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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8817 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

slippesslips

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

Puritas changed it
133 times in 88 works
Consistency
100% (133 of 133)
Reach if approved
~140 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: slips
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
133 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (133 changes in 88 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 133)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … giving their outward man in an outward cōformity to God, they bee counterfeits, and ſlippesslips in religion: ſuch as, whoſe righteouſneſſe commeth like a tertian Ague, & is as a …
    With rule
    … giving their outward man in an outward cōformity to God, they bee counterfeits, and ſlippesslips in religion: ſuch as, whoſe righteouſneſſe commeth like a tertian Ague, & is as a …

    Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 139 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Ierom your Espencaeus & Canus shew,) is not amongst them. Though there are amongst them slippesslips of the same tree: a barbarous and sottish fable (as Canus calleth it) of …
    With rule
    … Ierom your Espencaeus & Canus shew,) is not amongst them. Though there are amongst them slippesslips of the same tree: a barbarous and sottish fable (as Canus calleth it) of …

    John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 504 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to moue vs to repentance, to keepe a note of all our ſinnes, and ſlippesslips, and falls, that we may euer haue matter to humble our hard and ſtony …
    With rule
    … to moue vs to repentance, to keepe a note of all our ſinnes, and ſlippesslips, and falls, that we may euer haue matter to humble our hard and ſtony …

    Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … and counterfeit? Or what an awke and unreasonable conclusion is this; There be many slippesslips in mettalls, and therefore I scorne the touch-stone? nay rather, therefore thou shouldest …
    With rule
    … and counterfeit? Or what an awke and unreasonable conclusion is this; There be many slippesslips in mettalls, and therefore I scorne the touch-stone? nay rather, therefore thou shouldest …

    Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … not his owne grosse and erring ignorance. He with a curious eye obserueth others slippesslips, and tripping (nor that neither) while himselfe stumbleth, and falleth downe flat: the Prophet …
    With rule
    … not his owne grosse and erring ignorance. He with a curious eye obserueth others slippesslips, and tripping (nor that neither) while himselfe stumbleth, and falleth downe flat: the Prophet …

    Andrew Willet · A Scourge for a Railer · p. 77 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … or part of the bodie, for the ouersight of the other, as for the slippesslips of the hands, to lay stripes vpon the backe or shoulders; but he correcteth …
    With rule
    … or part of the bodie, for the ouersight of the other, as for the slippesslips of the hands, to lay stripes vpon the backe or shoulders; but he correcteth …

    Archbishop George Abbot · Sermons on Jonah · p. 436 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and contrariwise, the last made first: the naturall buddes yeeld place to the sauage slippesslips, the proper and olde growen branches are cut of, and new taken in: and …
    With rule
    … and contrariwise, the last made first: the naturall buddes yeeld place to the sauage slippesslips, the proper and olde growen branches are cut of, and new taken in: and …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … into, after regeneration, in thought, word and deed, of ignorance, of knowledge, of presumption, slippesslips, transgressions, and obstinate sinne: Yea that ther is no sinne, except the sinne against …
    With rule
    … into, after regeneration, in thought, word and deed, of ignorance, of knowledge, of presumption, slippesslips, transgressions, and obstinate sinne: Yea that ther is no sinne, except the sinne against …

    John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 94 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.