Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11736 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

singulersingular

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

Puritas changed it: 766 times in 209 works
Consistency: 99.4% (766 of 770)
Reach if approved: ~809 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: singular
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 770 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (766 changes in 209 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 766)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it is well taught and well vnderſtand, it ioyneth mens hearts together with a ſingulersingular concord: but when men reiect godly and ſincere doctrine, and embrace errors, this vnitie …
With rule
… it is well taught and well vnderſtand, it ioyneth mens hearts together with a ſingulersingular concord: but when men reiect godly and ſincere doctrine, and embrace errors, this vnitie …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Galatians · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
FOurthelye and finally forasmuche as the word of God is the singulersingular and vnspeakeable gift of God, geuen of him to be a lantarne to oure …
With rule
FOurthelye and finally forasmuche as the word of God is the singulersingular and vnspeakeable gift of God, geuen of him to be a lantarne to oure …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader
Printed
… greatly alowed the order of the Iesuites, and gaue vnto it many great and singulersingular priueleges, commaundyng the Monkes of that order to weare a white kyrtle & a russet …
With rule
… greatly alowed the order of the Iesuites, and gaue vnto it many great and singulersingular priueleges, commaundyng the Monkes of that order to weare a white kyrtle & a russet …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… thankes be giuen to God, I neuer yet reſted to defend trouth wyth a ſingulersingular zeale, and to confute theſe monſtrous lies, which euermore troubled my mynde: yet for …
With rule
… thankes be giuen to God, I neuer yet reſted to defend trouth wyth a ſingulersingular zeale, and to confute theſe monſtrous lies, which euermore troubled my mynde: yet for …
Philipp Melanchthon · History of Three Renowned Reformers · Open in the reader
Printed
… No, not ſo much as begin to doe anye thing, but by a certaine ſingulersingular and ſpeciall grace of God. Yea there neuer hath bine or ſhall be a …
With rule
… No, not ſo much as begin to doe anye thing, but by a certaine ſingulersingular and ſpeciall grace of God. Yea there neuer hath bine or ſhall be a …
Theodore Beza · A Little Catechism 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
De libertatibus allocandis, for one whether a ſingulersingular perſon, Burgis, Citizen, or other, or a body corporate, empleaded before the Kings Iuſtices …
With rule
De libertatibus allocandis, for one whether a ſingulersingular perſon, Burgis, Citizen, or other, or a body corporate, empleaded before the Kings Iuſtices …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 492 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sayeth not, but Stapleton absurdly gathereth. For Augustine calleth the death of Christe the singulersingular and onely true sacrifice. Cont. advers. leg. & proph. lib. 1, Cap. 18. Therefore the communion was …
With rule
… sayeth not, but Stapleton absurdly gathereth. For Augustine calleth the death of Christe the singulersingular and onely true sacrifice. Cont. advers. leg. & proph. lib. 1, Cap. 18. Therefore the communion was …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo to be. This place ha… bin chiefly vſed of the Ancients, & it is … ſingulersingular, againſt the hereſie of the Mo… thelits, who held that Chriſte had in hi …
With rule
… ſo to be. This place ha… bin chiefly vſed of the Ancients, & it is … ſingulersingular, againſt the hereſie of the Mo… thelits, who held that Chriſte had in hi …
Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 58 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
… not common and ordinary; but peculiar and proper to a godly person. Mat. 5, 47. What SingulerSingular thing doe yee? Heere it is taken in good part; But in the euill …
With rule
… not common and ordinary; but peculiar and proper to a godly person. Mat. 5, 47. What SingulerSingular thing doe yee? Heere it is taken in good part; But in the euill …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 446 · Open in the reader
Printed
2 That which is excellent and pretious. 1. Thess. 5, 13. That yee haue them in SingulerSingular loue for their worke sake.
With rule
2 That which is excellent and pretious. 1. Thess. 5, 13. That yee haue them in SingulerSingular loue for their worke sake.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 447 · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

Printed
… Biſhopes / coulde not moue. bothe S. Paule / and Apollos / and the 318. Biſhopes / were off SingulerSingular knowledge in thoſe thinges / wherin they were aided / and deſired to be aided / off …
With rule
… Biſhopes / coulde not moue. bothe S. Paule / and Apollos / and the 318. Biſhopes / were off SingulerSingular knowledge in thoſe thinges / wherin they were aided / and deſired to be aided / off …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CXXX · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

Printed
SingulerSingular for plural. 109. b
With rule
SingulerSingular for plural. 109. b
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader