Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12061 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

diuelishdevilish

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

Puritas changed it: 600 times in 202 works
Consistency: 94.7% (600 of 633)
Reach if approved: ~665 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devilish
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 633 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (600 changes in 202 works, 94.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 600)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnto them through the miniſtery of his word: or the old ſerpent, by his diueliſhdevilish illuſions. That both cannot rule togither, it is apparant, becauſe they are ſo contrarie …
With rule
… vnto them through the miniſtery of his word: or the old ſerpent, by his diueliſhdevilish illuſions. That both cannot rule togither, it is apparant, becauſe they are ſo contrarie …
John Penry · Equity of a Humble Supplication · Open in the reader
Printed
… hands. That the wicked liuing of the pope and his holy ones is a diueliſhdevilish and heauy yooke of Antichriſt. That men ought not to worſhip images, nor holy …
With rule
… hands. That the wicked liuing of the pope and his holy ones is a diueliſhdevilish and heauy yooke of Antichriſt. That men ought not to worſhip images, nor holy …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 359 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Collets, Gospel, epistle, Gloria in Excelsis, &c. by which reasō I might proue a diuelishdevilish coniuration in which be so many names of God, and good words, to be …
With rule
… Collets, Gospel, epistle, Gloria in Excelsis, &c. by which reasō I might proue a diuelishdevilish coniuration in which be so many names of God, and good words, to be …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their fleſhly hearts, haue corrupted Chriſtes gouernement, & in deſpite thereof haue ſet vp a diueliſhdevilish forgery, and open the gap vnto all prophaneneſſe, &c. O Maſter Barrow, what reproaches …
With rule
… their fleſhly hearts, haue corrupted Chriſtes gouernement, & in deſpite thereof haue ſet vp a diueliſhdevilish forgery, and open the gap vnto all prophaneneſſe, &c. O Maſter Barrow, what reproaches …
George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hildebrand or Gregorie the seuenth, who toke counsaile of euill spirites, and vsed other diuelishdevilish charmes, beside other.
With rule
… Hildebrand or Gregorie the seuenth, who toke counsaile of euill spirites, and vsed other diuelishdevilish charmes, beside other.
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be good and godly, but the abuse of them contrary vnto Gods commaundement, is diuelishdevilish and abhominable. The preacher, and the coniurer vse bothe, the name, and the word …
With rule
… be good and godly, but the abuse of them contrary vnto Gods commaundement, is diuelishdevilish and abhominable. The preacher, and the coniurer vse bothe, the name, and the word …
Thomas Lever · The Right Way from Danger of Sin and Vengeance · Open in the reader
Printed
… offences & falling: which is not the fault of y^e word, but of the malicious & diuelishdevilish hert: As the fault is not in y^e sede, y^t in the way it …
With rule
… offences & falling: which is not the fault of y^e word, but of the malicious & diuelishdevilish hert: As the fault is not in y^e sede, y^t in the way it …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… in this point of Gods decree, as alſo now armed and furniſhed with the diueliſhdevilish art of wrangling. I thinke meete rather here to ſtint my ſpeech, then to …
With rule
… in this point of Gods decree, as alſo now armed and furniſhed with the diueliſhdevilish art of wrangling. I thinke meete rather here to ſtint my ſpeech, then to …
Thomas Newhouse · Certain Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (33)

28 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Retentive to Stay Good Christians A01325

Printed
… the Hauen it selfe, that all the Cables of popishe motiues, or blasts of DiuelishDevilish doctrines shal not be able to stirre our ship from thence: which course God …
With rule
… the Hauen it selfe, that all the Cables of popishe motiues, or blasts of DiuelishDevilish doctrines shal not be able to stirre our ship from thence: which course God …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 134 · Open in the reader

Nature and Use of Lots A01545

Printed
… diuelishdevilish Doctrines: and Viues wrangling Sophistrie (for so I suppose his meaning is) a DiuelishDevilish deuice: so the abuse of these games, in regard of such impieties as accompanie …
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… diuelishdevilish Doctrines: and Viues wrangling Sophistrie (for so I suppose his meaning is) a DiuelishDevilish deuice: so the abuse of these games, in regard of such impieties as accompanie …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 215 · Open in the reader
Printed
… impieties as accompanie it, may well be tearmed, as some haue tearmed it, a DiuelishDevilish inuention, and a seruice of Sathan: and our common Dicers may well be marshalled …
With rule
… impieties as accompanie it, may well be tearmed, as some haue tearmed it, a DiuelishDevilish inuention, and a seruice of Sathan: and our common Dicers may well be marshalled …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 215 · Open in the reader

Sermons Upon Divers Texts A01711

Printed
… and beaſtlie ſinnes, flow & raigne in them, which are ſo manie partakinges of the DiueliſhDevilish nature, let them for ſhame denie that they haue ought wherin they communicate with …
With rule
… and beaſtlie ſinnes, flow & raigne in them, which are ſo manie partakinges of the DiueliſhDevilish nature, let them for ſhame denie that they haue ought wherin they communicate with …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 121 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… for sundry reasons: First, because such words, and actions as these, are Earthly, Carnall, DiuelishDevilish; proceeding from the World, the Flesh, and the Deuill, (who are fraught with Rage …
With rule
… for sundry reasons: First, because such words, and actions as these, are Earthly, Carnall, DiuelishDevilish; proceeding from the World, the Flesh, and the Deuill, (who are fraught with Rage …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… song; because hee may chance in singing to make mention of the names of DiuelishDevilish Idoles; and so insteed of the holy Ghost, the euill Spirit may seise vpon …
With rule
… song; because hee may chance in singing to make mention of the names of DiuelishDevilish Idoles; and so insteed of the holy Ghost, the euill Spirit may seise vpon …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 77 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or leaude, and execrable Vanities of Iupiter, Bacchus, Cupid, Venus, and others of that DiuelishDevilish, and Infernall crew, which pester, and defile all Theaters; which Saint Chrysostome rightly stiles …
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… or leaude, and execrable Vanities of Iupiter, Bacchus, Cupid, Venus, and others of that DiuelishDevilish, and Infernall crew, which pester, and defile all Theaters; which Saint Chrysostome rightly stiles …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 88 · Open in the reader

Two Sermons at Pauls Cross A11458

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… a part. The Qualitie of the Doctrines foretold Vers. 1. Contrary to the Faith, Erronious, DiuelishDevilish; [ Now the Spirit speaketh expressely, that in the later times some shall depart from …
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… a part. The Qualitie of the Doctrines foretold Vers. 1. Contrary to the Faith, Erronious, DiuelishDevilish; [ Now the Spirit speaketh expressely, that in the later times some shall depart from …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a little see, how she hath fulfilled Saint Pauls prediction in teaching lying and DiuelishDevilish doctrines and that with scared consiences and in Hypocrisie, in the two specialities mentioned …
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… a little see, how she hath fulfilled Saint Pauls prediction in teaching lying and DiuelishDevilish doctrines and that with scared consiences and in Hypocrisie, in the two specialities mentioned …
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… broaching of such ridiculous and inconsistent stuffe, as floweth from these two heads of DiuelishDevilish Doctrines; of forbidding to Marry, and commanding to abstaine from Meates?
With rule
… broaching of such ridiculous and inconsistent stuffe, as floweth from these two heads of DiuelishDevilish Doctrines; of forbidding to Marry, and commanding to abstaine from Meates?
Robert Sanderson · Two Sermons at Pauls Cross · p. 20 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

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… so hainous, which with alacritie is not plausibly cōmitted for the maintenance of these DiuelishDevilish toyes and deuices: And albeit that the Persons themselues who offend this way shal …
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… so hainous, which with alacritie is not plausibly cōmitted for the maintenance of these DiuelishDevilish toyes and deuices: And albeit that the Persons themselues who offend this way shal …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion 2 A14216

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… beeing aſſaulted & ſhaken euerie way, what by the caſts & complots of forrainers, what by DiueliſhDevilish practiſes, conſpiracies, & proditions of Domeſticals, that ſome-way at leaſt it might be throwen …
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… beeing aſſaulted & ſhaken euerie way, what by the caſts & complots of forrainers, what by DiueliſhDevilish practiſes, conſpiracies, & proditions of Domeſticals, that ſome-way at leaſt it might be throwen …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion 2 · Open in the reader

Reply Against Gilbert Brown A14926

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… of Diuels by the Spirite of God. And if the profeſsion of ſik a DiueliſhDevilish doctrine be too great an euill, what would the practiſe thereof be? I meane …
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… of Diuels by the Spirite of God. And if the profeſsion of ſik a DiueliſhDevilish doctrine be too great an euill, what would the practiſe thereof be? I meane …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · Open in the reader
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… in the higheſt degree. 1. Whoremongers. 2. Adulterers. 3. Sodomites. 4. Inceſtuous. 5. Foſterers and maintainers of harlots. 6. Tyrants. 7. DiueliſhDevilish, and Sorcerers. 8. In pride paſſing all creatures vnder heauen. 9. Atheiſts without God. 10. Periured. 11. Burreaus …
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… in the higheſt degree. 1. Whoremongers. 2. Adulterers. 3. Sodomites. 4. Inceſtuous. 5. Foſterers and maintainers of harlots. 6. Tyrants. 7. DiueliſhDevilish, and Sorcerers. 8. In pride paſſing all creatures vnder heauen. 9. Atheiſts without God. 10. Periured. 11. Burreaus …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 302 · Open in the reader
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… and idolatry was this? The Diuell himſelfe could not haue done that whilk the DiueliſhDevilish Pope did. The Serpent whilk deceaued Eua, could not haue perſuaded men that Chriſt …
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… and idolatry was this? The Diuell himſelfe could not haue done that whilk the DiueliſhDevilish Pope did. The Serpent whilk deceaued Eua, could not haue perſuaded men that Chriſt …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 304 · Open in the reader
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… this did not feare his ſucceſſors: for they follovved his foote-ſteppes in theſe DiueliſhDevilish artes.
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… this did not feare his ſucceſſors: for they follovved his foote-ſteppes in theſe DiueliſhDevilish artes.
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 307 · Open in the reader
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Benedictus the 9. he vvas ſo skilled in theſe DiueliſhDevilish arts of Magick, that before he vvas made Pope, in the vvoods he called …
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Benedictus the 9. he vvas ſo skilled in theſe DiueliſhDevilish arts of Magick, that before he vvas made Pope, in the vvoods he called …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 308 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse A17001

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… to blood: and againe, to oppreſſe his blood and his armies. So becauſe the DiueliſhDevilish (popiſh) Pope ſhed the blood of the holy & Preachers: God gaue thē blood to …
With rule
… to blood: and againe, to oppreſſe his blood and his armies. So becauſe the DiueliſhDevilish (popiſh) Pope ſhed the blood of the holy & Preachers: God gaue thē blood to …
Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 241 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Galatians A17706

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… ſatisfactions. But S. Paule telleth vs that it is to outrageous, yea and too DiueliſhDevilish a trayterouſneſſe too haue ſuch pride: and therefore he cōcludeth that Ieſus Chriſt ſhould …
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… ſatisfactions. But S. Paule telleth vs that it is to outrageous, yea and too DiueliſhDevilish a trayterouſneſſe too haue ſuch pride: and therefore he cōcludeth that Ieſus Chriſt ſhould …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 106 · Open in the reader
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… as they come in our heades? VVhereto ſerueth all this? But ſuche minglings are DiueliſhDevilish corruptions. Therefore S. Paule telleth vs, that wee muſt be ſo vnited too our …
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… as they come in our heades? VVhereto ſerueth all this? But ſuche minglings are DiueliſhDevilish corruptions. Therefore S. Paule telleth vs, that wee muſt be ſo vnited too our …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader
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… holineſſe of Rome is this, that the Goſpell was perſecuted there, and that that DiueliſhDevilish dungeon hath bin defiled with the bloud of the martirs, as it were to …
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… holineſſe of Rome is this, that the Goſpell was perſecuted there, and that that DiueliſhDevilish dungeon hath bin defiled with the bloud of the martirs, as it were to …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 215 · Open in the reader
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… is to be ſeene yet ſtill at this day. For if wee condemne the DiueliſhDevilish ſelftruſt wherewith men beguyle themſelues, in weening too obtaine ſaluation by their owne deſertes …
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… is to be ſeene yet ſtill at this day. For if wee condemne the DiueliſhDevilish ſelftruſt wherewith men beguyle themſelues, in weening too obtaine ſaluation by their owne deſertes …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · p. 238 · Open in the reader
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… as at this day, whereas the Pope turneth Gods truthe vpſide downe, and through DiueliſhDevilish pryde mingleth and mangleth all things: yet notwithſtanding he ceaſſeth not too call himſelfe …
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… as at this day, whereas the Pope turneth Gods truthe vpſide downe, and through DiueliſhDevilish pryde mingleth and mangleth all things: yet notwithſtanding he ceaſſeth not too call himſelfe …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

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… euen little babes might well be aſhamed of them. And this commeth of that DiueliſhDevilish curioſitie, that they bee not contented to be taught ſimply by the holy Scripture …
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… euen little babes might well be aſhamed of them. And this commeth of that DiueliſhDevilish curioſitie, that they bee not contented to be taught ſimply by the holy Scripture …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 77 · Open in the reader
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… him? And in very deede wee ſhould bee ſhaken of. For it were a DiueliſhDevilish malapertneſſe, if a man ſhould of his owne ſelfe & of his owne head preace …
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… him? And in very deede wee ſhould bee ſhaken of. For it were a DiueliſhDevilish malapertneſſe, if a man ſhould of his owne ſelfe & of his owne head preace …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 224 · Open in the reader
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… and we ſee alſo that they dare as it were face God with a DiueliſhDevilish pryde, and ſtraine no curteſie at all in attributing theſe braue titles to themſelues …
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… and we ſee alſo that they dare as it were face God with a DiueliſhDevilish pryde, and ſtraine no curteſie at all in attributing theſe braue titles to themſelues …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 528 · Open in the reader
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… to ſee him: but wee ſhall neuer attayne too it. Then is it a DiueliſhDevilish preſumption when men doe ſo enter into diſputation of Gods workes, ſtorming and chaſing …
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… to ſee him: but wee ſhall neuer attayne too it. Then is it a DiueliſhDevilish preſumption when men doe ſo enter into diſputation of Gods workes, ſtorming and chaſing …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 683 · Open in the reader
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… to himſelfe alone: what remayneth for vs too do, but to abſteyne from that DiueliſhDevilish boldneſſe of deſiring ſo to control him and to ſtriue againſt him, as though …
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… to himſelfe alone: what remayneth for vs too do, but to abſteyne from that DiueliſhDevilish boldneſſe of deſiring ſo to control him and to ſtriue againſt him, as though …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 728 · Open in the reader