Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12195 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lyersliars

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

Puritas changed it: 694 times in 447 works
Consistency: 99.7% (694 of 696)
Reach if approved: ~734 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: liars
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 699 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (694 changes in 447 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 694)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… raging swearers, rebels to gouernment, murtherers by poison or with weapons, fornicators, th…ues, lyersliars, and … of lyes must goe thither.
With rule
… raging swearers, rebels to gouernment, murtherers by poison or with weapons, fornicators, th…ues, lyersliars, and … of lyes must goe thither.
Robert Horne · Points of Instruction for the Ignorant · Open in the reader
Printed
… on earth; yet the Iudge of heaven and earth hath appointed hell hereafter for lyersliars, if they leaue not of and repent. Without ſhall be dogs (ſaith the Lord …
With rule
… on earth; yet the Iudge of heaven and earth hath appointed hell hereafter for lyersliars, if they leaue not of and repent. Without ſhall be dogs (ſaith the Lord …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 137 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, vayne swearers, drunkardes, rebels, robbers, & spoylers one of an other, adulterers, deceyuers, lyersliars, false witnes bearers, cursed speakèrs, voluptuous men and wemē, slaunderers, malicious, enuious, couetous, ambitious …
With rule
… of God, vayne swearers, drunkardes, rebels, robbers, & spoylers one of an other, adulterers, deceyuers, lyersliars, false witnes bearers, cursed speakèrs, voluptuous men and wemē, slaunderers, malicious, enuious, couetous, ambitious …
Martin Luther · Sermon Concerning the Coming of our Savior · Open in the reader
Printed
… them haue diuerse opinions in thys behalfe: as it is an harde thing for lyersliars and taleforgers to agree, in all points among themselues, so alone is the truthe …
With rule
… them haue diuerse opinions in thys behalfe: as it is an harde thing for lyersliars and taleforgers to agree, in all points among themselues, so alone is the truthe …
Thomas Becon · The Relics of Rome · p. 198 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of place seekes or makes coaptation of manners. S. Paul notes the Cretians for LyersLiars: S. Luke the Athenians for newes inquirers and bearers. The Graecians were noted for …
With rule
… of place seekes or makes coaptation of manners. S. Paul notes the Cretians for LyersLiars: S. Luke the Athenians for newes inquirers and bearers. The Graecians were noted for …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you, there is ſuch plenty) may hoot at them for moſt abominable Impoſtors and lyersliars. Let mee intreat you to reade a few of ſuch Tales as I haue …
With rule
… you, there is ſuch plenty) may hoot at them for moſt abominable Impoſtors and lyersliars. Let mee intreat you to reade a few of ſuch Tales as I haue …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the fearefull and vnbelieuing, the abominable, murtherers and whooremongers, and ſorcerers, idolaters, and all lyersliars ſhall haue their part in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimſtone: And …
With rule
… the fearefull and vnbelieuing, the abominable, murtherers and whooremongers, and ſorcerers, idolaters, and all lyersliars ſhall haue their part in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimſtone: And …
Henry Greenwood · Tormenting Tophet · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we ſchuld beleue yow ād not them? Vvolde ye haue vs counte them falſe lyersliars, and yow true ſpirituall menne? Be that farre from vs. Though Chriſt ſent ye …
With rule
… we ſchuld beleue yow ād not them? Vvolde ye haue vs counte them falſe lyersliars, and yow true ſpirituall menne? Be that farre from vs. Though Chriſt ſent ye …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

Four Great Liars Striving A09431

Printed
FOVRE GREAT LYERSLIARS, Striuing who shall win the siluer WHETSTONE. ¶ ALSO, A RESOLVTION to the countri-man …
With rule
FOVRE GREAT LYERSLIARS, Striuing who shall win the siluer WHETSTONE. ¶ ALSO, A RESOLVTION to the countri-man …
William Perkins · Four Great Liars Striving · Open in the reader

The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary A19670

Printed
LYersLiars haue no credit. 133.
With rule
LYersLiars haue no credit. 133.
Robert Crowley · The Subtle Sophistry of Watsons Sermons before Queen Mary · Open in the reader