Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11636 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

successoursuccessor

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

Puritas changed it: 1,194 times in 430 works
Consistency: 100% (1,194 of 1,194)
Reach if approved: ~1,256 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: successor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,195 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,194 changes in 430 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,194)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Bot his SucceſſourSuccessor gude Pope …hone
With rule
Bot his SucceſſourSuccessor gude Pope …hone
David Lindsay · Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… Christendome, but also the moste holie Father in yearth, Goddes Uicar in yearth, Peters SuccessourSuccessor in yearth, and Heade of the Churche in yearth. &c.
With rule
… Christendome, but also the moste holie Father in yearth, Goddes Uicar in yearth, Peters SuccessourSuccessor in yearth, and Heade of the Churche in yearth. &c.
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sauiour Chriſt, hee paide tribute and pollemonie vnto Caeſar. But the Pope the counterfeit ſucceſſoursuccessor of Peter, refuſeth no kinde of honour euen to the kiſſing of his feete …
With rule
… Sauiour Chriſt, hee paide tribute and pollemonie vnto Caeſar. But the Pope the counterfeit ſucceſſoursuccessor of Peter, refuſeth no kinde of honour euen to the kiſſing of his feete …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… becauſe that prieſthood was then at an end: and Chriſt cannot be called the ſucceſſoursuccessor of Aaron vnleſſe Iudaiſme be agayne eſtabliſhed: wherefore alſo he is ſayd to be …
With rule
… becauſe that prieſthood was then at an end: and Chriſt cannot be called the ſucceſſoursuccessor of Aaron vnleſſe Iudaiſme be agayne eſtabliſhed: wherefore alſo he is ſayd to be …
Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Kingdome of Heavē, were given to Peter. But the Pope is Peter's SuccessourSuccessor. Ergo, doe you requyre mee, (Philomathes) to make anie aunswere to these your Man …
With rule
… of the Kingdome of Heavē, were given to Peter. But the Pope is Peter's SuccessourSuccessor. Ergo, doe you requyre mee, (Philomathes) to make anie aunswere to these your Man …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you, alway unto the end of the World, with you in your selves and successoursuccessor, persons and posterity: Indeed the Church may want things of Luster, never of Essence …
With rule
… you, alway unto the end of the World, with you in your selves and successoursuccessor, persons and posterity: Indeed the Church may want things of Luster, never of Essence …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to God by prayer and faſting, to direct them in the choice of a ſucceſſoursuccessor in the roome of him that fell.
With rule
… to God by prayer and faſting, to direct them in the choice of a ſucceſſoursuccessor in the roome of him that fell.
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Boniface who had thus beguiled the simple man, and now gat to be his successoursuccessor, fearing least y^e people woulde followe the same Celestine as Pope, & defye him, he …
With rule
… Boniface who had thus beguiled the simple man, and now gat to be his successoursuccessor, fearing least y^e people woulde followe the same Celestine as Pope, & defye him, he …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

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None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.