Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7697 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wonnewon

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

Puritas changed it: 1,461 times in 624 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,461 of 1,464)
Reach if approved: ~1,538 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: won
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,464 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,461 changes in 624 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,461)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… which endeth thus: We are both, saith he, winners in this Game: you haue wonnewon mee, and I haue won the Truth Tu victor mei, & ego triumphator erroris: We …
With rule
… which endeth thus: We are both, saith he, winners in this Game: you haue wonnewon mee, and I haue won the Truth Tu victor mei, & ego triumphator erroris: We …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
… and desires hee to seeme better then he is? And how easily is man wonnewon, to answere his commenders speculation? Let him fetch the Lillie, purenesse of heart; which …
With rule
… and desires hee to seeme better then he is? And how easily is man wonnewon, to answere his commenders speculation? Let him fetch the Lillie, purenesse of heart; which …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to heare the doctrine, which before he dispysed, there is hope hée maye bée wonnewon to beléeue it, or if aster longe teaching he bée further vrged too confesse …
With rule
… to heare the doctrine, which before he dispysed, there is hope hée maye bée wonnewon to beléeue it, or if aster longe teaching he bée further vrged too confesse …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beloued of the father, are called to the inheritance of the heauenly kingdome, not wonnewon by works, but prepared by the heauenly father for hys children before they did …
With rule
… beloued of the father, are called to the inheritance of the heauenly kingdome, not wonnewon by works, but prepared by the heauenly father for hys children before they did …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… roofe of the house is set on; and then, the Goale of godlinesse is wonnewon. And though it may seeme, a wearisome thing, summer and winter; day and night …
With rule
… roofe of the house is set on; and then, the Goale of godlinesse is wonnewon. And though it may seeme, a wearisome thing, summer and winter; day and night …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ouerhande. In ther daylye occupyenge was moch falsehed vsed / and that was thought wel wonnewon good / that was gottē by deceyte. Uerye seldome in ther bargaynes ware promises perfourmed …
With rule
… ouerhande. In ther daylye occupyenge was moch falsehed vsed / and that was thought wel wonnewon good / that was gottē by deceyte. Uerye seldome in ther bargaynes ware promises perfourmed …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the learned Biſhops with all their skill and eloquence could not perſwade: the partie wonnewon, brake out into theſe words: Oh you learned men, as long as the matter …
With rule
… the learned Biſhops with all their skill and eloquence could not perſwade: the partie wonnewon, brake out into theſe words: Oh you learned men, as long as the matter …
Samuel Hieron · The Dignity of Preaching · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
At rifts thay are in wonnewon,
With rule
At rifts thay are in wonnewon,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 15 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John A63065

Printed
Be WonneWon by the converſation] i. e. Be prepared for converſion; as Auſtins father and himſelf …
With rule
Be WonneWon by the converſation] i. e. Be prepared for converſion; as Auſtins father and himſelf …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 440 · Open in the reader

The Watchmans Watchword A88600

Printed
… our laſt account, How many games we have played, or ſets we have wonnewon? WonneWon? There will appear but little winning then, I fear. He that in ſuch ſad …
With rule
… our laſt account, How many games we have played, or ſets we have wonnewon? WonneWon? There will appear but little winning then, I fear. He that in ſuch ſad …
Richard Love · The Watchmans Watchword · p. 19 · Open in the reader