Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12503 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pernitiouspernicious

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

Puritas changed it: 848 times in 406 works
Consistency: 98.4% (848 of 861)
Reach if approved: ~905 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pernicious
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 861 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (848 changes in 406 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 848)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… mother, Ignorance; Falsitie, and Doubting, that more miserable, this more to be pitied, that pernitiouspernicious, this troublesome. When the spirit speaketh, they both do fall to the ground, and …
With rule
… mother, Ignorance; Falsitie, and Doubting, that more miserable, this more to be pitied, that pernitiouspernicious, this troublesome. When the spirit speaketh, they both do fall to the ground, and …
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 413 · Open in the reader
Printed
… matter of most greeuous discord, that no matter hath continued so many yeares more pernitiouspernicious to mans saluation: Hee declared many things worthy of a good Diuine: they laboured …
With rule
… matter of most greeuous discord, that no matter hath continued so many yeares more pernitiouspernicious to mans saluation: Hee declared many things worthy of a good Diuine: they laboured …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Aduersaries make betweene the Law and Gospell is false: and that their Error is pernitiouspernicious in makind the Gospel to be nothing, but a Spirit added to the Law …
With rule
… Aduersaries make betweene the Law and Gospell is false: and that their Error is pernitiouspernicious in makind the Gospel to be nothing, but a Spirit added to the Law …
William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the stallion, and vizard of euery drunken Tos-pot, of euery sordid hostile, and pernitiouspernicious Parasite: as if you were no better then the Diuell Bacchus, the Idol-god …
With rule
… the stallion, and vizard of euery drunken Tos-pot, of euery sordid hostile, and pernitiouspernicious Parasite: as if you were no better then the Diuell Bacchus, the Idol-god …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · Open in the reader
Printed
… is in vs agaynst God, Eph. 2. 14. 16. Rom. 1. 30. is most vntrue, and indeed a very pernitiouspernicious doctrine, destroying the mayn fruit of Christs sacrifice, & death.
With rule
… is in vs agaynst God, Eph. 2. 14. 16. Rom. 1. 30. is most vntrue, and indeed a very pernitiouspernicious doctrine, destroying the mayn fruit of Christs sacrifice, & death.
John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… backis. Of this we leirne, that lang custome to sinne, is a thing maist pernitiouspernicious, for it makis that thing, quhilk of the self, is maist abhominable to appeir …
With rule
… backis. Of this we leirne, that lang custome to sinne, is a thing maist pernitiouspernicious, for it makis that thing, quhilk of the self, is maist abhominable to appeir …
David Fergusson · Sermon Preached 13 January 1571 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is as it were a certaine tree in a ship, which among y^e flattring & pernitiouspernicious shipwracks of y^e whole world alone is preserued in safetie. In this ship therefore …
With rule
… is as it were a certaine tree in a ship, which among y^e flattring & pernitiouspernicious shipwracks of y^e whole world alone is preserued in safetie. In this ship therefore …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Hebrues, but bringeth furth the plane Scripture: and correcting the wicked and pernitiouspernicious interpretations of such, as had place to his cō ming without any repugnācie or …
With rule
… of the Hebrues, but bringeth furth the plane Scripture: and correcting the wicked and pernitiouspernicious interpretations of such, as had place to his cō ming without any repugnācie or …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

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

The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered A17270

Printed
Rule. 1 Firſt, With the Ingenious other then ingenuous dealing is moſt Vnciuil and PernitiousPernicious.
With rule
Rule. 1 Firſt, With the Ingenious other then ingenuous dealing is moſt Vnciuil and PernitiousPernicious.
Cornelius Burges · The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered · p. 388 · Open in the reader
Printed
PernitiousPernicious too: for commonly when a gentle Nature is wildly handled, it makes him fearefull …
With rule
PernitiousPernicious too: for commonly when a gentle Nature is wildly handled, it makes him fearefull …
Cornelius Burges · The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered · p. 389 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of Justification By Faith A53686

Printed
3. PernitiousPernicious also they say it is, as that which takes away the necessity of our …
With rule
3. PernitiousPernicious also they say it is, as that which takes away the necessity of our …
John Owen · The Doctrine of Justification By Faith · p. 363 · Open in the reader

Narrative of what was Spoken by Mr Prynne A56219

Printed
… Kingdom of God, (which no Murderers, Rebellious Seditious, Vnrighteous Covetous Persons, Plunderers, Traytors, no PernitiousPernicious Destroyers, Subverters of Kings, Kingdoms, Parliaments, shall inherit,) and your selves shut out for …
With rule
… Kingdom of God, (which no Murderers, Rebellious Seditious, Vnrighteous Covetous Persons, Plunderers, Traytors, no PernitiousPernicious Destroyers, Subverters of Kings, Kingdoms, Parliaments, shall inherit,) and your selves shut out for …
William Prynne · Narrative of what was Spoken by Mr Prynne · p. 65 · Open in the reader

The Disabled Debtor Discharged A57544

Printed
… ſport, paſtime, and the pleaſure of others. Of ſuch we reade, Hoſ. 7.3. Now the PernitiousPernicious Lye they onely condemne, but the Officious and the Merry Lye they hold either …
With rule
… ſport, paſtime, and the pleaſure of others. Of ſuch we reade, Hoſ. 7.3. Now the PernitiousPernicious Lye they onely condemne, but the Officious and the Merry Lye they hold either …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 115 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

Printed
A lye is deuided into a Seruiceable lye, a Sportfull lye, & a PernitiousPernicious lye. And this deuiſion commeth of no other thyng but of the effectes, or …
With rule
A lye is deuided into a Seruiceable lye, a Sportfull lye, & a PernitiousPernicious lye. And this deuiſion commeth of no other thyng but of the effectes, or …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader

The Baiting of the Pope_s Bull A69022

Printed
… Oath of Allegiance of England (ſaith his Holineſſe of Rome) is pernitiouspernicious, and vnlawfull. PernitiousPernicious, to whom? To his Holines: vnlawfull? By what law, by none, But his Holineſſe …
With rule
… Oath of Allegiance of England (ſaith his Holineſſe of Rome) is pernitiouspernicious, and vnlawfull. PernitiousPernicious, to whom? To his Holines: vnlawfull? By what law, by none, But his Holineſſe …
Henry Burton · The Baiting of the Pope_s Bull · p. 46 · Open in the reader