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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8014 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

folishefoolish

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

Puritas changed it
135 times in 58 works
Consistency
100% (135 of 135)
Reach if approved
~142 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: foolish
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
135 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (135 changes in 58 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 135)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to come, it is no maruell though thou runneſte madde and periſſhe with this foliſhefoolish and wicked worlde. In the treatiſe of the laſte iudgement is ſene the ende …
    With rule
    … to come, it is no maruell though thou runneſte madde and periſſhe with this foliſhefoolish and wicked worlde. In the treatiſe of the laſte iudgement is ſene the ende …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 575 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … true inwarde seruyce of God, and required by hys commaundement. I thinke, a more folishefoolish conclusiō was neuer heard. And therfore ye do well to adde, as yow take …
    With rule
    … true inwarde seruyce of God, and required by hys commaundement. I thinke, a more folishefoolish conclusiō was neuer heard. And therfore ye do well to adde, as yow take …

    John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … being in a redines went in with him vnto the wedding. But the fiue folishefoolish Uergines slumbred and slepte, so that when the bridegrome came they were vnprepared and …
    With rule
    … being in a redines went in with him vnto the wedding. But the fiue folishefoolish Uergines slumbred and slepte, so that when the bridegrome came they were vnprepared and …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thoſe his geſtes in that daye, hauing on the wedding garment, & not amongſt the foliſhefoolish ſlepinge vyrgins, who, hauinge no reſpect vnto the comming of the brydegrome, were ſhut …
    With rule
    … thoſe his geſtes in that daye, hauing on the wedding garment, & not amongſt the foliſhefoolish ſlepinge vyrgins, who, hauinge no reſpect vnto the comming of the brydegrome, were ſhut …

    Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … lawes, and ordre of nature, and yet neuertheles they do not by this their folishefoolish deuise and imagination escape or auoyde the inconuenience whiche they mooste feare.
    With rule
    … lawes, and ordre of nature, and yet neuertheles they do not by this their folishefoolish deuise and imagination escape or auoyde the inconuenience whiche they mooste feare.

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … obtaining that which is to thy glory and my ſaluation: alſo by geſting, or foliſhefoolish abuſing, or negligent readinge or hearing of thy holy worde, by the whiche thou …
    With rule
    … obtaining that which is to thy glory and my ſaluation: alſo by geſting, or foliſhefoolish abuſing, or negligent readinge or hearing of thy holy worde, by the whiche thou …

    John Bradford · Godly Meditations Upon the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to me it ſhoulde be loſt labour, yea & that it ſhould be rediculous and foliſhefoolish if I dyd occupy my ſelfe therein. Wherefore it ſufficetth to haue noted them …
    With rule
    … to me it ſhoulde be loſt labour, yea & that it ſhould be rediculous and foliſhefoolish if I dyd occupy my ſelfe therein. Wherefore it ſufficetth to haue noted them …

    John Calvin · Of Relics · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … knoweth best what he is for this defence of his foreign, it is no doubt folishefoolish, and of so great store, he hath made very yll choyse. For in this …
    With rule
    … knoweth best what he is for this defence of his foreign, it is no doubt folishefoolish, and of so great store, he hath made very yll choyse. For in this …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 43 · 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.