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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8161 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

muddemud

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

Puritas changed it
138 times in 99 works
Consistency
97.1% (138 of 142)
Reach if approved
~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mud
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (138 changes in 99 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 138)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it and ſet it for inciſion; and if a timber logge lye ſunke into muddemud, men ſet to their tacklings firſt to draw it out of the mire, before …
    With rule
    … it and ſet it for inciſion; and if a timber logge lye ſunke into muddemud, men ſet to their tacklings firſt to draw it out of the mire, before …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 355 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of grace within, that will worke out all impurity, as a spring workes out muddemud: he that thus purifies himselfe still, though the fountaine be muddy, though there be …
    With rule
    … of grace within, that will worke out all impurity, as a spring workes out muddemud: he that thus purifies himselfe still, though the fountaine be muddy, though there be …

    John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … their owne would not sticke to write of 6000. heads of infants found in the muddemud of some one of them. But because it is a shame to speake in …
    With rule
    … their owne would not sticke to write of 6000. heads of infants found in the muddemud of some one of them. But because it is a shame to speake in …

    Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … thoſe creatures, which you confeſſe before, to take their beginning from the ſlyme, and muddemud of the earth, and water mingled together. They come of the corruption of thoſe …
    With rule
    … thoſe creatures, which you confeſſe before, to take their beginning from the ſlyme, and muddemud of the earth, and water mingled together. They come of the corruption of thoſe …

    Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 149 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not neede to go bibbling heere and there, nor to lap or licke vp muddemud and stinking water one where or other, for want of meate ad drink that …
    With rule
    … not neede to go bibbling heere and there, nor to lap or licke vp muddemud and stinking water one where or other, for want of meate ad drink that …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … off the ſin that hangeth on ſo faſt. I am like one in the muddemud, who the more he ſtruggleth with his feet to get out, the deeper he …
    With rule
    … off the ſin that hangeth on ſo faſt. I am like one in the muddemud, who the more he ſtruggleth with his feet to get out, the deeper he …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … God, I feele the corrupt fountaine ſtopped, ſo that the filthy matter, and ſtinking muddemud doeth not boyle foorth as it did. It may alſo bee demaunded heere, whether …
    With rule
    … God, I feele the corrupt fountaine ſtopped, ſo that the filthy matter, and ſtinking muddemud doeth not boyle foorth as it did. It may alſo bee demaunded heere, whether …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons Upon the Seven Chief Virtues · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and discourtesies as are offered him by other men. Then when there is no muddemud left in the bottome, let there be what shaking or joggling there will be …
    With rule
    … and discourtesies as are offered him by other men. Then when there is no muddemud left in the bottome, let there be what shaking or joggling there will be …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 12 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.