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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7733 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wholiewholly

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

Puritas changed it
494 times in 129 works
Consistency
99.8% (494 of 495)
Reach if approved
~520 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wholly
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
495 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 129 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 494)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … yet my hope is, that the wisdome of euery true English heart, will either wholiewholly cleere me, or else censure my fault veniall and pardonable; seeing the iust defence …
    With rule
    … yet my hope is, that the wisdome of euery true English heart, will either wholiewholly cleere me, or else censure my fault veniall and pardonable; seeing the iust defence …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … parte of the spoile with all the ordinance and goods of the citizens which wholiewholly apparteined to the commō welthe of the Empire, therefore that it was reason, the …
    With rule
    … parte of the spoile with all the ordinance and goods of the citizens which wholiewholly apparteined to the commō welthe of the Empire, therefore that it was reason, the …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 440 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … bodie, & that realie trulie and wholy, & yet the ſcripture teacheth he is truly, really & wholiewholly at the right hand of his father in heauen, let wiſe & learned men conſider …
    With rule
    … bodie, & that realie trulie and wholy, & yet the ſcripture teacheth he is truly, really & wholiewholly at the right hand of his father in heauen, let wiſe & learned men conſider …

    Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 152 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … but the children of God haue but one rock and refuge, to which they wholiewholly betake themſelues, according vnto the ſtile which Dauid cuſtomarily vſeth in his Pſalmes, and …
    With rule
    … but the children of God haue but one rock and refuge, to which they wholiewholly betake themſelues, according vnto the ſtile which Dauid cuſtomarily vſeth in his Pſalmes, and …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 281 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Secondly, the third petition is wholiewholly wanting.
    With rule
    Secondly, the third petition is wholiewholly wanting.

    John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our good works, crowneth his owne giftes. Man must therfore ascribe all his saluation wholiewholly to God, and no part thereof to himselfe. And in another place he saith …
    With rule
    … our good works, crowneth his owne giftes. Man must therfore ascribe all his saluation wholiewholly to God, and no part thereof to himselfe. And in another place he saith …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 339 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … teſtament, and theſe bookes of the newe, that they were reiected by the Church wholiewholly, theſe not ſo, is fullie prooued: whereupon it followeth that the Church of England …
    With rule
    … teſtament, and theſe bookes of the newe, that they were reiected by the Church wholiewholly, theſe not ſo, is fullie prooued: whereupon it followeth that the Church of England …

    William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of the ſpirit of ſanctification, when he ſaith, they can not ſinne? Can they wholiewholly looſe their faith and all the ſanctifying grace, and yet can they not ſin …
    With rule
    … of the ſpirit of ſanctification, when he ſaith, they can not ſinne? Can they wholiewholly looſe their faith and all the ſanctifying grace, and yet can they not ſin …

    George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 93 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Two Sermons and The Lords Supper A10233

  • Printed
    A WholieWholly and altogither from the working of the Holie ghuſt, and not from the ſignes …
    With rule
    A WholieWholly and altogither from the working of the Holie ghuſt, and not from the ſignes …

    Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 133 · Open in the reader