Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11281 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

souldiourssoldiers

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

Puritas changed it: 650 times in 191 works
Consistency: 100% (650 of 650)
Reach if approved: ~683 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: soldiers
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 650 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (650 changes in 191 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 650)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Ile of Sicil, being a very cōmodious place for paſſage of their munition, armyes, & ſouldiourssoldiers, and very conuenient for the prouiſion of whatſoeuer were requiſite & neceſſary either to the …
With rule
… Ile of Sicil, being a very cōmodious place for paſſage of their munition, armyes, & ſouldiourssoldiers, and very conuenient for the prouiſion of whatſoeuer were requiſite & neceſſary either to the …
Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thee. And whereas the legges of our Sauiour Christ were not broken by the souldiourssoldiers, who sought by all meanes possible to worke against him all the mischiefe they …
With rule
… thee. And whereas the legges of our Sauiour Christ were not broken by the souldiourssoldiers, who sought by all meanes possible to worke against him all the mischiefe they …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 347 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not superstition more preuailed with Nassars followers, then Allegeance. For when Lent came, his SouldioursSoldiers would needes home to keepe their Easter at their owne houses: for feare wherof …
With rule
… not superstition more preuailed with Nassars followers, then Allegeance. For when Lent came, his SouldioursSoldiers would needes home to keepe their Easter at their owne houses: for feare wherof …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 523 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worldly power, as a most valiant conqueror garded with inuincible mighty garrisons of stoutest souldiourssoldiers should with warlike puissaunce, and dint of mightie sworde, by most notable conquest establish …
With rule
… worldly power, as a most valiant conqueror garded with inuincible mighty garrisons of stoutest souldiourssoldiers should with warlike puissaunce, and dint of mightie sworde, by most notable conquest establish …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of it; his neede is argument enough vnto him: as it was to Sauls souldiourssoldiers, 1 Sam. 14. when they were distrest, and faint with hunger, they flew vpon the spoyle …
With rule
… of it; his neede is argument enough vnto him: as it was to Sauls souldiourssoldiers, 1 Sam. 14. when they were distrest, and faint with hunger, they flew vpon the spoyle …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… these, and, as long as Michael is your leader, and his Angels your fellow-SouldioursSoldiers, what can doe you hurt? if God be on your side, what matter who …
With rule
… these, and, as long as Michael is your leader, and his Angels your fellow-SouldioursSoldiers, what can doe you hurt? if God be on your side, what matter who …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… shorte tyme to rage, and that Christe our captaine right spedely will crowne his souldiourssoldiers, to whome, as he is the eternal God with his father, be all honour …
With rule
… shorte tyme to rage, and that Christe our captaine right spedely will crowne his souldiourssoldiers, to whome, as he is the eternal God with his father, be all honour …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he maye pitch his tent amonge them and ouerthrow their ennemies. Giue all souldiourssoldiers grace so to behaue them selfs in the warres wyth al godlines, & honesty, y^t …
With rule
… that he maye pitch his tent amonge them and ouerthrow their ennemies. Giue all souldiourssoldiers grace so to behaue them selfs in the warres wyth al godlines, & honesty, y^t …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. li · 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.