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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8825 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spottespot

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

Puritas changed it
166 times in 96 works
Consistency
99.4% (166 of 167)
Reach if approved
~175 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: spot
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
167 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (166 changes in 96 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 166)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … father, as all the faythfull ought to do. For Christ is the lambe wtout spottespot. Christ is that lambe of God, which taketh away ye synne of the worlde …
    With rule
    … father, as all the faythfull ought to do. For Christ is the lambe wtout spottespot. Christ is that lambe of God, which taketh away ye synne of the worlde …

    Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … comformable to the glorious bodie of her Bridegroome: Philip. 3.10. ſhe ſhal bee truelie without spottespot or wrinckle, Epheſ. 5.27. The ſpouſe therefore ſpeaketh not in this place of this naturall …
    With rule
    … comformable to the glorious bodie of her Bridegroome: Philip. 3.10. ſhe ſhal bee truelie without spottespot or wrinckle, Epheſ. 5.27. The ſpouſe therefore ſpeaketh not in this place of this naturall …

    Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … three axiomes: ſure it is that when Chriſt praied, he praied without the leaſt ſpottespot of ſinne: and either of theſe axiomes rehearſed will iuſtifie Chriſt praier from the …
    With rule
    … three axiomes: ſure it is that when Chriſt praied, he praied without the leaſt ſpottespot of ſinne: and either of theſe axiomes rehearſed will iuſtifie Chriſt praier from the …

    John Smyth · The Bright Morning Star · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … we haue committed) thou wouldeſt for thy tender mercies ſake pardon and forgiue what ſpottespot or giltineſſe ſoeuer we are infected with, ruling and gouerning vs in ſuche ſort …
    With rule
    … we haue committed) thou wouldeſt for thy tender mercies ſake pardon and forgiue what ſpottespot or giltineſſe ſoeuer we are infected with, ruling and gouerning vs in ſuche ſort …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Godly Prayers out of Davids Psalms · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … innocēt, is ſet before vniuſt iuges and tirauntes for vs treſpaſſers. The Lambe without ſpottespot openeth not hys mouth when he is mocked and made a laughing ſtocke to …
    With rule
    … innocēt, is ſet before vniuſt iuges and tirauntes for vs treſpaſſers. The Lambe without ſpottespot openeth not hys mouth when he is mocked and made a laughing ſtocke to …

    Ulrich Zwingli · The Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ · p. 106 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … deede we must haue a hie * Priest, who muste bee holye, innocente, and without spottespot, vvho needed not to offer vp daylye sacrifices, firste for his owne sinnes, and …
    With rule
    … deede we must haue a hie * Priest, who muste bee holye, innocente, and without spottespot, vvho needed not to offer vp daylye sacrifices, firste for his owne sinnes, and …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Thys is the true Salomon and kynge of peace, buyldeynge hym a temple wythoute ſpottespot. Prophecye hys delyuereth frome Babylonycall bondage of Antechriſte, and all aduerſarye powers, ſo that …
    With rule
    … Thys is the true Salomon and kynge of peace, buyldeynge hym a temple wythoute ſpottespot. Prophecye hys delyuereth frome Babylonycall bondage of Antechriſte, and all aduerſarye powers, ſo that …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … holy Nation, a peculiar people, the loue of Christ, all faire vndefiled, and without spottespot, the onely Doue, to bee like an Orchard inclosed, a well sealed vp, a …
    With rule
    … holy Nation, a peculiar people, the loue of Christ, all faire vndefiled, and without spottespot, the onely Doue, to bee like an Orchard inclosed, a well sealed vp, a …

    William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 243 · 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.