Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11227 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

professoursprofessors

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

Puritas changed it: 2,594 times in 816 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,594 of 2,595)
Reach if approved: ~2,727 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: professors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,595 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,594 changes in 816 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,594)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… moſt Euangelical monarchie in the world, and a ſanctuarie of refuge for all the profeſſoursprofessors in the earth vnder her ſhadowe: let this whet your courages, and ſet an …
With rule
… moſt Euangelical monarchie in the world, and a ſanctuarie of refuge for all the profeſſoursprofessors in the earth vnder her ſhadowe: let this whet your courages, and ſet an …
William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader
Printed
… their comforte, according to his former promises. In this case consider I the true professoursprofessors of Christes holie Euangelie to be this day in the Realme of Englande. For …
With rule
… their comforte, according to his former promises. In this case consider I the true professoursprofessors of Christes holie Euangelie to be this day in the Realme of Englande. For …
John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
Printed
… For, a Church may haue bin visible, and yet the names of such visible ProfessoursProfessors not now to bee shewed.
With rule
… For, a Church may haue bin visible, and yet the names of such visible ProfessoursProfessors not now to bee shewed.
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvhat a monstrous excecation, of Men, is this; that so prodigious Impietie findeth, amongst ProfessoursProfessors of CHRISTIANITIE; not onelie Patrocinie, but, all-so, Admiration? Where-as, anie Heathen Man …
With rule
… vvhat a monstrous excecation, of Men, is this; that so prodigious Impietie findeth, amongst ProfessoursProfessors of CHRISTIANITIE; not onelie Patrocinie, but, all-so, Admiration? Where-as, anie Heathen Man …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doth teach vs howe needfull a thing this is. For the greateſt number of profeſſoursprofessors thinke nothing leſſe néedful then to ſéeke increaſe of Faith, they ſuppoſe and they …
With rule
… doth teach vs howe needfull a thing this is. For the greateſt number of profeſſoursprofessors thinke nothing leſſe néedful then to ſéeke increaſe of Faith, they ſuppoſe and they …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of prophane perſons, which being partly phariſaicall, partly heatheniſh, count none hypocrites, but honeſt profeſſoursprofessors (I meane ſuch as feare God, and doe loue his word, receiuing the ſame …
With rule
… of prophane perſons, which being partly phariſaicall, partly heatheniſh, count none hypocrites, but honeſt profeſſoursprofessors (I meane ſuch as feare God, and doe loue his word, receiuing the ſame …
Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 7 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is vowed in that kynde, but hath a most fylthy procedyng: for the professoursprofessors thereof, both prestes and monkes, are geuen ouer of god into most prodigyouse lustes …
With rule
… it is vowed in that kynde, but hath a most fylthy procedyng: for the professoursprofessors thereof, both prestes and monkes, are geuen ouer of god into most prodigyouse lustes …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
To exhort all professoursprofessors of the truth; that forasmuch as the naturall man taketh such occasion to mislike …
With rule
To exhort all professoursprofessors of the truth; that forasmuch as the naturall man taketh such occasion to mislike …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 226 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.