Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8464 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

conferresconfers

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 83 works
Consistency: 99.1% (120 of 121)
Reach if approved: ~127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: confers
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 121 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 83 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Publike Affaires may befit every private perſon? I ſhould eaſily grant indeed, that it conferresconfers directly to practiſe, and the uſe of the Republike: yet becauſe of the Theorie …
With rule
… Publike Affaires may befit every private perſon? I ſhould eaſily grant indeed, that it conferresconfers directly to practiſe, and the uſe of the Republike: yet becauſe of the Theorie …
Samuel Torshell · The Womans Glory · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thirdly, from the nature of the bleſſing hee conferresconfers upon us: When he promiſeth to plant a people, their dayes ſhall be as …
With rule
Thirdly, from the nature of the bleſſing hee conferresconfers upon us: When he promiſeth to plant a people, their dayes ſhall be as …
John Cotton · Gods Promise to His Plantation · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not money, he needes not loose heauen; that the bare Act of the Sacrament conferresconfers grace without faith; and the meere transient signe of the Crosse, who euer makes …
With rule
… not money, he needes not loose heauen; that the bare Act of the Sacrament conferresconfers grace without faith; and the meere transient signe of the Crosse, who euer makes …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
Againe the sacrament conferresconfers grace, in that the signes thereof confirmes faith as a pledge, by reason it …
With rule
Againe the sacrament conferresconfers grace, in that the signes thereof confirmes faith as a pledge, by reason it …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1001 · Open in the reader
Printed
… favour, and not onely vilifying of his bleſſings, but murmuring at the hand which conferresconfers them: The Remedies of it are theſe. Firſt, Conſider the miſery of the want …
With rule
… favour, and not onely vilifying of his bleſſings, but murmuring at the hand which conferresconfers them: The Remedies of it are theſe. Firſt, Conſider the miſery of the want …
William Sclater · Sermons Experimental · p. 189 · Open in the reader
Printed
… give long day, they expect larger payment; ſo does God, or for default thereof, conferresconfers a heavier doome; the firſt fellony may ſcape, in hope of amendment; but the …
With rule
… give long day, they expect larger payment; ſo does God, or for default thereof, conferresconfers a heavier doome; the firſt fellony may ſcape, in hope of amendment; but the …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 480 · Open in the reader
Printed
4. The honour and happineſſe that God conferresconfers upon his people, is the wicked mans envie, and addes fuell to his rage …
With rule
4. The honour and happineſſe that God conferresconfers upon his people, is the wicked mans envie, and addes fuell to his rage …
Cornelius Burges · Another Sermon Preached to the House of Commons 5 November 1641 · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and freſh and new ſupplies of gifts and graces, divers and many, which God conferresconfers upon his faithfull ones, and their works more at the laſt then at the …
With rule
… and freſh and new ſupplies of gifts and graces, divers and many, which God conferresconfers upon his faithfull ones, and their works more at the laſt then at the …
Arthur Jackson · Annotations Upon the Books of Poetry · p. 220 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.