Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12006 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

releeuerelieve

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

Puritas changed it: 563 times in 206 works
Consistency: 99.4% (563 of 566)
Reach if approved: ~596 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: relieve
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 567 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (563 changes in 206 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 563)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Lord had ſaid; As thou wouldeſt haue me to Bleſſe thee: So helpe thou & releeuerelieve him that is decayed.
With rule
… Lord had ſaid; As thou wouldeſt haue me to Bleſſe thee: So helpe thou & releeuerelieve him that is decayed.
Gabriel Powel · Theological and Scholastical Positions Concerning Usury · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to vs, to shew mercy to his; to feed the hungry, succour the weake, releeuerelieve the poore, & make vs friends of our vnrighteous Mammon by charity? Alasse! the world …
With rule
… to vs, to shew mercy to his; to feed the hungry, succour the weake, releeuerelieve the poore, & make vs friends of our vnrighteous Mammon by charity? Alasse! the world …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… looke vpon the creatures, they are in ſuch caſe as that they can not releeuerelieve yée, looke for nothing new among them that may content yée, & ſettle your mind …
With rule
… looke vpon the creatures, they are in ſuch caſe as that they can not releeuerelieve yée, looke for nothing new among them that may content yée, & ſettle your mind …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… naked, to feed the hungry, to viſit the ſicke and impriſoned, to comfort and releeuerelieve them: if this pitty dwelleth not in me, no piety can poſſeſſe mee: Lord …
With rule
… naked, to feed the hungry, to viſit the ſicke and impriſoned, to comfort and releeuerelieve them: if this pitty dwelleth not in me, no piety can poſſeſſe mee: Lord …
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 128 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that it bereaveth thē for the time of all perceavance of that which should releeuerelieve them and be their comfort, yea it taketh all remembrance from them, even of …
With rule
… that it bereaveth thē for the time of all perceavance of that which should releeuerelieve them and be their comfort, yea it taketh all remembrance from them, even of …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith in the Elect · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… impatiency, vve yeeld the buckler, and leaue awhile claſping that promiſe which onely can releeuerelieve vs. But the anſwer is, by learning what it is to haue true faith …
With rule
… impatiency, vve yeeld the buckler, and leaue awhile claſping that promiſe which onely can releeuerelieve vs. But the anſwer is, by learning what it is to haue true faith …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſufficient to maintaine them, but abundance of riches, ſo that they haue wherewith to releeuerelieve other largely, who ſtand in neede.
With rule
… ſufficient to maintaine them, but abundance of riches, ſo that they haue wherewith to releeuerelieve other largely, who ſtand in neede.
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Paul, that if we be to doe any dutie to our brethren, as to releeuerelieve them, we must doe it with chearefulnesse: for hee laboureth to perswade the Corinthians …
With rule
… Paul, that if we be to doe any dutie to our brethren, as to releeuerelieve them, we must doe it with chearefulnesse: for hee laboureth to perswade the Corinthians …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 37 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Court of Conscience A04629

Printed
… make their moane to vs, others will heare vs make our moane to them. ReleeueRelieve we the wants of others, others will releeuerelieve ours; Mourne for others troubles, others …
With rule
… make their moane to vs, others will heare vs make our moane to them. ReleeueRelieve we the wants of others, others will releeuerelieve ours; Mourne for others troubles, others …
Thomas Barnes · The Court of Conscience · p. 147 · Open in the reader