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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8054 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

yeldingyielding

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

Puritas changed it
94 times in 56 works
Consistency
98.9% (94 of 95)
Reach if approved
~100 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: yielding
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
95 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (94 changes in 56 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 94)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … we be worſe than brute beaſtes for our inioying of Gods ineſtimable benefites without yeldingyielding him any honour or ſeruice for them. And now for a concluſion Iob ſayeth …
    With rule
    … we be worſe than brute beaſtes for our inioying of Gods ineſtimable benefites without yeldingyielding him any honour or ſeruice for them. And now for a concluſion Iob ſayeth …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 491 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the credulous readers, with haeretical and superstitious opinions, and to alienate their harts from yeldingyielding due obedience to your Maiestie, and your most Christian lawes concerning true Religion established …
    With rule
    … the credulous readers, with haeretical and superstitious opinions, and to alienate their harts from yeldingyielding due obedience to your Maiestie, and your most Christian lawes concerning true Religion established …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vs againe, & imputeth vnto vs truth & righteouſnes for this faithes ſake: for faith, in yeldingyielding to God his own, doth work truth & righteouſnes, and therfore God doth recōpence our …
    With rule
    … vs againe, & imputeth vnto vs truth & righteouſnes for this faithes ſake: for faith, in yeldingyielding to God his own, doth work truth & righteouſnes, and therfore God doth recōpence our …

    Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … why you accept the one and refuse the other, because the wordes of Chrysostome yeldingyielding a certaine primacy to Peter, may deceiue the simple, as though he meant that …
    With rule
    … why you accept the one and refuse the other, because the wordes of Chrysostome yeldingyielding a certaine primacy to Peter, may deceiue the simple, as though he meant that …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſuch great obſeruers of the numbers, as the Papiſticall doctors, and namely Durand, who yeldingyielding the reaſon wherefore the Chriſtians keepe certaine daies dedicated to the commemoration of the …
    With rule
    … ſuch great obſeruers of the numbers, as the Papiſticall doctors, and namely Durand, who yeldingyielding the reaſon wherefore the Chriſtians keepe certaine daies dedicated to the commemoration of the …

    Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that, extolling foolish yonge men, and contemning old ſages. And King Ioas moſt notably: yeldingyielding from his rich counſellers, to the foolish Idoleſervers. And his grandfather Ioram greatly vvanted …
    With rule
    … that, extolling foolish yonge men, and contemning old ſages. And King Ioas moſt notably: yeldingyielding from his rich counſellers, to the foolish Idoleſervers. And his grandfather Ioram greatly vvanted …

    Hugh Broughton · A Comment Upon Coheleth · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by the faithful, when they dedicate themselues to him both in bodie & soule, by yeldingyielding vp their ownselues, yt he may be glorified in them. Marke that for one …
    With rule
    … by the faithful, when they dedicate themselues to him both in bodie & soule, by yeldingyielding vp their ownselues, yt he may be glorified in them. Marke that for one …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 426 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … were wicked things in him, and ſo farre from doing good to him, and yeldingyielding him any comfort in time of his afflicted conſcience, that they rather were torments …
    With rule
    … were wicked things in him, and ſo farre from doing good to him, and yeldingyielding him any comfort in time of his afflicted conſcience, that they rather were torments …

    John Dod · A Bright Star which Leadeth Wise Men to our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Christians Daily Sacrifice A19284

  • Printed
    3 YeldingYielding more vnto them indeede then is theirs.
    With rule
    3 YeldingYielding more vnto them indeede then is theirs.

    Thomas Cooper · The Christians Daily Sacrifice · p. 68 · Open in the reader