Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11772 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

labourerlaborer

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

Puritas changed it: 1,378 times in 782 works
Consistency: 100% (1,378 of 1,378)
Reach if approved: ~1,448 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: labourer
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,378 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,378 changes in 782 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,378)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and vncomfortable, and loth to come neere death for a ſeaſon. Euen as the LabourerLaborer in the extreame heat of the day being pained with toyle and the weather …
With rule
… and vncomfortable, and loth to come neere death for a ſeaſon. Euen as the LabourerLaborer in the extreame heat of the day being pained with toyle and the weather …
John Mayer · A Pattern for Women · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and not onely deſire the fleece: wages are due to the worke: the painfull labourerlaborer ſhould reape the profit; and not the idle loiterer.
With rule
… and not onely deſire the fleece: wages are due to the worke: the painfull labourerlaborer ſhould reape the profit; and not the idle loiterer.
Richard Bernard · The Faithful Shepherd · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to seeke their owne good onely: for so saith the Master to the enuious labourerlaborer, Matth. 20. 15. Is thine eye euill, because I am good? that is, art thou enuious …
With rule
… to seeke their owne good onely: for so saith the Master to the enuious labourerlaborer, Matth. 20. 15. Is thine eye euill, because I am good? that is, art thou enuious …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 456 · Open in the reader
Printed
… height of honour and wealth, repines at nothing more, then to see the hungry labourerlaborer feede on a crust, whiles his own nice and queasie stomacke (still weary of …
With rule
… height of honour and wealth, repines at nothing more, then to see the hungry labourerlaborer feede on a crust, whiles his own nice and queasie stomacke (still weary of …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have yet no other maintenance, then what they receive from this one poore day-labourerlaborer, the stomacke? but most of all; is it not a glasse of Gods bounty …
With rule
… have yet no other maintenance, then what they receive from this one poore day-labourerlaborer, the stomacke? but most of all; is it not a glasse of Gods bounty …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many a poore ſoule might bee comforted, many a priſoner ranſomed, many a decaied labourerlaborer, and induſtrious husbandman reſtored, many a painfull Student in the Vniuerſitie maintained, many an …
With rule
… many a poore ſoule might bee comforted, many a priſoner ranſomed, many a decaied labourerlaborer, and induſtrious husbandman reſtored, many a painfull Student in the Vniuerſitie maintained, many an …
Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaith, Thou ſhalt not mouſell the oxe that treadeth out the corne: and, The labourerlaborer is vvorthy of his reward. 1 Tim. 5, 17, 18. vvith Deu. 25, 4. 1 Cor. 9, 8, 9, 10. Mat. 10, 10.
With rule
… ſaith, Thou ſhalt not mouſell the oxe that treadeth out the corne: and, The labourerlaborer is vvorthy of his reward. 1 Tim. 5, 17, 18. vvith Deu. 25, 4. 1 Cor. 9, 8, 9, 10. Mat. 10, 10.
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 317 · Open in the reader
Printed
HE is no earneſt labourerlaborer, no wakefull perſon, but a ſluggard and ſleper, which careth not for his labour …
With rule
HE is no earneſt labourerlaborer, no wakefull perſon, but a ſluggard and ſleper, which careth not for his labour …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · 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.