Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8776 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pretiepretty

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

Puritas changed it: 181 times in 102 works
Consistency: 99.4% (181 of 182)
Reach if approved: ~191 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pretty
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 182 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (181 changes in 102 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 181)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… table / as in a place / but as in a misterie. Is not this a pretiepretty shefte / and a mistical solution. But by the same solution then Christs bodie is …
With rule
… table / as in a place / but as in a misterie. Is not this a pretiepretty shefte / and a mistical solution. But by the same solution then Christs bodie is …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had not béen committed. To this purpose I remember I haue heard a certeine pretiepretty apotheg…e vttered by a iester to a king. The king had pardoned one …
With rule
… had not béen committed. To this purpose I remember I haue heard a certeine pretiepretty apotheg…e vttered by a iester to a king. The king had pardoned one …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo to preſſe and force wrath, cauſeth ſtrife,) your tranſlator hath tolde vs a pretiepretty tale in this ſorte, He that preſſeth ſtronglie the pappes to draw forth milke …
With rule
… ſo to preſſe and force wrath, cauſeth ſtrife,) your tranſlator hath tolde vs a pretiepretty tale in this ſorte, He that preſſeth ſtronglie the pappes to draw forth milke …
William Whitaker · Answer to Reynolds Book · p. 318 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the fall, they would drowne and kill themselues. Thereupon Theodoret hath a very pretiepretty narration, concerning them. Many of them on a time, met a young man on …
With rule
… by the fall, they would drowne and kill themselues. Thereupon Theodoret hath a very pretiepretty narration, concerning them. Many of them on a time, met a young man on …
Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… really induct into the possession of manse and glebe, & other possessions. So the Archdeacons pretiepretty signet should give place to the kings great seal, sayth the authour of the …
With rule
… really induct into the possession of manse and glebe, & other possessions. So the Archdeacons pretiepretty signet should give place to the kings great seal, sayth the authour of the …
David Calderwood · The Altar of Damascus · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… run before they be ſent, fitteſt to enquire at for reſolution? It were a pretiepretty thing, to heare the Harlots in the ſtewes, euen in good earneſt to boaſt …
With rule
… run before they be ſent, fitteſt to enquire at for reſolution? It were a pretiepretty thing, to heare the Harlots in the ſtewes, euen in good earneſt to boaſt …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which was pleaſing to God, and might be comfortable unto themſelves: it is a pretiepretty phraſe, Mat. 12.35. A good man out of the good treaſure of his heart bringeth …
With rule
… which was pleaſing to God, and might be comfortable unto themſelves: it is a pretiepretty phraſe, Mat. 12.35. A good man out of the good treaſure of his heart bringeth …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue him to vse Inductions as Plato doth, or Syllogismes as Aristotle doth, or pretiepretty sleightes as Carneades doth, or outcryes as Cicero doth, or fyne conceites as Seneca …
With rule
… haue him to vse Inductions as Plato doth, or Syllogismes as Aristotle doth, or pretiepretty sleightes as Carneades doth, or outcryes as Cicero doth, or fyne conceites as Seneca …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 452 · 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.