Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13164 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

debterdebtor

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

Puritas changed it: 736 times in 364 works
Consistency: 100% (736 of 736)
Reach if approved: ~773 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: debtor
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 736 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (736 changes in 364 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 736)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
As it is with a debterdebtor, that hath borrowed money, he will complaine he had an ill bargaine, and desires …
With rule
As it is with a debterdebtor, that hath borrowed money, he will complaine he had an ill bargaine, and desires …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or power of vertue, to binde, & bring the creator within a compasse of a debterdebtor.
With rule
… or power of vertue, to binde, & bring the creator within a compasse of a debterdebtor.
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… requeſt in humble maner the creditor to be fauorable vnto thee, ſecondly vrge the debterdebtor to ſatiſfie his owne debt. Graunt no ſleepe to thine eyes, nor ſlumber to …
With rule
… requeſt in humble maner the creditor to be fauorable vnto thee, ſecondly vrge the debterdebtor to ſatiſfie his owne debt. Graunt no ſleepe to thine eyes, nor ſlumber to …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whole law, hath no part in Christ: he which is iustified by workes, is debterdebtor to the whole law: therefore he which is iustified by workes hath no part …
With rule
… whole law, hath no part in Christ: he which is iustified by workes, is debterdebtor to the whole law: therefore he which is iustified by workes hath no part …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 376 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for the poore. If his neighbours which hee knoweth bee serued, then is hee debterdebtor to the brethren a thousand miles off, if he heare of their necessity, & haue …
With rule
… for the poore. If his neighbours which hee knoweth bee serued, then is hee debterdebtor to the brethren a thousand miles off, if he heare of their necessity, & haue …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his saluation, though (as he sayth) he went out of this worlde a debterdebtor, and therefore feared him to be in great paine. So certaine was the doctrine …
With rule
… of his saluation, though (as he sayth) he went out of this worlde a debterdebtor, and therefore feared him to be in great paine. So certaine was the doctrine …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 321 · Open in the reader
Printed
4 God is debterdebtor to none, & therefore he sheweth mercie vpon whom he wil, against the Papists which …
With rule
4 God is debterdebtor to none, & therefore he sheweth mercie vpon whom he wil, against the Papists which …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 770 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a thousand. They liue vpon others sweat, fare richly vpon others meat, and the debterdebtor is often made a gentleman, when the creditour is made a beggar.
With rule
… a thousand. They liue vpon others sweat, fare richly vpon others meat, and the debterdebtor is often made a gentleman, when the creditour is made a beggar.
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 48 · 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.