Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8710 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

happynessehappiness

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

Puritas changed it: 81 times in 55 works
Consistency: 92.0% (81 of 88)
Reach if approved: ~92 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: happiness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 88 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (81 changes in 55 works, 92.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 81)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the world) come, and dwell vnder the ſhadow thereof, Mat. 13.31. Mark. 4 32. making their reſidence, happyneſſehappiness, and reſt therein: A reſemblance, & predictions, which cannot agree or fall in with any …
With rule
… the world) come, and dwell vnder the ſhadow thereof, Mat. 13.31. Mark. 4 32. making their reſidence, happyneſſehappiness, and reſt therein: A reſemblance, & predictions, which cannot agree or fall in with any …
Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
First, it reproues such as place all their happynessehappiness in worldly things; these are no truc beleeuers: for they haue no hope of …
With rule
First, it reproues such as place all their happynessehappiness in worldly things; these are no truc beleeuers: for they haue no hope of …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 597 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoeuer it bee: but there wee ſhall haue the fulneſſe of all ioy and happyneſſehappiness. That not onely &c.
With rule
… ſoeuer it bee: but there wee ſhall haue the fulneſſe of all ioy and happyneſſehappiness. That not onely &c.
John Calvin · Thirteen Sermons on Free Election in Jacob and Reprobation in Esau · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… recumbencie, all true Christians ought ever to bee possessed off, which hope for any happynessehappiness. Namely when a man casteth himselfe wholly upon Christ, clinging about him with Jobs …
With rule
… recumbencie, all true Christians ought ever to bee possessed off, which hope for any happynessehappiness. Namely when a man casteth himselfe wholly upon Christ, clinging about him with Jobs …
Thomas Fuller · Sermon of Assurance · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… attaine the ende, to attaine the ende of our being, and that is eternall happynessehappiness: And they are borne in vaine, and live to no purpose, that doe not …
With rule
… attaine the ende, to attaine the ende of our being, and that is eternall happynessehappiness: And they are borne in vaine, and live to no purpose, that doe not …
Edward Terry · The Merchants and Mariners Preservation and Thanksgiving · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to doo them good, & to be a notable means for the encrease of their happynessehappiness before the Lord. This is manifest in this history. Iezebel that cruell persecutor, made …
With rule
… to doo them good, & to be a notable means for the encrease of their happynessehappiness before the Lord. This is manifest in this history. Iezebel that cruell persecutor, made …
John Frewen · Sermons Upon Romans 11:2-8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… before mentioned,) happy are they that are in ſuch a Caſe: but the chiefeſt happyneſſehappiness of all, the perfect, the conſummatory bleſſedneſſe is in this, and onely in this …
With rule
… before mentioned,) happy are they that are in ſuch a Caſe: but the chiefeſt happyneſſehappiness of all, the perfect, the conſummatory bleſſedneſſe is in this, and onely in this …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Figless Fig Tree · p. 365 · Open in the reader
Printed
S^t. Basil (not without passion) did enuie the Diuells happynessehappiness: Who had neither Created vs, nor redeemed vs, nor preserueth vs; but violently Labours …
With rule
S^t. Basil (not without passion) did enuie the Diuells happynessehappiness: Who had neither Created vs, nor redeemed vs, nor preserueth vs; but violently Labours …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Three Treatises A10659

Printed
… unto the Image of the Sonne; Conformed in his Nature, Holynesse; in His End, HappynesseHappiness; and in the way thereunto, Sufferings. We all, saith he, beholding with open face …
With rule
… unto the Image of the Sonne; Conformed in his Nature, Holynesse; in His End, HappynesseHappiness; and in the way thereunto, Sufferings. We all, saith he, beholding with open face …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 416 · Open in the reader

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

Printed
… be seen, yet then can a Beleever rejoyce in his God. This is the HappynesseHappiness of Gods People, let things goe how they will or can, yet he either …
With rule
… be seen, yet then can a Beleever rejoyce in his God. This is the HappynesseHappiness of Gods People, let things goe how they will or can, yet he either …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 220 · Open in the reader

Letter to the General Assembly of Scotland A52060

Printed
… by how much we expected, not a Preseruation onely, but an Augmentation also, to HappynesseHappiness in the one, and Glory in the other. We looked for peace, but no …
With rule
… by how much we expected, not a Preseruation onely, but an Augmentation also, to HappynesseHappiness in the one, and Glory in the other. We looked for peace, but no …
Stephen Marshall · Letter to the General Assembly of Scotland · Open in the reader

Three Decades of Sermons A96523

Printed
… Conſcience, and invites you to come preſently to Jeſus Chriſt. When a Treatiſe of HappyneſſeHappiness was brought to Antipater, he anſwered, I am not at leiſure; a lamentable caſe …
With rule
… Conſcience, and invites you to come preſently to Jeſus Chriſt. When a Treatiſe of HappyneſſeHappiness was brought to Antipater, he anſwered, I am not at leiſure; a lamentable caſe …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… leiſure; a lamentable caſe not to be at leiſure to read a Treatiſe of HappyneſſeHappiness. Felix would hear Paul at a convenient time; we never read that he ſent …
With rule
… leiſure; a lamentable caſe not to be at leiſure to read a Treatiſe of HappyneſſeHappiness. Felix would hear Paul at a convenient time; we never read that he ſent …
Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 47 · Open in the reader