Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11407 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diuelsdevils

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

Puritas changed it: 3,691 times in 506 works
Consistency: 100% (3,691 of 3,691)
Reach if approved: ~3,879 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devils
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,692 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,691 changes in 506 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,691)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by Paul, being faithfull, and called, was of force to binde and caſt out diuelsdevils, but being vſed by them, being vnfaithfull and not called, is as a dead …
With rule
… by Paul, being faithfull, and called, was of force to binde and caſt out diuelsdevils, but being vſed by them, being vnfaithfull and not called, is as a dead …
Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
Adam therefore being thus created, that hee might eyther ſtand or fall, by the DiuelsDevils ſubtill ſuggeſtion, and by the abuſe of his owne free will, receyued a double …
With rule
Adam therefore being thus created, that hee might eyther ſtand or fall, by the DiuelsDevils ſubtill ſuggeſtion, and by the abuſe of his owne free will, receyued a double …
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the name of the Lord Iesus, though he knew there were as many diuelsdevils set against him, as there were tiles vpon al the houses of the Citie …
With rule
… in the name of the Lord Iesus, though he knew there were as many diuelsdevils set against him, as there were tiles vpon al the houses of the Citie …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in infinite places at once. And as Seuerus sayd that a vvoman vvas the DiuelsDevils vvorkmanship, and man also from the nauill dovvnward. So Pope Innocent the 8. auouched that …
With rule
… in infinite places at once. And as Seuerus sayd that a vvoman vvas the DiuelsDevils vvorkmanship, and man also from the nauill dovvnward. So Pope Innocent the 8. auouched that …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſentence being giuē, a great miter of paper was brought, painted about with red DiuelsDevils: the which when he beheld and ſaw (throwing his hood vpon the ground) he …
With rule
… ſentence being giuē, a great miter of paper was brought, painted about with red DiuelsDevils: the which when he beheld and ſaw (throwing his hood vpon the ground) he …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christians of the Primitiue church, had an ordinary power and office to cast out diuelsdevils, which we acknowledge that we haue not, but the Papistes haue. To this I …
With rule
… Christians of the Primitiue church, had an ordinary power and office to cast out diuelsdevils, which we acknowledge that we haue not, but the Papistes haue. To this I …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… els it were wide with vs: for how euill were our caſe, if the DiuelsDevils could goe any further then God letteth out the chaine in which hee hath …
With rule
… els it were wide with vs: for how euill were our caſe, if the DiuelsDevils could goe any further then God letteth out the chaine in which hee hath …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… that Holy one of God: And wil not you cōfeſſe as much as the diuelsdevils? But this is more then I thought to ſay, only you may ſee hereby …
With rule
… that Holy one of God: And wil not you cōfeſſe as much as the diuelsdevils? But this is more then I thought to ſay, only you may ſee hereby …
Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 65 · 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.