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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8259 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

payrepair

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

Puritas changed it
149 times in 96 works
Consistency
95.5% (149 of 156)
Reach if approved
~164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pair
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (149 changes in 96 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 149)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … they came not according to their words, and we gaue him an hat, a payrepair of stockings and shooes, a shirt, and a peece of cloth to tie about …
    With rule
    … they came not according to their words, and we gaue him an hat, a payrepair of stockings and shooes, a shirt, and a peece of cloth to tie about …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … I gaue them my lawes and commandements, and my ordinances, which were as a payrepair of Indentures betweene mee and them: I ſet to my Seales, and bound my …
    With rule
    … I gaue them my lawes and commandements, and my ordinances, which were as a payrepair of Indentures betweene mee and them: I ſet to my Seales, and bound my …

    Samuel Smith · Exposition of Hosea 6 · p. 257 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … mutuall giftes, to the great edification of the Church. And this is the golden payrepair, of two of the worthieſt Miniſters of ye Goſpel that Germany hath brought forth …
    With rule
    … mutuall giftes, to the great edification of the Church. And this is the golden payrepair, of two of the worthieſt Miniſters of ye Goſpel that Germany hath brought forth …

    Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Rules, are but a dumbe and lame helpe: I will annexe vnto them a payrepair of Funerall Sermons, opening a couple of Seales reuealed to Iohn in his second …
    With rule
    … Rules, are but a dumbe and lame helpe: I will annexe vnto them a payrepair of Funerall Sermons, opening a couple of Seales reuealed to Iohn in his second …

    Samuel Ward · The Life of Faith in Death Exemplified · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … roof; the houſe muſt firſt be cleanſed, ere it can be garniſhed; in a payrepair of Tables nothing may well bee written, before the blots and blurs be wiped …
    With rule
    … roof; the houſe muſt firſt be cleanſed, ere it can be garniſhed; in a payrepair of Tables nothing may well bee written, before the blots and blurs be wiped …

    Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 576 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vſe not the Englyſh Bible, goe no more to the Proteſtants Sermons, buy a payrepair of Beades, and pray to our bleſſed Ladye to helpe you, and wyſh in …
    With rule
    … vſe not the Englyſh Bible, goe no more to the Proteſtants Sermons, buy a payrepair of Beades, and pray to our bleſſed Ladye to helpe you, and wyſh in …

    Robert Crowley · Friar John Francis of France · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … drawne forth into saynct Gyles felde / where as they had set vp a new payrepair of Galowes. As he was comen to the place of execucyon / and was taken …
    With rule
    … drawne forth into saynct Gyles felde / where as they had set vp a new payrepair of Galowes. As he was comen to the place of execucyon / and was taken …

    John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … they were in the Temple, and ful solemnely went vp & downe patteryng with a payrepair of …eades in theyr handes, and whan y• preste redde the Gospell, althoughe they …
    With rule
    … they were in the Temple, and ful solemnely went vp & downe patteryng with a payrepair of …eades in theyr handes, and whan y• preste redde the Gospell, althoughe they …

    Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

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