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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7778 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

grosegross

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

Puritas changed it
139 times in 84 works
Consistency
99.2% (139 of 140)
Reach if approved
~147 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
140 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (139 changes in 84 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 139)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … their countrey, nor affect their remoue vnto it. They cloy their ſtomacks with the groſegross dinners of this preſent world, and ſo haue no appetite to the Lambs dinner …
    With rule
    … their countrey, nor affect their remoue vnto it. They cloy their ſtomacks with the groſegross dinners of this preſent world, and ſo haue no appetite to the Lambs dinner …

    Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … thus as wee doo, for good cauſes before ſpecified, as you ſee reiect this groſegross ſenſe, ſo for the inſtruction of the ignoraunt, and ſtrengthening of the weake, we …
    With rule
    … thus as wee doo, for good cauſes before ſpecified, as you ſee reiect this groſegross ſenſe, ſo for the inſtruction of the ignoraunt, and ſtrengthening of the weake, we …

    Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 199 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … nor neuer to receaue anye other. But for that that my vnderſtandyng is verye groſegross, I would deſire thee to doo ſo…uch for me, as firſt to declare …
    With rule
    … nor neuer to receaue anye other. But for that that my vnderſtandyng is verye groſegross, I would deſire thee to doo ſo…uch for me, as firſt to declare …

    Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Externall innocency must haue in it diuers things. 1. we must be free from the grosegross sinnes of euery Commandement. 2. we must cease from our owne workes , keepe vs from …
    With rule
    … Externall innocency must haue in it diuers things. 1. we must be free from the grosegross sinnes of euery Commandement. 2. we must cease from our owne workes , keepe vs from …

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … our Church. For if it be demanded, why ther is in the land such grosegross ignorance of God? the answere is at hand, we want Doctors & Teachers. Whence come …
    With rule
    … our Church. For if it be demanded, why ther is in the land such grosegross ignorance of God? the answere is at hand, we want Doctors & Teachers. Whence come …

    Laurence Chaderton · Sermon Upon Romans 12:3-8 · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … priestes many miles a sunder might breake the same loafe: that imagination is too grosegross, and no wise man wil alow it. If he meane any spirituall breaking, then …
    With rule
    … priestes many miles a sunder might breake the same loafe: that imagination is too grosegross, and no wise man wil alow it. If he meane any spirituall breaking, then …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 205 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … their conſciences ſeared with an hote iron. Their conſciences were ſcorched and ſeared with groſegross ſins, and then they corrupted the faith to heal them whole again. So 2 Theſſ …
    With rule
    … their conſciences ſeared with an hote iron. Their conſciences were ſcorched and ſeared with groſegross ſins, and then they corrupted the faith to heal them whole again. So 2 Theſſ …

    Daniel Cawdry · A Late Great Shipwreck of Faith · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … when the Scripture is ſo euident, & our ſauiour Chriſt ſpeaketh ſo plainly, that this groſegross & doltiſh errour ſhoulde poſſeſſe the minds of ſo many. But indéed it is a …
    With rule
    … when the Scripture is ſo euident, & our ſauiour Chriſt ſpeaketh ſo plainly, that this groſegross & doltiſh errour ſhoulde poſſeſſe the minds of ſo many. But indéed it is a …

    George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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