Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11856 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heretickeheretic

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

Puritas changed it: 995 times in 288 works
Consistency: 100% (995 of 995)
Reach if approved: ~1,045 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heretic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 995 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (995 changes in 288 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 995)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the naturall sonne of Mary the virgin, that it is won der that any HeretickeHeretic can haue so w…oryshe a forehead once to denye i…. Thys rodde and …
With rule
… the naturall sonne of Mary the virgin, that it is won der that any HeretickeHeretic can haue so w…oryshe a forehead once to denye i…. Thys rodde and …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
Moreouer the Papiſt or any heretickeheretic may eaſilie peruert them, vvho haue no better knowledge or iudgement, yea they may …
With rule
Moreouer the Papiſt or any heretickeheretic may eaſilie peruert them, vvho haue no better knowledge or iudgement, yea they may …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 214 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that to the cleane all things were cleane. And Eusebius recordes, that Montanus the heretickeheretic was the first that prescribed solemne and set lawes of fasting. And whereas this …
With rule
… that to the cleane all things were cleane. And Eusebius recordes, that Montanus the heretickeheretic was the first that prescribed solemne and set lawes of fasting. And whereas this …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 850 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as some compassionate Iudge, that must censure (by the law of his Countrey) an HeretickeHeretic, striues first with arguments of reason to conuert him, that arguments of yron and …
With rule
… as some compassionate Iudge, that must censure (by the law of his Countrey) an HeretickeHeretic, striues first with arguments of reason to conuert him, that arguments of yron and …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… likewise answered them then, as wee doe these now. There is nothing (saith the HeretickeHeretic) that God cannot doe. Wee say, that all things are possible with God. And …
With rule
… likewise answered them then, as wee doe these now. There is nothing (saith the HeretickeHeretic) that God cannot doe. Wee say, that all things are possible with God. And …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moſt vngodly doings, hauing Scripture and reaſons as ready at command as Arrius the heretickeheretic, and as the Deuill the Father of cauils and lyes.
With rule
… moſt vngodly doings, hauing Scripture and reaſons as ready at command as Arrius the heretickeheretic, and as the Deuill the Father of cauils and lyes.
Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Pope Pius Quintus (by his bull declaratory) pronounced our gracious and Chriſtian Queene an heretickeheretic, and excommunicated all ſuch as yeeld obedience to her. If then the Popes authority …
With rule
… Pope Pius Quintus (by his bull declaratory) pronounced our gracious and Chriſtian Queene an heretickeheretic, and excommunicated all ſuch as yeeld obedience to her. If then the Popes authority …
James Balmford · Concerning the Lords Day, State of the Church of Rome, Execution of Priests · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doctrines. (Ille haereticum interficit, qui haereticum non patitur, ſaith S. Ierome, He killeth an heretickeheretic, that ſuffers him no longer to be an heretickeheretic.) Eſpecially Prieſts ſhould we be …
With rule
… doctrines. (Ille haereticum interficit, qui haereticum non patitur, ſaith S. Ierome, He killeth an heretickeheretic, that ſuffers him no longer to be an heretickeheretic.) Eſpecially Prieſts ſhould we be …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 24 · 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.