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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8696 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

faythlessefaithless

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

Puritas changed it
85 times in 34 works
Consistency
95.5% (85 of 89)
Reach if approved
~94 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: faithless
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
89 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (85 changes in 34 works, 95.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 85)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the lyke in the Text which I am about to alledge. For when the faythlessefaithless and heathenish sort which haue their treasure in this world, doo see themselues go …
    With rule
    … the lyke in the Text which I am about to alledge. For when the faythlessefaithless and heathenish sort which haue their treasure in this world, doo see themselues go …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Ephesians · p. 135 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of death not to the chur▪ eyther before or ſince Chriſt, but to the “faythleſſefaithless and diſobedient both under the old Teſtament and under the Goſpel.
    With rule
    … of death not to the chur▪ eyther before or ſince Chriſt, but to the “faythleſſefaithless and diſobedient both under the old Teſtament and under the Goſpel.

    Richard Clifton · The Plea for Infants and Elder People Concerning their Baptism · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … be reproued therfore, they thinke they are greatly iniured. Ye ſee thē that the faythleſſefaithless are alwaies drowned in prefumptiō: & for this cauſe the prophet Habacuk fetteth this hautineſſe …
    With rule
    … be reproued therfore, they thinke they are greatly iniured. Ye ſee thē that the faythleſſefaithless are alwaies drowned in prefumptiō: & for this cauſe the prophet Habacuk fetteth this hautineſſe …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 408 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … euen as before, that vnder the deuill this Aërius was the father of that faythlessefaithless assertion. VVhome he bayteth well fauourdly in a whole oration and so driues the …
    With rule
    … euen as before, that vnder the deuill this Aërius was the father of that faythlessefaithless assertion. VVhome he bayteth well fauourdly in a whole oration and so driues the …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 414 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Agaynſte the faythleſſefaithless Ceremonies, Pſal. xlix. Eſa. i.b. xliij.d. lxvi.a. Jerem iii.d. vii …
    With rule
    Agaynſte the faythleſſefaithless Ceremonies, Pſal. xlix. Eſa. i.b. xliij.d. lxvi.a. Jerem iii.d. vii …

    Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … likely to recover her husbands goodwill, to whom shee hadd bene faithfull: as a faythlessefaithless whore and infamous strumpett to get a newe husband?
    With rule
    … likely to recover her husbands goodwill, to whom shee hadd bene faithfull: as a faythlessefaithless whore and infamous strumpett to get a newe husband?

    John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … they that seke to be gloriouse / can have no fayth then are oure prelates faythlessefaithless verely. And Iohn. vij. he saith / he that speaketh of him selfe / seketh his …
    With rule
    … they that seke to be gloriouse / can have no fayth then are oure prelates faythlessefaithless verely. And Iohn. vij. he saith / he that speaketh of him selfe / seketh his …

    William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … thouſand yeeres learned the lyfe of Chriſt: and reigned with hym. As for the faythleſſefaithless dead in ſinne, Satan was not tyed to them, who would not be holy …
    With rule
    … thouſand yeeres learned the lyfe of Chriſt: and reigned with hym. As for the faythleſſefaithless dead in ſinne, Satan was not tyed to them, who would not be holy …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons on Galatians A17706

  • Printed
    ¶ Fayth, Faythfull, Faythfulneſſe, and FaythleſſeFaithless
    With rule
    ¶ Fayth, Faythfull, Faythfulneſſe, and FaythleſſeFaithless

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The difference betweene the ſtates of the Faythfull and the FaythleſſeFaithless 103. a. 27. b & 104. a. b
    With rule
    The difference betweene the ſtates of the Faythfull and the FaythleſſeFaithless 103. a. 27. b & 104. a. b

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    The FaythleſſeFaithless haue no ryght to anye thinge in this VVorlde 153. b. 12. & 154. a.
    With rule
    The FaythleſſeFaithless haue no ryght to anye thinge in this VVorlde 153. b. 12. & 154. a.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader