Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8711 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hayreshairs

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

Puritas changed it: 96 times in 65 works
Consistency: 96.9% (96 of 99)
Reach if approved: ~104 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hairs
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 99 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (96 changes in 65 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 96)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſtrucke Elymas the Sorcerer blinde & bereft him of his eyes. Neither is there one hayreshairs difference to chooſe, whether a mā be killed with a ſword or with a …
With rule
… ſtrucke Elymas the Sorcerer blinde & bereft him of his eyes. Neither is there one hayreshairs difference to chooſe, whether a mā be killed with a ſword or with a …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… afflicted, the braine troubled, the face withered, the body crooked, the ſight dimmed, the hayreshairs falne, and the teeth rotten; and to be ſhort, the body is as it …
With rule
… afflicted, the braine troubled, the face withered, the body crooked, the ſight dimmed, the hayreshairs falne, and the teeth rotten; and to be ſhort, the body is as it …
Peter du Moulin Jr · Meditations Upon the Misery of Mankind · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Moralls; crazed in its Doctrines, and crazed in its Discipline. It hath many gray hayreshairs (Signes of old age, and death approaching) yet such is its Security, that it …
With rule
… Moralls; crazed in its Doctrines, and crazed in its Discipline. It hath many gray hayreshairs (Signes of old age, and death approaching) yet such is its Security, that it …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of that moſt noble part of you, (which is your all) your ſoules. The hayreshairs of our heads are innumerable to us, but God numbers them. The ſins of …
With rule
… of that moſt noble part of you, (which is your all) your ſoules. The hayreshairs of our heads are innumerable to us, but God numbers them. The ſins of …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 22-26 · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not a ſparrow that falleth on the earth, without his knowledge; yea, the hayreshairs of our heads are numbred. The ſecond maine argument of dehortation is drawne (in …
With rule
… is not a ſparrow that falleth on the earth, without his knowledge; yea, the hayreshairs of our heads are numbred. The ſecond maine argument of dehortation is drawne (in …
Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… every question, and to throw arguments, as the men of Gibeah stones, at an hayreshairs bredth. Let no man say to us, Art thou a master in Israel, and …
With rule
… every question, and to throw arguments, as the men of Gibeah stones, at an hayreshairs bredth. Let no man say to us, Art thou a master in Israel, and …
John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one sparrow shall not fall on the ground without your Father: but the very hayreshairs of your head are all numbred.
With rule
… one sparrow shall not fall on the ground without your Father: but the very hayreshairs of your head are all numbred.
John Phillips · The Christians Alphabet · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… poore woman that washed Christ his feete with teares, and wiped them with her hayreshairs: a notable eye-marke to all women of Repentance. Mary was commended by Christ …
With rule
… poore woman that washed Christ his feete with teares, and wiped them with her hayreshairs: a notable eye-marke to all women of Repentance. Mary was commended by Christ …
Thomas Taylor · The Practice of Repentance · p. 65 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet of Christs Descent to Hell B00104

Printed
… thereby, where-of olde IAAKOB spake, when hee sayde, Yee will bring my gray HayresHairs, with sorrow, to the Graue. And, in lyke manner, EVTHYMIVS expoundeth the wordes, of …
With rule
… thereby, where-of olde IAAKOB spake, when hee sayde, Yee will bring my gray HayresHairs, with sorrow, to the Graue. And, in lyke manner, EVTHYMIVS expoundeth the wordes, of …
William Guild · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet of Christs Descent to Hell · p. 84 · Open in the reader