Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #13583 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

counsellourscounselors

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

Puritas changed it: 911 times in 408 works
Consistency: 99.6% (911 of 914)
Reach if approved: ~960 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: counsellors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 914 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (911 changes in 408 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 911)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of God, ſpeaking of the bleſſed man. Pſal. 1.2. Thy Lawes are my delight, my CounſelloursCounselors, ſweeter than the Honey and the Honey combe, dearer than thouſands of gold and …
With rule
… of God, ſpeaking of the bleſſed man. Pſal. 1.2. Thy Lawes are my delight, my CounſelloursCounselors, ſweeter than the Honey and the Honey combe, dearer than thouſands of gold and …
Benjamin King · The Marriage of the Lamb · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fruitfully brought vp, then shall they afterward proue, … …ble Magistrates, some wyse and faythfull counsellourscounselors, some godly spirituall ministers, some learned scholemaisters, some diligent labourers, some cunning artificers, some …
With rule
… fruitfully brought vp, then shall they afterward proue, … …ble Magistrates, some wyse and faythfull counsellourscounselors, some godly spirituall ministers, some learned scholemaisters, some diligent labourers, some cunning artificers, some …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… of a right time, is, to take Counsell with others; In the multitude of CounselloursCounselors there is peace.
With rule
… of a right time, is, to take Counsell with others; In the multitude of CounselloursCounselors there is peace.
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deny his words to be true hitherto, nay let even himself and his privy counsellourscounselors speak, whether in their firey zeale they did not instantly so far forget our …
With rule
… deny his words to be true hitherto, nay let even himself and his privy counsellourscounselors speak, whether in their firey zeale they did not instantly so far forget our …
Henry Ainsworth · Certain Notes of Ainsworths Last Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſee) which is inſtytuted & abuſed by the byſſhops of Rome / their popyſſhe complyces / and counſellourscounselors / which they bye & ſel as Iudas dyd / & offre vp Chriſt agayne for money / whan …
With rule
… ſee) which is inſtytuted & abuſed by the byſſhops of Rome / their popyſſhe complyces / and counſellourscounselors / which they bye & ſel as Iudas dyd / & offre vp Chriſt agayne for money / whan …
Martin Bucer · Pictures not to be Worshiped · Open in the reader
Printed
Nor any such ill CounselloursCounselors, as these;
With rule
Nor any such ill CounselloursCounselors, as these;
George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 132 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of conſcience; …heir luſts and their carnall reaſon and …eſh and bloud are their counſellourscounselors; The counſel of conſcience, they ſay, is not …ood at this time, as he …
With rule
… of conſcience; …heir luſts and their carnall reaſon and …eſh and bloud are their counſellourscounselors; The counſel of conſcience, they ſay, is not …ood at this time, as he …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to hearken to the hissing of the Serpent; not to make wicked men our counsellourscounselors; nor in the course and actions of our life, to be directed by them.
With rule
… to hearken to the hissing of the Serpent; not to make wicked men our counsellourscounselors; nor in the course and actions of our life, to be directed by them.
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 10 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Great Blessing of Primitive Counselors A50208

Printed
PRIMITIVE COUNSELLOURSCOUNSELORS, A Great BLESSING.
With rule
PRIMITIVE COUNSELLOURSCOUNSELORS, A Great BLESSING.
Increase Mather · The Great Blessing of Primitive Counselors · p. 9 · Open in the reader

Gods Sovereign Government Among the Nations Asserted N01294

Printed
Secondly. Thoſe Honourable Perſons, The Lieutenant GOVERNOUR and COUNSELLOURSCOUNSELORS, into whoſe Lap the Lot for Election of them may fall this day, to …
With rule
Secondly. Thoſe Honourable Perſons, The Lieutenant GOVERNOUR and COUNSELLOURSCOUNSELORS, into whoſe Lap the Lot for Election of them may fall this day, to …
Samuel Cheever · Gods Sovereign Government Among the Nations Asserted · p. 44 · Open in the reader