Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8472 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dovvnedown

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

Puritas changed it: 450 times in 104 works
Consistency: 99.5% (450 of 452)
Reach if approved: ~475 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: down
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 452 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: downe (2)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (450 changes in 104 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 450)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnto them, would make them all a mort as if you did knocke them dovvnedown with a beetle.
With rule
… vnto them, would make them all a mort as if you did knocke them dovvnedown with a beetle.
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 299 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perſons to dvvell in, and then if any Iehu or Ioſias came to pluck dovvnedown thoſe Idolies of Chemoſh, Baal or Dagon, they might plead againſt them that thoſe …
With rule
… perſons to dvvell in, and then if any Iehu or Ioſias came to pluck dovvnedown thoſe Idolies of Chemoſh, Baal or Dagon, they might plead againſt them that thoſe …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ips… facto, that neither prescribe or submitt duplicate page duplicate page unto …hem,) are rather to be broken dovvnedown, removed, abolished, as they were both in King Edw. the 6. & Queen Elizabeths dayes, then …
With rule
… ips… facto, that neither prescribe or submitt duplicate page duplicate page unto …hem,) are rather to be broken dovvnedown, removed, abolished, as they were both in King Edw. the 6. & Queen Elizabeths dayes, then …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 275 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 Laid dovvnedown.
With rule
1 Laid dovvnedown.
John Stoughton · The Arraignment of Covetousness · Open in the reader
Printed
AN EXPOSITION OF THE MORALL LAVV, OR TEN COMMANDEMENTS OF ALMIGHTIE GOD, Set dovvnedown by vvay of EXERCITATIONS.
With rule
AN EXPOSITION OF THE MORALL LAVV, OR TEN COMMANDEMENTS OF ALMIGHTIE GOD, Set dovvnedown by vvay of EXERCITATIONS.
John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… com. but vvhich is more, the vvholl reaſon it ſelfe, as God laid it dovvnedown, & vvrote it in Tables of ſtone, is vtterly by them aboliſhed & vſeleſſe; no mention …
With rule
… com. but vvhich is more, the vvholl reaſon it ſelfe, as God laid it dovvnedown, & vvrote it in Tables of ſtone, is vtterly by them aboliſhed & vſeleſſe; no mention …
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
THE VVhole doctrine of the Sacramentes, plainlie and fullie ſet dovvnedown and declared out of the word of GOD.
With rule
THE VVhole doctrine of the Sacramentes, plainlie and fullie ſet dovvnedown and declared out of the word of GOD.
Dudley Fenner · The Whole Doctrine of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinges but by them, this being the c…viſion vvall, and this being broken dovvnedown, and the gentiles let in, & the doore ſett open for all, & freedome & libertie proclaymed …
With rule
… thinges but by them, this being the c…viſion vvall, and this being broken dovvnedown, and the gentiles let in, & the doore ſett open for all, & freedome & libertie proclaymed …
Thomas Helwys · Admonition Unto Congregations · p. 45 · 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.