Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7756 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

affayresaffairs

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

Puritas changed it: 481 times in 199 works
Consistency: 99.3% (481 of 484)
Reach if approved: ~509 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: affairs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 484 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (481 changes in 199 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 481)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… his admiſſion to your Congregation. This man wee thinke fit to truſt with our affayresaffairs. And therefore, we beſeechyour moſt reverend Father-hood that you would grant vs this …
With rule
… his admiſſion to your Congregation. This man wee thinke fit to truſt with our affayresaffairs. And therefore, we beſeechyour moſt reverend Father-hood that you would grant vs this …
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in abolishing the most shameful idolatries of Antichrist, besides his other actes for publyque affayresaffairs, & ye shal find at this day, no christen prynce lyke to hym.
With rule
… in abolishing the most shameful idolatries of Antichrist, besides his other actes for publyque affayresaffairs, & ye shal find at this day, no christen prynce lyke to hym.
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… note, that even hee alſo ſtrongly maintayneth this right of the people (in the affayresaffairs of their ſoules) many tymes in more free and large termes. As where he …
With rule
… note, that even hee alſo ſtrongly maintayneth this right of the people (in the affayresaffairs of their ſoules) many tymes in more free and large termes. As where he …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and appointed, who may conſult, and determine of all things neceſſary for forces and affayresaffairs, both concerning themſelves and the enemies; and eſpecially what will hurt the enemies and …
With rule
… and appointed, who may conſult, and determine of all things neceſſary for forces and affayresaffairs, both concerning themſelves and the enemies; and eſpecially what will hurt the enemies and …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all them that haue offended vs. As if he would ſay: As in mans affayresaffairs, he which is beneficial to an other, hath other alſo beneficiall vnto him againe …
With rule
… all them that haue offended vs. As if he would ſay: As in mans affayresaffairs, he which is beneficial to an other, hath other alſo beneficiall vnto him againe …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… encrease, and to aduaunce. Neyther shall I bee, in councell, in deede, or in affayresaffairs, wherein any sinister or preiudiciall thynges of persons, lawe, honoure, state and power shall …
With rule
… encrease, and to aduaunce. Neyther shall I bee, in councell, in deede, or in affayresaffairs, wherein any sinister or preiudiciall thynges of persons, lawe, honoure, state and power shall …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… that they would ſet ſuch wiſe order, in the dispoſing of all their worldly affayresaffairs, that they may haue conuenient leiſure and quiet time for the vſe of this …
With rule
… that they would ſet ſuch wiſe order, in the dispoſing of all their worldly affayresaffairs, that they may haue conuenient leiſure and quiet time for the vſe of this …
Josias Nichols · An Order of Household Instruction · Open in the reader
Printed
… places, who aſſemblyng at a certaine tyme and place, may determine of the Church-affayresaffairs, of their owne gouernment, accordyng to the preſcript lawes, firſt ſet downe in a …
With rule
… places, who aſſemblyng at a certaine tyme and place, may determine of the Church-affayresaffairs, of their owne gouernment, accordyng to the preſcript lawes, firſt ſet downe in a …
Theodore Beza · Concerning a Threefold Order of Bishops · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

New Shreds of the Old Snare A01581

Printed
THE COPPIES OF DIVERS LETTERS OF Late Intercourſe concerning Romiſh AffayresAffairs.
With rule
THE COPPIES OF DIVERS LETTERS OF Late Intercourſe concerning Romiſh AffayresAffairs.
John Gee · New Shreds of the Old Snare · p. 27 · Open in the reader