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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11523 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

murtherersmurderers

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

Puritas changed it
2,312 times in 956 works
Consistency
100% (2,312 of 2,312)
Reach if approved
~2,429 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: murderers
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,312 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,312 changes in 956 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,312)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … harlot? It was full of iudgement, and iuſtice lodged therein, but now they are murtherersmurderers. Thy ſiluer is become droſſe, and thy wine is mixed with water. Thy Princes …
    With rule
    … harlot? It was full of iudgement, and iuſtice lodged therein, but now they are murtherersmurderers. Thy ſiluer is become droſſe, and thy wine is mixed with water. Thy Princes …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … expoſition thus. The power which God hath giuen vnto the ciuill Magiſtrates to put murtherersmurderers and other wicked malefactors to death, is not to be ouerthrowne: but if Chriſt …
    With rule
    … expoſition thus. The power which God hath giuen vnto the ciuill Magiſtrates to put murtherersmurderers and other wicked malefactors to death, is not to be ouerthrowne: but if Chriſt …

    George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 75 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … equall; nor doth the ſame kinde preſuppoſe the ſame meaſure of puniſhment. Robbers and murtherersmurderers are put to the ſame kinde of death: yet is murther a more hainous …
    With rule
    … equall; nor doth the ſame kinde preſuppoſe the ſame meaſure of puniſhment. Robbers and murtherersmurderers are put to the ſame kinde of death: yet is murther a more hainous …

    William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 136 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … But saith he though yt be so / yet the Scripture calleth not the godly / murtherersmurderers / Idolaters / etc. for the reliques of sinne remayning. I answere that therfore your former …
    With rule
    … But saith he though yt be so / yet the Scripture calleth not the godly / murtherersmurderers / Idolaters / etc. for the reliques of sinne remayning. I answere that therfore your former …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … most derelye redemed heritage of the Lorde. If they be no spirituall theues sowle murtherersmurderers / heretiques / scysmatiques / churche robbers / rebelles / and traytours to God & to manne / wher are anye …
    With rule
    … most derelye redemed heritage of the Lorde. If they be no spirituall theues sowle murtherersmurderers / heretiques / scysmatiques / churche robbers / rebelles / and traytours to God & to manne / wher are anye …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … out her hands, and cryeth, woe is me, my ſoule fainteth, becauſe of the murtherersmurderers!
    With rule
    … out her hands, and cryeth, woe is me, my ſoule fainteth, becauſe of the murtherersmurderers!

    Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … without cauſe: for if it be a ſcandall to a State to ſuffer theeves & murtherersmurderers to go unpuniſhed, are Hereticks to be ſet free, who rob men of that …
    With rule
    … without cauſe: for if it be a ſcandall to a State to ſuffer theeves & murtherersmurderers to go unpuniſhed, are Hereticks to be ſet free, who rob men of that …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 470 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … her childbed, and carryed into the common gaole, and there placed among théeues and murtherersmurderers, where both ſhe and hir infant could neuer come to fire, but ſhée was …
    With rule
    … her childbed, and carryed into the common gaole, and there placed among théeues and murtherersmurderers, where both ſhe and hir infant could neuer come to fire, but ſhée was …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 200 · 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.