Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11696 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

professourprofessor

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

Puritas changed it: 905 times in 403 works
Consistency: 99.7% (905 of 907)
Reach if approved: ~953 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: professor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 907 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (905 changes in 403 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 905)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a speech so grosly sauouring of vncouth Atheisme. Tell me, tell me, ô godlesse professourprofessor, thinking and speaking thus: Wherefore were the foules of the aire, the fishes of …
With rule
… a speech so grosly sauouring of vncouth Atheisme. Tell me, tell me, ô godlesse professourprofessor, thinking and speaking thus: Wherefore were the foules of the aire, the fishes of …
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 266 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of man. Vpon the mentiō of this chice of David, a learned and zealous ProfeſſourProfessor not long ſince ſpeaking out of this place for maintenance of your religion againſt …
With rule
… of man. Vpon the mentiō of this chice of David, a learned and zealous ProfeſſourProfessor not long ſince ſpeaking out of this place for maintenance of your religion againſt …
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
The second thing is, that the professourprofessor of the Gospell, diligently trie and examine himselfe, whether he is in the state …
With rule
The second thing is, that the professourprofessor of the Gospell, diligently trie and examine himselfe, whether he is in the state …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 584 · Open in the reader
Printed
Learned Doctor William Whitaker, Regius ProfessourProfessor of Divinity in Cambridge, in his answer to Wm. Reynolds the Rhemist. Cambridge, 1590, Pag …
With rule
Learned Doctor William Whitaker, Regius ProfessourProfessor of Divinity in Cambridge, in his answer to Wm. Reynolds the Rhemist. Cambridge, 1590, Pag …
William Prynne · Queries Propounded to the Bowers · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what a by word doth many a mans vncleanneſſe make him? nay many a profeſſourprofessor of good hope, though he haue repented, yet what a brand of contempt and …
With rule
… what a by word doth many a mans vncleanneſſe make him? nay many a profeſſourprofessor of good hope, though he haue repented, yet what a brand of contempt and …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 756 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the richest endowments of Grace and Learning: Witnesse her Letters to that Learned ProfessourProfessor in our famous Vniuersitie, worthy to be kept as a Monument of her truly …
With rule
… with the richest endowments of Grace and Learning: Witnesse her Letters to that Learned ProfessourProfessor in our famous Vniuersitie, worthy to be kept as a Monument of her truly …
Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he alſo appeare with him in glory, Coloſſ. 3. 4. Now take an hypocrite, and temporary profeſſourprofessor at the beſt, and it wil ſoone appeare that hee growes none of theſe …
With rule
… he alſo appeare with him in glory, Coloſſ. 3. 4. Now take an hypocrite, and temporary profeſſourprofessor at the beſt, and it wil ſoone appeare that hee growes none of theſe …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. The Temporary ProfeſſourProfessor.
With rule
3. The Temporary ProfeſſourProfessor.
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 213 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Gospel Glass A61908

Printed
PRofeſſourProfessor, In this neceſſary and ſeaſonable Goſpel-Glaſs, there are many ſad, but uſeful Sights …
With rule
PRofeſſourProfessor, In this neceſſary and ſeaſonable Goſpel-Glaſs, there are many ſad, but uſeful Sights …
Lewis Stuckley · A Gospel Glass · Open in the reader