Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8466 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

couetousecovetous

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

Puritas changed it: 100 times in 40 works
Consistency: 97.0% (100 of 103)
Reach if approved: ~108 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: covetous
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 103 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (100 changes in 40 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 100)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… man may come certaine degrées ſhort of him, and yet be couetouſecovetous, and ſo couetouſecovetous that ſhe Scripture calleth him an Idolater, making riches his truſt▪ and ſo his …
With rule
… man may come certaine degrées ſhort of him, and yet be couetouſecovetous, and ſo couetouſecovetous that ſhe Scripture calleth him an Idolater, making riches his truſt▪ and ſo his …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they had nomore moneye to geue. For the more the Danes had, the more couetousecovetous and cruell they were euermore. Thus ded they to the lande innumerable harme, in …
With rule
… they had nomore moneye to geue. For the more the Danes had, the more couetousecovetous and cruell they were euermore. Thus ded they to the lande innumerable harme, in …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they iudge that mother whych bryngeth forth daylye ſo manye proude porkelynges, ſo manye couetouſecovetous charmers, ſo manye Idell hypocrytes, oyled Idyotes, ſhorne bellye goddes, wedlock breakers, defylers of …
With rule
… they iudge that mother whych bryngeth forth daylye ſo manye proude porkelynges, ſo manye couetouſecovetous charmers, ſo manye Idell hypocrytes, oyled Idyotes, ſhorne bellye goddes, wedlock breakers, defylers of …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… way to hel, I would shewe hym thys way. Fyrst let hym be a couetousecovetous man, let … heart be poisoned with couetousnes. Then let … go a lytle further and …
With rule
… way to hel, I would shewe hym thys way. Fyrst let hym be a couetousecovetous man, let … heart be poisoned with couetousnes. Then let … go a lytle further and …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… straūge for the christē preachers to be misreported of the voluptuous world lynges and couetousecovetous carles. How earnest a setter forth of gods glorie was the Prophet Elias, & yet …
With rule
… straūge for the christē preachers to be misreported of the voluptuous world lynges and couetousecovetous carles. How earnest a setter forth of gods glorie was the Prophet Elias, & yet …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nowe by ſalt is vnderſtāde the doctryne, and the menynge is, yf ye be couetouſecovetous and loue worldlye thynges, it wyll corrupte the ſalte of your doctrine, ſo that …
With rule
… Nowe by ſalt is vnderſtāde the doctryne, and the menynge is, yf ye be couetouſecovetous and loue worldlye thynges, it wyll corrupte the ſalte of your doctrine, ſo that …
William Tyndale · Exposition Upon Matthew 27(1) · p. lxxxiii · Open in the reader
Printed
… power to do y^• same by breathynge out a fewe wordes out of a couetousecovetous herte and blasphemouse mouth, wyth a mynde full of all abhominable and wicke… thoughtes …
With rule
… power to do y^• same by breathynge out a fewe wordes out of a couetousecovetous herte and blasphemouse mouth, wyth a mynde full of all abhominable and wicke… thoughtes …
Robert Crowley · The Confutation of the Misshapen Answer to a Wicked Ballad · Open in the reader
Printed
… that had much, and he pulleth him downe that was aloft. Lo how the couetouſecovetous (as much as in them lieth) doo make a new worlde. And God (as …
With rule
… that had much, and he pulleth him downe that was aloft. Lo how the couetouſecovetous (as much as in them lieth) doo make a new worlde. And God (as …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 384 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Sermon 9 October 1550 A05158

Printed
… a wicked māne, yet was he sent of God to punyshe the stubbourne and CouetouseCovetous Iewes for theyr ambicion, and crueltye, and forsakyng goddes moste holye woorde: And he …
With rule
… a wicked māne, yet was he sent of God to punyshe the stubbourne and CouetouseCovetous Iewes for theyr ambicion, and crueltye, and forsakyng goddes moste holye woorde: And he …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

Printed
… a begger. Thou thinkeſt thy ſelfe very riche, but thou art a ſtarke begger. CouetouſeCovetous riche men, are poore: They are poore alſo in vertues. The people of Laodicea …
With rule
… a begger. Thou thinkeſt thy ſelfe very riche, but thou art a ſtarke begger. CouetouſeCovetous riche men, are poore: They are poore alſo in vertues. The people of Laodicea …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 128 · Open in the reader