Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8220 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

biggebig

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

Puritas changed it: 502 times in 289 works
Consistency: 98.4% (502 of 510)
Reach if approved: ~536 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: big
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 510 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (502 changes in 289 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 502)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… name, respecting more the subject, then the Prince: and least it should bee too biggebig for us; thou hast made it, too little for thy selfe. Thou wouldst not …
With rule
… name, respecting more the subject, then the Prince: and least it should bee too biggebig for us; thou hast made it, too little for thy selfe. Thou wouldst not …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they theym in great deſpite, & reproche as vile. Of which ſort many ſcorn…ful, biggebig, & wyndy wordes they vſe, chiefely againſt hulband men, and theyr poore neyghboures, whome rather …
With rule
… they theym in great deſpite, & reproche as vile. Of which ſort many ſcorn…ful, biggebig, & wyndy wordes they vſe, chiefely againſt hulband men, and theyr poore neyghboures, whome rather …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſo go about to enter in being burdened, and as it were ſwollen biggebig, which is as poſſible for them, as for a camell with his bounched backe …
With rule
… and ſo go about to enter in being burdened, and as it were ſwollen biggebig, which is as poſſible for them, as for a camell with his bounched backe …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 279 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Doctor Alliſon, who handleth this very point, and onely this, in a good biggebig booke, it is not yet anſwered, and therefore he herein ſhall ſaue me labour …
With rule
… to Doctor Alliſon, who handleth this very point, and onely this, in a good biggebig booke, it is not yet anſwered, and therefore he herein ſhall ſaue me labour …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… up of nothing, or make materialls at his pleasure, hee could make it as biggebig as he could conceive it, then also he could make as many houses as …
With rule
… up of nothing, or make materialls at his pleasure, hee could make it as biggebig as he could conceive it, then also he could make as many houses as …
John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, all that could not over-claspe the righteousnesse of Christ, or be too biggebig for it. As if a man had a thousand eyes, and they should one …
With rule
… man, all that could not over-claspe the righteousnesse of Christ, or be too biggebig for it. As if a man had a thousand eyes, and they should one …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 467 · Open in the reader
Printed
… principles; which come from him, like a treble part in a base voyce, too biggebig for it. Liuing in some vnder-staire office, when he would visite the countrey …
With rule
… principles; which come from him, like a treble part in a base voyce, too biggebig for it. Liuing in some vnder-staire office, when he would visite the countrey …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this, to the discredit of my partie. I trust this booke of his, as biggebig as it is, hath wrought no discredite to the cause I maintaine, because I …
With rule
… this, to the discredit of my partie. I trust this booke of his, as biggebig as it is, hath wrought no discredite to the cause I maintaine, because I …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 361 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
Sheepe of Africa fruitfull. 466. some in America, like asses. 615. 722. Some as BiggeBig as horses. 6…9
With rule
Sheepe of Africa fruitfull. 466. some in America, like asses. 615. 722. Some as BiggeBig as horses. 6…9
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

Printed
… is weak! But 'tis enough to me ſaith Chriſt, that the ſpirit is willing. BiggeBig-ſpirited ſinners, think of this, you ſinne nothing but biggebig ſinnes; the letters you …
With rule
… is weak! But 'tis enough to me ſaith Chriſt, that the ſpirit is willing. BiggeBig-ſpirited ſinners, think of this, you ſinne nothing but biggebig ſinnes; the letters you …
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… names upon their tongues, ſporting themſelves, he makes them tremble as he did Felix. BiggeBig veſſels that are high above water, are eaſily ſhot through and through: 'tis the …
With rule
… names upon their tongues, ſporting themſelves, he makes them tremble as he did Felix. BiggeBig veſſels that are high above water, are eaſily ſhot through and through: 'tis the …
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 181 · Open in the reader