Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8406 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sorowessorrows

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

Puritas changed it: 317 times in 130 works
Consistency: 99.6% (317 of 318)
Reach if approved: ~334 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sorrows
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 318 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (317 changes in 130 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 317)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… inwardly, and ſhalt ſawſe thy ſwete ſoppes whiche the worlde weneth thou haſte, with ſorowessorrows ynowe and ſtyl murnyng, ſtudieng ether alone or els with a fewe frendes ſecretly …
With rule
… inwardly, and ſhalt ſawſe thy ſwete ſoppes whiche the worlde weneth thou haſte, with ſorowessorrows ynowe and ſtyl murnyng, ſtudieng ether alone or els with a fewe frendes ſecretly …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · Open in the reader
Printed
… swearing, for swearing, cursing, banning, defying, heart-burning, quarelling, fighting, spilling of blood, vnsupportable sorowessorrows of heart, cursed despaire, selfe-executions, weedes able to blemish and disgrace the lawfullest …
With rule
… swearing, for swearing, cursing, banning, defying, heart-burning, quarelling, fighting, spilling of blood, vnsupportable sorowessorrows of heart, cursed despaire, selfe-executions, weedes able to blemish and disgrace the lawfullest …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
… respectes / no small earthquake folowynge vpon the same. What commocyons / heuye complayntes / fearefull tremblynges / sorowessorrows / cryes / grefes / syghynges / waylynges / grudgynges / gruntynges / gronynges / wepynges / and hā des wryngynge wyll be …
With rule
… respectes / no small earthquake folowynge vpon the same. What commocyons / heuye complayntes / fearefull tremblynges / sorowessorrows / cryes / grefes / syghynges / waylynges / grudgynges / gruntynges / gronynges / wepynges / and hā des wryngynge wyll be …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
To mitegate or eaſe the ſorowessorrows of our woū did conſcience / two playſters hath our moſt prudent phiſition prouyd to …
With rule
To mitegate or eaſe the ſorowessorrows of our woū did conſcience / two playſters hath our moſt prudent phiſition prouyd to …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
O Lord graciously looke vpon the affliccions, sorowessorrows, and necessities of those that do truli professe and beleue thy woorde. Amen.
With rule
O Lord graciously looke vpon the affliccions, sorowessorrows, and necessities of those that do truli professe and beleue thy woorde. Amen.
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… then the strokes and plagues of the deuil, which is the author of all sorowessorrows and miseries, and hurteth as many and as oft as he can.
With rule
… then the strokes and plagues of the deuil, which is the author of all sorowessorrows and miseries, and hurteth as many and as oft as he can.
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… euyll this is, howe huge and foule, a monſter of howe innumerable calamities and ſorowessorrows which we haue and do ſuſteyne, this is a moſte wicked mother: what thinge …
With rule
… euyll this is, howe huge and foule, a monſter of howe innumerable calamities and ſorowessorrows which we haue and do ſuſteyne, this is a moſte wicked mother: what thinge …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… are the troubles of the righteous: ſo in Pſalm. 32. 10. he ſayth. Many are the ſorowessorrows of the righteous: but it followeth, the Lord will deliuer them out of all …
With rule
… are the troubles of the righteous: ſo in Pſalm. 32. 10. he ſayth. Many are the ſorowessorrows of the righteous: but it followeth, the Lord will deliuer them out of all …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 498 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Meditations and Vows Divine and Moral B13868

Printed
… come like oxen, slowe and heauily; and goe away like posthorses, vpon the spurre. SorowesSorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertaine but moderately; knowing that the more …
With rule
… come like oxen, slowe and heauily; and goe away like posthorses, vpon the spurre. SorowesSorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertaine but moderately; knowing that the more …
Joseph Hall · Meditations and Vows Divine and Moral · p. 118 · Open in the reader