Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11230 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

theeuesthieves

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

Puritas changed it: 2,120 times in 513 works
Consistency: 100% (2,120 of 2,120)
Reach if approved: ~2,228 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: thieves
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,120 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,120 changes in 513 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,120)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… God did it by appointing the Diuell to doe it. He knew that the theeuesthieves and murtherers which slewe his seruaunts and draue away his cattell, were stirred vp …
With rule
… God did it by appointing the Diuell to doe it. He knew that the theeuesthieves and murtherers which slewe his seruaunts and draue away his cattell, were stirred vp …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the grate. What theſe would doe appeareth by their complaints, groaning like mute theeuesthieves and murtherers vnder the preſſe: For the weight of the Law lyeth heauy vpon …
With rule
… in the grate. What theſe would doe appeareth by their complaints, groaning like mute theeuesthieves and murtherers vnder the preſſe: For the weight of the Law lyeth heauy vpon …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the watch of grace, keepe mee alſo from all outward perills, from perill of theeuesthieves, peril by beaſts, perill by lightning, and from daſhing my foot at any time …
With rule
… the watch of grace, keepe mee alſo from all outward perills, from perill of theeuesthieves, peril by beaſts, perill by lightning, and from daſhing my foot at any time …
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it shall neuer be taken away from him, as our Sauiour told Martha. No theeuesthieves can steale it being once layed vp in heauen, no rust can corrupt it …
With rule
… it shall neuer be taken away from him, as our Sauiour told Martha. No theeuesthieves can steale it being once layed vp in heauen, no rust can corrupt it …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 175 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of enemies against all worldly things. The rich in mony is in danger of TheeuesThieves, he which abounds in houshold stuffe is in hazard of fire: The rust layeth …
With rule
… of enemies against all worldly things. The rich in mony is in danger of TheeuesThieves, he which abounds in houshold stuffe is in hazard of fire: The rust layeth …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
What must theeuesthieves doe?
With rule
What must theeuesthieves doe?
Robert Horne · Points of Instruction for the Ignorant · Open in the reader
Printed
… without perceiuerāc… of your souldiours? Wel yet, howe happened that these seely caytiue petyt theeuesthieves fled no… away immediatly after they had committed this robbery? Howe durst they be …
With rule
… without perceiuerāc… of your souldiours? Wel yet, howe happened that these seely caytiue petyt theeuesthieves fled no… away immediatly after they had committed this robbery? Howe durst they be …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… and thy wine is mixed with water. Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeuesthieves &c. euen ſo maye he ſay to the church of Rome: how is that …
With rule
… and thy wine is mixed with water. Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of theeuesthieves &c. euen ſo maye he ſay to the church of Rome: how is that …
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.