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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8788 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

remaynesremains

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

Puritas changed it
115 times in 45 works
Consistency
99.1% (115 of 116)
Reach if approved
~122 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: remains
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
116 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 45 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 115)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not only three cubites of ground allotte themselues to receiue you? Onely a graue remaynesremains; and all you that boast of your great lands, shall at that day say …
    With rule
    … not only three cubites of ground allotte themselues to receiue you? Onely a graue remaynesremains; and all you that boast of your great lands, shall at that day say …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … AMOVNTETH to ABOVE TWO HVNDRED THOVSAND POVNDS, that which hath already been gathered, and remaynesremains yet to be payd, which had been almoſt ſufficient, to haue built a royall …
    With rule
    … AMOVNTETH to ABOVE TWO HVNDRED THOVSAND POVNDS, that which hath already been gathered, and remaynesremains yet to be payd, which had been almoſt ſufficient, to haue built a royall …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … is, I ſaye, none other Ieſus, that one and onely name of ſaluation. What remaynesremains then, but that cheerefully without gloſſe, and vnfaynedly acknowledging thy ſelfe to be in …
    With rule
    … is, I ſaye, none other Ieſus, that one and onely name of ſaluation. What remaynesremains then, but that cheerefully without gloſſe, and vnfaynedly acknowledging thy ſelfe to be in …

    Theodore Beza · Meditations Upon Eight Psalms · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    NOw, the world being thus shut vp and bounded with vanitie, there remaynesremains onely that highest Essence, the Cause and Fountayne of all things, in whom Man …
    With rule
    NOw, the world being thus shut vp and bounded with vanitie, there remaynesremains onely that highest Essence, the Cause and Fountayne of all things, in whom Man …

    Francis Rous · The Art of Happiness · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a bill, bond, or booke, wherein the debt standeth to be seene, and there remaynesremains vn-cancelled and vn-crost, till the debt be satisfied. The bill or bond …
    With rule
    … a bill, bond, or booke, wherein the debt standeth to be seene, and there remaynesremains vn-cancelled and vn-crost, till the debt be satisfied. The bill or bond …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    3 As the Sabbath remaynesremains, though the Ceremony be changed, so ought Tithes to remayne for the maintenance of …
    With rule
    3 As the Sabbath remaynesremains, though the Ceremony be changed, so ought Tithes to remayne for the maintenance of …

    Thomas Cooper · The Art of Giving · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … is: After that I have perform'd my duty, in admonishing and threatning you, it remaynesremains that you also doe your duty in obeying that doctrine that I have delivered …
    With rule
    … is: After that I have perform'd my duty, in admonishing and threatning you, it remaynesremains that you also doe your duty in obeying that doctrine that I have delivered …

    George Downame · An Apostolical Injunction for Unity and Peace · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the Lord, that the matter of theſe Superſtitions are removed, and the name onely remaynesremains as a memoriall of Gods goodneſſe, who hath done ſo great good things for …
    With rule
    … the Lord, that the matter of theſe Superſtitions are removed, and the name onely remaynesremains as a memoriall of Gods goodneſſe, who hath done ſo great good things for …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Letter Censuring Cheapside Cross · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Epigrams A08687

  • Printed
    Earth firme RemaynesRemains, the Sea Remooues,
    With rule
    Earth firme RemaynesRemains, the Sea Remooues,

    John Owen · Epigrams · Open in the reader