Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8023 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hayrehair

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

Puritas changed it: 280 times in 152 works
Consistency: 97.5% (280 of 287)
Reach if approved: ~302 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hair
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 287 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (280 changes in 152 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 280)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Secondly, a Watch muſt be charily kept, the leaſt duſt, hayrehair, iogge almoſt diſtempers it; ſo the Conſcience, a little duſt in this eye marres …
With rule
Secondly, a Watch muſt be charily kept, the leaſt duſt, hayrehair, iogge almoſt diſtempers it; ſo the Conſcience, a little duſt in this eye marres …
Robert Harris · Two Sermons 2 · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their ſervice of GOD, their maſſe, their preceſſions, Palme branches, aſhes ſprinkled, their whippings, hayrehair clothes, holy water, cenſings, pilgrimages, adoration of reliques, &c. For look as children will …
With rule
… their ſervice of GOD, their maſſe, their preceſſions, Palme branches, aſhes ſprinkled, their whippings, hayrehair clothes, holy water, cenſings, pilgrimages, adoration of reliques, &c. For look as children will …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 243 · Open in the reader
Printed
… This is more elegantly denoted in the Canticles; where the Spouſe pleates vp her hayrehair, truſſing it vp in one knot, to ſhew that wee ſhould not diffuſe our …
With rule
… This is more elegantly denoted in the Canticles; where the Spouſe pleates vp her hayrehair, truſſing it vp in one knot, to ſhew that wee ſhould not diffuſe our …
Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… owners name thereon. And this did I (saith Lucian) in my youth: and my hayrehair and name remaine in the Temple still. Of Atergatis see more in the chapter …
With rule
… owners name thereon. And this did I (saith Lucian) in my youth: and my hayrehair and name remaine in the Temple still. Of Atergatis see more in the chapter …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… iudgement dooth betray them, as ſtrength went from Sampſon when hee had loſt his hayrehair: till at laſt they may ſay like Zedechiah, When did the ſpirite departe from …
With rule
… iudgement dooth betray them, as ſtrength went from Sampſon when hee had loſt his hayrehair: till at laſt they may ſay like Zedechiah, When did the ſpirite departe from …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 665 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the third, although beleeuers be vnder the protection of God, who suffreth not an hayrehair to fall from their heads without his prouidence; yet may we not strip his …
With rule
… the third, although beleeuers be vnder the protection of God, who suffreth not an hayrehair to fall from their heads without his prouidence; yet may we not strip his …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 545 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poore, thy body to the fire, thy soule, to his seruice; yea were euery hayrehair of thine head a man or Angell, were not all short of recompence? Louest …
With rule
… poore, thy body to the fire, thy soule, to his seruice; yea were euery hayrehair of thine head a man or Angell, were not all short of recompence? Louest …
Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will grant, and being granted, will profit him nothing, hee is not thereby one hayrehair the neerer to this concluſion;
With rule
… will grant, and being granted, will profit him nothing, hee is not thereby one hayrehair the neerer to this concluſion;
Anthony Wotton · A Dangerous Plot Discovered · p. 62 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

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

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

Printed
4 HayreHair they had on theyr heades most lyke to the hayrehair of women. All wauering …
With rule
4 HayreHair they had on theyr heades most lyke to the hayrehair of women. All wauering …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader