Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8065 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beginnesbegins

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

Puritas changed it: 620 times in 235 works
Consistency: 99.6% (620 of 622)
Reach if approved: ~654 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: begins
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 622 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (620 changes in 235 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 620)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hauing declared the great Mysterie of saluation, he takes himselfe vpon the sudden, and beginnesbegins to thinke with himselfe, though I shew you all this, it is to no …
With rule
… hauing declared the great Mysterie of saluation, he takes himselfe vpon the sudden, and beginnesbegins to thinke with himselfe, though I shew you all this, it is to no …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
GOds Word is often compared to Raine or Deaw. Moses beginnesbegins his Song with My doctrine shall drop as the raine, my speech shal distill …
With rule
GOds Word is often compared to Raine or Deaw. Moses beginnesbegins his Song with My doctrine shall drop as the raine, my speech shal distill …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… boughes, which are the highest parts, and commonly beare the ripest fruits, and hee beginnesbegins cleane contrary, at the lowest part; at the very roote; for indeed, although the …
With rule
… boughes, which are the highest parts, and commonly beare the ripest fruits, and hee beginnesbegins cleane contrary, at the lowest part; at the very roote; for indeed, although the …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… argues a decaying of his ſpirituall ſtrength. As in bodily labour, when a man beginnesbegins to giue in, when there is not that ſtrength and power in his armes …
With rule
… argues a decaying of his ſpirituall ſtrength. As in bodily labour, when a man beginnesbegins to giue in, when there is not that ſtrength and power in his armes …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 245 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſimple, compared with our enduring houſe in heauen. Our warning out of them beginnesbegins with the firſt moment of our naturall life: for ſo ſoone as wee beginne …
With rule
… and ſimple, compared with our enduring houſe in heauen. Our warning out of them beginnesbegins with the firſt moment of our naturall life: for ſo ſoone as wee beginne …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Such as he giues to, or they could not re-giue. Such as hee beginnesbegins it in, or they could doe no good. Such as he goes on with …
With rule
… Such as he giues to, or they could not re-giue. Such as hee beginnesbegins it in, or they could doe no good. Such as he goes on with …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my soule desireth after thee as the thirstie land. Lastly… after this desire he beginnesbegins to pray, not for any worldly benefit, but onely for the forgiuenesse of his …
With rule
… my soule desireth after thee as the thirstie land. Lastly… after this desire he beginnesbegins to pray, not for any worldly benefit, but onely for the forgiuenesse of his …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 590 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his brother. And therefore let vs take heede of this sinne, euen when it beginnesbegins to creepe vpon vs.
With rule
… his brother. And therefore let vs take heede of this sinne, euen when it beginnesbegins to creepe vpon vs.
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 424 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
BeginnesBegins, immediately, to vary from
With rule
BeginnesBegins, immediately, to vary from
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
BeginnesBegins to blow Affection's fire;
With rule
BeginnesBegins to blow Affection's fire;
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 114 · Open in the reader