Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8918 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

vvitnessewitness

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

Puritas changed it: 166 times in 82 works
Consistency: 100% (166 of 166)
Reach if approved: ~174 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: witness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 166 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 82 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 166)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… thy self vnto the Priest, and offer the gift that Moses commaunded, for a vvitnessewitness to them.
With rule
… thy self vnto the Priest, and offer the gift that Moses commaunded, for a vvitnessewitness to them.
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Postils on Palm-sunday; & Ferus hath no lesse then 10 Postills on that very day: VVitnesseWitness his Postillae, pars 2. Antwerpiae 1554: fol: 156: to 184: & Lugduni 1554: fol: 849 to 896. That Ferus nor Luther then …
With rule
… Postils on Palm-sunday; & Ferus hath no lesse then 10 Postills on that very day: VVitnesseWitness his Postillae, pars 2. Antwerpiae 1554: fol: 156: to 184: & Lugduni 1554: fol: 849 to 896. That Ferus nor Luther then …
William Prynne · Lame Giles Halting · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… witnes who but once conuerſing vvith him haue had experience of his ſingular vertues, vvitneſſewitness his familiar acquaintance, witneſſe his friends, witneſſe innumerable multitudes of thoſe vvhich haue vſed …
With rule
… witnes who but once conuerſing vvith him haue had experience of his ſingular vertues, vvitneſſewitness his familiar acquaintance, witneſſe his friends, witneſſe innumerable multitudes of thoſe vvhich haue vſed …
Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 312 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the reprouing and laying open the cruelty of my Aduersaryes. For, my conscience is vvitnessewitness that I haue vsed no termes of sharpenesse but such as I haue example …
With rule
… the reprouing and laying open the cruelty of my Aduersaryes. For, my conscience is vvitnessewitness that I haue vsed no termes of sharpenesse but such as I haue example …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… putting spirit and life into them for our particular comfort,) and partly by the vvitnessewitness of the Spirit of Adoption, in the vnvtterable feelings and ioy of our hearts .
With rule
… putting spirit and life into them for our particular comfort,) and partly by the vvitnessewitness of the Spirit of Adoption, in the vnvtterable feelings and ioy of our hearts .
Nicholas Byfield · An Exposition Upon Colossians · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… your letters of licence, or other Byshops, vvhich yee say vvee should have to vvitnessewitness that vvee vvere able to bee sent for to preach: vvee knovv vvel, that …
With rule
… your letters of licence, or other Byshops, vvhich yee say vvee should have to vvitnessewitness that vvee vvere able to bee sent for to preach: vvee knovv vvel, that …
William Ames · A Second Manuduction · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can preſerve it from returning to its earth; vve go, and vve go ſuddenly, vvitneſſewitness thoſe tvvo Ceſars, vvho put off themſelves vvhileſt they put on their ſhoes; Fabius …
With rule
… can preſerve it from returning to its earth; vve go, and vve go ſuddenly, vvitneſſewitness thoſe tvvo Ceſars, vvho put off themſelves vvhileſt they put on their ſhoes; Fabius …
Isaac Ambrose · The Last things · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… murthers in Fraunce, in the inquisition of Spaine full of hideons tormentes, which shall vvitnessewitness the trueth hereof to all posterities. This howling owle notwithstanding (by his bolde flight …
With rule
… murthers in Fraunce, in the inquisition of Spaine full of hideons tormentes, which shall vvitnessewitness the trueth hereof to all posterities. This howling owle notwithstanding (by his bolde flight …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · 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.