Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11515 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deceauedeceive

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

Puritas changed it: 546 times in 157 works
Consistency: 99.2% (546 of 550)
Reach if approved: ~578 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: deceive
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 550 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (546 changes in 157 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 546)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… make a great shewe of chastitie, to the ende he may the more easily deceauedeceive. We also adde this cause moreouer, that they make this glorious pretence of chastity …
With rule
… make a great shewe of chastitie, to the ende he may the more easily deceauedeceive. We also adde this cause moreouer, that they make this glorious pretence of chastity …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 177 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all suche thynges. Dothe not he thyncke hym selfe moost wyse, y^• can moost deceauedeceive his neyghbour? Here is a wonderful charite and an harty neyghbourhoode.
With rule
… all suche thynges. Dothe not he thyncke hym selfe moost wyse, y^• can moost deceauedeceive his neyghbour? Here is a wonderful charite and an harty neyghbourhoode.
Thomas Becon · The New Policy of War · Open in the reader
Printed
… that God hideth his face from them, and ſeeth them not. Let them not deceauedeceive themſelues; a godly preacher aſſureth them, that their pleaſures are ſpurres, & their ſinnes very …
With rule
… that God hideth his face from them, and ſeeth them not. Let them not deceauedeceive themſelues; a godly preacher aſſureth them, that their pleaſures are ſpurres, & their ſinnes very …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reaſon this is little to be hoped for. Let no man therefore flatter or deceauedeceive himſelfe with any ſuch poore, ſimple and ſhiftfull conceite.
With rule
… reaſon this is little to be hoped for. Let no man therefore flatter or deceauedeceive himſelfe with any ſuch poore, ſimple and ſhiftfull conceite.
Gabriel Powel · The Deprived and Silenced Ministers Arguments · Open in the reader
Printed
… myscheuous members he doe transforme himself into an aungel of light, moste craftelye to deceauedeceive, yea …uen the very elect, if it were possible for him so to do …
With rule
… myscheuous members he doe transforme himself into an aungel of light, moste craftelye to deceauedeceive, yea …uen the very elect, if it were possible for him so to do …
Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… proue the Byshoppes office it selfe, to bee one, and vndeuided. Let no man deceauedeceive the brotherhoodde with a lye, Lette no man corrupte the trueth of fayth, by …
With rule
… proue the Byshoppes office it selfe, to bee one, and vndeuided. Let no man deceauedeceive the brotherhoodde with a lye, Lette no man corrupte the trueth of fayth, by …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… selues and others. In this wee knowe we are not deceaued, nether can we deceauedeceive you, when we teach that the faith whereby yee are sanctified cannot faile; it …
With rule
… selues and others. In this wee knowe we are not deceaued, nether can we deceauedeceive you, when we teach that the faith whereby yee are sanctified cannot faile; it …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith in the Elect · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alieng Prophet in the mouthes of all his Prophetes: he said therfor thou shal deceauedeceive him & thou shalt br…g it to passe: goo forth therfor & do euē so …
With rule
… alieng Prophet in the mouthes of all his Prophetes: he said therfor thou shal deceauedeceive him & thou shalt br…g it to passe: goo forth therfor & do euē so …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 308 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford A08356

Printed
DeceaueDeceive we not our ſelues (beloved in the Lord) we might haue long ſince learned …
With rule
DeceaueDeceive we not our ſelues (beloved in the Lord) we might haue long ſince learned …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 128 · Open in the reader

Reformation Unjustly Charged as Enemies A09299

Printed
… There is nothing but judgement merciles vnto thoſe that deferre their turning vnto him. DeceaueDeceive not your ſelues thē, for as I ſhall anſwere before the Lord, in the …
With rule
… There is nothing but judgement merciles vnto thoſe that deferre their turning vnto him. DeceaueDeceive not your ſelues thē, for as I ſhall anſwere before the Lord, in the …
John Penry · Reformation Unjustly Charged as Enemies · Open in the reader

A Survey of Dialogical Discourses A19857

Printed
… That no man is able to make a flat nullitie in any mans miniſtery. DeceaueDeceive not your ſelues M. Deacon & M. Walker: The Church may depriue of their miniſtery …
With rule
… That no man is able to make a flat nullitie in any mans miniſtery. DeceaueDeceive not your ſelues M. Deacon & M. Walker: The Church may depriue of their miniſtery …
John Darrell · A Survey of Dialogical Discourses · p. 75 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

Printed
5 And the Lordes of the Philiſtines came vp vnto her, and ſaid vnto her: DeceaueDeceive him and ſee wherin his great ſtrength lyeth, and by what meanes we may …
With rule
5 And the Lordes of the Philiſtines came vp vnto her, and ſaid vnto her: DeceaueDeceive him and ſee wherin his great ſtrength lyeth, and by what meanes we may …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader