Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12182 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heroickheroic

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

Puritas changed it: 962 times in 543 works
Consistency: 99.7% (962 of 964)
Reach if approved: ~1,013 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heroic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 964 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (962 changes in 543 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 962)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
What by heroickheroic acts to man accrues,
With rule
What by heroickheroic acts to man accrues,
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · Open in the reader
Printed
… made Socrates dye chearful, and though his hopes had faint weak Principles they had HeroickHeroic almost Martyr resolutions.
With rule
… made Socrates dye chearful, and though his hopes had faint weak Principles they had HeroickHeroic almost Martyr resolutions.
Richard Allestree · Eighteen Sermons · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make the ſoul truly Magnanimous, truly valiant for God, it will beget a mighty HeroickHeroic ſpirit, this converſing with death at a diſtance, this conſidering of a mans latter …
With rule
… make the ſoul truly Magnanimous, truly valiant for God, it will beget a mighty HeroickHeroic ſpirit, this converſing with death at a diſtance, this conſidering of a mans latter …
Timothy Armitage · Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions · p. 437 · Open in the reader
Printed
… entire Sanctity. There is no kind of Vertue from the lowest to the most HeroickHeroic, of which he might not say as he did to his Disciples in his …
With rule
… entire Sanctity. There is no kind of Vertue from the lowest to the most HeroickHeroic, of which he might not say as he did to his Disciples in his …
William Bates · The Divinity of the Christian Religion · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… footſteps of his will, and all the ſigns of his approbation: And with an HeroickHeroic fortitude of Love, to rejoyce in ſufferings, and venture upon dangers, and conquer difficulties …
With rule
… footſteps of his will, and all the ſigns of his approbation: And with an HeroickHeroic fortitude of Love, to rejoyce in ſufferings, and venture upon dangers, and conquer difficulties …
Richard Baxter · The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ar as grace reigns in us to eternal life, and that is truly a heroickheroic royal spirit, that overcomes himself and the world; and Priests, to offer unto God …
With rule
… ar as grace reigns in us to eternal life, and that is truly a heroickheroic royal spirit, that overcomes himself and the world; and Priests, to offer unto God …
Hugh Binning · Fellowship with God · p. 63 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they may not flee. Upon this ground, that worthy Governour Nehemiah tooke up that HeroickHeroic Resolution, Shall such a man as I flee? A Magistrate, in whose standing the …
With rule
… they may not flee. Upon this ground, that worthy Governour Nehemiah tooke up that HeroickHeroic Resolution, Shall such a man as I flee? A Magistrate, in whose standing the …
John Brinsley · Stand Still · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iacob, as a most hainous and horrible sinne; yet shee propounds it as an heroickheroic act, and the unworthy President for her imitation: O Lord God of my Father …
With rule
… Iacob, as a most hainous and horrible sinne; yet shee propounds it as an heroickheroic act, and the unworthy President for her imitation: O Lord God of my Father …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 113 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

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

An Heroic Poem Upon His Majesty Rescuing England from Popery A63964

Printed
AN HEROICKHEROIC POEM Upon the Late EXPEDITION, &c.
With rule
AN HEROICKHEROIC POEM Upon the Late EXPEDITION, &c.
John Tutchin · An Heroic Poem Upon His Majesty Rescuing England from Popery · p. 3 · Open in the reader