Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8320 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thinnethin

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

Puritas changed it: 403 times in 245 works
Consistency: 96.4% (403 of 418)
Reach if approved: ~439 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: thin
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 418 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (403 changes in 245 works, 96.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 403)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… with great delight and indulgence reserued: not incident to those that haue a weake, thinnethin, and slender opinion of themselues; that through humility haue a leane and spare construction …
With rule
… with great delight and indulgence reserued: not incident to those that haue a weake, thinnethin, and slender opinion of themselues; that through humility haue a leane and spare construction …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
THese matters were driuen so thinnethin in the first chapter, that you shall sooner presse out bloud, than any more …
With rule
THese matters were driuen so thinnethin in the first chapter, that you shall sooner presse out bloud, than any more …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 253 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the old is better; a manuſed to high fare cannot agree ſo well with thinnethin dyet: ſo the ſoule having beene uſed to taſte of great pleaſures in God …
With rule
… the old is better; a manuſed to high fare cannot agree ſo well with thinnethin dyet: ſo the ſoule having beene uſed to taſte of great pleaſures in God …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 306 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the the time in fooliſh ſurmiſes, vaine ploddings, and vnprofitable ſpeeches. The poore, leane, thinnethin fruits of grace, which through the mercie of God now and then I eſpie …
With rule
… the the time in fooliſh ſurmiſes, vaine ploddings, and vnprofitable ſpeeches. The poore, leane, thinnethin fruits of grace, which through the mercie of God now and then I eſpie …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 295 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word; this seede is rife, and many whers ranke sowen, yet growes reformation but thinnethin and rare, because little or no heed is taken of the stonie, thornie, and …
With rule
… word; this seede is rife, and many whers ranke sowen, yet growes reformation but thinnethin and rare, because little or no heed is taken of the stonie, thornie, and …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… most iust and due vnto vs. This fruit of repentance springs and growes very thinnethin among vs, for fewe there be which doe seriously condemne themselues for their owne …
With rule
… most iust and due vnto vs. This fruit of repentance springs and growes very thinnethin among vs, for fewe there be which doe seriously condemne themselues for their owne …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 359 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what they will hee is resolved to goe through rough and plaine, thicke and thinnethin, whether his place bee dangerous or safe, hard or easie, such a resolution must …
With rule
… what they will hee is resolved to goe through rough and plaine, thicke and thinnethin, whether his place bee dangerous or safe, hard or easie, such a resolution must …
John Preston · Grace to the Humble · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perfit accomplishment appeareth in Christ & his kingdome, as the scriptures teach vs: though a thinnethin & slender performance of the same was before expressed and drawn out, as it were …
With rule
… perfit accomplishment appeareth in Christ & his kingdome, as the scriptures teach vs: though a thinnethin & slender performance of the same was before expressed and drawn out, as it were …
John Rainolds · The Prophecy of Obadiah Opened and Applied · p. 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Certain Paradoxes and Problems A20644

Printed
… may bee they intend not to rise like glorious Tapers and Torches, but like ThinneThin-wretched-sicke-watching-Candles, which languish and are in a Divine Consumption from the …
With rule
… may bee they intend not to rise like glorious Tapers and Torches, but like ThinneThin-wretched-sicke-watching-Candles, which languish and are in a Divine Consumption from the …
John Donne · Certain Paradoxes and Problems · p. 33 · Open in the reader