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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11123 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

publiquepublic

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

Puritas changed it
9,373 times in 1,697 works
Consistency
99.9% (9,373 of 9,376)
Reach if approved
~9,853 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: public
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
9,377 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (9,373 changes in 1,697 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 9,373)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … your Honour: the lesser it is, the lesser trespasse it will make upon the publiquepublic service of the State and your Lordships most pretious houres: and I hope it …
    With rule
    … your Honour: the lesser it is, the lesser trespasse it will make upon the publiquepublic service of the State and your Lordships most pretious houres: and I hope it …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … this Canon is noted in Athanasius: who comming to Antioche, fledde the common and publiquepublic Churches which were vsurped then, by one Leontius, an Arian Byshoppe, and his clergye …
    With rule
    … this Canon is noted in Athanasius: who comming to Antioche, fledde the common and publiquepublic Churches which were vsurped then, by one Leontius, an Arian Byshoppe, and his clergye …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to doe good. Beſides his oft, and priuate almes, his light moreouer ſhines in publiquepublic, and both in City, and country, men may ſee his good workes. Were I …
    With rule
    … to doe good. Beſides his oft, and priuate almes, his light moreouer ſhines in publiquepublic, and both in City, and country, men may ſee his good workes. Were I …

    John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … hands, and let her owne workes praiſe her in the Gates: that is, in publiquepublic. This, This is the Woman, the Woman to whom I
    With rule
    … hands, and let her owne workes praiſe her in the Gates: that is, in publiquepublic. This, This is the Woman, the Woman to whom I

    William Gilbert · The Art of Building Comfort · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    §. 74. Of the care which Governours must have of publiquepublic piety. 323
    With rule
    §. 74. Of the care which Governours must have of publiquepublic piety. 323

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the priuate consolation of his children. I will not speake of that which is publiquepublic, although not altogether vnfitt vnto my purpose, considering that that which is publiquely spoken …
    With rule
    … the priuate consolation of his children. I will not speake of that which is publiquepublic, although not altogether vnfitt vnto my purpose, considering that that which is publiquely spoken …

    Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Rebellion), he will embarke himſelfe in actions of State, embroyle Kingdomes, transferre, for his publiquepublic good, any Crowne, ſpeake moſt baſely of annointed Princes, and yet ſuch a man …
    With rule
    … Rebellion), he will embarke himſelfe in actions of State, embroyle Kingdomes, transferre, for his publiquepublic good, any Crowne, ſpeake moſt baſely of annointed Princes, and yet ſuch a man …

    Robert Harris · Gods Goodness and Mercy Laid Open · p. 11 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … more important affaire is in hand; as when preparations are made for warre, and publiquepublic ſeruice is to be done for the Church of God; then let vs be …
    With rule
    … more important affaire is in hand; as when preparations are made for warre, and publiquepublic ſeruice is to be done for the Church of God; then let vs be …

    Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 11 · 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 Manumission to a Manuduction A10838

  • Printed
    OR ANSWER TO A LETTER INFERRING PUBliquePublic communion in the parrish assemblies upon private with godly persons there.
    With rule
    OR ANSWER TO A LETTER INFERRING PUBliquePublic communion in the parrish assemblies upon private with godly persons there.

    John Robinson · A Manumission to a Manuduction · Open in the reader

The Dissonant Harmony of Sacred Public Oaths A70864

  • Printed
    CONCORDIA DISCORS, OR THE DISSONANT HARMONY OF Sacred PUBLIqUEPublic OATHES, PROTESTATIONS, LEAGUES, COVENANTS, INGAGEMENTS, lately taken by many TIME-SERVING SAINTS, Officers, without …
    With rule
    CONCORDIA DISCORS, OR THE DISSONANT HARMONY OF Sacred PUBLIqUEPublic OATHES, PROTESTATIONS, LEAGUES, COVENANTS, INGAGEMENTS, lately taken by many TIME-SERVING SAINTS, Officers, without …

    William Prynne · The Dissonant Harmony of Sacred Public Oaths · Open in the reader