Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8021 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

grauitiegravity

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

Puritas changed it: 409 times in 187 works
Consistency: 97.6% (409 of 419)
Reach if approved: ~440 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gravity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 419 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (409 changes in 187 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 409)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… exercised therein. He which liueth honestly, and without reprose hauing horenesse of maners, authoritie, grauitiegravity, and high knowledge in the worde of God.
With rule
… exercised therein. He which liueth honestly, and without reprose hauing horenesse of maners, authoritie, grauitiegravity, and high knowledge in the worde of God.
Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he was commended by the Ambassadors to the king for his singular wisedome, grauitiegravity, and learning, that he wonne such great credit that he was alone sent Ambassador …
With rule
… that he was commended by the Ambassadors to the king for his singular wisedome, grauitiegravity, and learning, that he wonne such great credit that he was alone sent Ambassador …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 315 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſmiling and ioyfull laughter, for any thing I know, which may ſtand with ſober grauitiegravity, and with the beſt mans pietie, iuſtly occaſioned from the right apprehenſion of things …
With rule
… ſmiling and ioyfull laughter, for any thing I know, which may ſtand with ſober grauitiegravity, and with the beſt mans pietie, iuſtly occaſioned from the right apprehenſion of things …
Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · Open in the reader
Printed
… to old men, with an honor, in respect of their wisedome, their experience, their grauitiegravity, wherewith the gray heares are wont to be accompanied; to all, but chiefly to …
With rule
… to old men, with an honor, in respect of their wisedome, their experience, their grauitiegravity, wherewith the gray heares are wont to be accompanied; to all, but chiefly to …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so fouly fallen from the aun…ient steppes of her auncestours, from faith, from grauitiegravity, from religious life: not that other auncient Rome long sithens buried, raked in graue …
With rule
… so fouly fallen from the aun…ient steppes of her auncestours, from faith, from grauitiegravity, from religious life: not that other auncient Rome long sithens buried, raked in graue …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… confeſſeth leiturgies were before Antichriſt, and yet ſaith he was the deuiſer. See the grauitiegravity of this man: he is ſore afraide that hee ſhould here againe be ſaid …
With rule
… confeſſeth leiturgies were before Antichriſt, and yet ſaith he was the deuiſer. See the grauitiegravity of this man: he is ſore afraide that hee ſhould here againe be ſaid …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 109 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Church of God, do by reaſon of their outward habite & ſemblance of grauitiegravity, make the wearied, diſtreſſed & perplexed Chriſtian conceiue, that if he haue recourſe to them …
With rule
… in the Church of God, do by reaſon of their outward habite & ſemblance of grauitiegravity, make the wearied, diſtreſſed & perplexed Chriſtian conceiue, that if he haue recourſe to them …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he commanded that all the temples should be cast downe, affirming with muche grauitiegravity, that commandement to haue come from God. Immediatly the thing was obeied, and that …
With rule
… that he commanded that all the temples should be cast downe, affirming with muche grauitiegravity, that commandement to haue come from God. Immediatly the thing was obeied, and that …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 408 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

Printed
… thy ſelfe in thy Miniſtery, that they may reuerence and feare thee, for thy GrauitieGravity and Maieſtie therein.
With rule
… thy ſelfe in thy Miniſtery, that they may reuerence and feare thee, for thy GrauitieGravity and Maieſtie therein.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
Honeſtie in Scripture imports three things. Firſt, Vertuous goodneſſe. Secondly, GrauitieGravity. Thirdly, Seemelineſſe or decencie. I am willing to follow the Authentique Tranſlation; and thinke …
With rule
Honeſtie in Scripture imports three things. Firſt, Vertuous goodneſſe. Secondly, GrauitieGravity. Thirdly, Seemelineſſe or decencie. I am willing to follow the Authentique Tranſlation; and thinke …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 313 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

Printed
4 GrauitieGravity, which is a vertu that obſerueth that which becommeth a mans perſon, and ſheweth …
With rule
4 GrauitieGravity, which is a vertu that obſerueth that which becommeth a mans perſon, and ſheweth …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · Open in the reader