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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8734 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

jarrejar

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

Puritas changed it
115 times in 97 works
Consistency
97.4% (115 of 118)
Reach if approved
~124 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: jar
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
118 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (115 changes in 97 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … is an enemy to the Houſe of Auſtria, and that he ſeems now to jarrejar with the Pope, for the maintaining of the Priviledges of the King over the …
    With rule
    … is an enemy to the Houſe of Auſtria, and that he ſeems now to jarrejar with the Pope, for the maintaining of the Priviledges of the King over the …

    John Dury · Letter to Alexander Henderson · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſet upon them, and thy mind and thy tongue go together, there is no jarrejar not diſcord betwixt them: but if thy heart be not pure, though thou ſpeakeſt …
    With rule
    … ſet upon them, and thy mind and thy tongue go together, there is no jarrejar not diſcord betwixt them: but if thy heart be not pure, though thou ſpeakeſt …

    William Fenner · Twenty-Nine Sermons · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … most notorious, hee hath bin the speciall cause of the troubles in Scotland, and jarrejar… betwixt them and the English. For when he went to the North with His …
    With rule
    … most notorious, hee hath bin the speciall cause of the troubles in Scotland, and jarrejar… betwixt them and the English. For when he went to the North with His …

    William Prynne · Hidden Works of Darkness Brought to Public Light · p. 205 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … become a foe, if unfriendly and unfaithfully dealt with. Not keeping time makes a jarrejar in payments (and ſo in friendſhip too) as well as in Muſick.
    With rule
    … become a foe, if unfriendly and unfaithfully dealt with. Not keeping time makes a jarrejar in payments (and ſo in friendſhip too) as well as in Muſick.

    John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    All men could wish, nay long, the world would jarrejar,
    With rule
    All men could wish, nay long, the world would jarrejar,

    Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … have been the Custome. I cannot therfore thinke, that the King & Princes Chapples doe jarrejar or vary in this particular.
    With rule
    … have been the Custome. I cannot therfore thinke, that the King & Princes Chapples doe jarrejar or vary in this particular.

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 162 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Peace is the cheifest good of euery society; as jarrejar and warre is the greatest euill: And it is then, when the members of …
    With rule
    Peace is the cheifest good of euery society; as jarrejar and warre is the greatest euill: And it is then, when the members of …

    William Bradshaw · A Plain and Pithy Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 203 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Glad grief! O pious! and O impious jarrejar!
    With rule
    Glad grief! O pious! and O impious jarrejar!

    Nicolas Billingsley · A Breviary of All the Greatest Persecutions · p. 16 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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