Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11079 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

inferiourinferior

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

Puritas changed it: 11,946 times in 2,790 works
Consistency: 99.9% (11,946 of 11,947)
Reach if approved: ~12,554 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: inferior
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 11,948 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (11,946 changes in 2,790 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 11,946)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hath much worlds wealth, and dignity, and but a ſmall meaſure of Grace is inferiourinferior to him that hath a great meaſure of grace, and but little, or no …
With rule
… hath much worlds wealth, and dignity, and but a ſmall meaſure of Grace is inferiourinferior to him that hath a great meaſure of grace, and but little, or no …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… If a man bee but worth a footecloth, how big he looketh on the inferiourinferior paſſengers? and if hee hath purchaſed a little more land and title, you ſhall …
With rule
… If a man bee but worth a footecloth, how big he looketh on the inferiourinferior paſſengers? and if hee hath purchaſed a little more land and title, you ſhall …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 426 · Open in the reader
Printed
… word of truth. To conclude this point; Hence the word delivered by Timothy, an inferiourinferior Minister, was equally the word of God, as if it had beene uttered by …
With rule
… word of truth. To conclude this point; Hence the word delivered by Timothy, an inferiourinferior Minister, was equally the word of God, as if it had beene uttered by …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… auncient Fathers, namely: That in euery Diocesse shoulde bee some one superintendent ouer the inferiourinferior Churches, vnto whom the reste might resorte for Counsell and for auoyding of schismes …
With rule
… auncient Fathers, namely: That in euery Diocesse shoulde bee some one superintendent ouer the inferiourinferior Churches, vnto whom the reste might resorte for Counsell and for auoyding of schismes …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… saith Beza) For to suffer death: and taking it so, that he was made inferiourinferior to Angels, that he might die, then the other sense is cleane excluded, that …
With rule
… saith Beza) For to suffer death: and taking it so, that he was made inferiourinferior to Angels, that he might die, then the other sense is cleane excluded, that …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Leontius, commended likewise to posteritie for a good Clerk and an honest man. 3. Dositheus, inferiourinferior to the former in both respects: Isaac the Grecian Emperour sent to make him …
With rule
… Leontius, commended likewise to posteritie for a good Clerk and an honest man. 3. Dositheus, inferiourinferior to the former in both respects: Isaac the Grecian Emperour sent to make him …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Leuites were inferiourinferior Miniſters, and had offices appointed vnto them vnder the Prieſts, as aſſiſtants vnto them …
With rule
The Leuites were inferiourinferior Miniſters, and had offices appointed vnto them vnder the Prieſts, as aſſiſtants vnto them …
Samuel Gibson · Sermon of Ecclesiastical Benediction · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… made us a little inferiourinferior to the Angels, Heb. 2. though but a little, yet inferiourinferior: and in reſpect of that inferiority we are expoſed to their working and crafty …
With rule
… made us a little inferiourinferior to the Angels, Heb. 2. though but a little, yet inferiourinferior: and in reſpect of that inferiority we are expoſed to their working and crafty …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 52 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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 Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized A62084

Printed
INferiourInferior creatures were not made for their own sakes, but for man's; for his profit …
With rule
INferiourInferior creatures were not made for their own sakes, but for man's; for his profit …
George Sikes · The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomized · p. 30 · Open in the reader