Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11615 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bishoprickebishopric

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

Puritas changed it: 721 times in 167 works
Consistency: 100% (721 of 721)
Reach if approved: ~758 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bishopric
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 721 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (721 changes in 167 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 721)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… was there convicted in diſputation by Cyrell; was for his error depriued of his BiſhoprickeBishopric, lurked after that foure yeares in a monaſtery neere vnto Antiochia; was thence by …
With rule
… was there convicted in diſputation by Cyrell; was for his error depriued of his BiſhoprickeBishopric, lurked after that foure yeares in a monaſtery neere vnto Antiochia; was thence by …
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pride, and vaine glory, and love of the world, that draws them to a BishoprickeBishopric. Nor Secondly, is it an outward calling from men. For as in respect of …
With rule
… pride, and vaine glory, and love of the world, that draws them to a BishoprickeBishopric. Nor Secondly, is it an outward calling from men. For as in respect of …
William Prynne · Lord Bishops None of the Lords Bishops · Open in the reader
Printed
… Firſt I exhort that you withdraw not your ſelfe from your calling, (to the BiſhoprickeBishopric:) which is offered you, in regard of the wonderfull penury of able Miniſters: Whence …
With rule
… Firſt I exhort that you withdraw not your ſelfe from your calling, (to the BiſhoprickeBishopric:) which is offered you, in regard of the wonderfull penury of able Miniſters: Whence …
John Sprint · Showing the Necessity of Conformity · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
… toucheth the Popes peremptorie authoritie. And after vpon theſe wordes: Let another take his BiſhoprickeBishopric, he calls his biſhopprick, his Apoſtolical office or functiō, not an empire or a …
With rule
… toucheth the Popes peremptorie authoritie. And after vpon theſe wordes: Let another take his BiſhoprickeBishopric, he calls his biſhopprick, his Apoſtolical office or functiō, not an empire or a …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iohn the 11. was deposed by Otho the Emperour, and afterward being restored to his BishoprickeBishopric was taken and slaine in adulterie. Iohn 12. was cast into prison. Iohn the 17. had …
With rule
… Iohn the 11. was deposed by Otho the Emperour, and afterward being restored to his BishoprickeBishopric was taken and slaine in adulterie. Iohn 12. was cast into prison. Iohn the 17. had …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abide, that a young scholler shoulde by Saint Paules rule be excluded from a BishoprickeBishopric, and therefore you mocke the reader with a Neophyte. Wee knowe, that in the …
With rule
… abide, that a young scholler shoulde by Saint Paules rule be excluded from a BishoprickeBishopric, and therefore you mocke the reader with a Neophyte. Wee knowe, that in the …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 393 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it should be adulterye if a man in his life time shoulde forsake his bishoprickebishopric or Church, wresting this place of Paule vnto it: The wyfe is bound to …
With rule
… it should be adulterye if a man in his life time shoulde forsake his bishoprickebishopric or Church, wresting this place of Paule vnto it: The wyfe is bound to …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… to any other miniſtry, then the miniſtry of the word, nor is the Apoſtolicall BiſhoprickeBishopric, and whole order Eccleſiaſticall, called and inſtituted otherwiſe, than to the miniſtry of the …
With rule
… to any other miniſtry, then the miniſtry of the word, nor is the Apoſtolicall BiſhoprickeBishopric, and whole order Eccleſiaſticall, called and inſtituted otherwiſe, than to the miniſtry of the …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 6 · 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.