Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8097 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oportunitieopportunity

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

Puritas changed it: 295 times in 153 works
Consistency: 99.6% (295 of 296)
Reach if approved: ~311 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: opportunity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 296 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (295 changes in 153 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 295)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he wyll playe all the other partes of Iudas, if he euer haue suche oportunitieopportunity as Iudas had.
With rule
… he wyll playe all the other partes of Iudas, if he euer haue suche oportunitieopportunity as Iudas had.
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached Third Sunday in Lent · Open in the reader
Printed
… light. The mariner or sea-faring man who obserues wind and weather, taketh the oportunitieopportunity of the time: the trauailer or way-faring man takes day before him, and …
With rule
… light. The mariner or sea-faring man who obserues wind and weather, taketh the oportunitieopportunity of the time: the trauailer or way-faring man takes day before him, and …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 598 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as euill, and prosecute them euen with virulent and bitter hatred, as farre as oportunitieopportunity, law, or power will giue them leaue; yea, many men are so rauing mad …
With rule
… as euill, and prosecute them euen with virulent and bitter hatred, as farre as oportunitieopportunity, law, or power will giue them leaue; yea, many men are so rauing mad …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, Not to requite or recompenſe the benefit to the beſtower, according to oportunitieopportunity: may ſome ſay, Can any recompenſe to the Lord his Kindneſſe? Behold, our wel …
With rule
Secondly, Not to requite or recompenſe the benefit to the beſtower, according to oportunitieopportunity: may ſome ſay, Can any recompenſe to the Lord his Kindneſſe? Behold, our wel …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 522 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thereof, as of both ſides they haue very much, ſo much time, leaſure and oportunitieopportunity hath Sathan got, to ſow and water his tares of Atheiſme, Papiſme, and of …
With rule
… thereof, as of both ſides they haue very much, ſo much time, leaſure and oportunitieopportunity hath Sathan got, to ſow and water his tares of Atheiſme, Papiſme, and of …
Thomas Sparke · Brotherly Persuasion to Unity and Uniformity · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my moſt bounden duetie to God, and to his church, whileſt I might haue oportunitieopportunity to ſpeak with him, to teach the truth in a generall ſpeech in ſuch …
With rule
… my moſt bounden duetie to God, and to his church, whileſt I might haue oportunitieopportunity to ſpeak with him, to teach the truth in a generall ſpeech in ſuch …
Walter Travers · Supplication to the Privy Council · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this. As in the greatest haruest we lose none occasion, but if we want oportunitieopportunity we craue it by prayer, and striue the more by labour to recompence the …
With rule
… this. As in the greatest haruest we lose none occasion, but if we want oportunitieopportunity we craue it by prayer, and striue the more by labour to recompence the …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 509 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not vtter, at this present, all that I can, but wil abide till such oportunitieopportunity, as God shal offer vnto me, to notifie his, and your poison to the …
With rule
… not vtter, at this present, all that I can, but wil abide till such oportunitieopportunity, as God shal offer vnto me, to notifie his, and your poison to the …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 210 · 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.

An Exposition Upon Colossians A17389

Printed
… doore of vtterance comprehends 5. things. 1. Libertie and free passage to preach the G…spell▪ 2. OportunitieOpportunity. 3. Power of preaching. 4. Courage and boldnesse, with full vent to rebuke mens sinnes, and …
With rule
… doore of vtterance comprehends 5. things. 1. Libertie and free passage to preach the G…spell▪ 2. OportunitieOpportunity. 3. Power of preaching. 4. Courage and boldnesse, with full vent to rebuke mens sinnes, and …
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 162 · Open in the reader