Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12075 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heretickesheretics

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

Puritas changed it: 1,798 times in 420 works
Consistency: 99.7% (1,798 of 1,802)
Reach if approved: ~1,893 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heretics
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,802 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,798 changes in 420 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,798)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of thy companions? Why should I harken unto or follow after any of these heretickesheretics and seducers, who though they pretend to be thy companions, and friends (as the …
With rule
… of thy companions? Why should I harken unto or follow after any of these heretickesheretics and seducers, who though they pretend to be thy companions, and friends (as the …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 796 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seditious & reprochefull wordes agaynst the Gouernour & other the nobles, meanynge them also to be heretickesheretics.
With rule
… seditious & reprochefull wordes agaynst the Gouernour & other the nobles, meanynge them also to be heretickesheretics.
David Lindsay · The Tragical Death of David Beaton · Open in the reader
Printed
… malice condemne the worde of God as herey, and persecute the preachers therof as heretickesheretics and sedicious persons.
With rule
… malice condemne the worde of God as herey, and persecute the preachers therof as heretickesheretics and sedicious persons.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cathari, Nouatus, Pelagius, and of the Ebionites, Donatistes and of all ſuch like Puritane heretickesheretics, maye iuſtlie & very fitlie be called Puritanes. For they hold that in their regenerate …
With rule
… Cathari, Nouatus, Pelagius, and of the Ebionites, Donatistes and of all ſuch like Puritane heretickesheretics, maye iuſtlie & very fitlie be called Puritanes. For they hold that in their regenerate …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
The same Father in his booke of the flesh of Christ smiled at the heretickesheretics, who imagined Christ to have flesh hard without bones, solid without muscles, bloody without …
With rule
The same Father in his booke of the flesh of Christ smiled at the heretickesheretics, who imagined Christ to have flesh hard without bones, solid without muscles, bloody without …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
§ 2. Such Arguments (hee saith) as these were made by the ancient HeretickesHeretics, to wit, the Eutychians, Nestorians, Arrians, &c. against our Sauiours diuinitie and the personall …
With rule
§ 2. Such Arguments (hee saith) as these were made by the ancient HeretickesHeretics, to wit, the Eutychians, Nestorians, Arrians, &c. against our Sauiours diuinitie and the personall …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… declaration of Dead and Buried, againſt the opinion of Marcion, Valentin, and ſuch other heretickesheretics as denyed the trueth of Chriſts being, and His ſuffering, as you heard before …
With rule
… declaration of Dead and Buried, againſt the opinion of Marcion, Valentin, and ſuch other heretickesheretics as denyed the trueth of Chriſts being, and His ſuffering, as you heard before …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo powerfull and glorious a Meſſiah; And it maketh alſo much againſt thoſe baſe HeretickesHeretics, that mock vs for our dependance on Chriſt for ſaluation.
With rule
… ſo powerfull and glorious a Meſſiah; And it maketh alſo much againſt thoſe baſe HeretickesHeretics, that mock vs for our dependance on Chriſt for ſaluation.
Henry Greenwood · The Jailors Jail · p. 22 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.