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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8105 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ruyneruin

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

Puritas changed it
74 times in 52 works
Consistency
100% (74 of 74)
Reach if approved
~78 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ruin
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
74 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (74 changes in 52 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 74)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the destructiō of Hierusalē / and by the Apostles folowers before the diuisiō and first ruyneruin and ye Romish empire / he called his disparsed rēnaunt / so doth he now agayne …
    With rule
    … the destructiō of Hierusalē / and by the Apostles folowers before the diuisiō and first ruyneruin and ye Romish empire / he called his disparsed rēnaunt / so doth he now agayne …

    John Bale · The Vocation of John Bale to the Bishopric · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … recording the example of the Iewes, wee become more circumspecte, and learne by their ruyneruin, what we ought to feare, and what wee ought to eschewe? First, That beeyng …
    With rule
    … recording the example of the Iewes, wee become more circumspecte, and learne by their ruyneruin, what we ought to feare, and what wee ought to eschewe? First, That beeyng …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Whych now in our kynde, mannys ruyneruin wyll restore.
    With rule
    Whych now in our kynde, mannys ruyneruin wyll restore.

    John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Of Flowdon felde the ruyneruin to reuolue
    With rule
    Of Flowdon felde the ruyneruin to reuolue

    David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    In al the earth ſhall not reſt but ruyneruin
    With rule
    In al the earth ſhall not reſt but ruyneruin

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and vaine queſtions which as the Apoſtle ſaith like gangrenes doe freat to the ruyneruin off the churche. And doth it not require a merueilous great diligence and ſinguler …
    With rule
    … and vaine queſtions which as the Apoſtle ſaith like gangrenes doe freat to the ruyneruin off the churche. And doth it not require a merueilous great diligence and ſinguler …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 96 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … lefull wyues, whome I pray you dothe it profyt a pynne: yet what a ruyneruin and decay it hathe ben and is to the churches, who can expresse it …
    With rule
    … lefull wyues, whome I pray you dothe it profyt a pynne: yet what a ruyneruin and decay it hathe ben and is to the churches, who can expresse it …

    Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … eate of it, folowing thine example. Beholde nowe how thou art cauſe of hys ruyneruin, or elſe, if he abſteyn, he is troubled in his harte, thynkynge yt thou …
    With rule
    … eate of it, folowing thine example. Beholde nowe how thou art cauſe of hys ruyneruin, or elſe, if he abſteyn, he is troubled in his harte, thynkynge yt thou …

    John Calvin · What a Faithful Man Dwelling Among Papists Ought to Do · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.