Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8649 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blotteblot

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

Puritas changed it: 97 times in 66 works
Consistency: 100% (97 of 97)
Reach if approved: ~102 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: blot
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 97 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (97 changes in 66 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 97)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… would like vnruly beasts with violent rage haue broken all yoke. So great a blotteblot of slaunder could not haue bene wiped frō the Gospell, vnlesse they had bene …
With rule
… would like vnruly beasts with violent rage haue broken all yoke. So great a blotteblot of slaunder could not haue bene wiped frō the Gospell, vnlesse they had bene …
John Calvin · The Little Book · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mayntene. But contrary hereunto the Pope by his autoritie maketh voyde and commaundeth to blotteblot out of our bokes, all lawes and customes being repugnaunt to his lawes: And …
With rule
… mayntene. But contrary hereunto the Pope by his autoritie maketh voyde and commaundeth to blotteblot out of our bokes, all lawes and customes being repugnaunt to his lawes: And …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Letters · Open in the reader
Printed
… reuiled and tormented, and that for ſeruynge of God, let that ſuffice the to blotteblot out all the obprobries of the worlde: for that is the reaſon wherfore ſayncte …
With rule
… reuiled and tormented, and that for ſeruynge of God, let that ſuffice the to blotteblot out all the obprobries of the worlde: for that is the reaſon wherfore ſayncte …
John Calvin · Two Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſte, hynder vs frome the communion and partaking of hys bloude, and extinguiſh and blotteblot forth (ſo far as in them lyeth) the remēbraunce of hym that hath by …
With rule
… Chriſte, hynder vs frome the communion and partaking of hys bloude, and extinguiſh and blotteblot forth (ſo far as in them lyeth) the remēbraunce of hym that hath by …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxxxiiii · Open in the reader
Printed
… ony grauē ymage be suffred to be made in his Realme for to obscure & blotteblot the glorye of this almighty god. On the name of this God alone shall …
With rule
… ony grauē ymage be suffred to be made in his Realme for to obscure & blotteblot the glorye of this almighty god. On the name of this God alone shall …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… was the proper author thereof, doeſt thou héere (Sycophant) Caluine excellently refuting that very blotteblot of blaſphemy, whiche falſely and maliciouſly you obiect againſt him? but yet theſe things …
With rule
… was the proper author thereof, doeſt thou héere (Sycophant) Caluine excellently refuting that very blotteblot of blaſphemy, whiche falſely and maliciouſly you obiect againſt him? but yet theſe things …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet it will ſeeme to him that hath skill, as much as a great blotteblot doth to a Scriuener in a coppie Booke.
With rule
… yet it will ſeeme to him that hath skill, as much as a great blotteblot doth to a Scriuener in a coppie Booke.
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that this name was inuented by the sub…letie of Sathan, that hee might blotteblot with infamie the good creatures of God: for certain experience teacheth that these diseases …
With rule
… that this name was inuented by the sub…letie of Sathan, that hee might blotteblot with infamie the good creatures of God: for certain experience teacheth that these diseases …
John Calvin · Harmony of the Gospels · p. 479 · 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.