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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8010 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

buyldebuild

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

Puritas changed it
190 times in 107 works
Consistency
99.4% (190 of 191)
Reach if approved
~201 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: build
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
191 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (190 changes in 107 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 190)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … greuouſly puniſhed. Therfore addeth the prophete. They haue forgotten hym that made them, they buyldebuild churches and Iuda maketh many ſtronge bulworkes. I wil therfore ſende a fyre into …
    With rule
    … greuouſly puniſhed. Therfore addeth the prophete. They haue forgotten hym that made them, they buyldebuild churches and Iuda maketh many ſtronge bulworkes. I wil therfore ſende a fyre into …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and sayeth, Noie hath no commandement this to do. Where is the charge to buyldebuild the Alter? To offer vp the Sacrifice?
    With rule
    … and sayeth, Noie hath no commandement this to do. Where is the charge to buyldebuild the Alter? To offer vp the Sacrifice?

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … landes? I wyll thus doe (sayth he) I wyl pul downe my barnes, and buyldebuild greater barnes, and I wyll saye to my soule. My soule thou hast muche …
    With rule
    … landes? I wyll thus doe (sayth he) I wyl pul downe my barnes, and buyldebuild greater barnes, and I wyll saye to my soule. My soule thou hast muche …

    Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the earth and the ſocieté of men is to be preſerued. Howe we muſte buyldebuild / ſowe / plante / ād tyll our landes, etc. Of this (I ſaye) this other kyngdome …
    With rule
    … the earth and the ſocieté of men is to be preſerued. Howe we muſte buyldebuild / ſowe / plante / ād tyll our landes, etc. Of this (I ſaye) this other kyngdome …

    Martin Luther · Sermon on John 20 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … be spoyled. When as Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, heathen Princes, did bestow liberally, to buyldebuild vp the temple again in Ierusalem, which NEBVCHADNETZAR had destroyed, as the books of …
    With rule
    … be spoyled. When as Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, heathen Princes, did bestow liberally, to buyldebuild vp the temple again in Ierusalem, which NEBVCHADNETZAR had destroyed, as the books of …

    Robert Pont · Against Sacrilege · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    He hath be lyke a meruelons plat form in hys hede to buyldebuild that he wold rid Chriſtis Religion of all thes ornamentes / Calleth he thys the …
    With rule
    He hath be lyke a meruelons plat form in hys hede to buyldebuild that he wold rid Chriſtis Religion of all thes ornamentes / Calleth he thys the …

    William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    As those that buyldebuild without a good foundation, either the wind or water ouerthroweth it, so they which …
    With rule
    As those that buyldebuild without a good foundation, either the wind or water ouerthroweth it, so they which …

    Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Holy of Holy. Know & marke: from the outgoing of the Worde, to returne & to buyldebuild Ieruſalem, vnto Chriſt the gouernour, ſhalbe ſeauen ſeauens (of yeeres) and ſixtie and two …
    With rule
    … Holy of Holy. Know & marke: from the outgoing of the Worde, to returne & to buyldebuild Ieruſalem, vnto Chriſt the gouernour, ſhalbe ſeauen ſeauens (of yeeres) and ſixtie and two …

    Hugh Broughton · A Letter to a Friend Touching Mordecais Age · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester A01752

  • Printed
    … argumēt? cal agayne into Englande your greate Idole the pope and all his pardons. BuyldeBuild vp his monaſteries and reſtore his Images and Idoles, which haue by the pope …
    With rule
    … argumēt? cal agayne into Englande your greate Idole the pope and all his pardons. BuyldeBuild vp his monaſteries and reſtore his Images and Idoles, which haue by the pope …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader