Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8794 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

reuengefullrevengeful

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

Puritas changed it: 120 times in 65 works
Consistency: 96.0% (120 of 125)
Reach if approved: ~131 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: revengeful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 125 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (120 changes in 65 works, 96.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… better to haue a profitable remembrance of the same plague, then to haue a reuengefullrevengeful remembrance by another. It is the forgetfulnesse of Gods old chastisements that makes vs …
With rule
… better to haue a profitable remembrance of the same plague, then to haue a reuengefullrevengeful remembrance by another. It is the forgetfulnesse of Gods old chastisements that makes vs …
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me, for I am lowly and meeke: 1. He in heart neuer conceiued fierce or reuengefullrevengeful thought. 2. In word, being reuiled, he reuiled not againe. 3. In action, hee was led …
With rule
… me, for I am lowly and meeke: 1. He in heart neuer conceiued fierce or reuengefullrevengeful thought. 2. In word, being reuiled, he reuiled not againe. 3. In action, hee was led …
Thomas Taylor · The Kings Bath · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worst and most vlcerous times) vpon this aduantage, many times worke a world of reuengefullrevengeful villany. But how soeuer it bee easie, and too ordinarie, for blacke tongues to …
With rule
… worst and most vlcerous times) vpon this aduantage, many times worke a world of reuengefullrevengeful villany. But how soeuer it bee easie, and too ordinarie, for blacke tongues to …
Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was as a dumbe man, and opened not his mouth in any reproachfull or reuengefullrevengeful manner: and what was the reaſon hereof? he himſelfe telleth vs, verſe. 15. On thee …
With rule
… was as a dumbe man, and opened not his mouth in any reproachfull or reuengefullrevengeful manner: and what was the reaſon hereof? he himſelfe telleth vs, verſe. 15. On thee …
Robert Cleaver · Three Sermons Upon Mark 9:22-23 · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that becauſe thou haſt iuſt cauſe, therefore thou mayeſt ſhew thy ſelfe violent and reuengefullrevengeful; and carrie in thee a diſtempered minde, no, no, ſaith the holy Ghoſt, if …
With rule
… that becauſe thou haſt iuſt cauſe, therefore thou mayeſt ſhew thy ſelfe violent and reuengefullrevengeful; and carrie in thee a diſtempered minde, no, no, ſaith the holy Ghoſt, if …
Edward Elton · Exposition of Colossians · p. 1010 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more able slaues to their owne filthinesse, and in stead of stopping vs in reuengefullrevengeful courses, it rather hasteth vs forward with headlong swiftnes, and putteth a sword of …
With rule
… more able slaues to their owne filthinesse, and in stead of stopping vs in reuengefullrevengeful courses, it rather hasteth vs forward with headlong swiftnes, and putteth a sword of …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · p. 140 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Miniſter, to ſhroud your ſelfe vnder him: this you doe out of a reuengefullrevengeful heart to diſgrace and defame your neighbours, and that in making others bad, your …
With rule
… the Miniſter, to ſhroud your ſelfe vnder him: this you doe out of a reuengefullrevengeful heart to diſgrace and defame your neighbours, and that in making others bad, your …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being displeased, more malicious, and so more apt to bitter cursing, and farre more reuengefullrevengeful, according to their power, then men, and so herein more fit instruments of the …
With rule
… being displeased, more malicious, and so more apt to bitter cursing, and farre more reuengefullrevengeful, according to their power, then men, and so herein more fit instruments of the …
Richard Bernard · A Guide to Grand-jury Men · p. 92 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 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.

A Guide to Go to God A01975

Printed
… to wrath, as dry Tinder is ready to be fiered by the leaſt ſparke. ReuengefullRevengeful, in that being prouoked, they are as it were on fire with reuenge: like …
With rule
… to wrath, as dry Tinder is ready to be fiered by the leaſt ſparke. ReuengefullRevengeful, in that being prouoked, they are as it were on fire with reuenge: like …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
ReuengefullRevengeful perſons pull reuenge vpon themſelues. 201
With rule
ReuengefullRevengeful perſons pull reuenge vpon themſelues. 201
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

Printed
They cannot their ReuengefullRevengeful Nature smother;
With rule
They cannot their ReuengefullRevengeful Nature smother;
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader
Printed
BVt now the cause of mens ReuengefullRevengeful thirst,
With rule
BVt now the cause of mens ReuengefullRevengeful thirst,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader