Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8773 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

poysonfullpoisonful

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

Puritas changed it: 198 times in 134 works
Consistency: 99.5% (198 of 199)
Reach if approved: ~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: poisonful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (198 changes in 134 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 198)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… England were farre fewer then they are, yet ſo longe as they reteyne that poyſonfullpoisonful leauen of their Hyerarchie and worſhip, wee must tell them as the Scripture ſaith …
With rule
… England were farre fewer then they are, yet ſo longe as they reteyne that poyſonfullpoisonful leauen of their Hyerarchie and worſhip, wee must tell them as the Scripture ſaith …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fall thorow the deceitfull suttelties of Satan, the vaine perswasions of the world, & the poysonfullpoisonful entisements of the flesh, if by the mighty power of him they wer not …
With rule
… fall thorow the deceitfull suttelties of Satan, the vaine perswasions of the world, & the poysonfullpoisonful entisements of the flesh, if by the mighty power of him they wer not …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſpued themſelues by their euil dealing, labour by running vp and downe, in propounding poyſonfullpoisonful doctrine, and bad example of life, to leaue a miſerable yea infectiue ſtinch behind …
With rule
… ſpued themſelues by their euil dealing, labour by running vp and downe, in propounding poyſonfullpoisonful doctrine, and bad example of life, to leaue a miſerable yea infectiue ſtinch behind …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 418 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their will: Mens mihi pro Regno, as one ſaid. Now this being the proud poyſonfullpoisonful nature of man, we muſt not thinke it a ſtrange thing, that there are …
With rule
… their will: Mens mihi pro Regno, as one ſaid. Now this being the proud poyſonfullpoisonful nature of man, we muſt not thinke it a ſtrange thing, that there are …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 426 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is certaine hurt. 4. Thornes and briers are the dennes and receptacles of Serpents, and poysonfullpoisonful wormes and creatures: so are these vnmortified desires the harbours of infinite noysome sinnes …
With rule
… is certaine hurt. 4. Thornes and briers are the dennes and receptacles of Serpents, and poysonfullpoisonful wormes and creatures: so are these vnmortified desires the harbours of infinite noysome sinnes …
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · p. 147 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoule, that cannot ſoundly digeſt and concoct them. Or elſe, they ariſe from the poyſonfullpoisonful infection of ſome euill companion or other, to whom a man hath by ſome …
With rule
… ſoule, that cannot ſoundly digeſt and concoct them. Or elſe, they ariſe from the poyſonfullpoisonful infection of ſome euill companion or other, to whom a man hath by ſome …
William Whately · The New Birth · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he taſted with delight, that which he ſhould haue ſpit out, as bitter, and poyſonfullpoisonful. Sixtly, his ſmelling, which is ſet over the mouth to giue intelligence to it …
With rule
… he taſted with delight, that which he ſhould haue ſpit out, as bitter, and poyſonfullpoisonful. Sixtly, his ſmelling, which is ſet over the mouth to giue intelligence to it …
John Yates · A Model of Divinity · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the king of Spayne deale not ſo with the Queene our miſtres, when her poyſonfullpoisonful Portingall phiſition Lopus would haue poyſoned her. For, from ſuch hopes hee taketh hearte …
With rule
… the king of Spayne deale not ſo with the Queene our miſtres, when her poyſonfullpoisonful Portingall phiſition Lopus would haue poyſoned her. For, from ſuch hopes hee taketh hearte …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 57 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.