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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8431 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wilfulliewillfully

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

Puritas changed it
90 times in 58 works
Consistency
98.9% (90 of 91)
Reach if approved
~96 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: wilfully
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
91 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (90 changes in 58 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 90)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Beware, I say, that thou doe not wilfulliewillfully cast thy selfe into this vaine and troublesome cogitation, wherein, I know not vpon …
    With rule
    Beware, I say, that thou doe not wilfulliewillfully cast thy selfe into this vaine and troublesome cogitation, wherein, I know not vpon …

    Theodore Beza · Job Expounded · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … iudged by the word of God: we alledge and affirme them heinouſlie faultie, and wilfulliewillfully obſtinate in theſe foure principall tranſgreſſions. To this I anſwered: That Elias did ſée …
    With rule
    … iudged by the word of God: we alledge and affirme them heinouſlie faultie, and wilfulliewillfully obſtinate in theſe foure principall tranſgreſſions. To this I anſwered: That Elias did ſée …

    George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … worthie champions and holy fathers, and inserte them in this quarter, which haue so wilfulliewillfully breathed against Emperours & Gods anointed. But forsomuch as our intent is not to repete …
    With rule
    … worthie champions and holy fathers, and inserte them in this quarter, which haue so wilfulliewillfully breathed against Emperours & Gods anointed. But forsomuch as our intent is not to repete …

    Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 302 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … they alwaies his true ſheepeheardes, that are ſo accounted, wee wiſh euerie one that wilfulliewillfully is not diſpoſed to ſuffer himſelfe to bee ſeduced, by thoſe that falſely thus …
    With rule
    … they alwaies his true ſheepeheardes, that are ſo accounted, wee wiſh euerie one that wilfulliewillfully is not diſpoſed to ſuffer himſelfe to bee ſeduced, by thoſe that falſely thus …

    Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … for I haue rebelled against his commandementes] i. I haue most heynously sinned and wilfulliewillfully transgressed the wordes that came out of the Lords owne mouth by the ministerie …
    With rule
    … for I haue rebelled against his commandementes] i. I haue most heynously sinned and wilfulliewillfully transgressed the wordes that came out of the Lords owne mouth by the ministerie …

    John Udall · Commentary Upon Lamentations · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … downe, and therefore you dare deale thus looselie, that euerie bodie that will not wilfulliewillfully be blinde, may sée your absurdities. But to leaue your follies, I sée that …
    With rule
    … downe, and therefore you dare deale thus looselie, that euerie bodie that will not wilfulliewillfully be blinde, may sée your absurdities. But to leaue your follies, I sée that …

    Clergy George Wither · The Marginal Notes of the Popish Testament Translated Into English · p. 282 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and the obligation cancelled, then is it a fond course to cause the obligation wilfulliewillfully to be of force againe.
    With rule
    … and the obligation cancelled, then is it a fond course to cause the obligation wilfulliewillfully to be of force againe.

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … true deſire to keepe all, for if one lie in any ſin, & breake any wilfulliewillfully, then the wilfull & known breach of one, makes him guiltie of all. Secondly, the …
    With rule
    … true deſire to keepe all, for if one lie in any ſin, & breake any wilfulliewillfully, then the wilfull & known breach of one, makes him guiltie of all. Secondly, the …

    John Dod · A Bright Star which Leadeth Wise Men to our Lord Jesus Christ · 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.

Antichrist Pointed and Painted Out in His True Colors A42310

  • Printed
    … Writs, and Witnessing, of Romanists thēselves. Whereby is evidenced to anie not Prejudged, or WilfullieWillfully Obdured, and Obstinate; that the Pope is that grand, Antichrist foreprophesied in Scripture: And …
    With rule
    … Writs, and Witnessing, of Romanists thēselves. Whereby is evidenced to anie not Prejudged, or WilfullieWillfully Obdured, and Obstinate; that the Pope is that grand, Antichrist foreprophesied in Scripture: And …

    William Guild · Antichrist Pointed and Painted Out in His True Colors · Open in the reader