Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11131 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

governoursgovernors

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

Puritas changed it: 8,408 times in 1,849 works
Consistency: 99.9% (8,408 of 8,415)
Reach if approved: ~8,844 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: governors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 8,417 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,408 changes in 1,849 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,408)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in the Indies.) Soone after, this inundation happened, which first of all assailed the GovernoursGovernors house, and caused this impotent and impatient Ladie now to bethinke her of devotion …
With rule
… in the Indies.) Soone after, this inundation happened, which first of all assailed the GovernoursGovernors house, and caused this impotent and impatient Ladie now to bethinke her of devotion …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 686 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to shew, how the tenour of the Lords promise, and blessing, runnes upon godly GovernoursGovernors, and their Families with them: and more specially to that about Lydia, Act. 16, of …
With rule
… to shew, how the tenour of the Lords promise, and blessing, runnes upon godly GovernoursGovernors, and their Families with them: and more specially to that about Lydia, Act. 16, of …
John Robinson · Defense of the Synod of Dort · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their daughters or maide-ſervants are defiled, or ſtollen away, and maried without their governoursgovernors conſent or privitie.
With rule
… their daughters or maide-ſervants are defiled, or ſtollen away, and maried without their governoursgovernors conſent or privitie.
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place of execution, and there hung him upon a tree? Did any of the GovernoursGovernors ſouldiers? No: none but his own conſcience.
With rule
… place of execution, and there hung him upon a tree? Did any of the GovernoursGovernors ſouldiers? No: none but his own conſcience.
William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſubstance of their calling, as ours now in England are. Ours are ſole governoursgovernors, they were not ſo. They admitted the Congregations conſent in all important matters of …
With rule
… the ſubstance of their calling, as ours now in England are. Ours are ſole governoursgovernors, they were not ſo. They admitted the Congregations conſent in all important matters of …
Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have no order in the Church; shall all be alike? Shall wee not have governoursgovernors and some head-powers amongst Ministers to remove Schisme and to keepe peace in …
With rule
… have no order in the Church; shall all be alike? Shall wee not have governoursgovernors and some head-powers amongst Ministers to remove Schisme and to keepe peace in …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… impoſing of them, & puniſhing of the neglect of thē, to the iuſtifying of our governoursgovernors in all their procedings, by their ſuſpentions, excōmunications, deprivations, degradations of good men, & to …
With rule
… impoſing of them, & puniſhing of the neglect of thē, to the iuſtifying of our governoursgovernors in all their procedings, by their ſuſpentions, excōmunications, deprivations, degradations of good men, & to …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iewe, in his Chronologie aggreeth, counting by the yeares of the Hie-Priestes, and governoursgovernors of the house of David, to witte, from Iehosua the Hie-Priest, & Zorobabel Prince …
With rule
… Iewe, in his Chronologie aggreeth, counting by the yeares of the Hie-Priestes, and governoursgovernors of the house of David, to witte, from Iehosua the Hie-Priest, & Zorobabel Prince …
Robert Pont · The Right Reckoning of Years and Ages of the World · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Account of the Causes of Being Forbidden to Preach A26854

Printed
I GOvernoursGovernors are some limited, some de facto unlimited: The unlimited are Tyrants, and have no …
With rule
I GOvernoursGovernors are some limited, some de facto unlimited: The unlimited are Tyrants, and have no …
Richard Baxter · Account of the Causes of Being Forbidden to Preach · p. 20 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France A56905

Printed
I. GOvernoursGovernors are exhorted to improve their Intereſt, that the Edict be not executed in their …
With rule
I. GOvernoursGovernors are exhorted to improve their Intereſt, that the Edict be not executed in their …
John Quick · The Acts of Famous National Councils of the Reformed Churches in France · p. 204 · Open in the reader

Knowledge and Practice A80737

Printed
GOvernoursGovernors of Families ought to be very careful that not only themſelves, but the reſt …
With rule
GOvernoursGovernors of Families ought to be very careful that not only themſelves, but the reſt …
Samuel Cradock · Knowledge and Practice · p. 382 · Open in the reader