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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8842 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

transferretransfer

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

Puritas changed it
351 times in 238 works
Consistency
99.1% (351 of 354)
Reach if approved
~373 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: transfer
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
355 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (351 changes in 238 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 351)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … diuino etiam in genere destinata, etiam ea quae ſuperstitioſo cultui ferviunt, in vſum profanum transferretransfer. But grant the limitation. Can we not aſſume thus much of our Tythes? that …
    With rule
    … diuino etiam in genere destinata, etiam ea quae ſuperstitioſo cultui ferviunt, in vſum profanum transferretransfer. But grant the limitation. Can we not aſſume thus much of our Tythes? that …

    William Sclater · The Question of Tithes · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … can make Gods Word of authority, or no authority; hee can make Kings and transferretransfer kingdomes: he shewes himselfe as if hee were God, and suffers his flattering Canonists …
    With rule
    … can make Gods Word of authority, or no authority; hee can make Kings and transferretransfer kingdomes: he shewes himselfe as if hee were God, and suffers his flattering Canonists …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 821 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of the whole Realme by common & voluntarie conſent, for themſelves and their poſteritie, do transferretransfer and ſurrender the government of themſelues and their ſtate into the hands of ſome …
    With rule
    … of the whole Realme by common & voluntarie conſent, for themſelves and their poſteritie, do transferretransfer and ſurrender the government of themſelues and their ſtate into the hands of ſome …

    Peter Wentworth · A Pithy Exhortation to Her Majesty · p. 48 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … forth his hands in this house, heare thou in heauen. If Salomons prayer did transferretransfer the benefit thereof to the succeeding ages, much more auaileable is the power of …
    With rule
    … forth his hands in this house, heare thou in heauen. If Salomons prayer did transferretransfer the benefit thereof to the succeeding ages, much more auaileable is the power of …

    Andrew Willet · The Treasure of the Church · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … was decreed, that euery bishop, should haue certeine homilies. Et easdem quisque apertè studeat transferretransfer in rusticam Romanam linguam aut Theotiscam; quo facilius cuncti possint intelligere quae dicuntur. Turon …
    With rule
    … was decreed, that euery bishop, should haue certeine homilies. Et easdem quisque apertè studeat transferretransfer in rusticam Romanam linguam aut Theotiscam; quo facilius cuncti possint intelligere quae dicuntur. Turon …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … owe to God all poſsible ſervice; 2. that thankſgiving is a ſpeciall worſhip, wherin we transferretransfer all honour from creatures to God, Pſalm. 50. ult. 3. that wee are no leſſe bound …
    With rule
    … owe to God all poſsible ſervice; 2. that thankſgiving is a ſpeciall worſhip, wherin we transferretransfer all honour from creatures to God, Pſalm. 50. ult. 3. that wee are no leſſe bound …

    Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the same. The aūcient lawes and actes of par liament pronounceth it treason to transferretransfer the crowne of Englande into the handes of a forreyn nacion. And the othe …
    With rule
    … the same. The aūcient lawes and actes of par liament pronounceth it treason to transferretransfer the crowne of Englande into the handes of a forreyn nacion. And the othe …

    John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … blaſphemie? But further good Lord, what ſacrilegious impudencie is this, to dare ſo openlye tranſferretransfer the moſte ſacred worde of God, to whoſe onely authoritie the truth amongſt men …
    With rule
    … blaſphemie? But further good Lord, what ſacrilegious impudencie is this, to dare ſo openlye tranſferretransfer the moſte ſacred worde of God, to whoſe onely authoritie the truth amongſt men …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 148 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Fifty Sermons A36296

  • Printed
    … God, heareth his words; ye therefore hear them not, because you are not his. TransferreTransfer this to a civill application; to obedience to Superiors. Christ makes account that he …
    With rule
    … God, heareth his words; ye therefore hear them not, because you are not his. TransferreTransfer this to a civill application; to obedience to Superiors. Christ makes account that he …

    John Donne · Fifty Sermons · p. 234 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

  • Printed
    TransferreTransfer]
    With rule
    TransferreTransfer]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 665 · Open in the reader