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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8022 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

graynegrain

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

Puritas changed it
79 times in 58 works
Consistency
100% (79 of 79)
Reach if approved
~83 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: grain
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
79 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (79 changes in 58 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 79)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … meanes neither the like time &c, but where it is left, euen as a graynegrain of muſtard ſeede (viz. not onely for quantity but alſo for quality, quickneſſe, life …
    With rule
    … meanes neither the like time &c, but where it is left, euen as a graynegrain of muſtard ſeede (viz. not onely for quantity but alſo for quality, quickneſſe, life …

    Thomas Stoughton · The Dignity of Gods Children · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of the Iewell, hee found in the doung-hill, wee had rather haue a graynegrain of Barley, or any thing that testeth to the flesh, or is agreeable to …
    With rule
    … of the Iewell, hee found in the doung-hill, wee had rather haue a graynegrain of Barley, or any thing that testeth to the flesh, or is agreeable to …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … he woulde get a thousand pound a yeare by only bying and sellyng of graynegrain heave within thys realme. Yea and (as I hear say) Aldermeu are nowe a …
    With rule
    … he woulde get a thousand pound a yeare by only bying and sellyng of graynegrain heave within thys realme. Yea and (as I hear say) Aldermeu are nowe a …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … owne corne to mayntayne the cōmodide of ye poore but also by other mennes graynegrain, & hoorde it vp, vntyll they haue made a great dearth, and than, scarsenes of …
    With rule
    … owne corne to mayntayne the cōmodide of ye poore but also by other mennes graynegrain, & hoorde it vp, vntyll they haue made a great dearth, and than, scarsenes of …

    Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … callyng them togyther, in an open assemble graunted them frely a great quantitie of graynegrain. And when in hys spekyng of these thynges to the people, he chaunced to …
    With rule
    … callyng them togyther, in an open assemble graunted them frely a great quantitie of graynegrain. And when in hys spekyng of these thynges to the people, he chaunced to …

    Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom Book 2 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … all as touching thoſe which are departed out of this world, without hauing one graynegrain of that ſeede of the feare of God, but haue altogether reſiſted his ſpirite …
    With rule
    … all as touching thoſe which are departed out of this world, without hauing one graynegrain of that ſeede of the feare of God, but haue altogether reſiſted his ſpirite …

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 298 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … to put his name in, thou shalt eate before him the tythe of thy graynegrain, and of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first borne of thy …
    With rule
    … to put his name in, thou shalt eate before him the tythe of thy graynegrain, and of thy wine, and of thine oyle, and the first borne of thy …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 559 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is store of chaffe, is called an heape of corne, though not of pure graynegrain: so the faithfull though some drosse of hypocrisie and as the Prophet called it …
    With rule
    … is store of chaffe, is called an heape of corne, though not of pure graynegrain: so the faithfull though some drosse of hypocrisie and as the Prophet called it …

    George Downame · The Covenant of Grace · p. 209 · 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.