Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8558 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spunnespun

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

Puritas changed it: 76 times in 68 works
Consistency: 100% (76 of 76)
Reach if approved: ~80 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: spun
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 76 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 68 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… lesse charge to his Evening Collations, then set Dinners: and with whom (commonly) he spunnespun out a good part of the night in ventilating one point of Divinity or …
With rule
… lesse charge to his Evening Collations, then set Dinners: and with whom (commonly) he spunnespun out a good part of the night in ventilating one point of Divinity or …
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vanity, &c. His life a long chain of ſinnefull actions, a web of wickedneſſe ſpunnespun out and made up by the hands of the devil and the fleſh, an …
With rule
… vanity, &c. His life a long chain of ſinnefull actions, a web of wickedneſſe ſpunnespun out and made up by the hands of the devil and the fleſh, an …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Epistles and Revelation of John · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a boxe that marreth all the ointment: for if this be true, we haue spunnespun a faire threed, that wee must answere for all, that are not able to …
With rule
… a boxe that marreth all the ointment: for if this be true, we haue spunnespun a faire threed, that wee must answere for all, that are not able to …
Henry Smith · Twelve Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… is on the diſtaffe, it is on the left hand; but when it is ſpunnespun into yarn, and put on the ſpindle, it is on the right: ſo temporall …
With rule
… is on the diſtaffe, it is on the left hand; but when it is ſpunnespun into yarn, and put on the ſpindle, it is on the right: ſo temporall …
Richard Holdsworth · The Valley of Vision · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
It hath beene ſaid that Hypocriſie is ſpunnespun with ſo fine a thread, that we may liue as long with a man …
With rule
It hath beene ſaid that Hypocriſie is ſpunnespun with ſo fine a thread, that we may liue as long with a man …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bungler at this occupation: Ingenous men carry their hatred open; but this plot was spunnespun with so fine a thread, as could not easily be discerned.
With rule
… bungler at this occupation: Ingenous men carry their hatred open; but this plot was spunnespun with so fine a thread, as could not easily be discerned.
Richard Sibbes · The Saints Safety in Evil Times · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
And in a home-spunnespun Speach, I'll still reherse,
With rule
And in a home-spunnespun Speach, I'll still reherse,
John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo manye waies greater then his: it muſte needes followe / that the longer they ſpunnespun the thread off their ſinne / then he did off his: ſo muche more growethe …
With rule
… ſo manye waies greater then his: it muſte needes followe / that the longer they ſpunnespun the thread off their ſinne / then he did off his: ſo muche more growethe …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CLXXIX · 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.