Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7955 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mekemeek

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

Puritas changed it: 169 times in 74 works
Consistency: 100% (169 of 169)
Reach if approved: ~178 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: meek
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 169 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (169 changes in 74 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 169)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is not without a cause sayde of hym, learne of me, for I am mekemeek & lowly in herte. For what doth hys whole lyfe shew but humilite? Was he …
With rule
… is not without a cause sayde of hym, learne of me, for I am mekemeek & lowly in herte. For what doth hys whole lyfe shew but humilite? Was he …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… David: the lorde is nye them that are trobled in their hertes / and the mekemeek in sprite will he save. The tribulacions of the righteous are many / and out …
With rule
… David: the lorde is nye them that are trobled in their hertes / and the mekemeek in sprite will he save. The tribulacions of the righteous are many / and out …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · p. x · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Goddes holy commaundementes. He wyll nothyng dowte, but that he with this hys mekemeek confeſſyon ſhal moch glorifie God, and moue the hearers by hys example to abhorre …
With rule
… of Goddes holy commaundementes. He wyll nothyng dowte, but that he with this hys mekemeek confeſſyon ſhal moch glorifie God, and moue the hearers by hys example to abhorre …
Ulrich Zwingli · The Account Reckoning and Confession of Faith · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… O daughter Hieruſalem: beholde, thy kyng cōmeth vnto the, euen the righteous and ſauyoure: mekemeek and ſymple is he, he rydeth vpon an aſſe, & vpon a yong colt of …
With rule
… O daughter Hieruſalem: beholde, thy kyng cōmeth vnto the, euen the righteous and ſauyoure: mekemeek and ſymple is he, he rydeth vpon an aſſe, & vpon a yong colt of …
Henrich Bullinger · The Old Faith an Evident Probation out of the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… But it semeth to be without reason, that he opposeth and setteth a most mekemeek lambe against a most cruell and wilde beast. But we must remēber, that Christ …
With rule
… But it semeth to be without reason, that he opposeth and setteth a most mekemeek lambe against a most cruell and wilde beast. But we must remēber, that Christ …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a lyon a lambe / of a persecuter a disciple / of a cruell Saul a mekemeek spreted Paule. Consequentlye submytt thy affeccions and appetytes vnto reason / and se that thy …
With rule
… a lyon a lambe / of a persecuter a disciple / of a cruell Saul a mekemeek spreted Paule. Consequentlye submytt thy affeccions and appetytes vnto reason / and se that thy …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the same by a couple of strumpets. Here I told an example of a mekemeek kynge, who, so continued, vntyll he came into the company of strange women He …
With rule
… the same by a couple of strumpets. Here I told an example of a mekemeek kynge, who, so continued, vntyll he came into the company of strange women He …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… thorowe good workes. Lette y^e inward mā of the hart be vncorrupte, withe a mekemeek & quiet spirite, whiche before God is moche set by. For after this manner in …
With rule
… thorowe good workes. Lette y^e inward mā of the hart be vncorrupte, withe a mekemeek & quiet spirite, whiche before God is moche set by. For after this manner in …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · 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.