Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11292 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sainctessaints

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

Puritas changed it: 1,482 times in 177 works
Consistency: 100% (1,482 of 1,482)
Reach if approved: ~1,557 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: saints
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,482 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,482 changes in 177 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,482)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he might offer ſacrifice / for purgacion of our ſynnes & ſatiſfaction of Gods iuſtice / without ſainctessaints. Haue theſe twoo godhead equale with the father / & humanite without ſynne / the office of …
With rule
… he might offer ſacrifice / for purgacion of our ſynnes & ſatiſfaction of Gods iuſtice / without ſainctessaints. Haue theſe twoo godhead equale with the father / & humanite without ſynne / the office of …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · p. xi · Open in the reader
Printed
… the weaknes and the infirmitie of the hearers, he sayd wythout doubte playnely that sainctessaints shoulde not be honoured. My lordes (sayed he) there are two thynges worthy of …
With rule
… the weaknes and the infirmitie of the hearers, he sayd wythout doubte playnely that sainctessaints shoulde not be honoured. My lordes (sayed he) there are two thynges worthy of …
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader
Printed
… yred too haue their prayers accepted not for the intercessions and merites of anye sainctessaints / nor yet for their owne dignitie and worthynes▪ but for Iesus Christes sake / for …
With rule
… yred too haue their prayers accepted not for the intercessions and merites of anye sainctessaints / nor yet for their owne dignitie and worthynes▪ but for Iesus Christes sake / for …
Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · Open in the reader
Printed
Moreouer, This is well knowen to the withstanders, that the preuy Masse, prayig to sainctessaints, soulemasses, and the Procession, and certein other suche vses, although they might be excused …
With rule
Moreouer, This is well knowen to the withstanders, that the preuy Masse, prayig to sainctessaints, soulemasses, and the Procession, and certein other suche vses, although they might be excused …
Philipp Melanchthon · A Weighing and Considering of the Interim · Open in the reader
Printed
… the acti… of thoſe that perſecute the Saintes, and the ſufferaunce of the afflicted SainctesSaints by them, that he whiche ſaithe God will this, but dothe onely ſuffer that …
With rule
… the acti… of thoſe that perſecute the Saintes, and the ſufferaunce of the afflicted SainctesSaints by them, that he whiche ſaithe God will this, but dothe onely ſuffer that …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there be? what profe of pacience? here therfore the saieth and pacience of the SainctesSaints is to be loked for.
With rule
… there be? what profe of pacience? here therfore the saieth and pacience of the SainctesSaints is to be loked for.
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… we haue any care of the worlde, if we haue any loue of the sainctessaints, then let vs carefully shun all and euery infirmitie whereby Gods name is dishonored …
With rule
… we haue any care of the worlde, if we haue any loue of the sainctessaints, then let vs carefully shun all and euery infirmitie whereby Gods name is dishonored …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iesus Christe. But afterwarde the Saxōs did cōsecrate their temples to Images, and dead sainctessaints▪ Anno. 604. the Christiā Emperour Maurice being slaine, Phocas an adulterer and a murtherer, obtayned …
With rule
… Iesus Christe. But afterwarde the Saxōs did cōsecrate their temples to Images, and dead sainctessaints▪ Anno. 604. the Christiā Emperour Maurice being slaine, Phocas an adulterer and a murtherer, obtayned …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 38 · 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.