Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7820 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dyuersediverse

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

Puritas changed it: 224 times in 64 works
Consistency: 96.9% (224 of 231)
Reach if approved: ~243 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: diverse
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 231 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (224 changes in 64 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 224)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is one Christ: the same is also decreed by the counsell of Nice and dyuersediverse other catholike counsels / and it is the doctrine of the churche at thys tyme …
With rule
… is one Christ: the same is also decreed by the counsell of Nice and dyuersediverse other catholike counsels / and it is the doctrine of the churche at thys tyme …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader
Printed
THys worde church hath dyuersediverse significacions. First it signifyeth a place or housse / whether christen people were wont in …
With rule
THys worde church hath dyuersediverse significacions. First it signifyeth a place or housse / whether christen people were wont in …
William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. v · Open in the reader
Printed
… and periurye of his cuntremenne the brytones. Kynge Iue / kynge Alfrede / kynge Edwarde / and dyuersediverse other made laudable constituciōs of penaltees within this realme concernynge the same.
With rule
… and periurye of his cuntremenne the brytones. Kynge Iue / kynge Alfrede / kynge Edwarde / and dyuersediverse other made laudable constituciōs of penaltees within this realme concernynge the same.
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may make their habitation: for the better conference of them to ſeuer them into dyuerſediverse perſons, I woulde you could diſcerne them apart in déede: then ſhould you be …
With rule
… may make their habitation: for the better conference of them to ſeuer them into dyuerſediverse perſons, I woulde you could diſcerne them apart in déede: then ſhould you be …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… now wel ynough, the greate difference that is betwene them. But for all that dyuerſediverse men, (therby the better to couer theyr fact) do apply the thing that is …
With rule
… now wel ynough, the greate difference that is betwene them. But for all that dyuerſediverse men, (therby the better to couer theyr fact) do apply the thing that is …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
And cōtrary wyse, the emperours haue now and then deposed dyuersediverse popes at request of the Cardinalles & other great prelates, by whose helpe onely they …
With rule
And cōtrary wyse, the emperours haue now and then deposed dyuersediverse popes at request of the Cardinalles & other great prelates, by whose helpe onely they …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader
Printed
… as he is contrarye to him selfe in his writinges & that not onlye in dyuersediverse, but also in one and the same writynges, who supposeth not to be credyble …
With rule
… as he is contrarye to him selfe in his writinges & that not onlye in dyuersediverse, but also in one and the same writynges, who supposeth not to be credyble …
Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader
Printed
… the fleſhe for to abyde there ſtill. And ſome ſhal be ſo wrapped with dyuerſediverse cares and burdēs, y^t they can not auoyde it, al be it they wolde …
With rule
… the fleſhe for to abyde there ſtill. And ſome ſhal be ſo wrapped with dyuerſediverse cares and burdēs, y^t they can not auoyde it, al be it they wolde …
John Calvin · What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

6 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.

A Goodly Gallery A01313

Printed
DYuerseDiverse authors wryte dyuerselye, of the kindes of earthquakes, some makyng more and some lesse …
With rule
DYuerseDiverse authors wryte dyuerselye, of the kindes of earthquakes, some makyng more and some lesse …
William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · p. 20 · Open in the reader

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 A02825

Printed
… to be thought to come therof. For there folowed lyghteninges / voyces / thonderinges / and earthquakes. DyuerseDiverse respectes hath the veryte of God / accordynge to dyuersediverse audyences. In maner of lightenynge …
With rule
… to be thought to come therof. For there folowed lyghteninges / voyces / thonderinges / and earthquakes. DyuerseDiverse respectes hath the veryte of God / accordynge to dyuersediverse audyences. In maner of lightenynge …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 25 · Open in the reader

A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted A02886

Printed
… Christen instruccyons wrote he to his bretherne / & brought vp their chyldren in all vertu. DyuerseDiverse workes of Erasm…s / and of other good authors more / translated he into the …
With rule
… Christen instruccyons wrote he to his bretherne / & brought vp their chyldren in all vertu. DyuerseDiverse workes of Erasm…s / and of other good authors more / translated he into the …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 42 · Open in the reader

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

Printed
… thys proceſſe … folowynge of the names of ſerten boke… perteynynge alſo to the ſame. DyuerſeDiverse are ther tytles partlye for the dyuerſyte of the matters, and partlye for the …
With rule
… thys proceſſe … folowynge of the names of ſerten boke… perteynynge alſo to the ſame. DyuerſeDiverse are ther tytles partlye for the dyuerſyte of the matters, and partlye for the …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
… boke whych ys a manyfeſt token that the vtteraunce therof hath not bene ſmall. DyuerſeDiverse of them hath beſydes thys, hys dronken dyſputacyons ageynſt heretyques, hys apoſtolyck crede, hys …
With rule
… boke whych ys a manyfeſt token that the vtteraunce therof hath not bene ſmall. DyuerſeDiverse of them hath beſydes thys, hys dronken dyſputacyons ageynſt heretyques, hys apoſtolyck crede, hys …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader
Printed
… P…lles and Godſalue) beſydes hys contynuall occupyenge wyth the balyes wyfe of hoxton. DyuerſeDiverse fyne tryckes of good relygyouſe bawdrye wrought by byſſhopp Brygett, kyte, and vnderwode, all …
With rule
… P…lles and Godſalue) beſydes hys contynuall occupyenge wyth the balyes wyfe of hoxton. DyuerſeDiverse fyne tryckes of good relygyouſe bawdrye wrought by byſſhopp Brygett, kyte, and vnderwode, all …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader