Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11119 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

colourscolors

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

Puritas changed it: 6,674 times in 2,191 works
Consistency: 99.9% (6,674 of 6,677)
Reach if approved: ~7,017 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 6,678 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,674 changes in 2,191 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,674)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Set the Pope or Church of Rome out in her colourscolors, and shee will make you a light of the Church, by burning you at …
With rule
Set the Pope or Church of Rome out in her colourscolors, and shee will make you a light of the Church, by burning you at …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader
Printed
Th' Arabian bird, shining in colourscolors new:
With rule
Th' Arabian bird, shining in colourscolors new:
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in moste (exceptynge the sonne and the moone) that in so smalle varietie of colourscolors, a man can not discern so dyuers and manye qualities. And not withstandynge that …
With rule
… in moste (exceptynge the sonne and the moone) that in so smalle varietie of colourscolors, a man can not discern so dyuers and manye qualities. And not withstandynge that …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader
Printed
… when some troopes of their Souldiers had in the fielde or Campe forsaken their colourscolors, leaft their Stations, carried themselues cowardly in fight, or disorderly otherwise, for the frighting …
With rule
… when some troopes of their Souldiers had in the fielde or Campe forsaken their colourscolors, leaft their Stations, carried themselues cowardly in fight, or disorderly otherwise, for the frighting …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to draw her picture in the iuſt ſummetrie and proportion, and with her liuely colourscolors: that euen the great Princes and Nobles might take pleaſure therein. I comming then …
With rule
… to draw her picture in the iuſt ſummetrie and proportion, and with her liuely colourscolors: that euen the great Princes and Nobles might take pleaſure therein. I comming then …
George Gifford · Treatise of True Fortitude · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the enemies ſide, but as a ſworne Slaue continueth to fight vnder his colourscolors. God doth much complaine hereof.
With rule
… from the enemies ſide, but as a ſworne Slaue continueth to fight vnder his colourscolors. God doth much complaine hereof.
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 257 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for this spirituall warre: By the first, we have put our selves under Gods colourscolors, and goe under his Name: By the second, we have put on all the …
With rule
… for this spirituall warre: By the first, we have put our selves under Gods colourscolors, and goe under his Name: By the second, we have put on all the …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſay the contrary of vice: That if ſinne could bee ſeene in his owne colourscolors, and in his right Nature, all the world would loath, and vtterly deteſt it.
With rule
… ſay the contrary of vice: That if ſinne could bee ſeene in his owne colourscolors, and in his right Nature, all the world would loath, and vtterly deteſt it.
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture A00593

Printed
JEZEBEL SET OUT IN HER COLOURSCOLORS. A Sermon preached in Saint Pauls Church, Novemb. 20. Anno 1614. THE XXXIV. SERMON.
With rule
JEZEBEL SET OUT IN HER COLOURSCOLORS. A Sermon preached in Saint Pauls Church, Novemb. 20. Anno 1614. THE XXXIV. SERMON.
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 474 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Original Sin N06399

Printed
… was given us, that Sin might appear; might be set forth IN IT'S PROPER COLOURSCOLORS; when we saw it subjected us to Death by a Law PERFECTLY HOLY, JUST …
With rule
… was given us, that Sin might appear; might be set forth IN IT'S PROPER COLOURSCOLORS; when we saw it subjected us to Death by a Law PERFECTLY HOLY, JUST …
Jonathan Edwards · The Doctrine of Original Sin · p. 15 · Open in the reader