Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8399 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rubberub

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

Puritas changed it: 118 times in 86 works
Consistency: 98.3% (118 of 120)
Reach if approved: ~126 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rub
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 120 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (118 changes in 86 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 118)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
38 As men vſually rubberub the Chaffe from the Corne, and then eate it: So muſt the ſpirituall foode …
With rule
38 As men vſually rubberub the Chaffe from the Corne, and then eate it: So muſt the ſpirituall foode …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 803 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have connexion with those duties that immediately precede: rather (thinks he) the Apostle … to rubberub up the memory of what he commanded in the former chapter, at verse the …
With rule
… have connexion with those duties that immediately precede: rather (thinks he) the Apostle … to rubberub up the memory of what he commanded in the former chapter, at verse the …
Henry Jeanes · Mixture of Scholastical Divinity with Practical Part 2 · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
Heereupon some wicked Libertine may offer to rubberub his filthinesse vpon Gods purity; and to plead an authenticall deriuation of all his …
With rule
Heereupon some wicked Libertine may offer to rubberub his filthinesse vpon Gods purity; and to plead an authenticall deriuation of all his …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Luther the verye trompet of this latter age of Christes Churche / whose bootes to rubberub / & to folowe him with a wyspe to the Iakes Pantolabus shuld seme to be …
With rule
… Luther the verye trompet of this latter age of Christes Churche / whose bootes to rubberub / & to folowe him with a wyspe to the Iakes Pantolabus shuld seme to be …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, and how provident forecasting how to bring it to passe, and if any rubberub be in the way it troubleth him, if there be any faire passage, and …
With rule
… it, and how provident forecasting how to bring it to passe, and if any rubberub be in the way it troubleth him, if there be any faire passage, and …
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offence. And therefore the Suffragan Bishoppe, and the Priestes they spounge, they wipt, they rubberub, and drye their fingers, their head & all wonderfull to beholde. And for feare of …
With rule
… offence. And therefore the Suffragan Bishoppe, and the Priestes they spounge, they wipt, they rubberub, and drye their fingers, their head & all wonderfull to beholde. And for feare of …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader
Printed
… bayte vpon: and a common place for euery rayler to ruffle on, and to rubberub his cankered tongue in their slaunder. In all which great wrongs, they haue no …
With rule
… bayte vpon: and a common place for euery rayler to ruffle on, and to rubberub his cankered tongue in their slaunder. In all which great wrongs, they haue no …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… former sinnes, softned and sanctified by the blood of the Lambe, would not onely rubberub off the skin and gaule it, but make it bleed to death. But worldly …
With rule
… former sinnes, softned and sanctified by the blood of the Lambe, would not onely rubberub off the skin and gaule it, but make it bleed to death. But worldly …
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.