Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8268 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

soriesorry

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

Puritas changed it: 671 times in 242 works
Consistency: 99.7% (671 of 673)
Reach if approved: ~707 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sorry
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 673 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (671 changes in 242 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 671)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but let vs humbly and at once cast downe ourselues, acknowledge our sinnes, be soriesorry for them, and forsake them: and then the way to reconciliation shall be opened …
With rule
… but let vs humbly and at once cast downe ourselues, acknowledge our sinnes, be soriesorry for them, and forsake them: and then the way to reconciliation shall be opened …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cōtēciō, how we in no caſe would enter therinto, vnleſſe we were prouoked. Right ſoriesorry that we haue ſo great occaſion. Firſt through your gros blindnes, which being the …
With rule
… cōtēciō, how we in no caſe would enter therinto, vnleſſe we were prouoked. Right ſoriesorry that we haue ſo great occaſion. Firſt through your gros blindnes, which being the …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxxv · Open in the reader
Printed
… many finite goods. which must bee pieced and patch'd together to make up a soriesorry happinesse, because they are all poore. Secondly, supernaturall, and Theologicall; and here God is …
With rule
… many finite goods. which must bee pieced and patch'd together to make up a soriesorry happinesse, because they are all poore. Secondly, supernaturall, and Theologicall; and here God is …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from him I am soriesorry to see him so much offended without cause. More soriesorry that his fit should be so extreame to make him speake he knoweth not …
With rule
… from him I am soriesorry to see him so much offended without cause. More soriesorry that his fit should be so extreame to make him speake he knoweth not …
Richard Hooker · Answer to Supplication Preferred by Walter Tavers · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with his saintes before: wil hee not beare the same with you, beeing most soriesorry for your imperfections? Hee cannot other wise do…. But as his wisedome hath made …
With rule
… with his saintes before: wil hee not beare the same with you, beeing most soriesorry for your imperfections? Hee cannot other wise do…. But as his wisedome hath made …
John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
Printed
… but lamēt & bewail the abhominacions vsed in these our daies, and right hertelye be soriesorry, y^t the …ares haue so ouergrowē y^• good wheat, that vice doth so abound …
With rule
… but lamēt & bewail the abhominacions vsed in these our daies, and right hertelye be soriesorry, y^t the …ares haue so ouergrowē y^• good wheat, that vice doth so abound …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… the little Countrie of Iewrie subdewed by the Romaines, of poore parents, in a soriesorry Uillage, destitute of friends and of all worldly helpes, and yet was he to …
With rule
… the little Countrie of Iewrie subdewed by the Romaines, of poore parents, in a soriesorry Uillage, destitute of friends and of all worldly helpes, and yet was he to …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 594 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shall bee ready to passe from it, when wee shall be convinced. You are soriesorry that some of us in printed workes condemne Episcopacie, and the five Perth articles …
With rule
… shall bee ready to passe from it, when wee shall be convinced. You are soriesorry that some of us in printed workes condemne Episcopacie, and the five Perth articles …
David Calderwood · An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Midnights Meditations of Death A77759

Printed
SorieSorry all to ſee him ſo.
With rule
SorieSorry all to ſee him ſo.
Edward Buckler · Midnights Meditations of Death · Open in the reader