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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8627 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dreggesdregs

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

Puritas changed it
450 times in 267 works
Consistency
96.9% (450 of 464)
Reach if approved
~488 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: dregs
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
464 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (450 changes in 267 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 450)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … ſtate of grace, in what caſe hee is with God, being froſen in his dreggesdregs: this man hath no part with Ieſus in the holie citie, his Baptiſme waſheth …
    With rule
    … ſtate of grace, in what caſe hee is with God, being froſen in his dreggesdregs: this man hath no part with Ieſus in the holie citie, his Baptiſme waſheth …

    William Hubbock · An Apology of Infants · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … lamentation, that the Church of God ſhould bee ſo long peſtered with ſuch filthy dreggesdregs; but it is ſufficient for this place to haue ſhowne, that neither their name …
    With rule
    … lamentation, that the Church of God ſhould bee ſo long peſtered with ſuch filthy dreggesdregs; but it is ſufficient for this place to haue ſhowne, that neither their name …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 377 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … shing that monstrous Idoll of Rome, so hee would purge his Church from the dreggesdregs thereof, wherein was yet great superstition: And though the King in the later end …
    With rule
    … shing that monstrous Idoll of Rome, so hee would purge his Church from the dreggesdregs thereof, wherein was yet great superstition: And though the King in the later end …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 209 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … plagues) ſurely all the wicked of the earth, ſhall wring out and drinke the dreggesdregs of it. It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the …
    With rule
    … plagues) ſurely all the wicked of the earth, ſhall wring out and drinke the dreggesdregs of it. It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the …

    Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 178 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … all on their side, because they haue sucked out of their writinges, a fewe dreggesdregs of a great quantitie of good liquor conteined in their vessels, hauing the fathers …
    With rule
    … all on their side, because they haue sucked out of their writinges, a fewe dreggesdregs of a great quantitie of good liquor conteined in their vessels, hauing the fathers …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … their error and superstition: so that now they even settle themselves upon the old dreggesdregs of Popish superstition & formality, from which they were not well purged. Others are made …
    With rule
    … their error and superstition: so that now they even settle themselves upon the old dreggesdregs of Popish superstition & formality, from which they were not well purged. Others are made …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    In the dreggesdregs op popyshe lawes.
    With rule
    In the dreggesdregs op popyshe lawes.

    John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … fedde with the pharyſees leuen, nor yet pampred vp with the popes ſwylle and dreggesdregs accordynge to hys firſt profeſſyō, but now of late with the pure worde of …
    With rule
    … fedde with the pharyſees leuen, nor yet pampred vp with the popes ſwylle and dreggesdregs accordynge to hys firſt profeſſyō, but now of late with the pure worde of …

    John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

  • Printed
    … beeyng almoſte whollie whelmed in the Suddes of Superstition, and desperatelie drowned in the DreggesDregs of Jdolatrie, by the miniſterie of this one man: oppoſyng hymſelf (in defence of …
    With rule
    … beeyng almoſte whollie whelmed in the Suddes of Superstition, and desperatelie drowned in the DreggesDregs of Jdolatrie, by the miniſterie of this one man: oppoſyng hymſelf (in defence of …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Whiche beeyng ſo, what maie bee thought of the Pope, and of his dirtie DreggesDregs & traditions? Doe wee not ſee his mouth with this one worde notably ſtopped? This …
    With rule
    … Whiche beeyng ſo, what maie bee thought of the Pope, and of his dirtie DreggesDregs & traditions? Doe wee not ſee his mouth with this one worde notably ſtopped? This …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 99 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

  • Printed
    Answ. 'Tis now become the guise of the Riff-raffe, and DreggesDregs of men. Every Tinker, Tapster, Crate-carrying Vagabond is not well unlesse he have …
    With rule
    Answ. 'Tis now become the guise of the Riff-raffe, and DreggesDregs of men. Every Tinker, Tapster, Crate-carrying Vagabond is not well unlesse he have …

    Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 100 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

  • Printed
    DreggesDregs of Papiſtes. 406. b
    With rule
    DreggesDregs of Papiſtes. 406. b

    William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

A Reply to a Relation A69024

  • Printed
    … what say I of those Prelates, that are fallen upon the very Lees and DreggesDregs of the worst, and last times? Alas, in the first Generall Councell of Nece …
    With rule
    … what say I of those Prelates, that are fallen upon the very Lees and DreggesDregs of the worst, and last times? Alas, in the first Generall Councell of Nece …

    Henry Burton · A Reply to a Relation · p. 264 · Open in the reader