Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11180 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

superiourssuperiors

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

Puritas changed it: 4,363 times in 1,349 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,363 of 4,364)
Reach if approved: ~4,586 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: superiors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,365 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,363 changes in 1,349 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,363)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Yet when Inferiours presume to commend their counsell to their SuperioursSuperiors, let it be qualified with these cautions.
With rule
Yet when Inferiours presume to commend their counsell to their SuperioursSuperiors, let it be qualified with these cautions.
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… necessary Sect. XIII things are not to be omitted, such as is obedience to SuperioursSuperiors, but their mindes are to be better informed.
With rule
… necessary Sect. XIII things are not to be omitted, such as is obedience to SuperioursSuperiors, but their mindes are to be better informed.
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deliver Oracles: It is enough in the tongue, if it be not irreverent to ſuperiourssuperiors, nor detracting from equalls: It is enough in the lips, if they be not …
With rule
… deliver Oracles: It is enough in the tongue, if it be not irreverent to ſuperiourssuperiors, nor detracting from equalls: It is enough in the lips, if they be not …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the penalty shall bee light or smart. Besides, clemency is a grace proper to superiourssuperiors toward their inferiours, but meeknesse is a grace common to all. The mediate obiect …
With rule
… the penalty shall bee light or smart. Besides, clemency is a grace proper to superiourssuperiors toward their inferiours, but meeknesse is a grace common to all. The mediate obiect …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Law: Which may yet be further ſeene, by thoſe ſpeciall duties of SuperioursSuperiors and inferiours appertaining to the fift Commandement; as of husbands and wiues, parents and …
With rule
… of the Law: Which may yet be further ſeene, by thoſe ſpeciall duties of SuperioursSuperiors and inferiours appertaining to the fift Commandement; as of husbands and wiues, parents and …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Moſes, and in very Pagans, and Turkes, howe they reuerenced their maſters, and ſuperiourssuperiors: how they hated, and plagued this horrible ſinne of treachery againſt them: I ſhould …
With rule
… of Moſes, and in very Pagans, and Turkes, howe they reuerenced their maſters, and ſuperiourssuperiors: how they hated, and plagued this horrible ſinne of treachery againſt them: I ſhould …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
Q. What are the duties of superiourssuperiors in generall toward their inferiours?
With rule
Q. What are the duties of superiourssuperiors in generall toward their inferiours?
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, by prayer, ſuperiourssuperiors haue beſtowed Gods bleſsings vpon their inferiours. Thus Iſaac beſtowed the bleſsing vpon Iacob …
With rule
Secondly, by prayer, ſuperiourssuperiors haue beſtowed Gods bleſsings vpon their inferiours. Thus Iſaac beſtowed the bleſsing vpon Iacob …
John Foorthe · The Apostles Catechism · p. 39 · 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.

Answer to Cressys Epistle A61521

Printed
TO THE SUPERIOURSSUPERIORS OF THE BENEDICTINS IN ENGLAND.
With rule
TO THE SUPERIOURSSUPERIORS OF THE BENEDICTINS IN ENGLAND.
Edward Stillingfleet · Answer to Cressys Epistle · Open in the reader