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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8020 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

glosegloss

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

Puritas changed it
403 times in 134 works
Consistency
94.6% (403 of 426)
Reach if approved
~448 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: gloze
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
426 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (403 changes in 134 works, 94.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 403)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Strawe: or else she may sau…e them with something, & adde vnto them a glosegloss of Accursius ▪ or Panormitanus: or of Iohn Andraeas, which will bring ye matter in …
    With rule
    … Strawe: or else she may sau…e them with something, & adde vnto them a glosegloss of Accursius ▪ or Panormitanus: or of Iohn Andraeas, which will bring ye matter in …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    1 THe Vſurers to gloſegloss with the worlde are wont to confound the names of intereſt and vſurie.
    With rule
    1 THe Vſurers to gloſegloss with the worlde are wont to confound the names of intereſt and vſurie.

    Gabriel Powel · Theological and Scholastical Positions Concerning Usury · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … truth is meant ſinceritie and vprightneſſe in his Maieſties ſeruice; that we do not gloſegloss him by faire words and ſhewes: he loueth not ſhadowes but ſubſtances, no colours …
    With rule
    … truth is meant ſinceritie and vprightneſſe in his Maieſties ſeruice; that we do not gloſegloss him by faire words and ſhewes: he loueth not ſhadowes but ſubſtances, no colours …

    Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … it is a very french popish vvoeng, to sende hyther smooth tongued Simiers to glosegloss and glauer & hold talk of mariage: and yet in the meane while, Iaques Fitzmaurice …
    With rule
    … it is a very french popish vvoeng, to sende hyther smooth tongued Simiers to glosegloss and glauer & hold talk of mariage: and yet in the meane while, Iaques Fitzmaurice …

    John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the more tangled art thou therin & canſt nowher thorow For if thou adde a gloſegloss in one place / in another it wyll nat ſerue. And therfore / bycauſe we be …
    With rule
    … the more tangled art thou therin & canſt nowher thorow For if thou adde a gloſegloss in one place / in another it wyll nat ſerue. And therfore / bycauſe we be …

    William Tyndale · A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … regenerate. It is not imputed indeede, but yet there it is, howſoeuer the Tridentine gloſegloss, would corrupt the Canonicall text.
    With rule
    … regenerate. It is not imputed indeede, but yet there it is, howſoeuer the Tridentine gloſegloss, would corrupt the Canonicall text.

    George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will come in good things, in knowledge, in spirituall exercises, and falsely and wickedly glosegloss on them by that great practise and experience, which from their first fall they …
    With rule
    … will come in good things, in knowledge, in spirituall exercises, and falsely and wickedly glosegloss on them by that great practise and experience, which from their first fall they …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 310 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a Romishe monke, was chosen withoute the consent of the Emperour, according to the glosegloss deuised by Steuen: but when the Emperour complayned, yt he found himselfe agreeued with …
    With rule
    … a Romishe monke, was chosen withoute the consent of the Emperour, according to the glosegloss deuised by Steuen: but when the Emperour complayned, yt he found himselfe agreeued with …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (23)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 15 are listed here. 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

  • Printed
    … Zacharie, Math. 27, Who is so blinde that he wil not see? yet the ordinarie GloseGloss cōfesseth, that there were diuerse copies in times past, in which the name of …
    With rule
    … Zacharie, Math. 27, Who is so blinde that he wil not see? yet the ordinarie GloseGloss cōfesseth, that there were diuerse copies in times past, in which the name of …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 39 · Open in the reader

Against a Rank Papist A02621

  • Printed
    GloseGloss preferred to the texte. 73.
    With rule
    GloseGloss preferred to the texte. 73.

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

The Bee Hive of the Romish Church A07026

  • Printed
    … thē with Gentians booke, I would gladly haue it set forth, as an Exposition, GloseGloss, or Cōmentarie vpon your foresaid prettie booke: but considering that I had not anie …
    With rule
    … thē with Gentians booke, I would gladly haue it set forth, as an Exposition, GloseGloss, or Cōmentarie vpon your foresaid prettie booke: but considering that I had not anie …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the Romanes, which are the verie slaues and seruantes of couetousnesse. Like as the GloseGloss doth also testifie, in this common verse:
    With rule
    … the Romanes, which are the verie slaues and seruantes of couetousnesse. Like as the GloseGloss doth also testifie, in this common verse:

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 322 · Open in the reader

Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith A13969

  • Printed
    … They beleeue amisse, because they are but imaginations or illusions. And surelie here the GloseGloss erreth not: for all those angelicall visions, which to confirme their superstitions withall, their …
    With rule
    … They beleeue amisse, because they are but imaginations or illusions. And surelie here the GloseGloss erreth not: for all those angelicall visions, which to confirme their superstitions withall, their …

    Francis Trigge · Touchstone to Determine the True Catholic Faith · p. 135 · Open in the reader

Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking A15295

  • Printed
    … in euery earthly kingdom. Here is much a doe: for here is first the GloseGloss vpon the text, somewhat obscure, then here is Thomas expoū ding the glosegloss, to …
    With rule
    … in euery earthly kingdom. Here is much a doe: for here is first the GloseGloss vpon the text, somewhat obscure, then here is Thomas expoū ding the glosegloss, to …

    Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader

A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths A20303

  • Printed
    … whole side, you haue not wanted, Schoole maisters, Greke readers, Lawyers, Canonistes, Ciuilians, Summystes, GloseGloss searchers, Diuines of all your sortes, and all others, that could do ought, haue …
    With rule
    … whole side, you haue not wanted, Schoole maisters, Greke readers, Lawyers, Canonistes, Ciuilians, Summystes, GloseGloss searchers, Diuines of all your sortes, and all others, that could do ought, haue …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … rehersall in your manner of eloquence, of Schoolemaisters, Gréeke readers, Lawyers, Canonistes, Ciuilians, Summystes, GloseGloss searchers. &c. with whom as with Maister Iuels helpers, like the lusty gréene Knight …
    With rule
    … rehersall in your manner of eloquence, of Schoolemaisters, Gréeke readers, Lawyers, Canonistes, Ciuilians, Summystes, GloseGloss searchers. &c. with whom as with Maister Iuels helpers, like the lusty gréene Knight …

    Edward Dering · A Sparing Restraint of Many Lavish Untruths · p. 12 · Open in the reader

A Treatise Concerning Antichrist A20740

  • Printed
    … is to be ordained. Therfore Antichristianisme is called the mystery of iniquitie: whereupon the GloseGloss saith, The impiety of Antichrist is mysticall, that is, cloaked vnder the name of …
    With rule
    … is to be ordained. Therfore Antichristianisme is called the mystery of iniquitie: whereupon the GloseGloss saith, The impiety of Antichrist is mysticall, that is, cloaked vnder the name of …

    George Downame · A Treatise Concerning Antichrist · p. 49 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    … playne contrary in the Scripture, thou mayſt not beleue the Scripture, but ſeke a GloſeGloss and an allegorie to make them agree. As whē the pope ſayth, ye be …
    With rule
    … playne contrary in the Scripture, thou mayſt not beleue the Scripture, but ſeke a GloſeGloss and an allegorie to make them agree. As whē the pope ſayth, ye be …

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · p. 293 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

  • Printed
    … very neare ſoonke. The ſame father writeth the lyke thyng vpon the .79. Pſalme. The GloſeGloss alſo in the Decrees .1. queſtion, the .1. Superueniente Paſcha, maketh mencion of the names of …
    With rule
    … very neare ſoonke. The ſame father writeth the lyke thyng vpon the .79. Pſalme. The GloſeGloss alſo in the Decrees .1. queſtion, the .1. Superueniente Paſcha, maketh mencion of the names of …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 139 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … yea agaynſt the will of their Lordes, ſuch matrimonyes ſhalbe ratified. Beholde, ſayeth the GloſeGloss, the Canons amende the ciuill lawes. For in them it is forbidden, that a …
    With rule
    … yea agaynſt the will of their Lordes, ſuch matrimonyes ſhalbe ratified. Beholde, ſayeth the GloſeGloss, the Canons amende the ciuill lawes. For in them it is forbidden, that a …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 215 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … offer, but the church can not nor ought not to receaue them. Yet the GloſeGloss doth much better decre in the decretals, diſt. 90. chap. Oblationis, namely that nothing at …
    With rule
    … offer, but the church can not nor ought not to receaue them. Yet the GloſeGloss doth much better decre in the decretals, diſt. 90. chap. Oblationis, namely that nothing at …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … is greater then he which is bleſſed. But Biſhops conſecrate and anoynt kinges. The GloſeGloss addeth: That of kinges onely the right ſhoulder is anointed, but the heades of …
    With rule
    … is greater then he which is bleſſed. But Biſhops conſecrate and anoynt kinges. The GloſeGloss addeth: That of kinges onely the right ſhoulder is anointed, but the heades of …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 257 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Iuſtinian declareth that his power was geuen him of the deuine maieſty. And the GloſeGloss (in Extrauag. de maioritate & obediencia in the chapter vnam ſanctam toward the end, ſaith …
    With rule
    … Iuſtinian declareth that his power was geuen him of the deuine maieſty. And the GloſeGloss (in Extrauag. de maioritate & obediencia in the chapter vnam ſanctam toward the end, ſaith …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader