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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8213 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

applyesapplies

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

Puritas changed it
498 times in 312 works
Consistency
99.6% (498 of 500)
Reach if approved
~525 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: applies
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
500 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (498 changes in 312 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 498)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Forc't to retire, his course applyesapplies by smoother pathes to passe.
    With rule
    Forc't to retire, his course applyesapplies by smoother pathes to passe.

    Robert Boyd · A Spiritual Hymn · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … for us all at that comming; But it is his returning to us, that applyesapplies to us, and derives upon us in particular, the benefit of this generall ſatisfaction …
    With rule
    … for us all at that comming; But it is his returning to us, that applyesapplies to us, and derives upon us in particular, the benefit of this generall ſatisfaction …

    John Donne · Eighty Sermons · p. 526 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … retains, he hath it opportunely at hand; in tentation or affliction he remembers and applyesapplies, and ſo remembring to apply, and applying that he remembers, he is thereby inabled …
    With rule
    … retains, he hath it opportunely at hand; in tentation or affliction he remembers and applyesapplies, and ſo remembring to apply, and applying that he remembers, he is thereby inabled …

    Isaac Ambrose · The First Things · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Ioſua 1. 9. I will not faile thee, nor forſake thee. Which promiſe S. Paul, Hebr. 13. 5. applyesapplies generally. Other inſtances there be.
    With rule
    … Ioſua 1. 9. I will not faile thee, nor forſake thee. Which promiſe S. Paul, Hebr. 13. 5. applyesapplies generally. Other inſtances there be.

    Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 228 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … should keepe all the ordinances and commandements of God: which, he beeing a King, applyesapplies particularly to his owne person, and thereupon saith, In the volume of the booke …
    With rule
    … should keepe all the ordinances and commandements of God: which, he beeing a King, applyesapplies particularly to his owne person, and thereupon saith, In the volume of the booke …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 341 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … endeavours, that Rome is Babylon, and that the H. Ghost so calls it, and applyesapplies rightly the places literally spoken of the type the heathe…ish Babylon; spiritually to …
    With rule
    … endeavours, that Rome is Babylon, and that the H. Ghost so calls it, and applyesapplies rightly the places literally spoken of the type the heathe…ish Babylon; spiritually to …

    John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 288 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … we should honour the Father, and honour the Sonne, and the holy Spirit that applyesapplies the good we have by Christ to us. When we glorifie God, let us …
    With rule
    … we should honour the Father, and honour the Sonne, and the holy Spirit that applyesapplies the good we have by Christ to us. When we glorifie God, let us …

    Richard Sibbes · Light from Heaven · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … openly, triumphing over them in it, Col. 2. 13, 14, 15. And now, as that honoured holy Luther applyesapplies it, If the Law begin to vexe us, let's not hearken unto it. When …
    With rule
    … openly, triumphing over them in it, Col. 2. 13, 14, 15. And now, as that honoured holy Luther applyesapplies it, If the Law begin to vexe us, let's not hearken unto it. When …

    Samuel Torshell · Three Questions · p. 217 · 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 Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined A90295

  • Printed
    Let us now see what answer▪ M. B. ApplyesApplies to his Querie: The first text he mentions is, Heb. 8. 6. But now hath he …
    With rule
    Let us now see what answer▪ M. B. ApplyesApplies to his Querie: The first text he mentions is, Heb. 8. 6. But now hath he …

    John Owen · The Mystery of the Gospel Vindicated and Socinianism Examined · p. 394 · Open in the reader