Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11104 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

terroursterrors

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

Puritas changed it: 3,727 times in 1,148 works
Consistency: 100% (3,727 of 3,727)
Reach if approved: ~3,916 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: terrors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,727 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,727 changes in 1,148 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,727)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… no cenſure, no lawe be chaſtued? For I am not ignoraunte, what threates, what terroursterrors they thunder, what miſtes they ſtirre, what feares they rayſe, if any dare once …
With rule
… no cenſure, no lawe be chaſtued? For I am not ignoraunte, what threates, what terroursterrors they thunder, what miſtes they ſtirre, what feares they rayſe, if any dare once …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… burdens, or pined with famine, or grieved with death of friends, or affrighted with terroursterrors of conſcience? let him lay this text of holy writ to his heart, and …
With rule
… burdens, or pined with famine, or grieved with death of friends, or affrighted with terroursterrors of conſcience? let him lay this text of holy writ to his heart, and …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 683 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hell, storme against vs; God quiets all our feares, secures vs from al their terroursterrors by a gracious raine, droppes of mercie in the neuer-fayling promises of the …
With rule
… Hell, storme against vs; God quiets all our feares, secures vs from al their terroursterrors by a gracious raine, droppes of mercie in the neuer-fayling promises of the …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelfe beares witnes thereunto, which at the ſight of grievous ſinnes committed, findes ſuch terroursterrors and affrightings in it ſelfe, as are ſometimes more fearefull than death. But if …
With rule
… ſelfe beares witnes thereunto, which at the ſight of grievous ſinnes committed, findes ſuch terroursterrors and affrightings in it ſelfe, as are ſometimes more fearefull than death. But if …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make their Priestes Duces, Princes, Captaines, braue fellowes. The Spanish Pistolets make their Priestes terroursterrors to be feared, the word signifying Tormentigenus, a kind of torment: witnesse the Jnquisition …
With rule
… make their Priestes Duces, Princes, Captaines, braue fellowes. The Spanish Pistolets make their Priestes terroursterrors to be feared, the word signifying Tormentigenus, a kind of torment: witnesse the Jnquisition …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and gone: the troubles and grievances raiſed by the malice of the world, feares, terroursterrors, and ſorrowes of ſoule cauſed by ſinne, and raiſed, like a tempeſt, by the …
With rule
… and gone: the troubles and grievances raiſed by the malice of the world, feares, terroursterrors, and ſorrowes of ſoule cauſed by ſinne, and raiſed, like a tempeſt, by the …
Alexander Grosse · The Happiness of Enjoying and Use of Christ · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… law & priuiledge of the Romaynes. Iohn hauing heard the Embassadours, vsing great threates and terroursterrors draue them away with foule rebuke frō him. The Romaynes, seing this decreed to …
With rule
… law & priuiledge of the Romaynes. Iohn hauing heard the Embassadours, vsing great threates and terroursterrors draue them away with foule rebuke frō him. The Romaynes, seing this decreed to …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſay, doe not theſe things befall alike to all, as David ſaith, Pſalme 88.15. Thy terroursterrors have I ſuffered from my youth upwards, doe not theſe things come alike to …
With rule
… ſay, doe not theſe things befall alike to all, as David ſaith, Pſalme 88.15. Thy terroursterrors have I ſuffered from my youth upwards, doe not theſe things come alike to …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 290 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.