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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11909 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cōscienceconscience

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

Puritas changed it
783 times in 351 works
Consistency
95.8% (783 of 817)
Reach if approved
~859 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
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Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
818 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
cōscience (34)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (783 changes in 351 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 783)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … life can and doth giue health & welfare for a fewe yeres, wt securitie of cōscienceconscience & cōtempt of death & all ye furies of ye world: but also after this life …
    With rule
    … life can and doth giue health & welfare for a fewe yeres, wt securitie of cōscienceconscience & cōtempt of death & all ye furies of ye world: but also after this life …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſaid vnto my Lord Rich: beware my Lord, beware, for you do againſt your cōſcienceconscience, &c. And ſo patiently he ended in the Lords quarrell.
    With rule
    … ſaid vnto my Lord Rich: beware my Lord, beware, for you do againſt your cōſcienceconscience, &c. And ſo patiently he ended in the Lords quarrell.

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 156 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſkill, and herein they erre, that when a man for to kéepe a good cōſcienceconscience▪ falleth into dāgers & miſeries in this world, they iudge him a foole. Al their …
    With rule
    … ſkill, and herein they erre, that when a man for to kéepe a good cōſcienceconscience▪ falleth into dāgers & miſeries in this world, they iudge him a foole. Al their …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    57 Of keeping a good cōſcienceconscience in al things. 256
    With rule
    57 Of keeping a good cōſcienceconscience in al things. 256

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his goodneſſe, his love, his truth. When we deal with that man which makes cōſcienceconscience of his word, wee queſtion not the truth of his promiſe, but reſt upon …
    With rule
    … his goodneſſe, his love, his truth. When we deal with that man which makes cōſcienceconscience of his word, wee queſtion not the truth of his promiſe, but reſt upon …

    Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 411 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … high offence againſt Almighty God, if any of us ſhould not with all readines & cōſcienceconscience at all times ſubmit in all things (eyther actively, or paſſively) thereunto.
    With rule
    … high offence againſt Almighty God, if any of us ſhould not with all readines & cōſcienceconscience at all times ſubmit in all things (eyther actively, or paſſively) thereunto.

    Henry Jacob · Confession of the Faith of Certain Christians in England · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … grace and fauor, yt Dauid, Peter, and this thief founde? I trust thy own cōscienceconscience knoweth the contrarie. Permit or suffer we (be they neuer so hie) manifest offenders …
    With rule
    … grace and fauor, yt Dauid, Peter, and this thief founde? I trust thy own cōscienceconscience knoweth the contrarie. Permit or suffer we (be they neuer so hie) manifest offenders …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 205 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … angry countenance againſt the prayer of thy people? verſ. 6. What maketh the wound of cōſcienceconscience ſo unſupportable, but that the Chirurgion denyeth to looke at it, he letteth it …
    With rule
    … angry countenance againſt the prayer of thy people? verſ. 6. What maketh the wound of cōſcienceconscience ſo unſupportable, but that the Chirurgion denyeth to looke at it, he letteth it …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 273 · 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.