Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12088 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oppressoursoppressors

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

Puritas changed it: 849 times in 301 works
Consistency: 99.8% (849 of 850)
Reach if approved: ~893 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: oppressors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 850 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (849 changes in 301 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 849)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… higher and greater then they, by whom he executeth iudgement on tyrants, and cruell oppreſſoursoppressors in his time, as Chap. 3 17. They ſhall be puniſhed, and the godly and poore …
With rule
… higher and greater then they, by whom he executeth iudgement on tyrants, and cruell oppreſſoursoppressors in his time, as Chap. 3 17. They ſhall be puniſhed, and the godly and poore …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods curse vpon them: oppression will doe it, this is the heritage of the oppressoursoppressors which they shall receiue from the Almighty; if his children be multiplied it is …
With rule
… Gods curse vpon them: oppression will doe it, this is the heritage of the oppressoursoppressors which they shall receiue from the Almighty; if his children be multiplied it is …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 392 · Open in the reader
Printed
… suche menne of godlye dyscressyon, wysdome, and conscyence, to promote trāsgressoures, as rētrai soures, oppressoursoppressors of the pore, extorcioners, bribers, vserers. I here ther be vserers in England, that …
With rule
… suche menne of godlye dyscressyon, wysdome, and conscyence, to promote trāsgressoures, as rētrai soures, oppressoursoppressors of the pore, extorcioners, bribers, vserers. I here ther be vserers in England, that …
Hugh Latimer · A Most Faithful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
Hiſtoricall application. 17 And themſelues and their horſes armed moſte ſtronglie, like irefull proude oppreſſoursoppressors, haſting to their praie; profeſsing with their mouthes, theſe three ſpeciall points of their …
With rule
Hiſtoricall application. 17 And themſelues and their horſes armed moſte ſtronglie, like irefull proude oppreſſoursoppressors, haſting to their praie; profeſsing with their mouthes, theſe three ſpeciall points of their …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from his assaults, or defending and maintaining discipline and justice, against all tyrants and oppressoursoppressors: or, of our Lord and Saviour Christ, the true foreign of his Church, who hath …
With rule
… from his assaults, or defending and maintaining discipline and justice, against all tyrants and oppressoursoppressors: or, of our Lord and Saviour Christ, the true foreign of his Church, who hath …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 668 · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne ſermons and ſacraments, many proude, many cruell perſons, many adulterers and fornicatouts, many oppreſſoursoppressors and extortioners, many backbiters and ſlanderers, &c. To this I muſt needs ſay, that …
With rule
… owne ſermons and ſacraments, many proude, many cruell perſons, many adulterers and fornicatouts, many oppreſſoursoppressors and extortioners, many backbiters and ſlanderers, &c. To this I muſt needs ſay, that …
Thomas Stoughton · Against Popery · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Kings of the Gentiles, speaking of these Rulers, they knew, & they were Tyrants, and oppressoursoppressors, as Pontius Pilat, who condemned Christ an innocent, in whom he found no fault …
With rule
… Kings of the Gentiles, speaking of these Rulers, they knew, & they were Tyrants, and oppressoursoppressors, as Pontius Pilat, who condemned Christ an innocent, in whom he found no fault …
John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tyme was nothing neare that in proprietie, and yet in a dobble reckoning by OppreſſoursOppressors and Reuengers, moſt exactly ſo much. Alſo S. Luke reckonyng Iacobes familie to be …
With rule
… tyme was nothing neare that in proprietie, and yet in a dobble reckoning by OppreſſoursOppressors and Reuengers, moſt exactly ſo much. Alſo S. Luke reckonyng Iacobes familie to be …
Hugh Broughton · A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… ſhall take them CAPTIVE whoſe CAPTIVES they were, and they ſhall rule over their OPPRESSOURSOPPRESSORS. Verſ. 3 And it ſhall come to paſſe in THE DAY, that the Lord ſhall …
With rule
… ſhall take them CAPTIVE whoſe CAPTIVES they were, and they ſhall rule over their OPPRESSOURSOPPRESSORS. Verſ. 3 And it ſhall come to paſſe in THE DAY, that the Lord ſhall …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 187 · Open in the reader