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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8516 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

marresmars

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

Puritas changed it
169 times in 128 works
Consistency
99.4% (169 of 170)
Reach if approved
~179 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: mars
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
170 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (169 changes in 128 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 169)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … good things in them, But they have ſome foule fault, or other withall that marresmars all, that is a dead Fly in the Apothecaries oyntment. He is an honeſt …
    With rule
    … good things in them, But they have ſome foule fault, or other withall that marresmars all, that is a dead Fly in the Apothecaries oyntment. He is an honeſt …

    Jeremiah Dyke · The Righteous Mans Tower · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Such an Orbilius marresmars more Scholars then he makes: Their Tyranny hath caused many tongues to stammer, which …
    With rule
    Such an Orbilius marresmars more Scholars then he makes: Their Tyranny hath caused many tongues to stammer, which …

    Thomas Fuller · The Holy State · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hayre, iogge almoſt diſtempers it; ſo the Conſcience, a little duſt in this eye marresmars both ſight and peace, a little ſinne crept in betweene the wheeles, ſets all …
    With rule
    … hayre, iogge almoſt diſtempers it; ſo the Conſcience, a little duſt in this eye marresmars both ſight and peace, a little ſinne crept in betweene the wheeles, ſets all …

    Robert Harris · Two Sermons 2 · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … merits also of other men, so it be in sobrietie. But this doctrine quite marresmars the conclusion: because by teaching that men are to put confidence in the creature …
    With rule
    … merits also of other men, so it be in sobrietie. But this doctrine quite marresmars the conclusion: because by teaching that men are to put confidence in the creature …

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1005 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the midst of all their lusts comes the vengeance of God upon them, and marresmars all the play: as wee see in Balthashar. But when God shall by death …
    With rule
    … the midst of all their lusts comes the vengeance of God upon them, and marresmars all the play: as wee see in Balthashar. But when God shall by death …

    John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 182 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … braue, lie ſoft, and liue merrily, if there were no iudgement. But this iudgement marresmars all, it is like a dampe that puts out all the light, and like …
    With rule
    … braue, lie ſoft, and liue merrily, if there were no iudgement. But this iudgement marresmars all, it is like a dampe that puts out all the light, and like …

    Henry Smith · Two Sermons of Jonahs Punishment · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … excuſes them, defends them, and many times boaſteth in them. His good qualities he marresmars and corrupts, and doth ſo lift himſelfe up for them, that moſt times they …
    With rule
    … excuſes them, defends them, and many times boaſteth in them. His good qualities he marresmars and corrupts, and doth ſo lift himſelfe up for them, that moſt times they …

    William Whately · Prototypes · p. 225 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … as the cloudes, yet the city may be taken easily, for the sin within marresmars all. The Lords hand found out Simon Magus, as hee was presuming to fly …
    With rule
    … as the cloudes, yet the city may be taken easily, for the sin within marresmars all. The Lords hand found out Simon Magus, as hee was presuming to fly …

    John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · p. 100 · 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.