Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8077 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deliueriedelivery

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

Puritas changed it: 541 times in 190 works
Consistency: 96.7% (541 of 559)
Reach if approved: ~587 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: delivery
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 559 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (541 changes in 190 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 541)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… lay to your charge (vntruly as you say) that yee prescribe a meanes of deliueriedelivery from all daungers (euen when men sinned immediately against God) which is a pardon …
With rule
… lay to your charge (vntruly as you say) that yee prescribe a meanes of deliueriedelivery from all daungers (euen when men sinned immediately against God) which is a pardon …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seruants, nay his owne sonne, they put him to death. In the conuersion and deliueriedelivery of Niniueh I cannot but admire a double mercy of God, who (to vse …
With rule
… seruants, nay his owne sonne, they put him to death. In the conuersion and deliueriedelivery of Niniueh I cannot but admire a double mercy of God, who (to vse …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the day of that great Aſſize come, when there ſhall be a generall gaile-deliueriedelivery out of all priſons on earth, to ſend all ſuch priſoners to hell, there …
With rule
… the day of that great Aſſize come, when there ſhall be a generall gaile-deliueriedelivery out of all priſons on earth, to ſend all ſuch priſoners to hell, there …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
Your next reaſon, page 23. is ſlender. Readers pronounce the wordes of inſtitution with the deliueriedelivery of the element, therfore ſaye you they deliuer a ſacrament: you haue once already …
With rule
Your next reaſon, page 23. is ſlender. Readers pronounce the wordes of inſtitution with the deliueriedelivery of the element, therfore ſaye you they deliuer a ſacrament: you haue once already …
John Penry · Defense of Writings on the Ignorant Ministry · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the same God; Indeed God vsed man for his instrument, in the penning and deliueriedelivery of the scripture, but hee himselfe by his spirite is the sole author thereof.
With rule
… the same God; Indeed God vsed man for his instrument, in the penning and deliueriedelivery of the scripture, but hee himselfe by his spirite is the sole author thereof.
William Perkins · Mans Imaginations · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word which is read, borne, dooth properly ſignifie the time and griefe about the deliueriedelivery, and being brought in bed. So as that Dauids meaning is, as ſoone as …
With rule
… word which is read, borne, dooth properly ſignifie the time and griefe about the deliueriedelivery, and being brought in bed. So as that Dauids meaning is, as ſoone as …
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnmercifull, that in all this time none of them hath made a generall Gaole-deliueriedelivery. But our Purgatorie is the blood of Iesus Christ, which clenseth vs from sinne …
With rule
… vnmercifull, that in all this time none of them hath made a generall Gaole-deliueriedelivery. But our Purgatorie is the blood of Iesus Christ, which clenseth vs from sinne …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… commonly it was but chastisement and louing correction of our deare mother, for their deliueriedelivery from greater griefe in the life to come.
With rule
… commonly it was but chastisement and louing correction of our deare mother, for their deliueriedelivery from greater griefe in the life to come.
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 69 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (18)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 are listed here. 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Miscellanies Christian and Judaical A05462

Printed
… kept a flocke of sheepe, now he keepes a troupe of men. In the DeliuerieDelivery of the Law there, if you will stand with Israel in your place you …
With rule
… kept a flocke of sheepe, now he keepes a troupe of men. In the DeliuerieDelivery of the Law there, if you will stand with Israel in your place you …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 185 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… iudge, that most profitable Treasure, which is called Masóreth, that is to say, a DeliuerieDelivery, or Traditionall, because it doth deliuer abundantly and faithfully all the diuers Readings that …
With rule
… iudge, that most profitable Treasure, which is called Masóreth, that is to say, a DeliuerieDelivery, or Traditionall, because it doth deliuer abundantly and faithfully all the diuers Readings that …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 148 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

Printed
THis worde DeliuerieDelivery is reſpectiue. For all deliueriedelivery and libertie hath a reſpect to ſomewhat: to wit …
With rule
THis worde DeliuerieDelivery is reſpectiue. For all deliueriedelivery and libertie hath a reſpect to ſomewhat: to wit …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 226 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nowe DeliuerieDelivery from ſinne, is the perfect, both pardoning of ſinne, that it may not for …
With rule
Nowe DeliuerieDelivery from ſinne, is the perfect, both pardoning of ſinne, that it may not for …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but to bee perfected in the world to come. DeliuerieDelivery from death, is a DeliuerieDelivery, both from Deſperation, or the feeling of GODS wrath, which beeing in the wicked …
With rule
… but to bee perfected in the world to come. DeliuerieDelivery from death, is a DeliuerieDelivery, both from Deſperation, or the feeling of GODS wrath, which beeing in the wicked …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo of all good thinges which are contrarie to thoſe euils. It is called DeliuerieDelivery, becauſe men, without Chriſtes ſatisfaction, are helde as it were fettered in gyues, and …
With rule
… ſo of all good thinges which are contrarie to thoſe euils. It is called DeliuerieDelivery, becauſe men, without Chriſtes ſatisfaction, are helde as it were fettered in gyues, and …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thereof, to them eſpecially, vnto whom the doctrine of the Goſpell is vnknowen. The DeliuerieDelivery therefore of man is poſſible. And the cauſes of the poſſibleneſſe thereof are in …
With rule
… thereof, to them eſpecially, vnto whom the doctrine of the Goſpell is vnknowen. The DeliuerieDelivery therefore of man is poſſible. And the cauſes of the poſſibleneſſe thereof are in …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 227 · Open in the reader