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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8214 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

assayleassail

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

Puritas changed it
130 times in 68 works
Consistency
100% (130 of 130)
Reach if approved
~137 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: assail
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
130 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (130 changes in 68 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 130)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … to make head againſt the enemie, and to beate him backe when he ſhal aſſayleassail vs. Which becauſe the learned will ſee to be no matter of game and …
    With rule
    … to make head againſt the enemie, and to beate him backe when he ſhal aſſayleassail vs. Which becauſe the learned will ſee to be no matter of game and …

    Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … amongeſt all the people. It is very lyke therfore that theſe outrageous cryers do aſſayleassail thoſe whō they compted moſt bold & conſtant: and ſo labour to bryng them down …
    With rule
    … amongeſt all the people. It is very lyke therfore that theſe outrageous cryers do aſſayleassail thoſe whō they compted moſt bold & conſtant: and ſo labour to bryng them down …

    John Calvin · Commentary on Daniel · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … vs bee patient and modeſt, when men ſteppe too vs vppon the ſodaine, too aſſayleassail vs roughly by ſhewing vs our faultes: let vs be quiet at it, and …
    With rule
    … vs bee patient and modeſt, when men ſteppe too vs vppon the ſodaine, too aſſayleassail vs roughly by ſhewing vs our faultes: let vs be quiet at it, and …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 202 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … abroad, he then called a Councell, where it was determined, that first they should assayleassail Prior Iohn and his Gallies, lying in Blankesable Bay, and after set upon the …
    With rule
    … abroad, he then called a Councell, where it was determined, that first they should assayleassail Prior Iohn and his Gallies, lying in Blankesable Bay, and after set upon the …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſhewe their ignoraunce, or if they openly curſe, they doe as it were openly aſſayleassail heauen in vayne with their ſpitting, that is, they throw their blaſphemies againſt the …
    With rule
    … ſhewe their ignoraunce, or if they openly curſe, they doe as it were openly aſſayleassail heauen in vayne with their ſpitting, that is, they throw their blaſphemies againſt the …

    John Calvin · Institutes of the Christian Religion Abridged by Edmond Bunnie · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … but the gates of Death, the power of Death, ſhall neuer preuayle, though they aſſayleassail you. And this phraſe ſeemes to bee taken from the vſe of the Iewes …
    With rule
    … but the gates of Death, the power of Death, ſhall neuer preuayle, though they aſſayleassail you. And this phraſe ſeemes to bee taken from the vſe of the Iewes …

    Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 111 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … our sauyour & LORDE Iesus Christ, whome after his Baptisme Satan dyd not feare to assayleassail and to tēpte vnto muche absurditie and wickednes. …f the sonne of God were …
    With rule
    … our sauyour & LORDE Iesus Christ, whome after his Baptisme Satan dyd not feare to assayleassail and to tēpte vnto muche absurditie and wickednes. …f the sonne of God were …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … which aſſay to hinder the effect of thy promiſes, that theſe vnkinde men which aſſayleassail thee in ſetting thus vpon my perſon, ſhould haue matter to glad them againſt …
    With rule
    … which aſſay to hinder the effect of thy promiſes, that theſe vnkinde men which aſſayleassail thee in ſetting thus vpon my perſon, ſhould haue matter to glad them againſt …

    Theodore Beza · Meditations Upon Eight Psalms · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.