Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7755 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abstayneabstain

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

Puritas changed it: 242 times in 98 works
Consistency: 97.5% (242 of 248)
Reach if approved: ~261 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: abstain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 248 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (242 changes in 98 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 242)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… thoſe preceptes of not reuenging, and recompencing euill: namely, if we doe not onely abſtayneabstain from doing iniurie, but alſo doe good vnto thoſe do hurt vs. For that …
With rule
… thoſe preceptes of not reuenging, and recompencing euill: namely, if we doe not onely abſtayneabstain from doing iniurie, but alſo doe good vnto thoſe do hurt vs. For that …
John Calvin · Commentary on Romans · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cum exciperetur honestate nuptiarum et cet. Uolo igitur iuniores nubere. If they can not abstayneabstain, lete them marry, for I had muche rather that they marryed, than brent. Thys …
With rule
… cum exciperetur honestate nuptiarum et cet. Uolo igitur iuniores nubere. If they can not abstayneabstain, lete them marry, for I had muche rather that they marryed, than brent. Thys …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. lxxxv · Open in the reader
Printed
The ſecond obſervation is, that they abſtayneabstain from ſpoyle, till …hey haue fully ſecured themſelues, from any further reattempt of the …
With rule
The ſecond obſervation is, that they abſtayneabstain from ſpoyle, till …hey haue fully ſecured themſelues, from any further reattempt of the …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
And to abstayneabstain from workes deuylyshe
With rule
And to abstayneabstain from workes deuylyshe
Thomas Becon · A New Dialogue Between the Angel of God and the Shepherds in the Field · Open in the reader
Printed
… not likely that we ſhould eate the bloud of infantes, whoſe cuſtome is, to abſtayneabstain from the very bloud of beaſtes. Spiridion doubted not to breake the order of …
With rule
… not likely that we ſhould eate the bloud of infantes, whoſe cuſtome is, to abſtayneabstain from the very bloud of beaſtes. Spiridion doubted not to breake the order of …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Deerely beloued, ſaith the Apoſtle Saint Peter, I beſeech you as ſtrangers and pilgrimes, abſtayneabstain from fleſhly lustes, which fight against the ſoule. Let vs diligently note that hee …
With rule
… Deerely beloued, ſaith the Apoſtle Saint Peter, I beſeech you as ſtrangers and pilgrimes, abſtayneabstain from fleſhly lustes, which fight against the ſoule. Let vs diligently note that hee …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 511 · Open in the reader
Printed
… patrymony among them selues / then sprange the orders of monkes: Whose professyon was to abstayneabstain frō flesh all theyr liues, to were vyle raymēt, to eate but once in …
With rule
… patrymony among them selues / then sprange the orders of monkes: Whose professyon was to abstayneabstain frō flesh all theyr liues, to were vyle raymēt, to eate but once in …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader
Printed
… commone lyfe. Yet ſhall it be the parte of a chriſtian man vtterly to abſtayneabstain from weapons as moche as maye be laufull by the ſtate and tranquillyté of …
With rule
… commone lyfe. Yet ſhall it be the parte of a chriſtian man vtterly to abſtayneabstain from weapons as moche as maye be laufull by the ſtate and tranquillyté of …
Ulrich Zwingli · Certain Precepts of the Instruction of Youth · 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.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

Printed
… of both, very luſt to be mortified: elſe thus conceiue particulars. Firſt, the duetie, AbſtayneAbstain from fornication. Secondly, the meanes; Know to poſſeſſe your veſſell, &c. Thirdly, Reaſon. Ʋerſ. 15.
With rule
… of both, very luſt to be mortified: elſe thus conceiue particulars. Firſt, the duetie, AbſtayneAbstain from fornication. Secondly, the meanes; Know to poſſeſſe your veſſell, &c. Thirdly, Reaſon. Ʋerſ. 15.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
Firſt, As if the Apoſtle had ſaid in vaine, AbſtayneAbstain from all appearance of euill. Secondly, And may not things lawfull, by neglect of …
With rule
Firſt, As if the Apoſtle had ſaid in vaine, AbſtayneAbstain from all appearance of euill. Secondly, And may not things lawfull, by neglect of …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 554 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

Printed
… Playes and Comedies, &c. for all which, the Rule of the Apoſtle is generall, AbſtayneAbstain from euery euill ſhew.
With rule
… Playes and Comedies, &c. for all which, the Rule of the Apoſtle is generall, AbſtayneAbstain from euery euill ſhew.
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 203 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

Printed
The ſecond Scripture is this. AbſtayneAbstain for a tyme that ye may the better geue attendaunce to prayer. On this …
With rule
The ſecond Scripture is this. AbſtayneAbstain for a tyme that ye may the better geue attendaunce to prayer. On this …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 333 · Open in the reader
Printed
… text forbydde mariage, by the reaſon of prayer. For howe could hée ſaye then, AbſtayneAbstain for a tyme? Ʋnmaryed men muſt abſtayneabstain alwayes, and not for a tyme onely …
With rule
… text forbydde mariage, by the reaſon of prayer. For howe could hée ſaye then, AbſtayneAbstain for a tyme? Ʋnmaryed men muſt abſtayneabstain alwayes, and not for a tyme onely …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 333 · Open in the reader