Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11695 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

persecuterspersecutors

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

Puritas changed it: 984 times in 417 works
Consistency: 100% (984 of 984)
Reach if approved: ~1,034 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 984 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (984 changes in 417 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 984)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the mor lif and blood it gets When the fearfull sentence pronounced against the persecuterspersecutors of the truth is executed vpon them, I would then gladly know, whether they …
With rule
… the mor lif and blood it gets When the fearfull sentence pronounced against the persecuterspersecutors of the truth is executed vpon them, I would then gladly know, whether they …
Martin Marprelate · Protestation · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Papists except, and say how can this be, for that you haue beene persecuterspersecutors of their Priests, let me answere once for you, who often aunswere for many …
With rule
… the Papists except, and say how can this be, for that you haue beene persecuterspersecutors of their Priests, let me answere once for you, who often aunswere for many …
William Perkins · The Calling of the Ministry · Open in the reader
Printed
… the first three hundred yeeres after Christ, and suffered with the Churches, under Heathen PersecutersPersecutors, pleaded against all violence for Religion, true or false: affirming that it is of …
With rule
… the first three hundred yeeres after Christ, and suffered with the Churches, under Heathen PersecutersPersecutors, pleaded against all violence for Religion, true or false: affirming that it is of …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… loue. My heart riseth, my veines swell, my bloud boiles within me against thy PersecutersPersecutors. If it were in my power, I would put them all to millions of …
With rule
… loue. My heart riseth, my veines swell, my bloud boiles within me against thy PersecutersPersecutors. If it were in my power, I would put them all to millions of …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 300 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the word, or heare, and doe not obey it: ſuch alſo as bée perſecuterspersecutors of the ſame, all their praiers are turned into ſinne, they offer the ſacrifice …
With rule
… of the word, or heare, and doe not obey it: ſuch alſo as bée perſecuterspersecutors of the ſame, all their praiers are turned into ſinne, they offer the ſacrifice …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… hys flocke of true beleuers, hath had alwaies their wolues Math x. their blasphemers, persecuterspersecutors, and slaunderers, that they myght bryng fourth godly frutes in pacyēt sufferaūce For loke …
With rule
… hys flocke of true beleuers, hath had alwaies their wolues Math x. their blasphemers, persecuterspersecutors, and slaunderers, that they myght bryng fourth godly frutes in pacyēt sufferaūce For loke …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… Nay, the ſting of death, the malice of Satan, the rage of aduerſaries and perſecuterspersecutors; nay, I may ſay, the diſpleaſure of God for our ſinne, hauing firſt hit …
With rule
… Nay, the ſting of death, the malice of Satan, the rage of aduerſaries and perſecuterspersecutors; nay, I may ſay, the diſpleaſure of God for our ſinne, hauing firſt hit …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
Such shall be the ende of all cruell persecuterspersecutors, their raigne shal be short their ende miserable, & their name shall be left in …
With rule
Such shall be the ende of all cruell persecuterspersecutors, their raigne shal be short their ende miserable, & their name shall be left in …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · p. 43 · 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.