Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8455 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

averreaver

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

Puritas changed it: 370 times in 206 works
Consistency: 99.4% (370 of 372)
Reach if approved: ~391 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: aver
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 372 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (370 changes in 206 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 370)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ruine of the Church. For touching the commandement of the Sabaoth (vpon which I averreaver this Doctrine of yours cannot bee grounded) lay it before you and conſider it …
With rule
… ruine of the Church. For touching the commandement of the Sabaoth (vpon which I averreaver this Doctrine of yours cannot bee grounded) lay it before you and conſider it …
Richard Byfield · The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… You and I are. It is therefore very injurious to the Kings Authority, to averreaver that He could not otherwise uphold and maintain it, than by preserving the Undue …
With rule
… You and I are. It is therefore very injurious to the Kings Authority, to averreaver that He could not otherwise uphold and maintain it, than by preserving the Undue …
Richard Baxter · Account of the Causes of Being Forbidden to Preach · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Instrument likewise signed with the hands of the Judges of England; in which they averreaver, That the Sentence against the Queen of Scots, could in no wise be prejudice …
With rule
… Instrument likewise signed with the hands of the Judges of England; in which they averreaver, That the Sentence against the Queen of Scots, could in no wise be prejudice …
Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of most men and women, are not so good as they are ready to averreaver them to be; which they will one day find (if a gracious change prevent …
With rule
… of most men and women, are not so good as they are ready to averreaver them to be; which they will one day find (if a gracious change prevent …
James Durham · Heaven Upon Earth · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the satisfaction of all such as may be satisfied, this I avouch and averreaver: It is Jure divino, It is the will of God, and of his Sonne …
With rule
… for the satisfaction of all such as may be satisfied, this I avouch and averreaver: It is Jure divino, It is the will of God, and of his Sonne …
George Gillespie · Aarons Rod Blossoming · p. 314 · Open in the reader
Printed
To averreaver the truth of this, this Accuſer marginally alledgeth and quoteth the 14.15.16.17. verſes of the …
With rule
To averreaver the truth of this, this Accuſer marginally alledgeth and quoteth the 14.15.16.17. verſes of the …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without striuing, that every Christian is tyed to obserue the Morall Law, and we averreaver that it is a most vnchristian & Iesuiticall slaunder to affirme, as he doth, that …
With rule
… without striuing, that every Christian is tyed to obserue the Morall Law, and we averreaver that it is a most vnchristian & Iesuiticall slaunder to affirme, as he doth, that …
William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Union of God and Man, in reference to which Union wee may without blaſphemy averreaver that God performed the Law, God died for us.
With rule
… Union of God and Man, in reference to which Union wee may without blaſphemy averreaver that God performed the Law, God died for us.
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 498 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

Printed
AverreAver, againſt truth, and antiquity.
With rule
AverreAver, againſt truth, and antiquity.
William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 171 · Open in the reader