Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7959 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shippeship

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

Puritas changed it: 726 times in 287 works
Consistency: 100% (726 of 726)
Reach if approved: ~764 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ship
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 727 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: 1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (726 changes in 287 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 726)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… doe heere fall sicke, vnlesse of the Scuruy that they bring from aboard the ShippeShip with them, whereof I haue cured some of my Companie onely by labour. Thus …
With rule
… doe heere fall sicke, vnlesse of the Scuruy that they bring from aboard the ShippeShip with them, whereof I haue cured some of my Companie onely by labour. Thus …
Francis Higginson · New Englands Plantation · Open in the reader
Printed
… and he who wanteth a good tongu…, is in as great perill, as a ShippeShip in the roughest Sea, that wanteth both Sterue and Pilot.
With rule
… and he who wanteth a good tongu…, is in as great perill, as a ShippeShip in the roughest Sea, that wanteth both Sterue and Pilot.
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
The Heathen Mariners in shippeship with Ionah, are said to sacrifice and vow vowes: which the Chaldee helpes out …
With rule
The Heathen Mariners in shippeship with Ionah, are said to sacrifice and vow vowes: which the Chaldee helpes out …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he (amongst the rest) is one of the most principal occasions that the shippeship keepes a good course, where otherwise it might either be lost vpon some sande …
With rule
… that he (amongst the rest) is one of the most principal occasions that the shippeship keepes a good course, where otherwise it might either be lost vpon some sande …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with hard Passages. It is our solid comfort, (as it was fabled of that ShippeShip, that it was made a starre in heauen) that we shall be one day …
With rule
… with hard Passages. It is our solid comfort, (as it was fabled of that ShippeShip, that it was made a starre in heauen) that we shall be one day …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… against them. Therefore as the stirring of a shippeship by the master directeth the shippeship whither he thinketh good: euen so the Lord moueth the heartes of all Princes …
With rule
… against them. Therefore as the stirring of a shippeship by the master directeth the shippeship whither he thinketh good: euen so the Lord moueth the heartes of all Princes …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it foules vs. And the least sinne is like a little leake in a shippeship, which if it be not stopped, will sinke the whole vessell. The Frenchmen haue …
With rule
… it foules vs. And the least sinne is like a little leake in a shippeship, which if it be not stopped, will sinke the whole vessell. The Frenchmen haue …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 396 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſome quickened when I am dull, and I am an adventurer in the Churches ſhippeship, I haue a ſtocke in her treaſure, and an intereſt in her prayers; this …
With rule
… ſome quickened when I am dull, and I am an adventurer in the Churches ſhippeship, I haue a ſtocke in her treaſure, and an intereſt in her prayers; this …
Robert Harris · Peters Enlargement · p. 7 · 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.