Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8015 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forbiddeforbid

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

Puritas changed it: 278 times in 133 works
Consistency: 99.6% (278 of 279)
Reach if approved: ~293 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: forbid
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 279 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (278 changes in 133 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 278)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a cléere renelation of the spirit, that it was the doctrine of Diuels to forbiddeforbid meate and marriage, for holinesse, and religion. The Papistes tell vs that it is …
With rule
… a cléere renelation of the spirit, that it was the doctrine of Diuels to forbiddeforbid meate and marriage, for holinesse, and religion. The Papistes tell vs that it is …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were so detested, that saith Platina, the Clergie it selfe toke vppon them to forbiddeforbid the Pope to saye masse in S. Maries churche, vnlesse he would firste burne …
With rule
… were so detested, that saith Platina, the Clergie it selfe toke vppon them to forbiddeforbid the Pope to saye masse in S. Maries churche, vnlesse he would firste burne …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rites and ceremonies in the true worſhip of God, but generally all converſation is forbiddeforbid… with them as naught.
With rule
… rites and ceremonies in the true worſhip of God, but generally all converſation is forbiddeforbid… with them as naught.
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… therefore this practice giueth no warrant, when the Gouernours are Chriſtian, and doe onely forbiddeforbid ſome men, but doe generally commend, and commaund the preaching of the truth. In …
With rule
… therefore this practice giueth no warrant, when the Gouernours are Chriſtian, and doe onely forbiddeforbid ſome men, but doe generally commend, and commaund the preaching of the truth. In …
John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 557 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the bookes of God that record the same, and the thing it selfe? God forbiddeforbid: nay rather, we must hereby learne to acknowledge and confesse our owne blindnesse, and …
With rule
… the bookes of God that record the same, and the thing it selfe? God forbiddeforbid: nay rather, we must hereby learne to acknowledge and confesse our owne blindnesse, and …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wood, the galowes, the tree, to which you make your prayer. For God forbiddeforbid that wee should reioyce in any thing, sauing in the Lord: whose redéeming of …
With rule
… the wood, the galowes, the tree, to which you make your prayer. For God forbiddeforbid that wee should reioyce in any thing, sauing in the Lord: whose redéeming of …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 482 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Some priestes after they haue said the Lords praier do communicate, which hereafter we forbiddeforbid (saith the councell) but a blessing being giuen to y^e people, then let the …
With rule
… Some priestes after they haue said the Lords praier do communicate, which hereafter we forbiddeforbid (saith the councell) but a blessing being giuen to y^e people, then let the …
Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… In this we ſhould delight and growe as the chiefeſt knoweledge, Iete. 9. 23. 24. Here is forbiddeforbid, firſte Atheiſme, to perſwade our heart there is no ſuch true God in heauen …
With rule
… In this we ſhould delight and growe as the chiefeſt knoweledge, Iete. 9. 23. 24. Here is forbiddeforbid, firſte Atheiſme, to perſwade our heart there is no ſuch true God in heauen …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.