Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8039 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

styrrestir

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

Puritas changed it: 175 times in 76 works
Consistency: 100% (175 of 175)
Reach if approved: ~184 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stir
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 175 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (175 changes in 76 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 175)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… forbyd that the comō people, or any kynd of people shuld reise vp tumultes, styrrestir vp sedicions, lyfte vp their hande againste the hye powers.
With rule
… forbyd that the comō people, or any kynd of people shuld reise vp tumultes, styrrestir vp sedicions, lyfte vp their hande againste the hye powers.
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… by our excessiue ryot▪ and ryotouse excesse in apparell. For doth not y^e apparell styrrestir vppe the heart to pride? doth it not intice others to sinne? and doth …
With rule
… by our excessiue ryot▪ and ryotouse excesse in apparell. For doth not y^e apparell styrrestir vppe the heart to pride? doth it not intice others to sinne? and doth …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… mans remembrance, what demeanour and proceeding was vsed in cursing, excommunicating, and suche like styrrestir keeping, to disturbe, that victorious King of Englande, and the State of the whole …
With rule
… mans remembrance, what demeanour and proceeding was vsed in cursing, excommunicating, and suche like styrrestir keeping, to disturbe, that victorious King of Englande, and the State of the whole …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader
Printed
… not how ſtrangeneſſe for Abraham to be father of the worlde was fitteſt to ſtyrrestir ſtudie, woulde at the firſt ſtumble at the vnequalitie. And for the ſame cauſe …
With rule
… not how ſtrangeneſſe for Abraham to be father of the worlde was fitteſt to ſtyrrestir ſtudie, woulde at the firſt ſtumble at the vnequalitie. And for the ſame cauſe …
Hugh Broughton · Order of the World · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… onelie wyll waxe cruell againſt the ſeruaunts of Chriſt, but to theyr powers wyll ſtyrrestir vp others therevnto. It followeth. And caſteth them out of the Church. That is …
With rule
… onelie wyll waxe cruell againſt the ſeruaunts of Chriſt, but to theyr powers wyll ſtyrrestir vp others therevnto. It followeth. And caſteth them out of the Church. That is …
John Calvin · Daily Sermons Upon Jonah · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Popes supremacy as others. And I shall from tyme to tyme moue and styrrestir all other to do the lyke, to the vttermost of my power, and to …
With rule
… the Popes supremacy as others. And I shall from tyme to tyme moue and styrrestir all other to do the lyke, to the vttermost of my power, and to …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Submissions and Recantations · Open in the reader
Printed
… set vpon other mens cattell, which yet in the nature of dogs, would neuer styrrestir but when they are bidden: and so the harmes do come from the man …
With rule
… set vpon other mens cattell, which yet in the nature of dogs, would neuer styrrestir but when they are bidden: and so the harmes do come from the man …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… now in open relygion, in open doctryne as he dyd than, he woulde not styrrestir vppe erroniouse opynyons, he woulde haue kepte vs wythout contencyon, wythoute dyssencion. There is …
With rule
… now in open relygion, in open doctryne as he dyd than, he woulde not styrrestir vppe erroniouse opynyons, he woulde haue kepte vs wythout contencyon, wythoute dyssencion. There is …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · 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.