Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8664 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

clossclose

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

Puritas changed it: 146 times in 49 works
Consistency: 92.9% (146 of 157)
Reach if approved: ~165 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 157 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (146 changes in 49 works, 92.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 146)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… second Vindication and is still denyed: But it is below this high pretender to clossclose Reasoning, to take notice of that: or to bring any shadow of proof for …
With rule
… second Vindication and is still denyed: But it is below this high pretender to clossclose Reasoning, to take notice of that: or to bring any shadow of proof for …
Gilbert Rule · Defense of the Vindication of the Church of Scotland · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… time, but their love, like a candle (though it burn a little in a cloſsclose room, and calm weather) is eaſily blown out by a ſtormy wind. If a …
With rule
… time, but their love, like a candle (though it burn a little in a cloſsclose room, and calm weather) is eaſily blown out by a ſtormy wind. If a …
George Swinnock · The Pastors Farewell · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Branches of this, and make ſudden excurſions by more tranſient acts, but this lyeth cloſsclose (as it were) in ambuſh continually, it lyeth at the root, for it contends …
With rule
… Branches of this, and make ſudden excurſions by more tranſient acts, but this lyeth cloſsclose (as it were) in ambuſh continually, it lyeth at the root, for it contends …
James Durham · The Great Corruption of Subtle Self · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… loose generation, that there is no sin in the justified, that Justification removes it clossclose, as if it had never been at all. I say, as the condemnation of …
With rule
… loose generation, that there is no sin in the justified, that Justification removes it clossclose, as if it had never been at all. I say, as the condemnation of …
Hugh Binning · The Sinners Sanctuary · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aſſure them they knew the place, and they knew the way. My beloved cleave cloſsclose to the Scriptures, and ſtudy them, they ſhew the new Jeruſalem which is above …
With rule
… aſſure them they knew the place, and they knew the way. My beloved cleave cloſsclose to the Scriptures, and ſtudy them, they ſhew the new Jeruſalem which is above …
Zachary Crofton · The Hard Way to Heaven · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Sun still keeps on his course in the Heavens even in full and clossclose weather, when you cannot see it? and may it not be so with the …
With rule
… the Sun still keeps on his course in the Heavens even in full and clossclose weather, when you cannot see it? and may it not be so with the …
John Flavel · A Saint Indeed · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Engagement. Really, the good Narcissus here sees his Picture in the Well — Decline a clossclose Engagement! Let all Men that ever read the Authors he Names, judge what clossclose …
With rule
… Engagement. Really, the good Narcissus here sees his Picture in the Well — Decline a clossclose Engagement! Let all Men that ever read the Authors he Names, judge what clossclose …
Thomas Forrester · The Hierarchical Bishops Claim Tried at the Scripture-Bar · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… security promised to the Church from the one than the other. Neither did the clossclose Vicinity to the times of the Apostles, preserve the Churches from evident Lapses of …
With rule
… security promised to the Church from the one than the other. Neither did the clossclose Vicinity to the times of the Apostles, preserve the Churches from evident Lapses of …
William Jameson · The Fundamentals of the Hierarchy Examined and Disproved · p. 128 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes A52356

Printed
… by George Moſman, and are to be Sold at his Shop in the Parliament CloſsClose MDCXCIV.
With rule
… by George Moſman, and are to be Sold at his Shop in the Parliament CloſsClose MDCXCIV.
Alexander Nisbet · Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
Books to be Sold by George Moſman at his Shop in the Parliament CloſsClose.
With rule
Books to be Sold by George Moſman at his Shop in the Parliament CloſsClose.
Alexander Nisbet · Exposition Upon Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

Defense of the Vindication of the Church of Scotland A57855

Printed
… by GEORGE MOSMAN and are to be Sold at his Shop in the Parliament ClossClose, in the Year 1694.
With rule
… by GEORGE MOSMAN and are to be Sold at his Shop in the Parliament ClossClose, in the Year 1694.
Gilbert Rule · Defense of the Vindication of the Church of Scotland · Open in the reader