Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11042 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

prophaneprofane

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

Puritas changed it: 15,536 times in 3,136 works
Consistency: 99.9% (15,536 of 15,543)
Reach if approved: ~16,334 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: profane
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 15,546 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (15,536 changes in 3,136 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 15,536)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Let brabbling slaunder bee set aside. GOD forbidde there shoulde bee any so prophaneprofane an absurditie in so sacred a mystery, that any man shoulde speake or thinke …
With rule
Let brabbling slaunder bee set aside. GOD forbidde there shoulde bee any so prophaneprofane an absurditie in so sacred a mystery, that any man shoulde speake or thinke …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… Elders vsed in our translation, is neither more nouell to English eares, nor more prophaneprofane to godly eares, than the name Auncients, which your translation vseth. And yet I …
With rule
… Elders vsed in our translation, is neither more nouell to English eares, nor more prophaneprofane to godly eares, than the name Auncients, which your translation vseth. And yet I …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to him, to make this abridgement, and to be short, he maketh a very prophaneprofane preface, ambitiously commending his trauell and shewing the difference betwene a story at large …
With rule
… to him, to make this abridgement, and to be short, he maketh a very prophaneprofane preface, ambitiously commending his trauell and shewing the difference betwene a story at large …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sanctified to a spirituall employment, as yet it was not denied vnto ciuill and prophaneprofane vses, euen to the watering of brute beasts: sometime to sanctifie and to appropriate …
With rule
… sanctified to a spirituall employment, as yet it was not denied vnto ciuill and prophaneprofane vses, euen to the watering of brute beasts: sometime to sanctifie and to appropriate …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Renagadoes. But thoſe ſaltleſſe gulleries are no whit anſwerable to this their villainous and prophaneprofane fiction. If M. Anderton were thus ſtrangely raiſed, it is maruell his friends in …
With rule
… Renagadoes. But thoſe ſaltleſſe gulleries are no whit anſwerable to this their villainous and prophaneprofane fiction. If M. Anderton were thus ſtrangely raiſed, it is maruell his friends in …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
3 They haue good formes of ſalutation, not prophaneprofane as many haue.
With rule
3 They haue good formes of ſalutation, not prophaneprofane as many haue.
George Estey · Expositions Upon Divers Parts of Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… our ſelues to put it in practiſe, Pſal. 19. 26. 27. and 59. 60. Pro. 2. 1. Here is condemned the prophaneprofane abuſinge of the ſame in ieſtes, playes, &c. Pro. 13. 13. 14. In the order of the …
With rule
… our ſelues to put it in practiſe, Pſal. 19. 26. 27. and 59. 60. Pro. 2. 1. Here is condemned the prophaneprofane abuſinge of the ſame in ieſtes, playes, &c. Pro. 13. 13. 14. In the order of the …
Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader
Printed
… and recompenſed according to their workes: then it is an eaſie thing euen for prophaneprofane men to ſay, Surely there is a God that iudgeth the earth. Pſal. 58. 12.
With rule
… and recompenſed according to their workes: then it is an eaſie thing euen for prophaneprofane men to ſay, Surely there is a God that iudgeth the earth. Pſal. 58. 12.
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 124 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

7 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.

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05604

Printed
… for no vſe, but ſuperſtition and idolatry and the mayntenance of LAZY BELLIGODS, AND PROPHANEPROFANE SCORNERS OF ALL TRVE RELIGION GODLINESSE AND PIETY: and neglect the very liuing temples …
With rule
… for no vſe, but ſuperſtition and idolatry and the mayntenance of LAZY BELLIGODS, AND PROPHANEPROFANE SCORNERS OF ALL TRVE RELIGION GODLINESSE AND PIETY: and neglect the very liuing temples …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05611

Printed
… for no vſe, but ſuperſtition and idolatry and the mayntenance of LAZY BELLIGODS, AND PROPHANEPROFANE SCORNERS OF ALL TRVE RELIGION GODLINESSE AND PIETY: and neglect the very liuing temples …
With rule
… for no vſe, but ſuperſtition and idolatry and the mayntenance of LAZY BELLIGODS, AND PROPHANEPROFANE SCORNERS OF ALL TRVE RELIGION GODLINESSE AND PIETY: and neglect the very liuing temples …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

Printed
… this, HE SHALL NOT TAKE A WIDOW; and once for this, HE SHALL NOT PROPHANEPROFANE. And whether he be an high priest, or a common priest, that mar…eth …
With rule
… this, HE SHALL NOT TAKE A WIDOW; and once for this, HE SHALL NOT PROPHANEPROFANE. And whether he be an high priest, or a common priest, that mar…eth …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is uses for unction, (it is unlawfull) for it is said THEY SHALL NOT PROPHANEPROFANE THE HOLIE THINGS, Lev. 22. 15. Maimony ibidem. ch. 10. sect. 2.
With rule
… is uses for unction, (it is unlawfull) for it is said THEY SHALL NOT PROPHANEPROFANE THE HOLIE THINGS, Lev. 22. 15. Maimony ibidem. ch. 10. sect. 2.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 132 · Open in the reader

The Holy City A30152

Printed
… and five hundred Reeds broad, TO MAKE A SEPARATION BETVVEEN THE SANCTUARY AND THE PROPHANEPROFANE PLACE, Ezek. 42. 20. Which VVall could not be that Wall which compassed the City, because …
With rule
… and five hundred Reeds broad, TO MAKE A SEPARATION BETVVEEN THE SANCTUARY AND THE PROPHANEPROFANE PLACE, Ezek. 42. 20. Which VVall could not be that Wall which compassed the City, because …
John Bunyan · The Holy City · p. 128 · Open in the reader

Navigation Spiritualized A39673

Printed
And then 2. For PROPHANEPROFANE OATHES, th… corrupt fruit of a graceless heart; Oh how common are these among …
With rule
And then 2. For PROPHANEPROFANE OATHES, th… corrupt fruit of a graceless heart; Oh how common are these among …
John Flavel · Navigation Spiritualized · p. 26 · Open in the reader

A Looking Glass B10018

Printed
A LOOKING-GLASSE, OR, PARALEL, OPPOSING The PROPHANEPROFANE, Carnall PROFESSOR, and true BELEIVER, one to the other.
With rule
A LOOKING-GLASSE, OR, PARALEL, OPPOSING The PROPHANEPROFANE, Carnall PROFESSOR, and true BELEIVER, one to the other.
Samuel Shaw · A Looking Glass · Open in the reader