Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7775 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cuttecut

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

Puritas changed it: 399 times in 172 works
Consistency: 98.7% (399 of 404)
Reach if approved: ~424 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cut
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 404 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (399 changes in 172 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 399)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ull, should be slayne. &c. Achab streyghte waye was ashamed of his faulte, repēted, cuttecut his clothes, couered his flesshe with garmētes of heere, fasted slept in sacke cloth …
With rule
… ull, should be slayne. &c. Achab streyghte waye was ashamed of his faulte, repēted, cuttecut his clothes, couered his flesshe with garmētes of heere, fasted slept in sacke cloth …
Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader
Printed
… authority of the scriptures, that the Image of a man did hang there, I cuttecut it away, and gaue rather coūcell to the kepers of y^e same place, that …
With rule
… authority of the scriptures, that the Image of a man did hang there, I cuttecut it away, and gaue rather coūcell to the kepers of y^e same place, that …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I haue bene afflicted a thouſande and a thouſande ſortes, my courſe hath bene cuttecut in two, my dayes haue bene, as it were ſhortened: I haue bene conſtrayned …
With rule
… I haue bene afflicted a thouſande and a thouſande ſortes, my courſe hath bene cuttecut in two, my dayes haue bene, as it were ſhortened: I haue bene conſtrayned …
Theodore Beza · Meditations Upon Eight Psalms · Open in the reader
Printed
… Alexander the great: who, when he could not vndoo the knot of Gordius, did cuttecut it a sunder with his sword.
With rule
… Alexander the great: who, when he could not vndoo the knot of Gordius, did cuttecut it a sunder with his sword.
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 294 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Stratonis; Ioſeph. antiq. lib. 15. cap. 13. and lib. 16. cap. 9. The horrible ſinnes of the Iewes cuttecut them off ſhortly after from being the Church of God, and therefore no more …
With rule
… Stratonis; Ioſeph. antiq. lib. 15. cap. 13. and lib. 16. cap. 9. The horrible ſinnes of the Iewes cuttecut them off ſhortly after from being the Church of God, and therefore no more …
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if he be able to reſtore, hee will, leaſt hee ſhould be like a cuttecut-purſe, whiche ſhoulde craue pardon of the Iudge, and keepe faſt the purſe which …
With rule
… if he be able to reſtore, hee will, leaſt hee ſhould be like a cuttecut-purſe, whiche ſhoulde craue pardon of the Iudge, and keepe faſt the purſe which …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… his footestoole. He is y^e same …one after Daniell that without any handes was cuttecut out of the mounte, which breaketh the Iron, the copper, the earth, the siluer …
With rule
… his footestoole. He is y^e same …one after Daniell that without any handes was cuttecut out of the mounte, which breaketh the Iron, the copper, the earth, the siluer …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… heate of the Sunne, becometh more hard, and more hard, or as the branch cuttecut of the natural stock doth more & more wither, vntill that no kinde of sappe …
With rule
… heate of the Sunne, becometh more hard, and more hard, or as the branch cuttecut of the natural stock doth more & more wither, vntill that no kinde of sappe …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 368 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Twenty-Five Lectures Upon the Lords Last Sermon and Conference A11006

Printed
… member in this worlde, when it is ſundered from the reſt of the members: CutteCut off a member from the bodie, it doeth no good, but periſheth: Cut off …
With rule
… member in this worlde, when it is ſundered from the reſt of the members: CutteCut off a member from the bodie, it doeth no good, but periſheth: Cut off …
Robert Rollock · Twenty-Five Lectures Upon the Lords Last Sermon and Conference · p. 248 · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

Printed
… no diuision. Breake a braūche from the tree, the broken braunche can not spring. CutteCut of the streame from the spring hed, beyng cut of it dryeth vp. So …
With rule
… no diuision. Breake a braūche from the tree, the broken braunche can not spring. CutteCut of the streame from the spring hed, beyng cut of it dryeth vp. So …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader