Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11253 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deuideddivided

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

Puritas changed it: 1,155 times in 333 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,155 of 1,158)
Reach if approved: ~1,217 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: divided
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,158 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,155 changes in 333 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſingular foundation belongeth to Chriſt, ſo the honour of being ſecundary foundations, is equally deuideddivided among the twelue Apoſtles: and ſo Peter in this reſpect hath no greater prerogatiue …
With rule
… ſingular foundation belongeth to Chriſt, ſo the honour of being ſecundary foundations, is equally deuideddivided among the twelue Apoſtles: and ſo Peter in this reſpect hath no greater prerogatiue …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 315 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nowe disposeth and ruleth▪ yea, and conserueth all things: one substance distinguished, but not deuideddivided into thre sundrie persons, the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost, and notwithstanding …
With rule
… nowe disposeth and ruleth▪ yea, and conserueth all things: one substance distinguished, but not deuideddivided into thre sundrie persons, the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost, and notwithstanding …
Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… with fraction; and as they haue a brotherhood in euill, so they shall bee deuideddivided in Iacob, and scattered in Israel. That cum pare contendere, anceps est; cum superiore …
With rule
… with fraction; and as they haue a brotherhood in euill, so they shall bee deuideddivided in Iacob, and scattered in Israel. That cum pare contendere, anceps est; cum superiore …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
And the great citye was deuideddivided into three partes, and the cities of the gentils fell, &c.
With rule
And the great citye was deuideddivided into three partes, and the cities of the gentils fell, &c.
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… the holy Ghoſt deſcend from Chriſt the head, vpon nothing that is ſeparate and deuideddivided and rent from him, but vpon all the members vnited in one bodie. Wee …
With rule
… the holy Ghoſt deſcend from Chriſt the head, vpon nothing that is ſeparate and deuideddivided and rent from him, but vpon all the members vnited in one bodie. Wee …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 262 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not depart from his house. Salomon deuides Gods Kingdome, his owne Kingdome shall be deuideddivided. Because Pharaoh drowned the male children of the Hebrewes in …iuer, himselfe and his …
With rule
… not depart from his house. Salomon deuides Gods Kingdome, his owne Kingdome shall be deuideddivided. Because Pharaoh drowned the male children of the Hebrewes in …iuer, himselfe and his …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 246 · Open in the reader
Printed
The words may be deuideddivided into two parts: The first is, a Restraint from something which is euill; Laughter …
With rule
The words may be deuideddivided into two parts: The first is, a Restraint from something which is euill; Laughter …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons 2 · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his mouth, & lay vp his wordes in thy heart. The Lord may not be deuideddivided frō his Law for that is to trāfforme him, & to ſunder him from himſelfe …
With rule
… his mouth, & lay vp his wordes in thy heart. The Lord may not be deuideddivided frō his Law for that is to trāfforme him, & to ſunder him from himſelfe …
John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

The Pageant of Popes A02895

Printed
… the Bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of Grace 1555. DeuidedDivided into iii. sortes bishops, Archbishops, and Popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in …
With rule
… the Bishops of Rome, from the beginninge of them to the yeare of Grace 1555. DeuidedDivided into iii. sortes bishops, Archbishops, and Popes, vvhereof the two first are contayned in …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

The Christian Disputations A14461

Printed
DeuidedDivided into three partes, Dialogue wiſe: Set out with ſuch grace, that it cannot be …
With rule
DeuidedDivided into three partes, Dialogue wiſe: Set out with ſuch grace, that it cannot be …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader

A General View of Papistry A15422

Printed
… counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: DeuidedDivided into three bookes or Centuries, that is, so many hundreds of Popish heresies and …
With rule
… counterpoyson out of the Scriptures, against the whore of Babylons filthy cuppe of abominations: DeuidedDivided into three bookes or Centuries, that is, so many hundreds of Popish heresies and …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · Open in the reader