Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #14968 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

suspitioussuspicious

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

Puritas changed it: 547 times in 359 works
Consistency: 98.3% (547 of 556)
Reach if approved: ~584 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: suspicious
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 556 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (547 changes in 359 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 547)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Credulitie maketh men timorous: and Timiditie maketh men credulous. Feare is very credulous, and suspitioussuspicious, readie to incline to the worse side, and to fasten vpon euery shadow and …
With rule
… Credulitie maketh men timorous: and Timiditie maketh men credulous. Feare is very credulous, and suspitioussuspicious, readie to incline to the worse side, and to fasten vpon euery shadow and …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so jellous to suspect any man els? Nowe sure your D. hath a maruelous suspitioussuspicious head, wel for his farther satisfaction, and to ease him of som paines hereafter …
With rule
… so jellous to suspect any man els? Nowe sure your D. hath a maruelous suspitioussuspicious head, wel for his farther satisfaction, and to ease him of som paines hereafter …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seditious, treacherous, and treasonable thoughts, purposes, and plots, in the baser mindes: Secret and suspitioussuspicious whisperings, those Scorpions that dread not to strike with the virulencie, and violence of …
With rule
… seditious, treacherous, and treasonable thoughts, purposes, and plots, in the baser mindes: Secret and suspitioussuspicious whisperings, those Scorpions that dread not to strike with the virulencie, and violence of …
William Loe · A Still Voice · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that she is such a one already, since she dares resort to such lewde suspitioussuspicious places: (which I would those who have Play-haunting Wives or Daughters would consider …
With rule
… that she is such a one already, since she dares resort to such lewde suspitioussuspicious places: (which I would those who have Play-haunting Wives or Daughters would consider …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 391 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which the beſt armed people of God are; and yet not ſo afraide and ſuſpitioussuspicious of them, not daily making it the chiefeſt matter to walke well fenced againſt …
With rule
… which the beſt armed people of God are; and yet not ſo afraide and ſuſpitioussuspicious of them, not daily making it the chiefeſt matter to walke well fenced againſt …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 310 · Open in the reader
Printed
… do suspect him in behalfe of our Queenes sauftie, we are streightvvayes sencelesse and suspitioussuspicious, without ground of our conceites: and vvho so forsoth, deuiseth these doubtes, vvill deuise …
With rule
… do suspect him in behalfe of our Queenes sauftie, we are streightvvayes sencelesse and suspitioussuspicious, without ground of our conceites: and vvho so forsoth, deuiseth these doubtes, vvill deuise …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… too much ſuſpition, and too much feare. It was his ſinne to be ſo ſuſpitioussuspicious, ſpecially of a brother; He comes forth with foure hundred men; might not the …
With rule
… too much ſuſpition, and too much feare. It was his ſinne to be ſo ſuſpitioussuspicious, ſpecially of a brother; He comes forth with foure hundred men; might not the …
Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue beene thought to haue beene sharpe, considering former and round admonitions, and somewhat suspitioussuspicious of the Romanes, hauing so feruently and often prayed for them, as if all …
With rule
… haue beene thought to haue beene sharpe, considering former and round admonitions, and somewhat suspitioussuspicious of the Romanes, hauing so feruently and often prayed for them, as if all …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 1211 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

Printed
… Anger, may be, because such men are most Tender to feele an injury, most SuspitiousSuspicious to feare it, and most Interpreting to over-judge it. All which being circumstances …
With rule
… Anger, may be, because such men are most Tender to feele an injury, most SuspitiousSuspicious to feare it, and most Interpreting to over-judge it. All which being circumstances …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 325 · Open in the reader

A Memorandum to London A66760

Printed
Though thereof, many were SuſpitiousSuspicious,
With rule
Though thereof, many were SuſpitiousSuspicious,
George Wither · A Memorandum to London · p. 71 · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened A71078

Printed
… againſt it. He never uſed to ſteal a Marriage, by Creeping into Houſes, as SuſpitiousSuspicious Perſons do, 2 Tim. 3. 6. but publiſhed his Purpoſe unto Pharaoh, Exod. 5. 1. and the King of …
With rule
… againſt it. He never uſed to ſteal a Marriage, by Creeping into Houſes, as SuſpitiousSuspicious Perſons do, 2 Tim. 3. 6. but publiſhed his Purpoſe unto Pharaoh, Exod. 5. 1. and the King of …
Benjamin Stonham · The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened · p. 212 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Apostles Creed B27417

Printed
… affection) he could not help, nor his jealousie neither; for he had espoused them. SuspitiousSuspicious and fearful he was lest he should lose all his pains, and they after …
With rule
… affection) he could not help, nor his jealousie neither; for he had espoused them. SuspitiousSuspicious and fearful he was lest he should lose all his pains, and they after …
William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 174 · Open in the reader