Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7938 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wytneswitness

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

Puritas changed it: 149 times in 68 works
Consistency: 98.0% (149 of 152)
Reach if approved: ~160 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: witness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 152 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 68 works, 98.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… petycion to an Image, and came home agayne in good healthe: and therefore in wytneswitness of thys thynge hath hanged vp hys ſtyltes before the Idolle. Another hath ſwymmed …
With rule
… petycion to an Image, and came home agayne in good healthe: and therefore in wytneswitness of thys thynge hath hanged vp hys ſtyltes before the Idolle. Another hath ſwymmed …
Henrich Bullinger · Commentary on 2 Thessalonians · Open in the reader
Printed
… no man doth peruerte and ouerturne iustyce, courtes, and iudgementes, more, thē a false wytneswitness, wherfore this is a very heynous synne before God. For a false wytneswitness doth …
With rule
… no man doth peruerte and ouerturne iustyce, courtes, and iudgementes, more, thē a false wytneswitness, wherfore this is a very heynous synne before God. For a false wytneswitness doth …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Catechism for Children · p. lxxxv · Open in the reader
Printed
… multiplied their Idoles, & the Chyldren of God, to whom they haue sacrificed, they shall wytneswitness agaynst them in the day of Christ. And you my deare brethren, agaynst all …
With rule
… multiplied their Idoles, & the Chyldren of God, to whom they haue sacrificed, they shall wytneswitness agaynst them in the day of Christ. And you my deare brethren, agaynst all …
Edward Dering · Exposition of Hebrews 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… law, nor the gyltynes of my syn, nor the accusation of the Deuyl, nor wytneswitness of myne own conscience, shall be able to condemne me, so long as I …
With rule
… law, nor the gyltynes of my syn, nor the accusation of the Deuyl, nor wytneswitness of myne own conscience, shall be able to condemne me, so long as I …
William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader
Printed
… giltlesse in that thynge she suffered for, and hyr neyghbours would haue borne hyr wytneswitness in the same. She was alwayes an honeste ciuell woman, hyr neyghbours woulde haue …
With rule
… giltlesse in that thynge she suffered for, and hyr neyghbours would haue borne hyr wytneswitness in the same. She was alwayes an honeste ciuell woman, hyr neyghbours woulde haue …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
And where as God saythe, thou shalt speake no false wytneswitness agenst thy neyghbour: Dauid had vowed & made a faythful promyse, that he wyl rather …
With rule
And where as God saythe, thou shalt speake no false wytneswitness agenst thy neyghbour: Dauid had vowed & made a faythful promyse, that he wyl rather …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… Origene, it is nedefull for vs, sayth he, to caull the holy scriptures into wytneswitness. For our iudgementes & exposiciōs wythout these wytnesses, haue no fayth. Also S. Ierome, that …
With rule
… Origene, it is nedefull for vs, sayth he, to caull the holy scriptures into wytneswitness. For our iudgementes & exposiciōs wythout these wytnesses, haue no fayth. Also S. Ierome, that …
Thomas Becon · A Potion for This Holy Time of Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… is lawefull to take othes, and of all that offer them ſelues to beare wytneswitness. But yf the ſuperior wolde compell the inferior, to ſwere that ſhulde be to …
With rule
… is lawefull to take othes, and of all that offer them ſelues to beare wytneswitness. But yf the ſuperior wolde compell the inferior, to ſwere that ſhulde be to …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. xlv · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ A02749

Printed
WytnesWitness none yll. Holde no mannes wyfe.
With rule
WytnesWitness none yll. Holde no mannes wyfe.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader

Brief and Necessary Instruction for All Householders A20262

Printed
… doth expound the law: the Seruant that occupieth his Maisters talentes vnto gayne: the WytnesWitness that beareth testimony of Christ to all people: the dispensers of the misteries of …
With rule
… doth expound the law: the Seruant that occupieth his Maisters talentes vnto gayne: the WytnesWitness that beareth testimony of Christ to all people: the dispensers of the misteries of …
Edward Dering · Brief and Necessary Instruction for All Householders · Open in the reader