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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8541 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

referresrefers

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

Puritas changed it
394 times in 201 works
Consistency
99.7% (394 of 395)
Reach if approved
~415 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: refers
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
395 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (394 changes in 201 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 394)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    3. How the Exhortation is inferred, in the firſt word, But or And; which referresrefers to a double argument;
    With rule
    3. How the Exhortation is inferred, in the firſt word, But or And; which referresrefers to a double argument;

    Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſelfe. The former will haue the beginning to bee taken for Eternitie; the later referresrefers it to the firſt creation of all thinges. Againſt the former, ſome take exception …
    With rule
    … ſelfe. The former will haue the beginning to bee taken for Eternitie; the later referresrefers it to the firſt creation of all thinges. Againſt the former, ſome take exception …

    Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 38 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wherein that he would not be his owne Iudge in his owne cauſe, but referresrefers himſelfe for ſatisfaction to the right cenſure of his lawes, herein if we iudge …
    With rule
    … wherein that he would not be his owne Iudge in his owne cauſe, but referresrefers himſelfe for ſatisfaction to the right cenſure of his lawes, herein if we iudge …

    Thomas Cooper · The Churchs Deliverance · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … precepts of honeſty from nature, and bids us follow nature for our guide, and referresrefers his documents to good fame, or the commodity of humane Society, but not vnto …
    With rule
    … precepts of honeſty from nature, and bids us follow nature for our guide, and referresrefers his documents to good fame, or the commodity of humane Society, but not vnto …

    Peter du Moulin Jr · Oration in the Praise of Divinity · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … proper to him, and not belonging to others. 2. It is flat againſt Moſes, who referresrefers this of circumciſion to the covenant there mentioned, Geneſis 17. 7. But the covenant is not …
    With rule
    … proper to him, and not belonging to others. 2. It is flat againſt Moſes, who referresrefers this of circumciſion to the covenant there mentioned, Geneſis 17. 7. But the covenant is not …

    Thomas Blake · The Covenant of God Entered with Mankind · p. 239 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is resembled and matched with the price of a Dog. Fourthly, as the Text referresrefers to all of either sexe Husbands, and Wives. And lastly, as the Text reflects …
    With rule
    … is resembled and matched with the price of a Dog. Fourthly, as the Text referresrefers to all of either sexe Husbands, and Wives. And lastly, as the Text reflects …

    William Loe · The Incomparable Jewel · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the other upon the left ſide thereof.] The former interpretation I rather chuſe, which referresrefers the Article (it) to the whole Candleſticke, not to the Bowle, agreeably to the …
    With rule
    … the other upon the left ſide thereof.] The former interpretation I rather chuſe, which referresrefers the Article (it) to the whole Candleſticke, not to the Bowle, agreeably to the …

    William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … consisteth in conformity, so that according to the excellencie of the patterne whereunto it referresrefers, so is the measure of its beautie to be conjectured. And the patterne of …
    With rule
    … consisteth in conformity, so that according to the excellencie of the patterne whereunto it referresrefers, so is the measure of its beautie to be conjectured. And the patterne of …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 352 · 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.