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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8153 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lappelap

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

Puritas changed it
215 times in 142 works
Consistency
98.1% (215 of 219)
Reach if approved
~231 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lap
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
220 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (215 changes in 142 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 215)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … paſſionate; it properly ſignifieth a confuſion or mixture of things caſt out of the lappelap, without regarde of order. Redreſſe his way. heb. iezakkeh, in the con ugation piel …
    With rule
    … paſſionate; it properly ſignifieth a confuſion or mixture of things caſt out of the lappelap, without regarde of order. Redreſſe his way. heb. iezakkeh, in the con ugation piel …

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 312 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or diſpoſing of it (as he expoundeth Iudgment) to a Lot caſt into the lappelap, as that Every diſpoſing, is all one with The whole diſpoſing. This place ſo …
    With rule
    … or diſpoſing of it (as he expoundeth Iudgment) to a Lot caſt into the lappelap, as that Every diſpoſing, is all one with The whole diſpoſing. This place ſo …

    James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … your eares, and say ye knowe no God besides him which was in the lappelap of the virgine Marie and suckt her breastes. Where this God Christ Iesus is …
    With rule
    … your eares, and say ye knowe no God besides him which was in the lappelap of the virgine Marie and suckt her breastes. Where this God Christ Iesus is …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 213 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … to the place of his banishment. Likewise the Soule that is lodged in the lappelap of his God, and come home into his natiue soyle, forgoeth the desire of …
    With rule
    … to the place of his banishment. Likewise the Soule that is lodged in the lappelap of his God, and come home into his natiue soyle, forgoeth the desire of …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 251 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … child desires to be with his father, and is best pleased on his mothers lappelap, or in his fathers armes: herein therefore we must testifie our selues to be …
    With rule
    … child desires to be with his father, and is best pleased on his mothers lappelap, or in his fathers armes: herein therefore we must testifie our selues to be …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 259 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … wee had used the meanes once, wee should lay our heads downe in Gods lappelap, as quiet as if wee had nothing to doe: but alas, if we have …
    With rule
    … wee had used the meanes once, wee should lay our heads downe in Gods lappelap, as quiet as if wee had nothing to doe: but alas, if we have …

    John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 486 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not strewed with rushes; no more is the cradle of ease in a womans lappelap: if thou wert a seruant, or in bondage before, yet when thou marriest, thy …
    With rule
    … not strewed with rushes; no more is the cradle of ease in a womans lappelap: if thou wert a seruant, or in bondage before, yet when thou marriest, thy …

    Joseph Swetnam · The Arraignment of Lewd Women · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … It was neuer sayd, Samson hath lost his strength, till hee slept in the lappelap of Dalila. Idlenesse doth neither get nor saue: there is nothing more emptie of …
    With rule
    … It was neuer sayd, Samson hath lost his strength, till hee slept in the lappelap of Dalila. Idlenesse doth neither get nor saue: there is nothing more emptie of …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 40 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker A03243

  • Printed
    … are, word for word, thus in the Originall, [The Lord is cast into the LappeLap, but every iudgment, or diſpoſing of it, is of God.] Doth not confuting them …
    With rule
    … are, word for word, thus in the Originall, [The Lord is cast into the LappeLap, but every iudgment, or diſpoſing of it, is of God.] Doth not confuting them …

    James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 89 · Open in the reader