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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11244 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diuelldevil

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

Puritas changed it
9,767 times in 681 works
Consistency
100% (9,767 of 9,767)
Reach if approved
~10,624 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: devil
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
10,111 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (9,767 changes in 681 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 9,767)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … not the heauenlie light of Gods ſpirite, but a frantick preſumption, by which the diuelldevil dooth delude men and blinde them with their ſwelling, he ſhall neuer ſee well …
    With rule
    … not the heauenlie light of Gods ſpirite, but a frantick preſumption, by which the diuelldevil dooth delude men and blinde them with their ſwelling, he ſhall neuer ſee well …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 112 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … then hee will the more fiercely assault, and more greedily deuoure. Euen so the DiuellDevil: Resist the DiuellDevil and he will slie from you. Giue place, and yeeld, and …
    With rule
    … then hee will the more fiercely assault, and more greedily deuoure. Euen so the DiuellDevil: Resist the DiuellDevil and he will slie from you. Giue place, and yeeld, and …

    William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … yoke of obedience, and to be equall with God, Gen. 3. 5. 6. The pride of the DiuellDevil was the glorifying of himſelfe with theſe excellencies wherewith the Lord had indowed him …
    With rule
    … yoke of obedience, and to be equall with God, Gen. 3. 5. 6. The pride of the DiuellDevil was the glorifying of himſelfe with theſe excellencies wherewith the Lord had indowed him …

    Thomas Granger · A Looking-Glass for Christians · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    ANsw. to Gag. pag. 253. But that the DiuellDevil bred you vp in a faction, and sent you abroad to doe him seruice …
    With rule
    ANsw. to Gag. pag. 253. But that the DiuellDevil bred you vp in a faction, and sent you abroad to doe him seruice …

    Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … in a part of the 14. vers. in these words: Then he cast out a DiuellDevil which was dumbe, and when the DiuellDevil was gone out, the dumbe spake.
    With rule
    … in a part of the 14. vers. in these words: Then he cast out a DiuellDevil which was dumbe, and when the DiuellDevil was gone out, the dumbe spake.

    James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 97 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … case, but that she had hell in her owne house, when shee had the DiuellDevil tormenting her daughter at home, whom she loued best in the world? We see …
    With rule
    … case, but that she had hell in her owne house, when shee had the DiuellDevil tormenting her daughter at home, whom she loued best in the world? We see …

    William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in their power, the ſacrifice of Chriſt, and fighting under the banner of the diuelldevil againſt God, ſo alſo their fruits do follow accordingly, and declare what manner of …
    With rule
    … in their power, the ſacrifice of Chriſt, and fighting under the banner of the diuelldevil againſt God, ſo alſo their fruits do follow accordingly, and declare what manner of …

    George Gifford · Treatise Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … whileſt he vſed the words, the man was ſuddenly taken and rent by the diuelldevil. Let theſe things be conſidered of aduiſedly by ſuch as haue hitherto been carried …
    With rule
    … whileſt he vſed the words, the man was ſuddenly taken and rent by the diuelldevil. Let theſe things be conſidered of aduiſedly by ſuch as haue hitherto been carried …

    Samuel Gibson · Sermon of Ecclesiastical Benediction · p. 30 · 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.