Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8173 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

saddesad

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

Puritas changed it: 200 times in 109 works
Consistency: 99.0% (200 of 202)
Reach if approved: ~212 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sad
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 202 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (200 changes in 109 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 200)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… haue done eny hurt, agayeſte them malycyouſlye or by any meanes haue made them ſaddesad, that we ſhall haue agaynſte vs, not a man but the hye God rular …
With rule
… haue done eny hurt, agayeſte them malycyouſlye or by any meanes haue made them ſaddesad, that we ſhall haue agaynſte vs, not a man but the hye God rular …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… erlye loueth, and tenderly inhalseth aboue al the other. Howe therfore can ye be saddesad? Howe can ye any otherwyse than reioyce and be mery, seynge that al doloure …
With rule
… erlye loueth, and tenderly inhalseth aboue al the other. Howe therfore can ye be saddesad? Howe can ye any otherwyse than reioyce and be mery, seynge that al doloure …
Thomas Becon · News Out of Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
… conscience toward God, and toward men, of all others to lead a most melancholike, saddesad, and vncomfortable life. For the truth is, this is the onely true ioy, all …
With rule
… conscience toward God, and toward men, of all others to lead a most melancholike, saddesad, and vncomfortable life. For the truth is, this is the onely true ioy, all …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 518 · Open in the reader
Printed
… two mundaies and one thursday: vnto the three and thirtieth day after, they are saddesad and heauie, in remembrance of R. Akhiba, of whose disciples foure and twentie thousand …
With rule
… two mundaies and one thursday: vnto the three and thirtieth day after, they are saddesad and heauie, in remembrance of R. Akhiba, of whose disciples foure and twentie thousand …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 173 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Apostle Iames biddeth vs, if we be merry, to sing Psalmes, & if we be saddesad or sorrowfull to pray: by whiche rule of the Apostle is forbid and condemned …
With rule
… Apostle Iames biddeth vs, if we be merry, to sing Psalmes, & if we be saddesad or sorrowfull to pray: by whiche rule of the Apostle is forbid and condemned …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader
Printed
… with prayers: and am of the minde, that she is not to be made saddesad with thy teares, but rather that her soule should be commended with oblations unto …
With rule
… with prayers: and am of the minde, that she is not to be made saddesad with thy teares, but rather that her soule should be commended with oblations unto …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fides signat. Feare nothyng in this taxyng, that should bee terrible, nothyng cruell, nothyng saddesad, or heauie: onely faithe doeth marke euery manne? But these places, you will saie …
With rule
… fides signat. Feare nothyng in this taxyng, that should bee terrible, nothyng cruell, nothyng saddesad, or heauie: onely faithe doeth marke euery manne? But these places, you will saie …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader
Printed
… Kingdome of heaven is a glorious place, but the way thither is by a ſaddesad life, ſo full of troubles, that a man were as good be dead, as …
With rule
… Kingdome of heaven is a glorious place, but the way thither is by a ſaddesad life, ſo full of troubles, that a man were as good be dead, as …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 190 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ A11012

Printed
… them, The time will come when yee ſhall bee ſcattered, and leaue mee alone: (SaddeSad tidinges.) But I am not alone, for the Father is with mee: Ioyfull tidinges …
With rule
… them, The time will come when yee ſhall bee ſcattered, and leaue mee alone: (SaddeSad tidinges.) But I am not alone, for the Father is with mee: Ioyfull tidinges …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 290 · Open in the reader