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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7822 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

byndebind

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

Puritas changed it
379 times in 127 works
Consistency
99.7% (379 of 380)
Reach if approved
~399 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bind
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
380 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (379 changes in 127 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 379)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … soeuer estate or ordre he be of, I say he hath no power to byndebind or lose, seinge he wanteth the instrumente, by the whiche he bindeth or loseth …
    With rule
    … soeuer estate or ordre he be of, I say he hath no power to byndebind or lose, seinge he wanteth the instrumente, by the whiche he bindeth or loseth …

    David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    And …ark… ſhalte byndebind them for a ſygne be ſ…n thyne hande, and they … be a to …
    With rule
    And …ark… ſhalte byndebind them for a ſygne be ſ…n thyne hande, and they … be a to …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … alweyes forgeueth synnis. Esay. xliii. yet hath Christ gyuen vnto hys cōgregatiō power to byndebind & to loose, whiche shall not be vnderstand after y• Antichristes doctrin. The bishop of …
    With rule
    … alweyes forgeueth synnis. Esay. xliii. yet hath Christ gyuen vnto hys cōgregatiō power to byndebind & to loose, whiche shall not be vnderstand after y• Antichristes doctrin. The bishop of …

    Thomas Becon · The Solace of the Soul Against the Bitter Storms of Sickness and Death · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … together, were to be gathered into the name of Christ, by his power to byndebind or deliver to Satan the offender as Math: 18 18▪ 19▪ 20. were to purge out the old …
    With rule
    … together, were to be gathered into the name of Christ, by his power to byndebind or deliver to Satan the offender as Math: 18 18▪ 19▪ 20. were to purge out the old …

    John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 241 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … that the gospell is a power to saue euery beleuer. Agayne what waye they byndebind, he declareth when he saith that the Apostles haue a redy vengeaūce against all …
    With rule
    … that the gospell is a power to saue euery beleuer. Agayne what waye they byndebind, he declareth when he saith that the Apostles haue a redy vengeaūce against all …

    Richard Taverner · A Catechism · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and woman that knowe Chryst and hys doctrine, haue the keyes and power to byndebind and loose: in an ordre yet and in their measure, as tyme place and …
    With rule
    … and woman that knowe Chryst and hys doctrine, haue the keyes and power to byndebind and loose: in an ordre yet and in their measure, as tyme place and …

    William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Lorde, to whom principallie they are by Gods commandement and nature bounde, will Peter byndebind ſeruantes to their Maiſters anie further thē in the Lorde? And if it be …
    With rule
    … Lorde, to whom principallie they are by Gods commandement and nature bounde, will Peter byndebind ſeruantes to their Maiſters anie further thē in the Lorde? And if it be …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … cruell enuious, & ambicious rage? Yf it be by hys wytneſſe, a baynous crime to byndebind a citeſen, a miſchiefe to whyppe him, yea almoſt parricide to ſlay him: what …
    With rule
    … cruell enuious, & ambicious rage? Yf it be by hys wytneſſe, a baynous crime to byndebind a citeſen, a miſchiefe to whyppe him, yea almoſt parricide to ſlay him: what …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · 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.