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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12001 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pillerpillar

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

Puritas changed it
684 times in 252 works
Consistency
100% (684 of 684)
Reach if approved
~719 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: pillar
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
684 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (684 changes in 252 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 684)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Greenwood hauing thus played the man in erecting (as he ſuppoſeth) ſo mighty a pillerpillar, that cannot be ſhaken, could content himſelf to go no further. I might end …
    With rule
    … Greenwood hauing thus played the man in erecting (as he ſuppoſeth) ſo mighty a pillerpillar, that cannot be ſhaken, could content himſelf to go no further. I might end …

    George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 83 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … England, of saynt Lewes mantil in the graye fryers of Paris, of the hollowe pillerpillar of our Lordes lengthe in Lyons, of the good Godlye father that cons…uprated …
    With rule
    … England, of saynt Lewes mantil in the graye fryers of Paris, of the hollowe pillerpillar of our Lordes lengthe in Lyons, of the good Godlye father that cons…uprated …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … partes of Nobilitie whiche erſte wee mencioned: but they ioyne hereto Ieſus Chriſt, the pillerpillar, creſt, and perfection of al Nobillty: nought worth are all theſe whiche moſte are …
    With rule
    … partes of Nobilitie whiche erſte wee mencioned: but they ioyne hereto Ieſus Chriſt, the pillerpillar, creſt, and perfection of al Nobillty: nought worth are all theſe whiche moſte are …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … or Church make them Authentick or the Word of God, no more then a PillerPillar maketh a proclamation to bee the Kings vvill and pleasure, because it stands upon …
    With rule
    … or Church make them Authentick or the Word of God, no more then a PillerPillar maketh a proclamation to bee the Kings vvill and pleasure, because it stands upon …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … shall geue thee the crowne of life. Him that ouercommeth will I make a pillerpillar in the temple of my God, and he shal go no more out. &c …
    With rule
    … shall geue thee the crowne of life. Him that ouercommeth will I make a pillerpillar in the temple of my God, and he shal go no more out. &c …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 503 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … righteouſneſſe. This point becauſe it is a fundamentall principle, and a maine ground and pillerpillar of our religion, and not a little controuerted betweene the church of Rome and …
    With rule
    … righteouſneſſe. This point becauſe it is a fundamentall principle, and a maine ground and pillerpillar of our religion, and not a little controuerted betweene the church of Rome and …

    Thomas Newhouse · Sermon in Norwich · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … unto himselfe, and to our eternall and glorious rest? which is not onely a pillerpillar of fire, or cloud, to point out the way unto us, but a store …
    With rule
    … unto himselfe, and to our eternall and glorious rest? which is not onely a pillerpillar of fire, or cloud, to point out the way unto us, but a store …

    Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Him that ouercommeth will I make a pillerpillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and …
    With rule
    Him that ouercommeth will I make a pillerpillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · 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.