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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7852 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fyghtefight

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

Puritas changed it
83 times in 46 works
Consistency
100% (83 of 83)
Reach if approved
~87 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fight
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
83 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (83 changes in 46 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 83)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … may ouercome ther inuisible enemies the Amalechites, which are dyuels that do impugne and fyghtefight agaynst them, that wyll lyue godly in Christ.
    With rule
    … may ouercome ther inuisible enemies the Amalechites, which are dyuels that do impugne and fyghtefight agaynst them, that wyll lyue godly in Christ.

    Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. lxxvii · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … other godly people wyth Prayer: yea the preachers and the people oughte together to fyghtefight agaynste Antichriste wyth Prayer. These are the two thynges, wherewyth the deuyll, the Pope …
    With rule
    … other godly people wyth Prayer: yea the preachers and the people oughte together to fyghtefight agaynste Antichriste wyth Prayer. These are the two thynges, wherewyth the deuyll, the Pope …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … faythful, whiche be with hym, shal fight agaynst this beast. For Christ shall not fyghtefight, but wt suche instrumentes, not with swerd figh tyng, but with the worde of …
    With rule
    … faythful, whiche be with hym, shal fight agaynst this beast. For Christ shall not fyghtefight, but wt suche instrumentes, not with swerd figh tyng, but with the worde of …

    Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … they leue the vyctorye vnto theyr deare frendes for whoſe ſakes they toke the fyghtefight vpon them / and therfore are conqueroures, ſeynge they obtayne theyr purpoſe and maynteyne that …
    With rule
    … they leue the vyctorye vnto theyr deare frendes for whoſe ſakes they toke the fyghtefight vpon them / and therfore are conqueroures, ſeynge they obtayne theyr purpoſe and maynteyne that …

    William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Iudas Machabeus doth fyghtefight for the people of god agaynſte the gentiles and kyng Antiochus hys ſouldiers whoſe …
    With rule
    Iudas Machabeus doth fyghtefight for the people of god agaynſte the gentiles and kyng Antiochus hys ſouldiers whoſe …

    Henrich Bullinger · Sermon Concerning Magistrates · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and the weake and yonge ſcholers in Chriſte, made ſtrong and myghty ſouldiours to fyghtefight againſt our aduerſaries, the world, the deuill and our own fleſh. By the princes …
    With rule
    … and the weake and yonge ſcholers in Chriſte, made ſtrong and myghty ſouldiours to fyghtefight againſt our aduerſaries, the world, the deuill and our own fleſh. By the princes …

    Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the 13 Articles · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to haue ye ouerthrowe our ſelues (whiche thinge is not lykely, ſyth that we fyghtefight in gods quarell) & dye in the fyeld, who wolde doubt but that we ſhall …
    With rule
    … to haue ye ouerthrowe our ſelues (whiche thinge is not lykely, ſyth that we fyghtefight in gods quarell) & dye in the fyeld, who wolde doubt but that we ſhall …

    Henrich Bullinger · Dialogue Between the Libertine or Rebel Anabaptist and the Christian · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Therfore muſt ye Papiſtes fyghtefight oute this Article of Obedience, with God hym ſelfe, and not with vs, and …
    With rule
    Therfore muſt ye Papiſtes fyghtefight oute this Article of Obedience, with God hym ſelfe, and not with vs, and …

    Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · 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.