Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11363 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heretickheretic

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

Puritas changed it: 3,227 times in 897 works
Consistency: 99.8% (3,227 of 3,232)
Reach if approved: ~3,401 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heretic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,237 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,227 changes in 897 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,227)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſee in that Nicene Councel, vvhen all the Doctours could not ſilence an acute HeretickHeretic, a ſimple man vnlearned in compariſon, bringing out the ſimple teſtimony of this vvord …
With rule
… ſee in that Nicene Councel, vvhen all the Doctours could not ſilence an acute HeretickHeretic, a ſimple man vnlearned in compariſon, bringing out the ſimple teſtimony of this vvord …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 260 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they doe, yet still to say and thinke, God will blesse them. Take an heretickheretic…, who ouerthrowes the truth of God by his errors, and he will say he …
With rule
… they doe, yet still to say and thinke, God will blesse them. Take an heretickheretic…, who ouerthrowes the truth of God by his errors, and he will say he …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 102 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other syns so specially for errors & heresies, & contentions against the true faith. For an heretickheretic must be reiected after one and the second admonition; they that teach or receiv …
With rule
… other syns so specially for errors & heresies, & contentions against the true faith. For an heretickheretic must be reiected after one and the second admonition; they that teach or receiv …
Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 438 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that we are heretickes, yet ſainct Paul doth not commaund vs to reiect an heretickheretic at the firſt daſh, but after once or twice admonition, when he ſheweth himſelfe …
With rule
… that we are heretickes, yet ſainct Paul doth not commaund vs to reiect an heretickheretic at the firſt daſh, but after once or twice admonition, when he ſheweth himſelfe …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · Open in the reader
Printed
… bound in conſcience to condemne him, for obſtinatly maintayning the contrarie, to bee an heretickheretic: and the reaſon is euident; for the rule, and ſquare the Proteſtants, and Puritanes …
With rule
… bound in conſcience to condemne him, for obſtinatly maintayning the contrarie, to bee an heretickheretic: and the reaſon is euident; for the rule, and ſquare the Proteſtants, and Puritanes …
Anthony Wotton · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of all the Sacramentaries: and Richcome the Iesuit disclaimeth him plainly as a Sacramentarie HeretickHeretic. Then Caluin and Zuinglius were not the first who gain-said transubstantiation. Before our …
With rule
… of all the Sacramentaries: and Richcome the Iesuit disclaimeth him plainly as a Sacramentarie HeretickHeretic. Then Caluin and Zuinglius were not the first who gain-said transubstantiation. Before our …
Archbishop George Abbot · The Perpetual Visibility and Succession of the True Church in All Ages · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… finde that Irenaeus affirmeth no such thing as is fathered upon him. Valentinus the heretickheretic was not the first inventer or author of the signe of the Crosse, but …
With rule
… finde that Irenaeus affirmeth no such thing as is fathered upon him. Valentinus the heretickheretic was not the first inventer or author of the signe of the Crosse, but …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no praise at all, nor signe of grace in a Papist or any other HeretickHeretic or Schismatick whatsoever, that they have beene constant in their Religion, even unto death …
With rule
… no praise at all, nor signe of grace in a Papist or any other HeretickHeretic or Schismatick whatsoever, that they have beene constant in their Religion, even unto death …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 766 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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 Difference Between the Power of Magistrates and Church Pastors A26914

Printed
… many hundred years expired, hath not been the Head of the Church, but a HERETICKHERETIC and the ANTICHRIST.]
With rule
… many hundred years expired, hath not been the Head of the Church, but a HERETICKHERETIC and the ANTICHRIST.]
Richard Baxter · The Difference Between the Power of Magistrates and Church Pastors · p. 2 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… alſo the FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. I am ſure CERINTHUS, that ARCH-HERETICKHERETIC in thoſe dayes, whom after ages doe make the firſt broacher of this opinion …
With rule
… alſo the FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. I am ſure CERINTHUS, that ARCH-HERETICKHERETIC in thoſe dayes, whom after ages doe make the firſt broacher of this opinion …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 A56162

Printed
… That it was lawful for Caſtle, or any other private man, TO DESTROY AN HERETICKHERETIC OR TYRANT, much more then, him that was both.
With rule
… That it was lawful for Caſtle, or any other private man, TO DESTROY AN HERETICKHERETIC OR TYRANT, much more then, him that was both.
William Prynne · Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2 · Open in the reader

The Sword of Christian Magistracy A56215

Printed
… into damnable hereſie the ſaid William had abjured, thereupon to be A MOST MANIFEST HERETICKHERETIC, and therefore hath decreed, that he ſhould be degraded, and hath for the ſame …
With rule
… into damnable hereſie the ſaid William had abjured, thereupon to be A MOST MANIFEST HERETICKHERETIC, and therefore hath decreed, that he ſhould be degraded, and hath for the ſame …
William Prynne · The Sword of Christian Magistracy · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… gives this rule concerning Hereticks to Titus himſelfe. Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an HERETICKHERETIC AFTER THE FIRST AND SECOND ADMONITION, REIECT: &c. He muſt no… be forborne and …
With rule
… gives this rule concerning Hereticks to Titus himſelfe. Tit. 3. 10. A man that is an HERETICKHERETIC AFTER THE FIRST AND SECOND ADMONITION, REIECT: &c. He muſt no… be forborne and …
William Prynne · The Sword of Christian Magistracy · p. 83 · Open in the reader