Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12520 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

savourssavors

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

Puritas changed it: 690 times in 483 works
Consistency: 96.9% (690 of 712)
Reach if approved: ~748 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 712 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (690 changes in 483 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 690)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſervant to worke, ſetting aſide this circumſtance (on the Sabbath.) This your ſlye arguing ſavourssavors of Popery, which hath thruſt out the ſecond Commandement as a poſitive and ceremoniall …
With rule
… ſervant to worke, ſetting aſide this circumſtance (on the Sabbath.) This your ſlye arguing ſavourssavors of Popery, which hath thruſt out the ſecond Commandement as a poſitive and ceremoniall …
Richard Byfield · The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though it be done for by ends, yet God will recompenſe it with temporall ſavourssavors. Iehu executed all the will of God upon Ahabs houſe, his intent was not …
With rule
… though it be done for by ends, yet God will recompenſe it with temporall ſavourssavors. Iehu executed all the will of God upon Ahabs houſe, his intent was not …
John Angier · A Help to Better Hearts for Better Times · p. 426 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and it will plentifully reward the hours which shall be spent thereon. It greatly savourssavors of deep thoughts, strict observations, and long and great experience of God, of Things …
With rule
… and it will plentifully reward the hours which shall be spent thereon. It greatly savourssavors of deep thoughts, strict observations, and long and great experience of God, of Things …
Richard Baxter · The Christians Converse with God · p. iii · Open in the reader
Printed
… a walking, as to take the fresh ayre; and then, be poysoned, with infectious savourssavors; that we be not kept standing in a pleasant way; and then, the enemy …
With rule
… a walking, as to take the fresh ayre; and then, be poysoned, with infectious savourssavors; that we be not kept standing in a pleasant way; and then, the enemy …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… both for age, and worth. It was preached before many of the rest, and savourssavors of the Authours learning, modesty, piety, and affection to Iesus Christ, and his Church …
With rule
… both for age, and worth. It was preached before many of the rest, and savourssavors of the Authours learning, modesty, piety, and affection to Iesus Christ, and his Church …
John Preston · The Fullness of Christ for Us · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Religion, and the mysteries of Divine providence towards Gods children: therefore their question savourssavors of their disposition, where is now thy God? Thus briefely I have gone over …
With rule
… of Religion, and the mysteries of Divine providence towards Gods children: therefore their question savourssavors of their disposition, where is now thy God? Thus briefely I have gone over …
Richard Sibbes · Evangelical Sacrifices · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only that: Doth any resist and oppose heavenly doctrine? he is earthly-minded, he savourssavors the earth, some base lust or sinne is the dragons chaine to hold him …
With rule
… only that: Doth any resist and oppose heavenly doctrine? he is earthly-minded, he savourssavors the earth, some base lust or sinne is the dragons chaine to hold him …
Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 416 · Open in the reader
Printed
Arise no savourssavors of Hypocrisie.
With rule
Arise no savourssavors of Hypocrisie.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 59 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Britains Remembrancer A15627

Printed
Without exception. And where SavoursSavors ill
With rule
Without exception. And where SavoursSavors ill
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

Looking Unto Jesus A25241

Printed
… ſhall have nothing, Dan. 9.26. Thus all along from his Cratch to his Croſs, ſweet SavoursSavors, but ſowr Grapes; at laſt indeed the Grapes grew to a ripeneſs, and then …
With rule
… ſhall have nothing, Dan. 9.26. Thus all along from his Cratch to his Croſs, ſweet SavoursSavors, but ſowr Grapes; at laſt indeed the Grapes grew to a ripeneſs, and then …
Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 138 · Open in the reader

A Gospel Church A39931

Printed
… delight, joy, chearfulneſs, adoration, admiration and praiſe, that they may be filled with his SavoursSavors, warmed with his Love, drawn by his Beauty, be (by all) knit and united …
With rule
… delight, joy, chearfulneſs, adoration, admiration and praiſe, that they may be filled with his SavoursSavors, warmed with his Love, drawn by his Beauty, be (by all) knit and united …
Stephen Ford · A Gospel Church · p. 286 · Open in the reader

The Figures or Types of Christ A50253

Printed
… Ainſw. in loc. Hence is that Phraſe, Ezra 6.9, 10. Sacrifices of Reſt, or of ſweet SavoursSavors to the God of Heaven; ſo Epheſ. 5.2. Chriſt gave himſelf for us, an Offering …
With rule
… Ainſw. in loc. Hence is that Phraſe, Ezra 6.9, 10. Sacrifices of Reſt, or of ſweet SavoursSavors to the God of Heaven; ſo Epheſ. 5.2. Chriſt gave himſelf for us, an Offering …
Samuel Mather · The Figures or Types of Christ · p. 245 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Minor Prophets A63068

Printed
… it was full of judgement, righteouſneſſe lodged in it, but now murderers, In our SavoursSavors time it was Prophetarum macellum, the ſlaughterhouſe houſe of the Saints; as now Rome …
With rule
… it was full of judgement, righteouſneſſe lodged in it, but now murderers, In our SavoursSavors time it was Prophetarum macellum, the ſlaughterhouſe houſe of the Saints; as now Rome …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 97 · Open in the reader

Forty Sermons A63825

Printed
… On Gods part with whom no Evil dwells foreign foreign, as Bazil ſpeaks: Smoak and ill SavoursSavors drive not Doves and Bees more away, than our lothſome Pollutions do the Holy …
With rule
… On Gods part with whom no Evil dwells foreign foreign, as Bazil ſpeaks: Smoak and ill SavoursSavors drive not Doves and Bees more away, than our lothſome Pollutions do the Holy …
Anthony Tuckney · Forty Sermons · p. 538 · Open in the reader

The Intercourses of Divine Love Betwixt Christ and His Church A69777

Printed
… they do, or can do, will ſmell ſweet in Gods noſtrils. As ſome ill SavoursSavors are ſo ſtrong as they drown the ſweet ſmell of any perfumes which the …
With rule
… they do, or can do, will ſmell ſweet in Gods noſtrils. As ſome ill SavoursSavors are ſo ſtrong as they drown the ſweet ſmell of any perfumes which the …
John Collinges · The Intercourses of Divine Love Betwixt Christ and His Church · p. 755 · Open in the reader

Answer to George Keiths Libel A89410

Printed
… Elizabeth River, who never was heard to Pray either before or after Teaching; this SavoursSavors of Opus Operatum: I ſay, the Holy Spirit of God endues us with skill …
With rule
… Elizabeth River, who never was heard to Pray either before or after Teaching; this SavoursSavors of Opus Operatum: I ſay, the Holy Spirit of God endues us with skill …
Francis Makemie · Answer to George Keiths Libel · p. 30 · Open in the reader