diueldevil
Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.
- Puritas changed it
- 1,729 times in 352 works
- Consistency
- 100% (1,729 of 1,729)
- Reach if approved
- ~1,912 places (estimated)
- MorphAdorner
- Agrees: devil
- Matches
- Exact word, any case
- In our text
- 1,820 times in the 7,099 works compared
- Other readings
- None
- Taken into joins
- None
If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,729 changes in 352 works, 100% consistent).”
Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,729)
- Printed… kept their hartes pure and cleane to God / howbeit / their body daūſe with the diueldevil: Not ſo deare brethrē, not ſo, The temple of God hath nothing to do …With rule… kept their hartes pure and cleane to God / howbeit / their body daūſe with the diueldevil: Not ſo deare brethrē, not ſo, The temple of God hath nothing to do …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
- Printed… heare out of the Bible, that which they reade in the Bible, while the diueldevil knowing these things can tremble, assured that he is adiudged by that most great …With rule… heare out of the Bible, that which they reade in the Bible, while the diueldevil knowing these things can tremble, assured that he is adiudged by that most great …
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 540 · Open in the reader
- Printed… moouing nor ſtirring till he gaue vp his ſpirit: ſome ſaid, he had a diueldevil, others ſaid nay, for then he would haue fallē into diſpaire. The Carmelite, who …With rule… moouing nor ſtirring till he gaue vp his ſpirit: ſome ſaid, he had a diueldevil, others ſaid nay, for then he would haue fallē into diſpaire. The Carmelite, who …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 449 · Open in the reader
- Printed… it vnder the head of this Sheeknaue-Ieſuite, or Hee-lubberly Lady. Then his DiuelDevil-ſhip raues and ſtruggles, as if hee would rather goe to hell againe, then …With rule… it vnder the head of this Sheeknaue-Ieſuite, or Hee-lubberly Lady. Then his DiuelDevil-ſhip raues and ſtruggles, as if hee would rather goe to hell againe, then …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 62 · Open in the reader
- Printed… ſuch as they which are afflicted haue learned either by a preſcriptiō frō the diueldevil himſelf, ſaying, let ſuch or ſuch a thing be don, and there ſhall be …With rule… ſuch as they which are afflicted haue learned either by a preſcriptiō frō the diueldevil himſelf, ſaying, let ſuch or ſuch a thing be don, and there ſhall be …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 64 · Open in the reader
- Printed… the word, though in much weakenes & dulnes. But the wicked are so by the diueldevil bewitched, that they can profit nothing by their afflictions, because they first hardened their …With rule… the word, though in much weakenes & dulnes. But the wicked are so by the diueldevil bewitched, that they can profit nothing by their afflictions, because they first hardened their …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 678 · Open in the reader
- Printed… be ready to ſay yt al Chriſts diſciples were naught becauſe Iudas was a diueldevil: & becauſe he (it may be) knoweth ſome two or 3. ſir Iohns or ſome other …With rule… be ready to ſay yt al Chriſts diſciples were naught becauſe Iudas was a diueldevil: & becauſe he (it may be) knoweth ſome two or 3. ſir Iohns or ſome other …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 56 · Open in the reader
- Printed… learne and do good things, is ſhewed to be a member rather of the diueldevil than of Chriſt: and he is ſhewed to be rather an infidell than a …With rule… learne and do good things, is ſhewed to be a member rather of the diueldevil than of Chriſt: and he is ſhewed to be rather an infidell than a …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 309 · 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.