Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8449 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

afrayedafraid

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

Puritas changed it: 180 times in 76 works
Consistency: 100% (180 of 180)
Reach if approved: ~189 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: afraid
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 180 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (180 changes in 76 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 180)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
And thus shall youre grace driue these flatterers and claubackes away. And I am afrayedafraid I haue troubled you to long.
With rule
And thus shall youre grace driue these flatterers and claubackes away. And I am afrayedafraid I haue troubled you to long.
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the wiseman, and his worde brent lyke a cresset. Whyle he liued he was afrayedafraid of no Prince, and no man myghte ouercome him. Of his prayse wryteth Iesus …
With rule
… the wiseman, and his worde brent lyke a cresset. Whyle he liued he was afrayedafraid of no Prince, and no man myghte ouercome him. Of his prayse wryteth Iesus …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… not in dede. And S. Augustine / contra Crescomū gram̄aticū sayeth / Who so euer is afrayedafraid to be deceiued by the darkenesse off this qwestiō / let hym aske cownsell at …
With rule
… not in dede. And S. Augustine / contra Crescomū gram̄aticū sayeth / Who so euer is afrayedafraid to be deceiued by the darkenesse off this qwestiō / let hym aske cownsell at …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · Open in the reader
Printed
… we must not iudge of Daniel / seing in the lyfe quarell / he was not afrayedafraid to be thrown vnto the lyōs. Now seing there may be many other causes …
With rule
… we must not iudge of Daniel / seing in the lyfe quarell / he was not afrayedafraid to be thrown vnto the lyōs. Now seing there may be many other causes …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are fayne to nomysshe those shamefull harlottes wythe muche greater care, and yet be afrayedafraid, that whan they haue done theyr best, the gredy sacke wyll not be fylled …
With rule
… are fayne to nomysshe those shamefull harlottes wythe muche greater care, and yet be afrayedafraid, that whan they haue done theyr best, the gredy sacke wyll not be fylled …
Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · p. xxvii · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the goſpell / ſhall ſaue it. I ſaie vnto you my frendes. Be not afrayedafraid of them which kyll the body / and afterwarde haue nomore that they can do …
With rule
… and the goſpell / ſhall ſaue it. I ſaie vnto you my frendes. Be not afrayedafraid of them which kyll the body / and afterwarde haue nomore that they can do …
Miles Coverdale · A Confutation of Standishs Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… the power vvhich is not to be reſiſted, of vvhich vve are to be afrayedafraid, and of which vve shall have praiſe vvhile vve do that vvhich is good …
With rule
… the power vvhich is not to be reſiſted, of vvhich vve are to be afrayedafraid, and of which vve shall have praiſe vvhile vve do that vvhich is good …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 286 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is to be obeyed before mē. In ſo muche as the Apoſtels were not afrayedafraid to cōmite the iudgement therof vnto their extreame enemies: whom they knewe right well …
With rule
… is to be obeyed before mē. In ſo muche as the Apoſtels were not afrayedafraid to cōmite the iudgement therof vnto their extreame enemies: whom they knewe right well …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 39 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.