Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11012 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sheweshow

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 10,959 times in 759 works
Consistency: 99.9% (10,959 of 10,963)
Reach if approved: ~11,520 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: show
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 10,964 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (10,959 changes in 759 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 10,959)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
I told you before, if you denie that to be, which all experience doth sheweshow, then is it no reasoning. There be examples in many places, and daylie it …
With rule
I told you before, if you denie that to be, which all experience doth sheweshow, then is it no reasoning. There be examples in many places, and daylie it …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… are not Excommunicate, and brought to repentance, or at the leaſt to ſuch a ſheweshow of repentance, as that men can not further iudge them but as Brethren. It …
With rule
… are not Excommunicate, and brought to repentance, or at the leaſt to ſuch a ſheweshow of repentance, as that men can not further iudge them but as Brethren. It …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… withdrawne, and feares and terrours ſhed abroad in the heart, then feare and obedience ſheweshow and diſcover themſelves. Therefore Eſay 66. 2. Hee that is poore and contrite, and trembleth at …
With rule
… withdrawne, and feares and terrours ſhed abroad in the heart, then feare and obedience ſheweshow and diſcover themſelves. Therefore Eſay 66. 2. Hee that is poore and contrite, and trembleth at …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it was not cōmaunded / therfore yt was not warranted. Here you come againe to sheweshow your ignorance in the Scriptures / to say ther is not anie expresse commaundement to …
With rule
… it was not cōmaunded / therfore yt was not warranted. Here you come againe to sheweshow your ignorance in the Scriptures / to say ther is not anie expresse commaundement to …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haſten it, Gene. 17.10.11.12. and the wrath of God againſt Moſes for deferring it, doeth ſheweshow this duetie, Exod. 4.24.25.26. In the worke it ſelfe they are reuerentlie to offer it …
With rule
… haſten it, Gene. 17.10.11.12. and the wrath of God againſt Moſes for deferring it, doeth ſheweshow this duetie, Exod. 4.24.25.26. In the worke it ſelfe they are reuerentlie to offer it …
Dudley Fenner · The Whole Doctrine of the Sacraments · Open in the reader
Printed
… to them. Therfore Christ Iesus the true & only Physitian to cure these leprosies, will sheweshow the helpe and cure for the one, and a preuention or antidote against the …
With rule
… to them. Therfore Christ Iesus the true & only Physitian to cure these leprosies, will sheweshow the helpe and cure for the one, and a preuention or antidote against the …
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… muste nedes giue me leaue, to presse you, with the same aucthoritie, and to sheweshow that you your self, obserue not the Traditions of the Apostles. In the vj …
With rule
… muste nedes giue me leaue, to presse you, with the same aucthoritie, and to sheweshow that you your self, obserue not the Traditions of the Apostles. In the vj …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Gods worde, forbidding meates and mariage, which is contrarie to Gods worde, doe sheweshow them selues to be the verie limmes of Antichrist, vnto whom that great Apostacy …
With rule
… of Gods worde, forbidding meates and mariage, which is contrarie to Gods worde, doe sheweshow them selues to be the verie limmes of Antichrist, vnto whom that great Apostacy …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Godly Prayers out of Davids Psalms A14352

Printed
SHeweShow thy ſelfe gentle and gracious (O almightie God) towards thy beloued Churche, for thy …
With rule
SHeweShow thy ſelfe gentle and gracious (O almightie God) towards thy beloued Churche, for thy …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Godly Prayers out of Davids Psalms · Open in the reader

A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel A14463

Printed
SHEweShow me nowe for full reſolution, what is the chiefe cauſe why iuſtification is aſcribed …
With rule
SHEweShow me nowe for full reſolution, what is the chiefe cauſe why iuſtification is aſcribed …
Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
SHeweShow me nowe what euery one of theſe offices importeth, and begin by his office …
With rule
SHeweShow me nowe what euery one of theſe offices importeth, and begin by his office …
Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
SHeweShow me thē what remedy we may finde to auoide this great miſchiefe.
With rule
SHeweShow me thē what remedy we may finde to auoide this great miſchiefe.
Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 536 · Open in the reader