Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11580 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sainctssaints

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

Puritas changed it: 1,346 times in 190 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,346 of 1,349)
Reach if approved: ~1,417 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: saints
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,349 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,346 changes in 190 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,346)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and let all the Elementes be contrarye vnto him: Let the merits of all sainctssaints confound him: Let him spende this life prisoner fettered in chaines: and let the …
With rule
… and let all the Elementes be contrarye vnto him: Let the merits of all sainctssaints confound him: Let him spende this life prisoner fettered in chaines: and let the …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſtians. The contrarie whereof, is no leſſe then horrible blaſphemie againſt God and his SainctsSaints, wherfore your Propoſition, is ſhewed to be againe ſophiſticall, as alſo thoſe were in …
With rule
… Chriſtians. The contrarie whereof, is no leſſe then horrible blaſphemie againſt God and his SainctsSaints, wherfore your Propoſition, is ſhewed to be againe ſophiſticall, as alſo thoſe were in …
Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of them, & earnestly to contend for the faith vvhich vvas once delivered unto the SainctsSaints: he saith, in all these respects he could doe no lesse in ansvvering that …
With rule
… of them, & earnestly to contend for the faith vvhich vvas once delivered unto the SainctsSaints: he saith, in all these respects he could doe no lesse in ansvvering that …
John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that vnder paine of euerlastyng damnation, as the tyme of Aduent, Lent, Embryng daies, SainctsSaints euens, &c. All these daies must bee fasted, of all maner of people, that …
With rule
… that vnder paine of euerlastyng damnation, as the tyme of Aduent, Lent, Embryng daies, SainctsSaints euens, &c. All these daies must bee fasted, of all maner of people, that …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… if it be alive / stirreth it self / and worketh by love. And thus the SainctsSaints doe shew their fayth by their Love and good works; but in case of …
With rule
… if it be alive / stirreth it self / and worketh by love. And thus the SainctsSaints doe shew their fayth by their Love and good works; but in case of …
Henry Ainsworth · An Epistle Unto Two Daughters of Warwick · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſecōd frō Alexander, with others their next ſucceſſors, Higinus. Pius, Anicetus, Soter, al receiued SainctsSaints, & Martyrs. Alſo the Liturgie of the Church of Rome delivered by S. Peter, the …
With rule
… ſecōd frō Alexander, with others their next ſucceſſors, Higinus. Pius, Anicetus, Soter, al receiued SainctsSaints, & Martyrs. Alſo the Liturgie of the Church of Rome delivered by S. Peter, the …
Gabriel Powel · The Papists Reasons of State and Religion · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conuenient, both for the glorie of God and for the commodities of …ll the sainctssaints of God together. As for the martyrs, Apoc. 6, I finde they complayned for iustice …
With rule
… conuenient, both for the glorie of God and for the commodities of …ll the sainctssaints of God together. As for the martyrs, Apoc. 6, I finde they complayned for iustice …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 152 · Open in the reader
Printed
Art thou charged to be a tormentour of the SainctsSaints of God, to lay holde vpō thē as did the Scribes ād Phariſies, the …
With rule
Art thou charged to be a tormentour of the SainctsSaints of God, to lay holde vpō thē as did the Scribes ād Phariſies, the …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 87 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

Printed
Hereticall translation against the honour of SAINCTSSAINTS, namely of our B. LADIE.
With rule
Hereticall translation against the honour of SAINCTSSAINTS, namely of our B. LADIE.
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 460 · Open in the reader

Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed A10250

Printed
PRINCIPLES VPON THE ARTICLE, I BELEEVE THAT THERE IS A COMMVNION OF SAINCTSSAINTS. LI.
With rule
PRINCIPLES VPON THE ARTICLE, I BELEEVE THAT THERE IS A COMMVNION OF SAINCTSSAINTS. LI.
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 144 · Open in the reader

The Communion of Saints A12475

Printed
OPEN WICKED, HYPOCRITES, SAINCTSSAINTS, …icentious and profane livers▪ professed enimies of the law of the Lord. Iob. 21. 14. 15. outwardly …
With rule
OPEN WICKED, HYPOCRITES, SAINCTSSAINTS, …icentious and profane livers▪ professed enimies of the law of the Lord. Iob. 21. 14. 15. outwardly …
Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · Open in the reader