Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8803 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scarrescar

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

Puritas changed it: 232 times in 162 works
Consistency: 98.7% (232 of 235)
Reach if approved: ~247 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: scar
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 235 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (232 changes in 162 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 232)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cause, by him thrust with a dagger into his bodie, whereof hee bore the scarrescar to his graue. Yea he did lie with his own daughter Constantia: and to …
With rule
… cause, by him thrust with a dagger into his bodie, whereof hee bore the scarrescar to his graue. Yea he did lie with his own daughter Constantia: and to …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 309 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vp and makes as though he would caſt it into the water, thereby to ſcarrescar it from the water. So God ſeeing his Children walking neere vnto hell by …
With rule
… vp and makes as though he would caſt it into the water, thereby to ſcarrescar it from the water. So God ſeeing his Children walking neere vnto hell by …
Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If Religion then bee a drawer, bee not thou a driuer, neyther doe thou scarrescar away with thy grimnes, those whom Religion would allure with her beauties. There is …
With rule
… If Religion then bee a drawer, bee not thou a driuer, neyther doe thou scarrescar away with thy grimnes, those whom Religion would allure with her beauties. There is …
Francis Rous · The Diseases of the Time · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a dangerous gash in the bodie, of which we say, once broken euer a scarrescar. Now if it be the greatest enemie to loue, which is the badge and …
With rule
… a dangerous gash in the bodie, of which we say, once broken euer a scarrescar. Now if it be the greatest enemie to loue, which is the badge and …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 568 · Open in the reader
Printed
… person or deede, condemne all that is good (as if for a wart or scarrescar, one should despise great fauor and beauty;) but they easily winke at that which …
With rule
… person or deede, condemne all that is good (as if for a wart or scarrescar, one should despise great fauor and beauty;) but they easily winke at that which …
Thomas Wilson · Saints by Calling · p. 387 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord, the Spouse of our Soules: All our filthie and bloodie deformities could not scarrescar him from the loue of our Soules: If any bee defiled with sinne and …
With rule
… Lord, the Spouse of our Soules: All our filthie and bloodie deformities could not scarrescar him from the loue of our Soules: If any bee defiled with sinne and …
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 358 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any hurt. The next night, they made a rumbling ouer head like thunder to ſcarrescar her out of her wittes, but GOD gaue her ſtrength.
With rule
… any hurt. The next night, they made a rumbling ouer head like thunder to ſcarrescar her out of her wittes, but GOD gaue her ſtrength.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 242 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their deeds and behaviour vnlesse there bee cunning to conceale it. For a foule scarrescar may be covered with a faire cloath. And as proud as Lucifer, may be …
With rule
… their deeds and behaviour vnlesse there bee cunning to conceale it. For a foule scarrescar may be covered with a faire cloath. And as proud as Lucifer, may be …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Nature of Pride · p. 11 · 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.