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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7766 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prouerbeproverb

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

Puritas changed it
1,468 times in 455 works
Consistency
100% (1,468 of 1,468)
Reach if approved
~1,542 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: proverb
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,468 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,468 changes in 455 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,468)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … but in that which the heart doth conceyue. For if according too the olde prouerbeproverb, the wolfe will not deuoure wolues fleshe, nor the dogge dogges fleshe, is there …
    With rule
    … but in that which the heart doth conceyue. For if according too the olde prouerbeproverb, the wolfe will not deuoure wolues fleshe, nor the dogge dogges fleshe, is there …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … men: a principle in Philosophy, Quae rectè data sunt, eripi non licet: and a prouerbeproverb among our children, To giue a thing, and take a thing, is fit for …
    With rule
    … men: a principle in Philosophy, Quae rectè data sunt, eripi non licet: and a prouerbeproverb among our children, To giue a thing, and take a thing, is fit for …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … maie be perceiued ſomewhat if yours, for that you are ſo buſie with the prouerbeproverb, Malum bene cō ditū ne moueas, an olde errour. As for luther (though he …
    With rule
    … maie be perceiued ſomewhat if yours, for that you are ſo buſie with the prouerbeproverb, Malum bene cō ditū ne moueas, an olde errour. As for luther (though he …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxlii · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … good bookes with them, nor all good, that haue no bookes. It is a ProuerbeProverb among you, hee that doth as the Preacher would haue him doe, ſhall die …
    With rule
    … good bookes with them, nor all good, that haue no bookes. It is a ProuerbeProverb among you, hee that doth as the Preacher would haue him doe, ſhall die …

    Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sementem feceris, ita & metes: As you sow, so you shall reape, saith the old ProuerbeProverb: Iustified by Saint Pauls instance, Galatians the sixth, and the eighth: He that soweth …
    With rule
    … sementem feceris, ita & metes: As you sow, so you shall reape, saith the old ProuerbeProverb: Iustified by Saint Pauls instance, Galatians the sixth, and the eighth: He that soweth …

    Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … rather that he proceadeth from the horses, to the Asses (as is in the ProuerbeProverb) then from the Asses to the Oxen.
    With rule
    … rather that he proceadeth from the horses, to the Asses (as is in the ProuerbeProverb) then from the Asses to the Oxen.

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of mettles will doe no good at all. And although according to the common ProuerbeProverb, A ſoft fire will make ſweet Malt, yet muſt it be a hot fire …
    With rule
    … of mettles will doe no good at all. And although according to the common ProuerbeProverb, A ſoft fire will make ſweet Malt, yet muſt it be a hot fire …

    William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … like gentle Spaniels, and … most cruelly you bite her, (tanquam canes clanculo …, as the prouerbeproverb is, like butchers cutres. you prayse her clemencie and mercy, and yet you charge …
    With rule
    … like gentle Spaniels, and … most cruelly you bite her, (tanquam canes clanculo …, as the prouerbeproverb is, like butchers cutres. you prayse her clemencie and mercy, and yet you charge …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

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