Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8408 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stirresstirs

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

Puritas changed it: 946 times in 452 works
Consistency: 99.5% (946 of 950)
Reach if approved: ~998 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stirs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 950 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (946 changes in 452 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 946)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were talking together: this figure S. Chryſoſtome vſed much, but more S. Augustine: it ſtirresstirs vp attention, and makes the matter manifeſt with delight: this our Sauiour vſed, ſpeaking …
With rule
… were talking together: this figure S. Chryſoſtome vſed much, but more S. Augustine: it ſtirresstirs vp attention, and makes the matter manifeſt with delight: this our Sauiour vſed, ſpeaking …
Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from man and the deuill. Againe, a man rides vpon a lame horse, and stirresstirs him: the rider is the cause of the motion, but the horse himselfe of …
With rule
… from man and the deuill. Againe, a man rides vpon a lame horse, and stirresstirs him: the rider is the cause of the motion, but the horse himselfe of …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Lords Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
Love stirresstirs desire; desire, like stormy winde,
With rule
Love stirresstirs desire; desire, like stormy winde,
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 The ground and motiue that ſtirresstirs vs vp to doe any good thing, whether it be applauſe, as in the …
With rule
1 The ground and motiue that ſtirresstirs vs vp to doe any good thing, whether it be applauſe, as in the …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fraud and deceit, as a cage is full of birds; ſome are full of ſtirresstirs, tumults, and contentions, as the Sea is full of ſtormes; ſome are full of …
With rule
… fraud and deceit, as a cage is full of birds; ſome are full of ſtirresstirs, tumults, and contentions, as the Sea is full of ſtormes; ſome are full of …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Of the lacke of both theſe I may well complaine. Houſhold affaires, and the ſtirresstirs occaſioned by thoſe buſineſſes, cannot but breed diſtraction: and he which is exerciſed with …
With rule
… Of the lacke of both theſe I may well complaine. Houſhold affaires, and the ſtirresstirs occaſioned by thoſe buſineſſes, cannot but breed diſtraction: and he which is exerciſed with …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · Open in the reader
Printed
… affected with the relliſh of his favour; this is the ground: A poſſible good ſtirresstirs up hope, a neceſſarie excellencie in that good ſetleth deſire, and a relliſh in …
With rule
… affected with the relliſh of his favour; this is the ground: A poſſible good ſtirresstirs up hope, a neceſſarie excellencie in that good ſetleth deſire, and a relliſh in …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heathen was vtterly ſubuerted in all the Roman Empire. After this, there are great ſtirresstirs by the inſtigation of the Deuill, by meanes of the Gothes and Vandals, Heruls …
With rule
… heathen was vtterly ſubuerted in all the Roman Empire. After this, there are great ſtirresstirs by the inſtigation of the Deuill, by meanes of the Gothes and Vandals, Heruls …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 395 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 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.

A Religious Retreat Sounded A67538

Printed
… cry you downe: You may easily observe, if you please, that all the late StirresStirs, which you call mutinies and treacheries, tending to new wars and spilling of blood …
With rule
… cry you downe: You may easily observe, if you please, that all the late StirresStirs, which you call mutinies and treacheries, tending to new wars and spilling of blood …
Nathaniel Ward · A Religious Retreat Sounded · p. 8 · Open in the reader