Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11384 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

successourssuccessors

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

Puritas changed it: 1,626 times in 535 works
Consistency: 100% (1,626 of 1,626)
Reach if approved: ~1,711 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: successors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,628 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,626 changes in 535 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,626)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… expreſly out of Gods worde, but that ſome of them vvere ordeined by the ſucceſſourssuccessors of the Apoſtles, ſome by later decrees of the church, ſome by Provinciall Metropolitans …
With rule
… expreſly out of Gods worde, but that ſome of them vvere ordeined by the ſucceſſourssuccessors of the Apoſtles, ſome by later decrees of the church, ſome by Provinciall Metropolitans …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be the visible churche, to wit preestes & prophetes who thē were in Ierusalē the successourssuccessors of Aarō to whome was geuē a charge to speak to the people in …
With rule
… be the visible churche, to wit preestes & prophetes who thē were in Ierusalē the successourssuccessors of Aarō to whome was geuē a charge to speak to the people in …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · Open in the reader
Printed
… of theſe titles which I ſpeake of, attributed vnto them, but onely the Apoſtles ſucceſſourssuccessors, and Apoſtolicall Biſhops, not heads of the Church, vniuerſall Biſhops, high Prieſts of the …
With rule
… of theſe titles which I ſpeake of, attributed vnto them, but onely the Apoſtles ſucceſſourssuccessors, and Apoſtolicall Biſhops, not heads of the Church, vniuerſall Biſhops, high Prieſts of the …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 379 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of god? With what forheade durste they be bolde to cal thē selues the successourssuccessors of y^e Apostles, seynge that contrary to y^e teachynge & practyse of all true Apostles …
With rule
… of god? With what forheade durste they be bolde to cal thē selues the successourssuccessors of y^e Apostles, seynge that contrary to y^e teachynge & practyse of all true Apostles …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
… authoritie in the word, which God committing first to Moses, derived to all his successourssuccessors: so the Throne or seat of David for that temporall preced…ncie and power …
With rule
… authoritie in the word, which God committing first to Moses, derived to all his successourssuccessors: so the Throne or seat of David for that temporall preced…ncie and power …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giuing his bodie and …oude; and a lawemaker, in commanding his Apostels …d their successourssuccessors, to continue the making of this …acrament. This testament and law was soone after …
With rule
… giuing his bodie and …oude; and a lawemaker, in commanding his Apostels …d their successourssuccessors, to continue the making of this …acrament. This testament and law was soone after …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 556 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Such ſins are treaſured up. Vengeance may be executed for them in ſucceeding times. SucceſſoursSuccessors therefore ought to do what lieth in their power to make an attonement in …
With rule
… Such ſins are treaſured up. Vengeance may be executed for them in ſucceeding times. SucceſſoursSuccessors therefore ought to do what lieth in their power to make an attonement in …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… P…estes / for the first age. With false bretherne and tyrauntes trobled he their successourssuccessors for the seconde age. For the thirde / with innumerable Heresyes ded he accōbre them …
With rule
… P…estes / for the first age. With false bretherne and tyrauntes trobled he their successourssuccessors for the seconde age. For the thirde / with innumerable Heresyes ded he accōbre them …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · 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.