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Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #9320 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

welnighwell nigh

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it
76 times in 57 works
Consistency
96.2% (76 of 79)
Reach if approved
~83 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: wellnigh
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
79 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (76 changes in 57 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 76)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … poore woman being almost past recouery of life, was fet and caried, the space welnighwell nigh of a mile, by straungers whome they neuer knewe, into a village, where both …
    With rule
    … poore woman being almost past recouery of life, was fet and caried, the space welnighwell nigh of a mile, by straungers whome they neuer knewe, into a village, where both …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2075 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Abrahams family: to exclude Job, Melchiſedeck, &c. becauſe not of the viſible Church, is welnighwell nigh a contradiction, and ſo to debarre known approved Chriſtians, &c.
    With rule
    … Abrahams family: to exclude Job, Melchiſedeck, &c. becauſe not of the viſible Church, is welnighwell nigh a contradiction, and ſo to debarre known approved Chriſtians, &c.

    Thomas Shepard · Of Liturgies Power of the Keys · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of Cheſthunt. This was denied by the Defendant, maintaining that Small-Ley-ſtream, running welnighwell nigh half a mile West of Waltham, parted the Counties, all the interjacent meadows pertained …
    With rule
    … of Cheſthunt. This was denied by the Defendant, maintaining that Small-Ley-ſtream, running welnighwell nigh half a mile West of Waltham, parted the Counties, all the interjacent meadows pertained …

    Thomas Fuller · The History of Waltham Abby in Essex · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as are of acleane herte. Neuertheles my fete were almost gone, my treadinges had welnighwell nigh flypt. And why? I was greued at the wicked, I do se also the …
    With rule
    … as are of acleane herte. Neuertheles my fete were almost gone, my treadinges had welnighwell nigh flypt. And why? I was greued at the wicked, I do se also the …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Dauid confeſſeth he waded ſo farre in the Queſtion, that his foot-ſteps had welnighwell nigh ſlipt. Salomon ſhould haue had more wit, yet ſticks not to call it vanitie …
    With rule
    … Dauid confeſſeth he waded ſo farre in the Queſtion, that his foot-ſteps had welnighwell nigh ſlipt. Salomon ſhould haue had more wit, yet ſticks not to call it vanitie …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … at that time Mahome… began to raigne; And this Kingdom of Turkes is now welnighwell nigh growne to the greateſt height, he preuailleth againſt the Saints, and in a maner …
    With rule
    … at that time Mahome… began to raigne; And this Kingdom of Turkes is now welnighwell nigh growne to the greateſt height, he preuailleth againſt the Saints, and in a maner …

    Girolamo Zanchi · A Christian Survey for the Conscience · p. 24 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … supplies from London, then long and earnestly expected and noised abroad, our powder being welnighwell nigh spent, and necessity constrianing us to use a kind of match made of Bast …
    With rule
    … supplies from London, then long and earnestly expected and noised abroad, our powder being welnighwell nigh spent, and necessity constrianing us to use a kind of match made of Bast …

    John Corbet · Historical Relation of the Military Government of Gloucester · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … meats, Saint Bennet can tell us best, who is the father and founder of welnighwell nigh all the Monks of the West. His rule, which they all bind themselves to …
    With rule
    … meats, Saint Bennet can tell us best, who is the father and founder of welnighwell nigh all the Monks of the West. His rule, which they all bind themselves to …

    Joseph Mede · The Apostasy of the Latter Times · p. 136 · 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.