Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8527 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

profitteprofit

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 65 works
Consistency: 99.1% (120 of 121)
Reach if approved: ~127 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: profit
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 65 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… tranſlation beyng ſpred abroad and come into many mens handes, as they wrought ſingular profitteprofit to the godly: ſo the vngodly enuying and diſdayning that the people ſhould be …
With rule
… tranſlation beyng ſpred abroad and come into many mens handes, as they wrought ſingular profitteprofit to the godly: ſo the vngodly enuying and diſdayning that the people ſhould be …
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… Many marchantes do rushe thether for gaynes, souldiours for spoyles, all for their owne profitteprofit. But it seemeth to be a monsterous and a wonderfull miracle, that men should …
With rule
… Many marchantes do rushe thether for gaynes, souldiours for spoyles, all for their owne profitteprofit. But it seemeth to be a monsterous and a wonderfull miracle, that men should …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… thy treasure after the commaundemēt of the hyest, & so shal it bryng the more profitteprofit thē golde. Lay vp thy almes in the hand of the poore, & it shal …
With rule
… thy treasure after the commaundemēt of the hyest, & so shal it bryng the more profitteprofit thē golde. Lay vp thy almes in the hand of the poore, & it shal …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… that it do not remayne idell and vnfruitefull, but that he maye take ſome profitteprofit of it, he ſuppoſeth y^t it oughte to be let oute vnto ſome vſe …
With rule
… that it do not remayne idell and vnfruitefull, but that he maye take ſome profitteprofit of it, he ſuppoſeth y^t it oughte to be let oute vnto ſome vſe …
Wolfgang Musculus · Lawful and Unlawful Usury Amongst Christians · Open in the reader
Printed
… saye the contrarye, but I did vse it to Goddes glorye, and thine owne profitteprofit in God. Oh that thou haddest and mighte haue continued and gone forewarde in …
With rule
… saye the contrarye, but I did vse it to Goddes glorye, and thine owne profitteprofit in God. Oh that thou haddest and mighte haue continued and gone forewarde in …
Nicholas Ridley · A Friendly Farewell · Open in the reader
Printed
… he had not bene certeine, that the offrings and prayers of the lining did profitteprofit the dead?
With rule
… he had not bene certeine, that the offrings and prayers of the lining did profitteprofit the dead?
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 213 · Open in the reader
Printed
… predecessours. The Romish Dictatour tooke the advantage by this, and finding that his best profitteprofit was to bee his owne …arver, and make lawes for himselfe, added what hee …
With rule
… predecessours. The Romish Dictatour tooke the advantage by this, and finding that his best profitteprofit was to bee his owne …arver, and make lawes for himselfe, added what hee …
Archbishop George Abbot · Doctor Hills Reasons for Upholding of Papistry Unmasked · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… churche diſcipline would you haue other then admonions / reprehenſions / and if theſe will not profitteprofit excommunication? and are they not appoynted of our ſauioure Chriſte. There are alſo ciuill …
With rule
… churche diſcipline would you haue other then admonions / reprehenſions / and if theſe will not profitteprofit excommunication? and are they not appoynted of our ſauioure Chriſte. There are alſo ciuill …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 27 · 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.