Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11559 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyerliar

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

Puritas changed it: 1,075 times in 607 works
Consistency: 100% (1,075 of 1,075)
Reach if approved: ~1,130 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: liar
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,075 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,075 changes in 607 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,075)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cōfessions do witnes: yet he doeth it of an euill purpose, he is a lyerliar, and the father of lies, he desireth chiefly to accuse the innocent, that he …
With rule
… cōfessions do witnes: yet he doeth it of an euill purpose, he is a lyerliar, and the father of lies, he desireth chiefly to accuse the innocent, that he …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… make good his promiſe: his truth, as if God were vnfaithfull, yea, a plaine lyerliar, as the Apoſtle ſpeaketh: his mercy, as if it were dryed vp with the …
With rule
… make good his promiſe: his truth, as if God were vnfaithfull, yea, a plaine lyerliar, as the Apoſtle ſpeaketh: his mercy, as if it were dryed vp with the …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
Incredulitie holdeth him false and a lyerliar.
With rule
Incredulitie holdeth him false and a lyerliar.
Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſelfe. And therefore in this truly ſaith the Apoſtle, that he maketh God a LyerLiar, that doth not proceed from the generall doctrine to the point of particular application …
With rule
… ſelfe. And therefore in this truly ſaith the Apoſtle, that he maketh God a LyerLiar, that doth not proceed from the generall doctrine to the point of particular application …
Samuel Hieron · The Baptizing of the Eunuch · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… more for euery lying word? Besides, the LyerLiar is contrary to God, be hee LyerLiar in sport or earnest? and can a good childe be merry and glad to …
With rule
… more for euery lying word? Besides, the LyerLiar is contrary to God, be hee LyerLiar in sport or earnest? and can a good childe be merry and glad to …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… certayn it is, that he which is a great swerer, is also a gret lyerliar. But as I said before, they y^e wyl leaue such wickednes, and wil liue …
With rule
… certayn it is, that he which is a great swerer, is also a gret lyerliar. But as I said before, they y^e wyl leaue such wickednes, and wil liue …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 138 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Court? Satan walkes thither too: and will fit Rehoboam with flatterers, Ahab with lyerliar, Pharaoh with Sorcerers, Belshazzer with cups, Solomon with Concubines. Art thou in the Market …
With rule
… the Court? Satan walkes thither too: and will fit Rehoboam with flatterers, Ahab with lyerliar, Pharaoh with Sorcerers, Belshazzer with cups, Solomon with Concubines. Art thou in the Market …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and see not his face; belieue his promises, and consider him not as a lyerliar, as a murderer, and he will goe neere to carry thy hart from all …
With rule
… and see not his face; belieue his promises, and consider him not as a lyerliar, as a murderer, and he will goe neere to carry thy hart from all …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 16 · 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.