Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12598 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beleeuesbelieves

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

Puritas changed it: 708 times in 182 works
Consistency: 99.8% (708 of 709)
Reach if approved: ~745 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: believes
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 709 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (708 changes in 182 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 708)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but a Christian may desire to know the reason of that he holds and beleeuesbelieves in Religion, and of whatsoeuer is taught him, so he do it, 1. With reuerence …
With rule
… but a Christian may desire to know the reason of that he holds and beleeuesbelieves in Religion, and of whatsoeuer is taught him, so he do it, 1. With reuerence …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that cares not vvhat audite he makes to his heauenly maſter. Aſſuredly as he beleeuesbelieves not in the one, ſo he sleights the other. There is a broode of …
With rule
… that cares not vvhat audite he makes to his heauenly maſter. Aſſuredly as he beleeuesbelieves not in the one, ſo he sleights the other. There is a broode of …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſcience the heart knowes that it thinkes ſuch a thought. By Faith the heart beleeuesbelieves: by Conſcience, the heart knowes it doth beléeue. By affectious the Soule grieues, or …
With rule
… conſcience the heart knowes that it thinkes ſuch a thought. By Faith the heart beleeuesbelieves: by Conſcience, the heart knowes it doth beléeue. By affectious the Soule grieues, or …
Elnathan Parr · The Grounds of Divinity · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the great power of faith, he both obeyes the commandement, and yet still beleeuesbelieves the promise: For, so saith the text, By faith he offered vp Isaac. Therefore …
With rule
… by the great power of faith, he both obeyes the commandement, and yet still beleeuesbelieves the promise: For, so saith the text, By faith he offered vp Isaac. Therefore …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 325 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offered for vs daily. And, Christ is then slaine for euery one, vvhen he beleeuesbelieves that he is slaine for him▪ Ambrose saith, Christ is sacrificed daily in the …
With rule
… offered for vs daily. And, Christ is then slaine for euery one, vvhen he beleeuesbelieves that he is slaine for him▪ Ambrose saith, Christ is sacrificed daily in the …
William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 206 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and wrecke their deare immortall Soules for all eternitie. And who is there that beleeuesbelieves a God, a Heauen, a Hell, so desperately prodigall of his owne Saluation, as …
With rule
… and wrecke their deare immortall Soules for all eternitie. And who is there that beleeuesbelieves a God, a Heauen, a Hell, so desperately prodigall of his owne Saluation, as …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Romanes, chap. 1. 16. calles the power of God vnto ſaluation to euery one who beleeuesbelieves. Beleeue it, and thou ſhalt find this power in thee. For as concerning the …
With rule
… the Romanes, chap. 1. 16. calles the power of God vnto ſaluation to euery one who beleeuesbelieves. Beleeue it, and thou ſhalt find this power in thee. For as concerning the …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon Colossians · p. 330 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Creator: nay, let the Deuill speake, to shame and conuince the Atheist, who beleeuesbelieves a God, and trembles at his owne beliefe: the nature of his essence prooueth …
With rule
… a Creator: nay, let the Deuill speake, to shame and conuince the Atheist, who beleeuesbelieves a God, and trembles at his owne beliefe: the nature of his essence prooueth …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 16 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Some Helps for Young Scholars in Christianity B07554

Printed
… hee that beleeueth in mee, though he were dead, yet ſall he liue, &c. BeleeuesBelieves thou this? Sche ſaide vnto him, yea Lord, I beleeue that thou art that …
With rule
… hee that beleeueth in mee, though he were dead, yet ſall he liue, &c. BeleeuesBelieves thou this? Sche ſaide vnto him, yea Lord, I beleeue that thou art that …
John Davidson · Some Helps for Young Scholars in Christianity · Open in the reader