Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11478 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beléeuebelieve

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

Puritas changed it: 1,935 times in 122 works
Consistency: 100% (1,935 of 1,935)
Reach if approved: ~2,033 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: believe
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,935 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,935 changes in 122 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,935)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… themselues in againe among Christians. For vsing witches as their instruments, they make them beléeuebelieve that they doe manie harmes sent by them, which they do not, and whereas …
With rule
… themselues in againe among Christians. For vsing witches as their instruments, they make them beléeuebelieve that they doe manie harmes sent by them, which they do not, and whereas …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… receiue the greater condemnation. Thirdly, the Diſciples héereby might learne, that to repent and beléeuebelieve is the meere mercy and grace of God. Fourthly, that this mercy and grace …
With rule
… receiue the greater condemnation. Thirdly, the Diſciples héereby might learne, that to repent and beléeuebelieve is the meere mercy and grace of God. Fourthly, that this mercy and grace …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt cruell perſecutor of Chriſtian religion? Or if it had béene offered, who can beléeuebelieve that God would not rather haue done that by ſome angell, according to the …
With rule
… moſt cruell perſecutor of Chriſtian religion? Or if it had béene offered, who can beléeuebelieve that God would not rather haue done that by ſome angell, according to the …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… through the ſame he gaue vnto God y^e glory moſt abſolutely, & that if we beléeuebelieve, faith ſhal be imputed for the ſame cauſe vnto vs for righteouſnes. The third …
With rule
… through the ſame he gaue vnto God y^e glory moſt abſolutely, & that if we beléeuebelieve, faith ſhal be imputed for the ſame cauſe vnto vs for righteouſnes. The third …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
For, we beléeuebelieve it, to be as abſurd, to thinke, that the Apoſtles were ignorant of ſome …
With rule
For, we beléeuebelieve it, to be as abſurd, to thinke, that the Apoſtles were ignorant of ſome …
Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader
Printed
BeléeueBelieve mée, it gréeueth mée to heare (walking in the streats) the pitiful cryes, and …
With rule
BeléeueBelieve mée, it gréeueth mée to heare (walking in the streats) the pitiful cryes, and …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… willinglie make interceſſion for vs (as Oſorius here affirmes) what néede we (if we beléeuebelieve this) the interceſſion of an other? Is not this ſufficient? That were nothing els …
With rule
… willinglie make interceſſion for vs (as Oſorius here affirmes) what néede we (if we beléeuebelieve this) the interceſſion of an other? Is not this ſufficient? That were nothing els …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 333 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſider him in hys diuine eſſence and nature, and what it is that we beléeuebelieve.
With rule
… conſider him in hys diuine eſſence and nature, and what it is that we beléeuebelieve.
Pierre Viret · A Christian Instruction Containing the Law and the Gospel · p. 149 · 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.