Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12823 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

councellscouncils

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

Puritas changed it: 1,457 times in 419 works
Consistency: 100% (1,457 of 1,457)
Reach if approved: ~1,531 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: counsels
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,457 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,457 changes in 419 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,457)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… did beléeue the assertions of Luther, and that men were not bound to beléeue CouncellsCouncils and Constitutions, and St. Augustine in his tim… marnailed, that we could liue in …
With rule
… did beléeue the assertions of Luther, and that men were not bound to beléeue CouncellsCouncils and Constitutions, and St. Augustine in his tim… marnailed, that we could liue in …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 176 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the people of Iſrael, it hath beene approved and ratified by the cannons of CouncellsCouncils, which have beene made to this purpoſe. Ancient fathers as Lactantius, and Saint Ambroſe …
With rule
… the people of Iſrael, it hath beene approved and ratified by the cannons of CouncellsCouncils, which have beene made to this purpoſe. Ancient fathers as Lactantius, and Saint Ambroſe …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 381 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this is the office of a Miniſter, that bycauſe he knoweth not the ſecreate councellscouncils of God, he teache indifferentlye thoſe that are committed to his charge, and bid …
With rule
… this is the office of a Miniſter, that bycauſe he knoweth not the ſecreate councellscouncils of God, he teache indifferentlye thoſe that are committed to his charge, and bid …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 263 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Powdrings, and ouer-curious Cultures, and Compositions of our Haire; (which God himselfe, which CouncellsCouncils, Fathers, and Moderne Diuines; yea, Pagan Authors haue condemned:) that so we may with …
With rule
… Powdrings, and ouer-curious Cultures, and Compositions of our Haire; (which God himselfe, which CouncellsCouncils, Fathers, and Moderne Diuines; yea, Pagan Authors haue condemned:) that so we may with …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… censured by the Ciuill and Canon Lawes; so vniformly condemned by godly Fathers and CouncellsCouncils; so vniuersally hated by all men of all sorts and in all ages and …
With rule
… censured by the Ciuill and Canon Lawes; so vniformly condemned by godly Fathers and CouncellsCouncils; so vniuersally hated by all men of all sorts and in all ages and …
Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 439 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the nature of ſuch things which are abſolutely neceſſary, and therefore are not onely councellscouncils as the Papiſts ſpeake, when they make diſtinctions betwixt precepts and councels, and they …
With rule
… the nature of ſuch things which are abſolutely neceſſary, and therefore are not onely councellscouncils as the Papiſts ſpeake, when they make diſtinctions betwixt precepts and councels, and they …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have our Writers to holde against Papists, that Laymen ought to have place in CouncellsCouncils, wherein things which concerne the whole Church are to be deliberated upon. 2. Lest it …
With rule
… have our Writers to holde against Papists, that Laymen ought to have place in CouncellsCouncils, wherein things which concerne the whole Church are to be deliberated upon. 2. Lest it …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 146 · Open in the reader
Printed
… only bodily ſufferings. Is this then your great boaſt of all the Fathers and CouncellsCouncils? Nay, are they well vſed at your hands, to be thus drawn cleane from …
With rule
… only bodily ſufferings. Is this then your great boaſt of all the Fathers and CouncellsCouncils? Nay, are they well vſed at your hands, to be thus drawn cleane from …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 144 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.