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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7769 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wytnessewitness

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

Puritas changed it
206 times in 79 works
Consistency
100% (206 of 206)
Reach if approved
~216 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: witness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
206 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (206 changes in 79 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 206)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    This alſo is required, that wee haue a ſure wytneſſewitness voide of all errour, of that doctrine, which we will defende. Wherefore as I …
    With rule
    This alſo is required, that wee haue a ſure wytneſſewitness voide of all errour, of that doctrine, which we will defende. Wherefore as I …

    John Calvin · Two Godly and Learned Sermons · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    IN thys counsel were some wyse men (as all these writers wytnessewitness, though yt be sumwhat fayntly) which layed for their marryage the scripturs, and substancyallye …
    With rule
    IN thys counsel were some wyse men (as all these writers wytnessewitness, though yt be sumwhat fayntly) which layed for their marryage the scripturs, and substancyallye …

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … aduysedly. And sodenly as it were / the euerlastynge tē ple of the tabernacle of wytnessewitness was open in heauen.
    With rule
    … aduysedly. And sodenly as it were / the euerlastynge tē ple of the tabernacle of wytnessewitness was open in heauen.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Christ saythe: Niniue shall arise against y• Jewes at the last day and beare wytnessewitness agaynste them, because that they hearing Gods threatnyngs for sinne. Ad predicacionem Io…e …
    With rule
    … Christ saythe: Niniue shall arise against y• Jewes at the last day and beare wytnessewitness agaynste them, because that they hearing Gods threatnyngs for sinne. Ad predicacionem Io…e …

    Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Of trewe and falſe wytneſſewitness. Exod xx.c. xxiij.a. Numery. xxxv.e. Deuter. v.c. xvii.b. xix …
    With rule
    Of trewe and falſe wytneſſewitness. Exod xx.c. xxiij.a. Numery. xxxv.e. Deuter. v.c. xvii.b. xix …

    Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vs, as it were puttynge into our boſoms theſe great benefites: Paul bearynge thereta wytneſſewitness, ſayenge. The goſpell is the power of god to ſaluatyon to hym that doeth …
    With rule
    … vs, as it were puttynge into our boſoms theſe great benefites: Paul bearynge thereta wytneſſewitness, ſayenge. The goſpell is the power of god to ſaluatyon to hym that doeth …

    Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. xxv · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … any lawfull authoritie therin / who had not fyrſt off all in his owne conſcience wytneſſewitness off the calling off God thereunto / and after alſo off the churche apointing him …
    With rule
    … any lawfull authoritie therin / who had not fyrſt off all in his owne conſcience wytneſſewitness off the calling off God thereunto / and after alſo off the churche apointing him …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … And ſo confeſſours were called in the prymitiue churche, ſuche as man fully dyd wytneſſewitness theyr fayth, with the parell of theyr lyues: yf I ſaye they hadde taken …
    With rule
    … And ſo confeſſours were called in the prymitiue churche, ſuche as man fully dyd wytneſſewitness theyr fayth, with the parell of theyr lyues: yf I ſaye they hadde taken …

    John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.