · Open in the reader

History of Three Renowned Reformers A08486

Printed
❧ A famous and godly hiſtory, contaynyng the LyuesLives & Actes of three renowmed reformers of the Chriſtiā Church, Martine Luther, Iohn Ecolampadius, and …
With rule
❧ A famous and godly hiſtory, contaynyng the LyuesLives & Actes of three renowmed reformers of the Chriſtiā Church, Martine Luther, Iohn Ecolampadius, and …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader