Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11934 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

predecessourspredecessors

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

Puritas changed it: 781 times in 351 works
Consistency: 100% (781 of 781)
Reach if approved: ~821 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: predecessors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 781 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (781 changes in 351 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 781)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that becomen an whole perfyght kynge within his own… realme farre aboue all his predecessourspredecessors / so that he maye in conclusyon ouerthrowe her clerelye. For as yet the dredefull …
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… that becomen an whole perfyght kynge within his own… realme farre aboue all his predecessourspredecessors / so that he maye in conclusyon ouerthrowe her clerelye. For as yet the dredefull …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… her peace ſhe wil ſhine as a ſtar in the Catalogue of her honorable predeceſſourspredecessors, and for her learning and wiſedome wil be as a Phenix renowned by many …
With rule
… her peace ſhe wil ſhine as a ſtar in the Catalogue of her honorable predeceſſourspredecessors, and for her learning and wiſedome wil be as a Phenix renowned by many …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… like as the graſſe and floure of the field. You know one of your PredeceſſoursPredecessors, who left off his Biſhoprick, as too heavy a burden for him. How ſhould …
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… like as the graſſe and floure of the field. You know one of your PredeceſſoursPredecessors, who left off his Biſhoprick, as too heavy a burden for him. How ſhould …
Randal Bate · Certain Observations · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… halter. For these holy and charitable Fathers crye out with their forefathers and Popelike predecessourspredecessors: Non licet nobis interficere quenquam. It is not lawful for vs to put any …
With rule
… halter. For these holy and charitable Fathers crye out with their forefathers and Popelike predecessourspredecessors: Non licet nobis interficere quenquam. It is not lawful for vs to put any …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… this head before? S. Gregorie himselfe will satisfie vs. None, saith he, of my predecessourspredecessors, the Bishops of Rome, did euer assume or challenge to himselfe the name of …
With rule
… this head before? S. Gregorie himselfe will satisfie vs. None, saith he, of my predecessourspredecessors, the Bishops of Rome, did euer assume or challenge to himselfe the name of …
John Phillips · The Way to Heaven · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… what advantage may be taken thence agaynst many grounds of popery, doe crosse their predecessourspredecessors herein with seely reasons, such as where of the b…st would inferre more …
With rule
… what advantage may be taken thence agaynst many grounds of popery, doe crosse their predecessourspredecessors herein with seely reasons, such as where of the b…st would inferre more …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the honour to administer, without some solemnity performed to or vpon them, by their predecessourspredecessors: & so we read, that when Isaak conveyed the blessing, and birthright to Iacob, he …
With rule
… the honour to administer, without some solemnity performed to or vpon them, by their predecessourspredecessors: & so we read, that when Isaak conveyed the blessing, and birthright to Iacob, he …
John Robinson · Justification of Separation from the Church of England · p. 415 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, Luk. 1.35. it may appeare how deteſtable that hereſie of Photinus and his predeceſſourspredecessors was, who made our Mediator the Sonne of man by nature, and the Sonne …
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… of God, Luk. 1.35. it may appeare how deteſtable that hereſie of Photinus and his predeceſſourspredecessors was, who made our Mediator the Sonne of man by nature, and the Sonne …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 176 · 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.