Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11591 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

enimieenemy

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

Puritas changed it: 638 times in 182 works
Consistency: 97.4% (638 of 655)
Reach if approved: ~688 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: enemy
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 655 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (638 changes in 182 works, 97.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 638)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bloud of warre in peace, & to do that hurt to a brother, which an enimieenemy doth to an enimieenemy, is it not vnnaturall? To this there is nothing to …
With rule
… bloud of warre in peace, & to do that hurt to a brother, which an enimieenemy doth to an enimieenemy, is it not vnnaturall? To this there is nothing to …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſéeing it bringeth with it innumerable euils. There ſhall be alſo ſome Prince, an enimieenemy to the Countrey, who ſo ofte as he can not other wayes defende hys …
With rule
… ſéeing it bringeth with it innumerable euils. There ſhall be alſo ſome Prince, an enimieenemy to the Countrey, who ſo ofte as he can not other wayes defende hys …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… anie man in the world offend this God, and make him to be mine enimieenemy? can anie Prince in the world give me eternall life, but he onely? why …
With rule
… anie man in the world offend this God, and make him to be mine enimieenemy? can anie Prince in the world give me eternall life, but he onely? why …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the children of the kingdome: the tares are the children of the wicked. The enimieenemy is the diuell, The haruest is the ende of the worlde, The … pers are …
With rule
… the children of the kingdome: the tares are the children of the wicked. The enimieenemy is the diuell, The haruest is the ende of the worlde, The … pers are …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… earned thy loue and bountie this shall doe it; accuse him to be thine enimieenemy, and so excuse thy selfe from being his friend: it is hard if the …
With rule
… earned thy loue and bountie this shall doe it; accuse him to be thine enimieenemy, and so excuse thy selfe from being his friend: it is hard if the …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader
Printed
… for his owne: that I make God my friend, and nothing can bee mine enimieenemy, and accoumpt all things vaine to ſerue God ſincerely. Philip. 3.8. Romans. 8.34.
With rule
… for his owne: that I make God my friend, and nothing can bee mine enimieenemy, and accoumpt all things vaine to ſerue God ſincerely. Philip. 3.8. Romans. 8.34.
Robert Hill · Christs Prayer Expounded · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Satan is the moſt violent adverſarie: that the Church (being aſſured againſt the worſt enimieenemy) may be confirmed and comforted againſt all other whatſoever, therefore kat' exochèn Hades heere …
With rule
… Satan is the moſt violent adverſarie: that the Church (being aſſured againſt the worſt enimieenemy) may be confirmed and comforted againſt all other whatſoever, therefore kat' exochèn Hades heere …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… place of the birth; for God never taketh off such an high and Arch-enimieenemy to his name, but upon the very pinacle of some high exploit; Instance Shebna …
With rule
… place of the birth; for God never taketh off such an high and Arch-enimieenemy to his name, but upon the very pinacle of some high exploit; Instance Shebna …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 162 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (17)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 are listed here. 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Heaven and Earth Reconciled A02054

Printed
… The holy Ghost cannot abide delayes: We may giue warning too late, when the EnimieEnemy hath surprised the Citie. It was the Maister of the Feastes charge, Goe out …
With rule
… The holy Ghost cannot abide delayes: We may giue warning too late, when the EnimieEnemy hath surprised the Citie. It was the Maister of the Feastes charge, Goe out …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · Open in the reader

Appeal to the Parliament A05285

Printed
… Enimies, in searching out, and punishing our domesticke underminers, in providing forces against the EnimieEnemy, for our selves and our Allies, in taking course with the mothes hornetts & Caterpillars …
With rule
… Enimies, in searching out, and punishing our domesticke underminers, in providing forces against the EnimieEnemy, for our selves and our Allies, in taking course with the mothes hornetts & Caterpillars …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 155 · Open in the reader

Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline A13880

Printed
… ſhewe in any part of the worlde anie fielde of the Lordes, where the EnimieEnemy ſoweth not tares amongſt the wheate, or anie flooore where the wheate is not …
With rule
… ſhewe in any part of the worlde anie fielde of the Lordes, where the EnimieEnemy ſoweth not tares amongſt the wheate, or anie flooore where the wheate is not …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 182 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse A17001

Printed
… SO THENCE, WAS THE REBELLION TO ARISE: MAN OF SIN; APOLLYON, SONNE OF PERDITION; ENIMIEENEMY; LAVLESSE; KING OF LOCVSTS; THE NEW ANTIOCHVS, EXALTING HIM SELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS …
With rule
… SO THENCE, WAS THE REBELLION TO ARISE: MAN OF SIN; APOLLYON, SONNE OF PERDITION; ENIMIEENEMY; LAVLESSE; KING OF LOCVSTS; THE NEW ANTIOCHVS, EXALTING HIM SELFE ABOVE ALL THAT IS …
Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 95 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
55. b 30.40. Looke EnimieEnemy and Satan.
With rule
55. b 30.40. Looke EnimieEnemy and Satan.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
EnimieEnemy.
With rule
EnimieEnemy.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
Vnder this worde EnimieEnemy, allsuch as haue not bin taught by Gods worde to yeelde themselues teachable vnto …
With rule
Vnder this worde EnimieEnemy, allsuch as haue not bin taught by Gods worde to yeelde themselues teachable vnto …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
In what cases God declareth himselfe to be our mortall EnimieEnemy.
With rule
In what cases God declareth himselfe to be our mortall EnimieEnemy.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
Of a great EnimieEnemy that we haue much mightier than Pharao, and of other enemies of ours.
With rule
Of a great EnimieEnemy that we haue much mightier than Pharao, and of other enemies of ours.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

A Golden Topaz A65629

Printed
… her: The Injurie of a friend doth ſtick cloſer then the wrong of an EnimieEnemy. David could ſay, had it been an EnimieEnemy, that had done me this wrong …
With rule
… her: The Injurie of a friend doth ſtick cloſer then the wrong of an EnimieEnemy. David could ſay, had it been an EnimieEnemy, that had done me this wrong …
Francis Whiddon · A Golden Topaz · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cloſer then the wrong of an EnimieEnemy. David could ſay, had it been an EnimieEnemy, that had done me this wrong, I could have borne it, but it was …
With rule
… cloſer then the wrong of an EnimieEnemy. David could ſay, had it been an EnimieEnemy, that had done me this wrong, I could have borne it, but it was …
Francis Whiddon · A Golden Topaz · p. 113 · Open in the reader