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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11023 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

honourablehonorable

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

Puritas changed it
19,295 times in 3,981 works
Consistency
99.9% (19,295 of 19,303)
Reach if approved
~20,288 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: honourable
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
19,309 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (19,295 changes in 3,981 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 19,295)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … altred. Vnto which I soone after dispeeded a Reply; which was to the same HonourableHonorable Personage also not long after represented. Now hauing hitherto heard of nothing returned further …
    With rule
    … altred. Vnto which I soone after dispeeded a Reply; which was to the same HonourableHonorable Personage also not long after represented. Now hauing hitherto heard of nothing returned further …

    Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Planets now met together in happy Coniunction: ſuch a King, ſuch a Prince, ſuch HonourableHonorable Senators, ſuch Aſsiſtants. The eare that heareth you, bleſſeth you: and the eye that …
    With rule
    … Planets now met together in happy Coniunction: ſuch a King, ſuch a Prince, ſuch HonourableHonorable Senators, ſuch Aſsiſtants. The eare that heareth you, bleſſeth you: and the eye that …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    I Am (right HonourableHonorable) to excuſe my ſelfe in two thinges: the one, that I take vpon me …
    With rule
    I Am (right HonourableHonorable) to excuſe my ſelfe in two thinges: the one, that I take vpon me …

    George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … concourſe as it were to a funerall Sermon; I ſhall therefore intreat you, Right HonourableHonorable, Right Worſhipfull, &c. to prepare rather your hearts to be wounded, than your eares …
    With rule
    … concourſe as it were to a funerall Sermon; I ſhall therefore intreat you, Right HonourableHonorable, Right Worſhipfull, &c. to prepare rather your hearts to be wounded, than your eares …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 415 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    IT were to bee wiſhed (Right HonourableHonorable) that as ſinne multiplieth it ſelfe, ſo the knowledge and true feare of God …
    With rule
    IT were to bee wiſhed (Right HonourableHonorable) that as ſinne multiplieth it ſelfe, ſo the knowledge and true feare of God …

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … are any iust causes of despising, in all which estates we reade of heathens honourablehonorable in the eyes of their coaevals, and many Christians glorious in the eyes of …
    With rule
    … are any iust causes of despising, in all which estates we reade of heathens honourablehonorable in the eyes of their coaevals, and many Christians glorious in the eyes of …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 221 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … by no meanes disgest: what remayneth for vs to do (my deare brethren and honourablehonorable fathers in the Lord) but that euery of vs in our vocation, employe all …
    With rule
    … by no meanes disgest: what remayneth for vs to do (my deare brethren and honourablehonorable fathers in the Lord) but that euery of vs in our vocation, employe all …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … giue it otherwise, than as it might be most profitable for vs; and most honourablehonorable for him, & that was to giue it, spiritually to be receiued.
    With rule
    … giue it otherwise, than as it might be most profitable for vs; and most honourablehonorable for him, & that was to giue it, spiritually to be receiued.

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 573 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

8 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.

The Pageant of Popes A02895

  • Printed
    TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable Lorde Thomas Earle of Sussex, Uicount Fitzwalter, Lorde of Egremont and of Burnel, one …
    With rule
    TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable Lorde Thomas Earle of Sussex, Uicount Fitzwalter, Lorde of Egremont and of Burnel, one …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

  • Printed
    ¶TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable, Sir Thomas Bromeley Knight, one of her Maiesties moste honourablehonorable priuie Counſell, and Lorde …
    With rule
    ¶TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable, Sir Thomas Bromeley Knight, one of her Maiesties moste honourablehonorable priuie Counſell, and Lorde …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader

Commentary on Galatians 1-5 A09383

  • Printed
    TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable, right vertuous, and most truly religious Lord, ROBERT, Lord RICHE, Baron of Leeze, &c …
    With rule
    TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable, right vertuous, and most truly religious Lord, ROBERT, Lord RICHE, Baron of Leeze, &c …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · Open in the reader

Conclusions of Peace A17321

  • Printed
    TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable, Sir Richard Martin, Knight, nowe the second time L. Maior of the honourablehonorable Cittie …
    With rule
    TO THE RIGHT HOnourableHonorable, Sir Richard Martin, Knight, nowe the second time L. Maior of the honourablehonorable Cittie …

    William Burton · Conclusions of Peace · Open in the reader

The Crucifying of the World A26905

  • Printed
    HOnourableHonorable, Worshipfull, and all well beloved, it is a weighty imployment that occasioneth your meeting …
    With rule
    HOnourableHonorable, Worshipfull, and all well beloved, it is a weighty imployment that occasioneth your meeting …

    Richard Baxter · The Crucifying of the World · p. 94 · Open in the reader

Englands Antidote Against the Plague of Civil War A31927

  • Printed
    Englands Antidote, AGAINST The Plague of Civill Warre. Presented in A SERMON BEFORE THE HONOUrableHonorable House of COMMONS, on their late extraordinary Solemn Fast, October 22. 1644.
    With rule
    Englands Antidote, AGAINST The Plague of Civill Warre. Presented in A SERMON BEFORE THE HONOUrableHonorable House of COMMONS, on their late extraordinary Solemn Fast, October 22. 1644.

    Edmund Calamy · Englands Antidote Against the Plague of Civil War · Open in the reader

Letters in Two Parts A57970

  • Printed
    HOnourableHonorable & dearest in the Lord. Your Letter hath refreshed my soul. My joy is fulfilled …
    With rule
    HOnourableHonorable & dearest in the Lord. Your Letter hath refreshed my soul. My joy is fulfilled …

    Samuel Rutherford · Letters in Two Parts · p. 59 · Open in the reader

The Justice Justified A96751

  • Printed
    HOnourableHonorable Lords, and Gentlemen, to whoſe cuſtodie and diſpenſation, the great Seal and Conſcience of …
    With rule
    HOnourableHonorable Lords, and Gentlemen, to whoſe cuſtodie and diſpenſation, the great Seal and Conſcience of …

    George Wither · The Justice Justified · p. 1 · Open in the reader