Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8251 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

meanyngemeaning

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

Puritas changed it: 191 times in 66 works
Consistency: 93.6% (191 of 204)
Reach if approved: ~214 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: meaning
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 204 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (191 changes in 66 works, 93.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 191)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
In the same meanyngemeaning dyd Thomas Aquinas, and the ordinarye glose, and Nycolas Lyranus expound these the Apostles …
With rule
In the same meanyngemeaning dyd Thomas Aquinas, and the ordinarye glose, and Nycolas Lyranus expound these the Apostles …
Martin Bucer · Gratulation · Open in the reader
Printed
Dyd he not openly ſaye / theſe thinges (meanyngemeaning his errours) muſt be tryed by bloude?
With rule
Dyd he not openly ſaye / theſe thinges (meanyngemeaning his errours) muſt be tryed by bloude?
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… his father, to comunicate of the ſame vnto vs. We ſee nowe then, the meanyngemeaning of Sayncte Paule. Wherefore after we haue conceued what is the power of God …
With rule
… his father, to comunicate of the ſame vnto vs. We ſee nowe then, the meanyngemeaning of Sayncte Paule. Wherefore after we haue conceued what is the power of God …
John Calvin · Two Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
What Danes speakest thu of? thy meanyngemeaning shewe more clerlye.
With rule
What Danes speakest thu of? thy meanyngemeaning shewe more clerlye.
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… or honestye, and they that enforce it to that, enforce it not to my meanyngemeaning, I sayd I heard, but of suche a thynge, and toke occasion by that …
With rule
… or honestye, and they that enforce it to that, enforce it not to my meanyngemeaning, I sayd I heard, but of suche a thynge, and toke occasion by that …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… is the vſe of the holy ſcripture (ſpecially in the pſalmes) to declare one meanyngemeaning with two maner of ſayenges, as ye haue oft tymes herde. For ſo doth …
With rule
… is the vſe of the holy ſcripture (ſpecially in the pſalmes) to declare one meanyngemeaning with two maner of ſayenges, as ye haue oft tymes herde. For ſo doth …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not ones or twyse, no not seuen tymes only, but seuenty tymes seuen tymes, meanyngemeaning herby, we oughte contynually frome tyme to tyme to forgyue oure brother.
With rule
… not ones or twyse, no not seuen tymes only, but seuenty tymes seuen tymes, meanyngemeaning herby, we oughte contynually frome tyme to tyme to forgyue oure brother.
Richard Taverner · A Catechism · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God wolde tell me that he wolde make eche of bothe their bodyes too (meanyngemeaning the yonge mannys body and Christis) to be in fyften placis at once, I …
With rule
… God wolde tell me that he wolde make eche of bothe their bodyes too (meanyngemeaning the yonge mannys body and Christis) to be in fyften placis at once, I …
William Tyndale · The Supper of the Lord · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 are listed here. 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist A02807

Printed
… wyll se an other rule, and hange vp an hondred of suche heretyke knaues. MeanyngeMeaning the preachers of our tyme, and their maynteyners by lyke. For at the same …
With rule
… wyll se an other rule, and hange vp an hondred of suche heretyke knaues. MeanyngeMeaning the preachers of our tyme, and their maynteyners by lyke. For at the same …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

The Garden of Wisdom A13399

Printed
… vse the companye of Sophisters, but the companye of men thou canste not vse. MeanyngeMeaning that sophistrie is vnprofytable vnto publique affayres & to the comen felawshyppe of man, in …
With rule
… vse the companye of Sophisters, but the companye of men thou canste not vse. MeanyngeMeaning that sophistrie is vnprofytable vnto publique affayres & to the comen felawshyppe of man, in …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
… were so harde, that an asse laden with golde myght not come vnto it. MeanyngeMeaning that there is nothynge so stronge, but with golde it maye be wonne.
With rule
… were so harde, that an asse laden with golde myght not come vnto it. MeanyngeMeaning that there is nothynge so stronge, but with golde it maye be wonne.
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
… were ydle. God forbyd, ꝙ he, that this thynge shuld euer chaūce vnto me: MeanyngeMeaning that it was a ryght fowle thynge for heddes and mi nisters of cōmon …
With rule
… were ydle. God forbyd, ꝙ he, that this thynge shuld euer chaūce vnto me: MeanyngeMeaning that it was a ryght fowle thynge for heddes and mi nisters of cōmon …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
… that the thynge that nowe causeth this dat kenesse is greatter then my clooke. MeanyngeMeaning full prudently, that by the comynge betwene of the moone, the sonne is hydde …
With rule
… that the thynge that nowe causeth this dat kenesse is greatter then my clooke. MeanyngeMeaning full prudently, that by the comynge betwene of the moone, the sonne is hydde …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vnlerned & ydiotes, he aunswered, so moche as the quycke dyffre from the dead. MeanyngeMeaning that a man without knowlege is a blocke rather then a man.
With rule
… the vnlerned & ydiotes, he aunswered, so moche as the quycke dyffre from the dead. MeanyngeMeaning that a man without knowlege is a blocke rather then a man.
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader