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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1355 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

whoredomewhoredom

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
2,736 times in 831 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,736 of 2,737)
Reach if approved
~2,877 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: whoredom
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,738 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,736 changes in 831 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,736)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … was giuen to Selcucus Gouernour of the Locretians, who hauing made this Law againſt whoredomewhoredom, That whoſoeuer committed the act, ſhould loſe both his eyes: his ſonne being taken …
    With rule
    … was giuen to Selcucus Gouernour of the Locretians, who hauing made this Law againſt whoredomewhoredom, That whoſoeuer committed the act, ſhould loſe both his eyes: his ſonne being taken …

    Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … prelates / & prestes / nor yet by ther shyninge exāples awaye lefte vs to forsake stincking whoredomewhoredom. Rather do thei shewe vs a playne pathe vnto them bothe. For no wher …
    With rule
    … prelates / & prestes / nor yet by ther shyninge exāples awaye lefte vs to forsake stincking whoredomewhoredom. Rather do thei shewe vs a playne pathe vnto them bothe. For no wher …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … dyd they cleaue to hys precyous lawes, estéeming all other but chaffe, and very whoredomewhoredom in the spirite.
    With rule
    … dyd they cleaue to hys precyous lawes, estéeming all other but chaffe, and very whoredomewhoredom in the spirite.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … word and worſhip, blaſpheming of his glorious and fearefull name prophanation of his holyday, whoredomewhoredom, pride, malice, drunkenneſſe, oppreſſion, ſacrilege, and ſuch like. Whom would it not grieue that …
    With rule
    … word and worſhip, blaſpheming of his glorious and fearefull name prophanation of his holyday, whoredomewhoredom, pride, malice, drunkenneſſe, oppreſſion, ſacrilege, and ſuch like. Whom would it not grieue that …

    Samuel Hieron · The Life and Death of Dorcas · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … which are puniſhed. Thoſe that hate me. That is, thoſe that ſecurelie commit ſpirituall whoredomewhoredom againſt this commandement; & ſo this is nothing contrary to that, Ezec. 18. Exerciſing benignitie. This …
    With rule
    … which are puniſhed. Thoſe that hate me. That is, thoſe that ſecurelie commit ſpirituall whoredomewhoredom againſt this commandement; & ſo this is nothing contrary to that, Ezec. 18. Exerciſing benignitie. This …

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 100 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of heart, in vaine-swearing, in breaking the Sabbath; some in malice, some in whoredomewhoredom, some in drunkennesse, some in couetousnes, oppression, deceit, dissembling, lying, and the like; neither …
    With rule
    … of heart, in vaine-swearing, in breaking the Sabbath; some in malice, some in whoredomewhoredom, some in drunkennesse, some in couetousnes, oppression, deceit, dissembling, lying, and the like; neither …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 369 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … God and men. You shall neuer be able to charge vs with such ryot, whoredomewhoredom, adulterie, incest, sodomitry, bestiality, murther, poysoning, necromancie, apostasie, blasphemie, &c. as both the worlde …
    With rule
    … God and men. You shall neuer be able to charge vs with such ryot, whoredomewhoredom, adulterie, incest, sodomitry, bestiality, murther, poysoning, necromancie, apostasie, blasphemie, &c. as both the worlde …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … theſe, and make him gentle and meeke as a lambe. Where vncleane luſtes of whoredomewhoredom and fornication doe burne, and boile in the heart, the heauenlie ſpirit doeth quench …
    With rule
    … theſe, and make him gentle and meeke as a lambe. Where vncleane luſtes of whoredomewhoredom and fornication doe burne, and boile in the heart, the heauenlie ſpirit doeth quench …

    George Gifford · Four Sermons · 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.

The Governance of Virtue A06832

  • Printed
    WHoredomeWhoredom was the occasion that Herodias Herods whore sought so dilygently the death of godly …
    With rule
    WHoredomeWhoredom was the occasion that Herodias Herods whore sought so dilygently the death of godly …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader