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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8674 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

despayredespair

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

Puritas changed it
302 times in 109 works
Consistency
96.1% (302 of 314)
Reach if approved
~330 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: despair
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
314 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (302 changes in 109 works, 96.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 302)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … finde they had none, and then they should be troubled, and driuen vnto Melancholy despayredespair, &c.
    With rule
    … finde they had none, and then they should be troubled, and driuen vnto Melancholy despayredespair, &c.

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    The lawe sayeth thou arte a synner. despayredespair and thou shalt he dampned.
    With rule
    The lawe sayeth thou arte a synner. despayredespair and thou shalt he dampned.

    Patrick Hamilton · Gatherings of Scripture and Declaring of Faith and Works of the Law · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … they are in prosperitie: so when they are touched with aduersitie, they most miserably despayredespair. But the godly continue and constantly endure in hope and comfort in all troubles …
    With rule
    … they are in prosperitie: so when they are touched with aduersitie, they most miserably despayredespair. But the godly continue and constantly endure in hope and comfort in all troubles …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 270 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … none other reamedy, so great & infinit are our sinnes, but that we must nedes despayredespair. But for asmuch as what soeuer thynges are wrytten, are wrytten for oure learninge …
    With rule
    … none other reamedy, so great & infinit are our sinnes, but that we must nedes despayredespair. But for asmuch as what soeuer thynges are wrytten, are wrytten for oure learninge …

    Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … seeke & cannot find elsewhere thā in him. What remayneth then for vs, but vtter despayredespair? And whereto serueth the said endlesse lyfe, but to be turned into endlesse death …
    With rule
    … seeke & cannot find elsewhere thā in him. What remayneth then for vs, but vtter despayredespair? And whereto serueth the said endlesse lyfe, but to be turned into endlesse death …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 478 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Therefore exposde to sorrow and despayredespair,
    With rule
    Therefore exposde to sorrow and despayredespair,

    Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … first Argument is not like to strike your enimye with any great feare or despayredespair. Arguments weake or weakely prosecuted, weakneth the cause maynteyned, strengthenethe the cause oppugned. And …
    With rule
    … first Argument is not like to strike your enimye with any great feare or despayredespair. Arguments weake or weakely prosecuted, weakneth the cause maynteyned, strengthenethe the cause oppugned. And …

    William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … priest, not to stirre him vp against the Masse, but to bring him into despayredespair; but that God deliuered him with Peter.
    With rule
    … priest, not to stirre him vp against the Masse, but to bring him into despayredespair; but that God deliuered him with Peter.

    Andrew Willet · Discovery of a False Detection · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Virtues History A11081

  • Printed
    DespayreDespair still howleth in his flagging eare,
    With rule
    DespayreDespair still howleth in his flagging eare,

    Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader

An Exposition Upon Colossians A17389

  • Printed
    … of Grace, to keepe vs from Apostacie: fulnesse of Ioy, to keepe vs from DespayreDespair: fulnesse of power to preserue vs against all euill men and euill Angels: onely …
    With rule
    … of Grace, to keepe vs from Apostacie: fulnesse of Ioy, to keepe vs from DespayreDespair: fulnesse of power to preserue vs against all euill men and euill Angels: onely …

    Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 128 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

  • Printed
    Of DeſpayreDespair.
    With rule
    Of DeſpayreDespair.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    DeſpayreDespair muſt be taken heede of in aduerſitie. 51 b 6.
    With rule
    DeſpayreDespair muſt be taken heede of in aduerſitie. 51 b 6.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    VVe muſt not DeſpayreDespair nor …ee diſcouraged, though we ſlide back… oftentimes through infirmitie. 659. a 4. b.
    With rule
    VVe muſt not DeſpayreDespair nor …ee diſcouraged, though we ſlide back… oftentimes through infirmitie. 659. a 4. b.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader

Zions Sweets B07186

  • Printed
    … againſt him, or the reliques of vnbeliefe in him, ſhall raiſe any ſtormes of DeſpayreDespair, to weaken the ſame.
    With rule
    … againſt him, or the reliques of vnbeliefe in him, ſhall raiſe any ſtormes of DeſpayreDespair, to weaken the ſame.

    Thomas Barnes · Zions Sweets · p. 22 · Open in the reader

The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts B12199

  • Printed
    Or in their failings they are plunged into ſuddaine Thoughts of DeſpayreDespair, and theſe vſually are ſeconded with ſuch blaſphemous Thoughts, as to holde them therein …
    With rule
    Or in their failings they are plunged into ſuddaine Thoughts of DeſpayreDespair, and theſe vſually are ſeconded with ſuch blaſphemous Thoughts, as to holde them therein …

    Thomas Cooper · The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … or elſe it is the occaſion of moſt deſperate wickedneſſe, of Pride, Idolatrie Blaſphemie, DeſpayreDespair, &c.' againſt God, or of Malice, Murther, confuſions, and ſtrange combuſtions of men.
    With rule
    … or elſe it is the occaſion of moſt deſperate wickedneſſe, of Pride, Idolatrie Blaſphemie, DeſpayreDespair, &c.' againſt God, or of Malice, Murther, confuſions, and ſtrange combuſtions of men.

    Thomas Cooper · The Sacred Mystery of the Government of the Thoughts · p. 188 · Open in the reader