Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8528 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

proouingproving

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

Puritas changed it: 231 times in 132 works
Consistency: 97.8% (231 of 236)
Reach if approved: ~248 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: proving
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 236 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (231 changes in 132 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 231)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they themſelues rather poyſon other, and like Abimelech, draw others to them: no companions proouingproving ſo leaud, as they who breake from the good.
With rule
… they themſelues rather poyſon other, and like Abimelech, draw others to them: no companions proouingproving ſo leaud, as they who breake from the good.
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 438 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are ſo vſefull vnto a childe o… GOD as the effects thereo… do declare, proouingproving as wholſome Medicines, and as Fatherly chaſtiſements to amend and reforme vs. This may …
With rule
… are ſo vſefull vnto a childe o… GOD as the effects thereo… do declare, proouingproving as wholſome Medicines, and as Fatherly chaſtiſements to amend and reforme vs. This may …
Samuel Smith · Christs Last Supper · p. 354 · Open in the reader
Printed
… trie before we trust, not taking all things in grosse, but first examining and proouingproving them: Falshood carries often a shew of truth, and truth often couers falshood: no …
With rule
… trie before we trust, not taking all things in grosse, but first examining and proouingproving them: Falshood carries often a shew of truth, and truth often couers falshood: no …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Combat and Conquest · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
To spend time and words in proouingproving that the vse of a Lot in game as it is a Lot, is …
With rule
To spend time and words in proouingproving that the vse of a Lot in game as it is a Lot, is …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this doctrine, of the neceſſity of faith to the right partaking of the Sacraments, proouingproving it to be vnderſtood only (in the point of Baptiſme) of theſe that are …
With rule
… this doctrine, of the neceſſity of faith to the right partaking of the Sacraments, proouingproving it to be vnderſtood only (in the point of Baptiſme) of theſe that are …
Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Atheiſts. Here then haue we after foure diuers manners diſcovered the Antichriſt: firſt, by proouingproving him to be neither Iew, Turke nor other Ethnik, but a pretended Chriſtian Prince …
With rule
… Atheiſts. Here then haue we after foure diuers manners diſcovered the Antichriſt: firſt, by proouingproving him to be neither Iew, Turke nor other Ethnik, but a pretended Chriſtian Prince …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Spirit of God, as Paul saith, Instructing them with meekenesse that are contrarie minded, proouingproving if God at any time will giue them repentance. And Ieremie, Conuert thou me …
With rule
… Spirit of God, as Paul saith, Instructing them with meekenesse that are contrarie minded, proouingproving if God at any time will giue them repentance. And Ieremie, Conuert thou me …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 740 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Testaments are against it. S. Paul in confutation of it, bestoweth a large Chapter, proouingproving, that it is not onely vnfruitfull, but barbarous, and a fearefull note of Gods …
With rule
… Testaments are against it. S. Paul in confutation of it, bestoweth a large Chapter, proouingproving, that it is not onely vnfruitfull, but barbarous, and a fearefull note of Gods …
John Phillips · The Way to Heaven · p. 30 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

A Golden Chain A09339

Printed
… by the holy Ghost: whereas Paul indeede ascribes this worke, wholly vnto God. 2. Tim. 2.15. ProouingProving if God at any time will giue them repentance. And men that are not …
With rule
… by the holy Ghost: whereas Paul indeede ascribes this worke, wholly vnto God. 2. Tim. 2.15. ProouingProving if God at any time will giue them repentance. And men that are not …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1008 · Open in the reader

A Reformed Catholic A09453

Printed
… by the holy ghost: whereas Paul indeede ascribes this worke, wholly vnto God. 2. Tim. 2. 15. ProouingProving if God at any time will giue them repentance. And men that are not …
With rule
… by the holy ghost: whereas Paul indeede ascribes this worke, wholly vnto God. 2. Tim. 2. 15. ProouingProving if God at any time will giue them repentance. And men that are not …
William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 320 · Open in the reader

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

Printed
… they cannot performe. Firſt, Tryall of Spirits. Secondly, Making Apologie for the Faith. Thirdly, ProouingProving in all things, what that good and acceptable will of the Lord is.
With rule
… they cannot performe. Firſt, Tryall of Spirits. Secondly, Making Apologie for the Faith. Thirdly, ProouingProving in all things, what that good and acceptable will of the Lord is.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 594 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises 2 A21038

Printed
… Naturall teares indeed dull our bodily eyes, but theſe teares cleare the ſoules eyes, ProouingProving ſaies the Apoſtle, if God at any time will giue them Repentance, that they …
With rule
… Naturall teares indeed dull our bodily eyes, but theſe teares cleare the ſoules eyes, ProouingProving ſaies the Apoſtle, if God at any time will giue them Repentance, that they …
Daniel Dyke · Two Treatises 2 · p. 181 · Open in the reader