Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11382 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gouernourgovernor

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

Puritas changed it: 1,674 times in 481 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,674 of 1,675)
Reach if approved: ~1,761 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: governor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,676 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,674 changes in 481 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,674)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Sun-shine of his one and twenty, goes from the vigilancy of a restraining GouernourGovernor, into the tempting hands of a mercilesse vsurer, as if hee came out of …
With rule
… Sun-shine of his one and twenty, goes from the vigilancy of a restraining GouernourGovernor, into the tempting hands of a mercilesse vsurer, as if hee came out of …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the priuiledged perſons, and other inhabitants in the ſanctuarie, ſhall be determined before the GouernourGovernor.
With rule
… the priuiledged perſons, and other inhabitants in the ſanctuarie, ſhall be determined before the GouernourGovernor.
Henry Finch · Law · p. 377 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and teacher of his flocke, our onely Sauiour, redeemer, mediator, and interceſſor, the head gouernourgovernor, ruler and defender of his Church. And wee may not thinke that the eternall …
With rule
… and teacher of his flocke, our onely Sauiour, redeemer, mediator, and interceſſor, the head gouernourgovernor, ruler and defender of his Church. And wee may not thinke that the eternall …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be head of the Church, as though it were necessarie, that the chiefe gouernourgovernor of y^e church should do sacrifice. The other, that women may not offer externall …
With rule
… not be head of the Church, as though it were necessarie, that the chiefe gouernourgovernor of y^e church should do sacrifice. The other, that women may not offer externall …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and wyll of our Lorde God: that he may be knowen the Lorde and gouernourgovernor ouer all the thynges hée hath created, and the onely lawe maker amongſt hys …
With rule
… and wyll of our Lorde God: that he may be knowen the Lorde and gouernourgovernor ouer all the thynges hée hath created, and the onely lawe maker amongſt hys …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſinnes, and ſuffer themſelues to be rightly enformed, and reformed by him, their guide, gouernourgovernor, and chiefe ſhepheard of their ſoules.
With rule
… ſinnes, and ſuffer themſelues to be rightly enformed, and reformed by him, their guide, gouernourgovernor, and chiefe ſhepheard of their ſoules.
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
And their noble Ruler shall be of themselues, and their GouernourGovernor shal proceed from the midst of them: and I will cause him to draw …
With rule
And their noble Ruler shall be of themselues, and their GouernourGovernor shal proceed from the midst of them: and I will cause him to draw …
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you haue heard of the manifolde daungers, that this our deare ſoueraigne, and ſupreame gouernourgovernor (vnder God) was in; both in the time of her ſiſter, Queene Marie; the …
With rule
… you haue heard of the manifolde daungers, that this our deare ſoueraigne, and ſupreame gouernourgovernor (vnder God) was in; both in the time of her ſiſter, Queene Marie; the …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 65 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.