Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8067 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blessyngeblessing

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

Puritas changed it: 104 times in 46 works
Consistency: 99.0% (104 of 105)
Reach if approved: ~110 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: blessing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 105 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 46 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 104)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… villains blessing they receyued so deuoutly. Consider also what benefittes euery way followed this blessyngeblessing: for sone after there fell so great extremitie of raine (as thoughe the heauen …
With rule
… villains blessing they receyued so deuoutly. Consider also what benefittes euery way followed this blessyngeblessing: for sone after there fell so great extremitie of raine (as thoughe the heauen …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… super caputuendencium: He that hydeth vp corne, shall be accursed amongest the people: but blessyngeblessing shal…e vpon theyr heades that bryngeth it furth to the Markettes to sell …
With rule
… super caputuendencium: He that hydeth vp corne, shall be accursed amongest the people: but blessyngeblessing shal…e vpon theyr heades that bryngeth it furth to the Markettes to sell …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… He syngeth Christes incarnacion, preachinge, workyng of miracles, passion, death, resurreccion ascencion, glory, the blessyngeblessing of all nacions, the conuersion of the Gē tiles withe all other misteries that …
With rule
… He syngeth Christes incarnacion, preachinge, workyng of miracles, passion, death, resurreccion ascencion, glory, the blessyngeblessing of all nacions, the conuersion of the Gē tiles withe all other misteries that …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… all our substaunce is nothyng, but so farforth as god by powryng forth his blessyngeblessing, shall prospere and encrease, & that which is in our hādes is none of ours …
With rule
… all our substaunce is nothyng, but so farforth as god by powryng forth his blessyngeblessing, shall prospere and encrease, & that which is in our hādes is none of ours …
Richard Taverner · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… yf Christe had made of that breade hys bodye, had made it in hys blessyngeblessing or els in gyuynge of thankes and not in the wordes of gyuynge for …
With rule
… yf Christe had made of that breade hys bodye, had made it in hys blessyngeblessing or els in gyuynge of thankes and not in the wordes of gyuynge for …
John Wycliffe · Wycliffes Wicket · Open in the reader
Printed
… Abraham his seruant an Angel to be the guide of his iourneye. Iacob in blessyngeblessing of Ephraim and Manasses praieth, that the Angell of the Lorde by whom he …
With rule
… Abraham his seruant an Angel to be the guide of his iourneye. Iacob in blessyngeblessing of Ephraim and Manasses praieth, that the Angell of the Lorde by whom he …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… not what thys bliſſing that the Iewes vſed ſhoulde meane: he calleth that ſame bleſſyngeblessing thankes geuynge. Declarynge therby, hat the blyſſynge that the Iewes vſed (whyche our ſauiour …
With rule
… not what thys bliſſing that the Iewes vſed ſhoulde meane: he calleth that ſame bleſſyngeblessing thankes geuynge. Declarynge therby, hat the blyſſynge that the Iewes vſed (whyche our ſauiour …
Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the 13 Articles · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the foreseyd Edithe, thā beynge abbesse of wylton, as she was crossynge ād blessyngeblessing her forhead. And moche delyghtynge therin, he toke yt in hys hande, and sayd …
With rule
… of the foreseyd Edithe, thā beynge abbesse of wylton, as she was crossynge ād blessyngeblessing her forhead. And moche delyghtynge therin, he toke yt in hys hande, and sayd …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 63 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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