Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11387 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

doctoursdoctors

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

Puritas changed it: 1,987 times in 419 works
Consistency: 100% (1,987 of 1,987)
Reach if approved: ~2,088 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: doctors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,987 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,987 changes in 419 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,987)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the peoples feete: If negligent seruants, their woe is at hand. And if the DoctoursDoctors of the Church become Seducers, the Prelates proue Pilates, the Pastours become Impostors, and …
With rule
… the peoples feete: If negligent seruants, their woe is at hand. And if the DoctoursDoctors of the Church become Seducers, the Prelates proue Pilates, the Pastours become Impostors, and …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… admonished by Petrus Dresensis, after hee had searched into the writings of the ancient doctoursdoctors, and by name Dionysius, and Saint Cyprian, and finding in them the communicating of …
With rule
… admonished by Petrus Dresensis, after hee had searched into the writings of the ancient doctoursdoctors, and by name Dionysius, and Saint Cyprian, and finding in them the communicating of …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 134 · Open in the reader
Printed
Loe heere, We see the sentence of their DoctoursDoctors to the contrary, who presse vs so muche to goe to their Churches, against …
With rule
Loe heere, We see the sentence of their DoctoursDoctors to the contrary, who presse vs so muche to goe to their Churches, against …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… examined. The purpoſe of one, and of the other, and of all right meaning DoctoursDoctors is utterly to deny againſt the Tritheits all pluralitie or diverſitie of eſſences or …
With rule
… examined. The purpoſe of one, and of the other, and of all right meaning DoctoursDoctors is utterly to deny againſt the Tritheits all pluralitie or diverſitie of eſſences or …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
It longeth to doctoursdoctors. Howbeyt I maye ſaye to yow,
With rule
It longeth to doctoursdoctors. Howbeyt I maye ſaye to yow,
John Bale · Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan · Open in the reader
Printed
… or presumptuouslie séeketh by craftie colours, subtile reasōs, and deceiptful arguments, vpō daungers, doubtes, doctoursdoctors, old customes, and aucthoritie of fathers to hynder their office, blemishe their message, and …
With rule
… or presumptuouslie séeketh by craftie colours, subtile reasōs, and deceiptful arguments, vpō daungers, doubtes, doctoursdoctors, old customes, and aucthoritie of fathers to hynder their office, blemishe their message, and …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… happily expreſſed this alſo, yet hee proclaimes it in the eares of the Corinthian DoctoursDoctors, that hee deſired nothing in that Vniverſity (for Corinth was a famous Vniverſity as …
With rule
… happily expreſſed this alſo, yet hee proclaimes it in the eares of the Corinthian DoctoursDoctors, that hee deſired nothing in that Vniverſity (for Corinth was a famous Vniverſity as …
Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
I wyl not saye naye, but that ye shall fynde in the olde doctoursdoctors thys worde Sacrificiū but there is one generall solution for all the doctoursdoctors that …
With rule
I wyl not saye naye, but that ye shall fynde in the olde doctoursdoctors thys worde Sacrificiū but there is one generall solution for all the doctoursdoctors that …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · 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.