Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12220 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

slaundersslanders

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

Puritas changed it: 634 times in 273 works
Consistency: 97.8% (634 of 648)
Reach if approved: ~681 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: slanders
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 648 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (634 changes in 273 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 634)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not them with your accurſed ſpeeches, who daily bleſſe you: load them not with ſlaundersslanders and calumnies, who by their abſolution and ghoſtly comfort eaſe you of the heavie …
With rule
… not them with your accurſed ſpeeches, who daily bleſſe you: load them not with ſlaundersslanders and calumnies, who by their abſolution and ghoſtly comfort eaſe you of the heavie …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 462 · Open in the reader
Printed
… you, for you haue beene all this while wading in the puddle of youre slaundersslanders, misprisions, and false and false accusations, in which you haue so berayed your selfe …
With rule
… you, for you haue beene all this while wading in the puddle of youre slaundersslanders, misprisions, and false and false accusations, in which you haue so berayed your selfe …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ſuſpicion to the laye men ther remayned wyne ſtyll, wherof woulde ariſe many ſlaundersslanders.
With rule
… a ſuſpicion to the laye men ther remayned wyne ſtyll, wherof woulde ariſe many ſlaundersslanders.
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. clxxxxiiij · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeas after this, without touch, and there exerciſing his lewd wit to inuent all ſlaundersslanders againſt her Maieſtie, and the whole ſtate; and (boyling in the bloodie malice of …
With rule
… ſeas after this, without touch, and there exerciſing his lewd wit to inuent all ſlaundersslanders againſt her Maieſtie, and the whole ſtate; and (boyling in the bloodie malice of …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… powers of the heart corrupted, proceede euill thoughts, murthers, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaundersslanders, Mat. 15.19. for all these spawne in the heart. Lust in the heart begetteth; and …
With rule
… powers of the heart corrupted, proceede euill thoughts, murthers, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaundersslanders, Mat. 15.19. for all these spawne in the heart. Lust in the heart begetteth; and …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
Iesus Christ our Lord and sauiour after many blasphemies rebukes, slaundersslanders and bitter tormentes suffered the moste spitefull deathe of the crosse, and so entred …
With rule
Iesus Christ our Lord and sauiour after many blasphemies rebukes, slaundersslanders and bitter tormentes suffered the moste spitefull deathe of the crosse, and so entred …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… no good man: I am … no profeſſed Chriſtian, will by blaſphemous reprochings, raylings, publ… ſlaundersslanders, priuat backbitings, or ſuch other dartes of the Deuill oppone againſt this book. But …
With rule
… no good man: I am … no profeſſed Chriſtian, will by blaſphemous reprochings, raylings, publ… ſlaundersslanders, priuat backbitings, or ſuch other dartes of the Deuill oppone againſt this book. But …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · Open in the reader
Printed
… towards the ministers of the Gospel: and the neglect of this dutie procureth many slaundersslanders to thē in this our Church: whereof indeede the re…orters are the cause …
With rule
… towards the ministers of the Gospel: and the neglect of this dutie procureth many slaundersslanders to thē in this our Church: whereof indeede the re…orters are the cause …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 314 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 are listed here. 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Display of Popish Practices A09918

Printed
¶ THE PREFACE OF the SlaundersSlanders againſt the Doctrine of Iohn Caluin, (or rather of euery faithfull Congregation) of the …
With rule
¶ THE PREFACE OF the SlaundersSlanders againſt the Doctrine of Iohn Caluin, (or rather of euery faithfull Congregation) of the …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is manifeſt to vs, that thou haſt not letted but that theſe broched SlaundersSlanders might haue bin bruted in all the worlde, before we ſhould heare any whit …
With rule
… which is manifeſt to vs, that thou haſt not letted but that theſe broched SlaundersSlanders might haue bin bruted in all the worlde, before we ſhould heare any whit …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wittes, that thou ſhouldeſt forgette to aſke of theſe rogues, that carrie aboute theſe SlaundersSlanders, whether they woulde firſte with ſufficient witneſſes proue theſe thyngs they caried, to be …
With rule
… wittes, that thou ſhouldeſt forgette to aſke of theſe rogues, that carrie aboute theſe SlaundersSlanders, whether they woulde firſte with ſufficient witneſſes proue theſe thyngs they caried, to be …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
The title of the SlaundersSlanders.
With rule
The title of the SlaundersSlanders.
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
THOV oughtſt neither to vſe this Title, SlaundersSlanders, impudently, and malitiouſly aſcribed to Iohn Caluine of certayne ignorant and malitious men.
With rule
THOV oughtſt neither to vſe this Title, SlaundersSlanders, impudently, and malitiouſly aſcribed to Iohn Caluine of certayne ignorant and malitious men.
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 8 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
SlaundersSlanders against the Christians. 48.54
With rule
SlaundersSlanders against the Christians. 48.54
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader