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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7776 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

doggedog

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

Puritas changed it
1,622 times in 663 works
Consistency
100% (1,622 of 1,622)
Reach if approved
~1,704 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: dog
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,622 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,622 changes in 663 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,622)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … worse seruant, nor the Diuell a better factor, than such a one: an Aesops doggedog, that because he can eat no hay himselfe, lies in the manger and will …
    With rule
    … worse seruant, nor the Diuell a better factor, than such a one: an Aesops doggedog, that because he can eat no hay himselfe, lies in the manger and will …

    Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 9 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … may say of him, this man hath a strong wit, as wee say, that doggedog hath good teeth.
    With rule
    … may say of him, this man hath a strong wit, as wee say, that doggedog hath good teeth.

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … in mens power to perfourme. For what if a man vowed to sacrifice a doggedog? What say wee to Iepthes rash vowe? To the vowe of them that vowed …
    With rule
    … in mens power to perfourme. For what if a man vowed to sacrifice a doggedog? What say wee to Iepthes rash vowe? To the vowe of them that vowed …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … bitter than death . As rottennesse in her husbands bones , As spittle , yea As a DoggeDog , and at last she shall be cast into hell fire, Salua Ventâ, without pardon …
    With rule
    … bitter than death . As rottennesse in her husbands bones , As spittle , yea As a DoggeDog , and at last she shall be cast into hell fire, Salua Ventâ, without pardon …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … yea, ſo farre, that the ſcripture doeth liken him to a ſwine or a doggedog: yet if as they ſay, hee haue God in his minde, and can ſay …
    With rule
    … yea, ſo farre, that the ſcripture doeth liken him to a ſwine or a doggedog: yet if as they ſay, hee haue God in his minde, and can ſay …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons Upon the Seven Chief Virtues · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Fox, he's too crafty: nor on the Elephant, he's too mighty: nor on a doggedog, he's too equall: but on the silly Lambe, that can neither run to scape …
    With rule
    … Fox, he's too crafty: nor on the Elephant, he's too mighty: nor on a doggedog, he's too equall: but on the silly Lambe, that can neither run to scape …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to fawne vpon a man, but yet in the end it will (with Caines doggedog) plucke out the very throats of our ſoules.
    With rule
    … to fawne vpon a man, but yet in the end it will (with Caines doggedog) plucke out the very throats of our ſoules.

    Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … quiet, they will scatter and disperse themselves over a whole field, but turne a doggedog in among them but a while, and there they will gather on a knot …
    With rule
    … quiet, they will scatter and disperse themselves over a whole field, but turne a doggedog in among them but a while, and there they will gather on a knot …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 103 · 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.