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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8111 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

summessums

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

Puritas changed it
806 times in 435 works
Consistency
95.0% (806 of 848)
Reach if approved
~891 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sums
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
848 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (806 changes in 435 works, 95.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 806)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Unto what ſummessums my uſuries amount:
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    Unto what ſummessums my uſuries amount:

    Edward Calver · The Four Ages of Man · p. 45 · Open in the reader

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    … bee his, whereof Vasques doubteth in his 180. Disputation, upon the 3. part of Thomas his summessums) saith, the bread and wine are changed into the veritie of Christs flesh: in …
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    … bee his, whereof Vasques doubteth in his 180. Disputation, upon the 3. part of Thomas his summessums) saith, the bread and wine are changed into the veritie of Christs flesh: in …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſtaruing fopperies of Popery in this Land, what better nouriſhment, than thoſe no ſmall ſummessums which are daily ſqueezed from many ſimple burden-bearing Animals, whoſe radicall moyſture of …
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    … ſtaruing fopperies of Popery in this Land, what better nouriſhment, than thoſe no ſmall ſummessums which are daily ſqueezed from many ſimple burden-bearing Animals, whoſe radicall moyſture of …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … gift, in the ſight of God, the rewarder of euery worke, as the great ſummessums of Princes in the eyes of men. As for the gift of the couetous …
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    … gift, in the ſight of God, the rewarder of euery worke, as the great ſummessums of Princes in the eyes of men. As for the gift of the couetous …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 284 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … mercie and long compaſsions to heale them. Though the debts you owe bee great ſummessums, Gods mercie is not ſtinted to any number, and he that is infinite in …
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    … mercie and long compaſsions to heale them. Though the debts you owe bee great ſummessums, Gods mercie is not ſtinted to any number, and he that is infinite in …

    Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 385 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … boughte or solde: for I haue hearde saye manye tymes, that some payed greate summessums of money for theyr offices: No man can persuade me, that these men entende …
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    … boughte or solde: for I haue hearde saye manye tymes, that some payed greate summessums of money for theyr offices: No man can persuade me, that these men entende …

    Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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    … want of earthly things? There is not any earthly father, that doth with great ſummessums of money, purchaſe large poſſeſsions for his ſonne, and meaneth to beſtow on him …
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    … want of earthly things? There is not any earthly father, that doth with great ſummessums of money, purchaſe large poſſeſsions for his ſonne, and meaneth to beſtow on him …

    Paul Baynes · The Mirror or Miracle of Gods Love Unto the World of His Elect · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    For Meditation conſiders her obiects peece by peece; but Contemplation ſummessums them vp all together, and ſees as in a groſſe, all the ſeuerall beauties …
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    For Meditation conſiders her obiects peece by peece; but Contemplation ſummessums them vp all together, and ſees as in a groſſe, all the ſeuerall beauties …

    Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 5 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (42)

16 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 26 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Ecclesiastes A02031

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    … as tokens of ſmall weight, but of great value, are more acceptable then great SummesSums, I truſt that this ſmall gaine of my one Talent, which I preſent to …
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    … as tokens of ſmall weight, but of great value, are more acceptable then great SummesSums, I truſt that this ſmall gaine of my one Talent, which I preſent to …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

Discovery of Jacksons Vanity A14095

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    … he fetche this …pinion of Cajetan? no… out of his Commentaries upon Aquinas hi… SummesSums, where is the proper place for a Schooleman to manifest his opinion herabouts; but …
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    … he fetche this …pinion of Cajetan? no… out of his Commentaries upon Aquinas hi… SummesSums, where is the proper place for a Schooleman to manifest his opinion herabouts; but …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 87 · Open in the reader

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    … received to bee canonicall Scripture amongst them, I have already shewed out of his SummesSums: God (saith he) loves all things, in as much as he willeth unto them …
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    … received to bee canonicall Scripture amongst them, I have already shewed out of his SummesSums: God (saith he) loves all things, in as much as he willeth unto them …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 526 · Open in the reader

The Whole Sum of Christian Religion A17244

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    HAuing already made declaration of my purpoſe and meaning in ſetting forth theſe two SummesSums of Chriſtian Religion (as appeareth in the Preface that goeth before) I ſhal not …
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    HAuing already made declaration of my purpoſe and meaning in ſetting forth theſe two SummesSums of Chriſtian Religion (as appeareth in the Preface that goeth before) I ſhal not …

    Edmund Bunny · The Whole Sum of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift A18078

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    … as it were / and to paſſe ouer with a light foote / the Heades / and SummesSums of things / then to number the faultes which are almoſt / as many as there …
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    … as it were / and to paſſe ouer with a light foote / the Heades / and SummesSums of things / then to number the faultes which are almoſt / as many as there …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 220 · Open in the reader

A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines A33301

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    … Tileni Syntagma, Bucanus, and such like. To some others, he would commeend Aquinas his SummesSums (which Dr. John Reynolds used to call That absolute Body of Divinity) Melcheor Canus …
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    … Tileni Syntagma, Bucanus, and such like. To some others, he would commeend Aquinas his SummesSums (which Dr. John Reynolds used to call That absolute Body of Divinity) Melcheor Canus …

    Samuel Clarke · A Collection of the Lives of Ten Eminent Divines · p. 314 · Open in the reader

The Lives of Twenty-Two Eminent English Divines A33332

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    … his hand, and notes upon it throughout; yet he continued longer in Aquinas, whose SummesSums he would sometimes read as the Barbar cut his hair, and when fell upon …
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    … his hand, and notes upon it throughout; yet he continued longer in Aquinas, whose SummesSums he would sometimes read as the Barbar cut his hair, and when fell upon …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Twenty-Two Eminent English Divines · p. 99 · Open in the reader

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    … peruse the Schoolmen first, and then come to the modern Writers; but first read SummesSums and Systemes in Divinity, and settle their opinions and judgements, and then read Fathers …
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    … peruse the Schoolmen first, and then come to the modern Writers; but first read SummesSums and Systemes in Divinity, and settle their opinions and judgements, and then read Fathers …

    Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Twenty-Two Eminent English Divines · p. 105 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

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    … and a good Poet, Oratour, and Divine. He wrote an abridgment of Thomas his SummesSums, the Translation of Osorius into English, &c. Being a zealous Papist he could not …
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    … and a good Poet, Oratour, and Divine. He wrote an abridgment of Thomas his SummesSums, the Translation of Osorius into English, &c. Being a zealous Papist he could not …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 36 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms A56211

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    … in c. 3. Iudicum. Hieronymus Blanca Rerum Aragonens. Commentarius, passim. Cajetan: upon Aquinas his forecited SummesSums. the Doctors of Sala…ancha in their Determination, Anno 1602. recorded by G. Blackwell, qu …
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    … in c. 3. Iudicum. Hieronymus Blanca Rerum Aragonens. Commentarius, passim. Cajetan: upon Aquinas his forecited SummesSums. the Doctors of Sala…ancha in their Determination, Anno 1602. recorded by G. Blackwell, qu …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments and Kingdoms · p. 187 · Open in the reader

The Burning of London A57597

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    … ſelf, as if the abridgement of a Book in Folio (be it Aquinas his SummesSums or any other ſuch) ſhould go by the name of Aquinas his Sums (or …
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    … ſelf, as if the abridgement of a Book in Folio (be it Aquinas his SummesSums or any other ſuch) ſhould go by the name of Aquinas his Sums (or …

    Samuel Rolle · The Burning of London · p. 20 · Open in the reader

A Short Memorial of the Sufferings of Presbyterians in Scotland A59965

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    The SummesSums here charged upon these Gentlemen, are collected from the Minutes the Writer had by …
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    The SummesSums here charged upon these Gentlemen, are collected from the Minutes the Writer had by …

    Alexander Shields · A Short Memorial of the Sufferings of Presbyterians in Scotland · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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    … by him, which he is certain are computed within the extent of the several SummesSums. The rest here named did also extort Considerable SummesSums, to their own gain and …
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    … by him, which he is certain are computed within the extent of the several SummesSums. The rest here named did also extort Considerable SummesSums, to their own gain and …

    Alexander Shields · A Short Memorial of the Sufferings of Presbyterians in Scotland · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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    … the extent of the several SummesSums. The rest here named did also extort Considerable SummesSums, to their own gain and the poor Peoples loss; but because the forsaid Minuts …
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    … the extent of the several SummesSums. The rest here named did also extort Considerable SummesSums, to their own gain and the poor Peoples loss; but because the forsaid Minuts …

    Alexander Shields · A Short Memorial of the Sufferings of Presbyterians in Scotland · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Riches of Gods Love A64002

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    … Divines of Salamancha in this; In his 129 diſputation upon the firſt part of his SummesSums. As for Proſper he hath no ſuch argument. But firſt obſerve the Objection whereunto …
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    … Divines of Salamancha in this; In his 129 diſputation upon the firſt part of his SummesSums. As for Proſper he hath no ſuch argument. But firſt obſerve the Objection whereunto …

    William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 52 · Open in the reader

The Sovereign Power of Parliaments Part 4 A91185

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    … in c. 3. Iudicum. Hieronymus Blanca Rerum Aragonenſ. Commentarius, paſſim. Cajetan: upon Aquinas his forecited SummesSums. the Doctors of Salamancha in their Determination, Anno 1602. recorded by G. Blackwell, qu Bip …
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    … in c. 3. Iudicum. Hieronymus Blanca Rerum Aragonenſ. Commentarius, paſſim. Cajetan: upon Aquinas his forecited SummesSums. the Doctors of Salamancha in their Determination, Anno 1602. recorded by G. Blackwell, qu Bip …

    William Prynne · The Sovereign Power of Parliaments Part 4 · p. 187 · Open in the reader