Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11508 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

perceaueperceive

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

Puritas changed it: 895 times in 174 works
Consistency: 99.3% (895 of 901)
Reach if approved: ~947 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: perceive
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 901 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (895 changes in 174 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 895)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… should rather thincke on this maner w^t our selues: By this signe & token I perceaueperceive right well y^t God is merciful vnto me, fauoreth & loueth me, for he nurtereth …
With rule
… should rather thincke on this maner w^t our selues: By this signe & token I perceaueperceive right well y^t God is merciful vnto me, fauoreth & loueth me, for he nurtereth …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wil, and purpoſe, it behooueth all good men euery where. And ſuch (doo I perceaueperceive by the benefite of GOD) are oure Churches, which profeſſe the true doctrine of …
With rule
… wil, and purpoſe, it behooueth all good men euery where. And ſuch (doo I perceaueperceive by the benefite of GOD) are oure Churches, which profeſſe the true doctrine of …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deceate, that happen vnto men by nyght in the darkneſſe. For thys we all perceaueperceive, that in the nyght and in the darkneſſe we are weaker mynded, of more …
With rule
… deceate, that happen vnto men by nyght in the darkneſſe. For thys we all perceaueperceive, that in the nyght and in the darkneſſe we are weaker mynded, of more …
Andreas Osiander · Whether a Christian Man Ought to Flee the Plague · Open in the reader
Printed
… worke, by M. Fenners labours: yet whoſoeuer ſhall peruſe the booke diligentlie, ſhall eaſilie perceaueperceive, that hee hath for the matter, a ſtock of his own, and for the …
With rule
… worke, by M. Fenners labours: yet whoſoeuer ſhall peruſe the booke diligentlie, ſhall eaſilie perceaueperceive, that hee hath for the matter, a ſtock of his own, and for the …
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader
Printed
… see of what religion and auctoritie, the fathers were. First sayth Bristow you may perceaueperceive by Iewells challenge, that for Purgatorie, prayer for the dead and to Saincts, merite …
With rule
… see of what religion and auctoritie, the fathers were. First sayth Bristow you may perceaueperceive by Iewells challenge, that for Purgatorie, prayer for the dead and to Saincts, merite …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when men (desirous euen in simplicitie of heart to learne the trueth) shall sensiblye perceaueperceive that so famous and learned aman as M. Some reputeth him selfe to bee …
With rule
… when men (desirous euen in simplicitie of heart to learne the trueth) shall sensiblye perceaueperceive that so famous and learned aman as M. Some reputeth him selfe to bee …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… edificatiō, ād profit. For when ye shall heare the matter debated, ye shall easelie perceaueperceive and vnderstand, vpon what grounde ād foundation is builded that religion, which amongest you …
With rule
… edificatiō, ād profit. For when ye shall heare the matter debated, ye shall easelie perceaueperceive and vnderstand, vpon what grounde ād foundation is builded that religion, which amongest you …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… can he say it with his hart. As I by experiēce did once plainly perceaueperceive in my selfe, at what tyme I was more delighted with other formes of …
With rule
… can he say it with his hart. As I by experiēce did once plainly perceaueperceive in my selfe, at what tyme I was more delighted with other formes of …
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass A02831

Printed
PerceauePerceive the captius ingine, malicius and stubburne mynde, preasing euer to that, that he may …
With rule
PerceauePerceive the captius ingine, malicius and stubburne mynde, preasing euer to that, that he may …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels A06932

Printed
… theyr incredulitie and vnbelefe, sayeng: Why take ye thought, because ye haue no bread? PerceauePerceive ye not yet, neyther doo ye vnderstande? Haue ye your heartes yet blynded? Haue …
With rule
… theyr incredulitie and vnbelefe, sayeng: Why take ye thought, because ye haue no bread? PerceauePerceive ye not yet, neyther doo ye vnderstande? Haue ye your heartes yet blynded? Haue …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader

The Relics of Rome A07146

Printed
… hym, and the Romanes shall come, & take away both our roume and the people. PerceauePerceive ye not, howe we preuaile nothyng? Beholde, all the whole worlde goeth after him …
With rule
… hym, and the Romanes shall come, & take away both our roume and the people. PerceauePerceive ye not, howe we preuaile nothyng? Beholde, all the whole worlde goeth after him …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader

An Advertisement of Corruption in our Handling of Religion A16951

Printed
… and I am come to ſhew it vnto thee. For thou art greatly beloued. PerceauePerceive therefore the word and conceaue the Viſion.
With rule
… and I am come to ſhew it vnto thee. For thou art greatly beloued. PerceauePerceive therefore the word and conceaue the Viſion.
Hugh Broughton · An Advertisement of Corruption in our Handling of Religion · Open in the reader