Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7786 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sygnessigns

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

Puritas changed it: 178 times in 58 works
Consistency: 98.3% (178 of 181)
Reach if approved: ~190 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: signs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 181 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (178 changes in 58 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 178)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… them: Euen so (say they we haue a thowsand ensamples in the scrypture. where sygnessigns ar named w^t the names of thynges sygnyfyed by them, As Iacob called the …
With rule
… them: Euen so (say they we haue a thowsand ensamples in the scrypture. where sygnessigns ar named w^t the names of thynges sygnyfyed by them, As Iacob called the …
William Tyndale · Declaration of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
… a corporal preſence, but for to repreſent hym ſelf vnto vs by theſe viſible ſygnessigns, & for to learne vs by the ſame to go vp into heauen to hym …
With rule
… a corporal preſence, but for to repreſent hym ſelf vnto vs by theſe viſible ſygnessigns, & for to learne vs by the ſame to go vp into heauen to hym …
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader
Printed
… amonge his faythfull, whyche oure grosse nature coulde no more compasse wythout these visible sygnessigns, then the carnall and fleshly Iewes coulde when Chryst tolde them of the eatyng …
With rule
… amonge his faythfull, whyche oure grosse nature coulde no more compasse wythout these visible sygnessigns, then the carnall and fleshly Iewes coulde when Chryst tolde them of the eatyng …
John Calvin · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christ promised not that he woulde rewarde at the latter day them / that worke sygnessigns & wonders / but them that kepe his cō maundementes / saieng: come you blessed childrē of …
With rule
… Christ promised not that he woulde rewarde at the latter day them / that worke sygnessigns & wonders / but them that kepe his cō maundementes / saieng: come you blessed childrē of …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuch as theſe, be ſigne ſignificatiue, and ſhewe no gyft, But in the other ſygnessigns, whych ſome call exhibitiue, is there not onely a ſignification of the thyng but …
With rule
… ſuch as theſe, be ſigne ſignificatiue, and ſhewe no gyft, But in the other ſygnessigns, whych ſome call exhibitiue, is there not onely a ſignification of the thyng but …
John Bradford · Two Notable Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… in diuers and sundry nations and cuntries, which as Il graunte that they were sygnessigns of euilles shoulde followe, so I doubte not but that by the earthquake here …
With rule
… in diuers and sundry nations and cuntries, which as Il graunte that they were sygnessigns of euilles shoulde followe, so I doubte not but that by the earthquake here …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
And there shalbe sygnessigns in the … and Moone: There be some learned men which expounde those tokens of …
With rule
And there shalbe sygnessigns in the … and Moone: There be some learned men which expounde those tokens of …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be perswaded, y^e afflictions, troubles, syckenesses and diseases be playne testimonies, and euident sygnessigns of Goddes good fauoure towarde vs? as the wise man saieth. The chastening of …
With rule
… not be perswaded, y^e afflictions, troubles, syckenesses and diseases be playne testimonies, and euident sygnessigns of Goddes good fauoure towarde vs? as the wise man saieth. The chastening of …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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

The Acts of English Votaries A02573

Printed
¶SygnesSigns and plages folowynge these myschefes.
With rule
¶SygnesSigns and plages folowynge these myschefes.
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 73 · Open in the reader