Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8267 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

smalesmall

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

Puritas changed it: 213 times in 90 works
Consistency: 98.6% (213 of 216)
Reach if approved: ~227 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: small
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 216 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (213 changes in 90 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 213)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… himſelfe all ſhame and confuſion. As though he would ſay: All the gifts both ſmalesmall and great, as well ſpirituall as corporall, which God purpoſed to giue vnto me …
With rule
… himſelfe all ſhame and confuſion. As though he would ſay: All the gifts both ſmalesmall and great, as well ſpirituall as corporall, which God purpoſed to giue vnto me …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · Open in the reader
Printed
… meaſure of knowledge; this place is plē tifull in witneſſing as much. But how ſmalesmall fruit ariſeth from this knowledge, our careleſſe kind of living maketh to plaine a …
With rule
… meaſure of knowledge; this place is plē tifull in witneſſing as much. But how ſmalesmall fruit ariſeth from this knowledge, our careleſſe kind of living maketh to plaine a …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… begun ana finiſhed this treatiſe, in ſuch ſort as novv it commeth forth (ſome ſmalesmall things onely excepted) I ſtaied the publiſhing thereof, to ſee if any other vvould …
With rule
… begun ana finiſhed this treatiſe, in ſuch ſort as novv it commeth forth (ſome ſmalesmall things onely excepted) I ſtaied the publiſhing thereof, to ſee if any other vvould …
Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · Open in the reader
Printed
No: But euen the holieſt men as long as they liue, haue onely ſmalesmall beginnings of this obedience: yet ſo, that they begin with an earneſt and vnfained …
With rule
No: But euen the holieſt men as long as they liue, haue onely ſmalesmall beginnings of this obedience: yet ſo, that they begin with an earneſt and vnfained …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · p. 819 · Open in the reader
Printed
… This text M. Chappell vrgeth, & ſo doth euery man: now becauſe they put no ſmalesmall confidence in this text, for the aboliſhing of the Lords Sabbaths, I muſt therefore …
With rule
… This text M. Chappell vrgeth, & ſo doth euery man: now becauſe they put no ſmalesmall confidence in this text, for the aboliſhing of the Lords Sabbaths, I muſt therefore …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 327 · Open in the reader
Printed
… promise of saluation was made vnto Adam, there glystered oute but as it were smalesmall sparkles of it. After, hauinge more added vnto it, a greater largenesse of light …
With rule
… promise of saluation was made vnto Adam, there glystered oute but as it were smalesmall sparkles of it. After, hauinge more added vnto it, a greater largenesse of light …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… as the Papists would haue them to be, this pretensed cause coulde haue but smalesmall coller, seeing the title of this hymme, in euery booke plainly sheweth, that it …
With rule
… as the Papists would haue them to be, this pretensed cause coulde haue but smalesmall coller, seeing the title of this hymme, in euery booke plainly sheweth, that it …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVee have endeavoured with our beſt abilities (wch you may ſee are ſmalesmall) to ſpeake the larger of this point becauſe wee our ſelves have bene formerly …
With rule
VVee have endeavoured with our beſt abilities (wch you may ſee are ſmalesmall) to ſpeake the larger of this point becauſe wee our ſelves have bene formerly …
Thomas Helwys · Admonition Unto Congregations · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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