Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8052 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wytteswits

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

Puritas changed it: 104 times in 61 works
Consistency: 100% (104 of 104)
Reach if approved: ~109 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wits
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 104 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (104 changes in 61 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 104)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a plowe man to vnderſtāde what bread is. Thus would you cap…tue our wytteswits, to take Chriſte and hys Apoſtles as blinde guides. leadynge vs wronge by theyr …
With rule
… a plowe man to vnderſtāde what bread is. Thus would you cap…tue our wytteswits, to take Chriſte and hys Apoſtles as blinde guides. leadynge vs wronge by theyr …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxxxix · Open in the reader
Printed
What, thu wylt not fyght? thy wytteswits are better thā so
With rule
What, thu wylt not fyght? thy wytteswits are better thā so
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… maner honourynge or worſhyppynge of god ſhuld be ſette vp of any mans owne wytteswits & deuocyon, beſyde that onely honoure and worſhyppe whiche he hathe cōmaūded in faythe & charytie …
With rule
… maner honourynge or worſhyppynge of god ſhuld be ſette vp of any mans owne wytteswits & deuocyon, beſyde that onely honoure and worſhyppe whiche he hathe cōmaūded in faythe & charytie …
Martin Luther · Against the New Idol and Old Devil · Open in the reader
Printed
… able in dede to do. Though he promyse it, as one out of his wytteswits, yet thoughe he wyth all hys shoulde bee solde, he is not able to …
With rule
… able in dede to do. Though he promyse it, as one out of his wytteswits, yet thoughe he wyth all hys shoulde bee solde, he is not able to …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… full and vnluſty to laboure and ſtudy / vnſtable inconſtant and lyght manered / full of wytteswits, after wytted (as we call it) incyrcumſpecte in conſyderat, hedy, raſhe, and haſtye to …
With rule
… full and vnluſty to laboure and ſtudy / vnſtable inconſtant and lyght manered / full of wytteswits, after wytted (as we call it) incyrcumſpecte in conſyderat, hedy, raſhe, and haſtye to …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. lxxvi · Open in the reader
Printed
… readye to ſtop theyr throtes, but dyd it while they hadde tyme, and theyr wytteswits and vnderſtandyng perfecte. Of the whych alſo Ieſus Chriſte hathe gyuen vs an exemple …
With rule
… readye to ſtop theyr throtes, but dyd it while they hadde tyme, and theyr wytteswits and vnderſtandyng perfecte. Of the whych alſo Ieſus Chriſte hathe gyuen vs an exemple …
Pierre Viret · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · Open in the reader
Printed
… his father, to purge oure sinnes: men haue on the contrarie, by theyr owne wytteswits commented, that it is a sacrifyce wherby we obtayne of god remission of sinnes …
With rule
… his father, to purge oure sinnes: men haue on the contrarie, by theyr owne wytteswits commented, that it is a sacrifyce wherby we obtayne of god remission of sinnes …
John Calvin · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… would not vniuerſally be deceaued by it But I pray you Sirs, (if your wytteswits be your owne) if Poſſeſſion carry no meaning of inherency, what hurt could the …
With rule
… would not vniuerſally be deceaued by it But I pray you Sirs, (if your wytteswits be your owne) if Poſſeſſion carry no meaning of inherency, what hurt could the …
John Darrell · A Survey of Dialogical Discourses · p. 2 · 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.