Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8680 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

draggedrag

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

Puritas changed it: 94 times in 65 works
Consistency: 87.8% (94 of 107)
Reach if approved: ~112 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: drag
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 107 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (94 changes in 65 works, 87.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 94)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… take up with the angle, to catch with the net, to gather with the draggedrag, as Hab. 1.15. Every prophane perſon who hateth to be reformed, will be very well …
With rule
… take up with the angle, to catch with the net, to gather with the draggedrag, as Hab. 1.15. Every prophane perſon who hateth to be reformed, will be very well …
John Ley · Exceptions Many and Just Against Two Injurious Petitions · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
We draggedrag thy buried coarse from hellish tombe:
With rule
We draggedrag thy buried coarse from hellish tombe:
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… grow madde. And the Deuills shall binde them with chaines of fire, and shall draggedrag them vp & downe through Hell. Those soules which sometime shall name God in their …
With rule
… grow madde. And the Deuills shall binde them with chaines of fire, and shall draggedrag them vp & downe through Hell. Those soules which sometime shall name God in their …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seize vpon him, as a traitor and rebell to the highest Maiestie, and to draggedrag him downe into the bottome of Hell. Whereas the state of true Christians, and …
With rule
… seize vpon him, as a traitor and rebell to the highest Maiestie, and to draggedrag him downe into the bottome of Hell. Whereas the state of true Christians, and …
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · Open in the reader
Printed
… grow so carnally secure, and proudly insolent, that it will tempt, yea pull and draggedrag vs into much wickednesse: to which purpose the wise man sayth of professed worldlings …
With rule
… grow so carnally secure, and proudly insolent, that it will tempt, yea pull and draggedrag vs into much wickednesse: to which purpose the wise man sayth of professed worldlings …
John Downame · Consolations for the Afflicted · p. 428 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them to obey, as if a man ſhould take another by the ſhoulder, ſo draggedrag him and hale him, and yet they would not. So when Paul ſpake to …
With rule
… them to obey, as if a man ſhould take another by the ſhoulder, ſo draggedrag him and hale him, and yet they would not. So when Paul ſpake to …
William Fenner · Christs Alarm to Drowsy Saints · p. 332 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by them their portion is fat] By them, that is, by their net and draggedrag, they think that their condition is well mended, and their meat is fat, opimus …
With rule
… by them their portion is fat] By them, that is, by their net and draggedrag, they think that their condition is well mended, and their meat is fat, opimus …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 423 · Open in the reader
Printed
… live by warre, therefore they barne incense to their net, and sacrifice to their draggedrag. They cry nothing but warre and bloud, digge they cannot, and to begge they …
With rule
… live by warre, therefore they barne incense to their net, and sacrifice to their draggedrag. They cry nothing but warre and bloud, digge they cannot, and to begge they …
John Vicars · A Discovery of the Rebels · p. 42 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Habakkuk A51907

Printed
Here is Angle and Net and DraggeDrag, as before, The wicked compaſſeth about the righteous; which way ſhall the righteous eſcape …
With rule
Here is Angle and Net and DraggeDrag, as before, The wicked compaſſeth about the righteous; which way ſhall the righteous eſcape …
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will tell us that God hath his Angle too, and his Net, and his DraggeDrag.
With rule
… will tell us that God hath his Angle too, and his Net, and his DraggeDrag.
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the covetouſneſſe of the Chaldeans; they had their Angle, and their Net, and their DraggeDrag; nothing could eſcape them.
With rule
… the covetouſneſſe of the Chaldeans; they had their Angle, and their Net, and their DraggeDrag; nothing could eſcape them.
Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 277 · Open in the reader