Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11233 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

labourelabor

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

Puritas changed it: 734 times in 201 works
Consistency: 99.0% (734 of 741)
Reach if approved: ~779 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: labour
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 741 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (734 changes in 201 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 734)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… porcion to be had gratis in one Lordeshyp, of a nother mannes sweat and labourelabor: now is it let for .l. or .a. C. pound by yere. Of thys …
With rule
… porcion to be had gratis in one Lordeshyp, of a nother mannes sweat and labourelabor: now is it let for .l. or .a. C. pound by yere. Of thys …
Hugh Latimer · First Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… deuyl. For this is the peculyare & propre worke of y^e popes / they muſt nedes labourelabor aboute theſe thyngꝭ, that is to wytte, to rydde the very ſayntes out of …
With rule
… deuyl. For this is the peculyare & propre worke of y^e popes / they muſt nedes labourelabor aboute theſe thyngꝭ, that is to wytte, to rydde the very ſayntes out of …
Martin Luther · Against the New Idol and Old Devil · Open in the reader
Printed
… fyght alſo, yf the enemyes myghte be ouercome without ony teopardye, care, trauayle and labourelabor. And I to do nothyngeels but to ſyt at a table, to eate and …
With rule
… fyght alſo, yf the enemyes myghte be ouercome without ony teopardye, care, trauayle and labourelabor. And I to do nothyngeels but to ſyt at a table, to eate and …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that nedeth. Saint Paul calleth it thefte for any man to lyue of the labourelabor of other mens handes, idelly and wythout any certein vocacion, and commaundeth that all …
With rule
… that nedeth. Saint Paul calleth it thefte for any man to lyue of the labourelabor of other mens handes, idelly and wythout any certein vocacion, and commaundeth that all …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… law so thorowly, as the purite therof requirethe▪ yet is it our offyce to labourelabor vnto the vttermoost of our power to fulfyll the lawe, and where we perceaue …
With rule
… law so thorowly, as the purite therof requirethe▪ yet is it our offyce to labourelabor vnto the vttermoost of our power to fulfyll the lawe, and where we perceaue …
Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader
Printed
… so excellent a vvorke of the ministery of the vvorde it is a necessary labourelabor to learne to vnderstand it, in it ovvne language, vvhich vvhilest men haue neglected …
With rule
… so excellent a vvorke of the ministery of the vvorde it is a necessary labourelabor to learne to vnderstand it, in it ovvne language, vvhich vvhilest men haue neglected …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the same cause it is, that Christ calleth vnto him, them onely that labourelabor, and are heauie loden: teaching them, that yf they finde not sinne a heauy …
With rule
… for the same cause it is, that Christ calleth vnto him, them onely that labourelabor, and are heauie loden: teaching them, that yf they finde not sinne a heauy …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyll geue nomore moneye for the thinge that fedeth not. They wyll ſpende nomore labourelabor about that ſatyſfyeth not. Ye laye yokes verye faſt vpon mēne (ſayth oſeas) but …
With rule
… wyll geue nomore moneye for the thinge that fedeth not. They wyll ſpende nomore labourelabor about that ſatyſfyeth not. Ye laye yokes verye faſt vpon mēne (ſayth oſeas) but …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · p. 83 · 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.

Historical Table of the Bible A06660

Printed
LaboureLabor maketh not ryche, but the bleſſynge of God. Gene. iij,b. xxvi,a.b …
With rule
LaboureLabor maketh not ryche, but the bleſſynge of God. Gene. iij,b. xxvi,a.b …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader

A Christmas Banket A06698

Printed
LaboureLabor and God wyl helpe. And to saye the trueth to you, it was neuer …
With rule
LaboureLabor and God wyl helpe. And to saye the trueth to you, it was neuer …
Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader

The Jewel of Joy A06898

Printed
… wyllyng to suffer what soeuer kynde of aduersitie God shall laye vpon hyr backe. LaboureLabor in thy syckenes so to ioye & reioyce in the Lorde, that with hygh pacience …
With rule
… wyllyng to suffer what soeuer kynde of aduersitie God shall laye vpon hyr backe. LaboureLabor in thy syckenes so to ioye & reioyce in the Lorde, that with hygh pacience …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader