Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #16377 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

expositoursexpositors

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

Puritas changed it: 884 times in 132 works
Consistency: 100% (884 of 884)
Reach if approved: ~929 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: expositors
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 884 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (884 changes in 132 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 884)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the consolation of the afflicted. And these are the three uses to which all ExpositoursExpositors of the Word ought to applie the doctrine they deliver.
With rule
… the consolation of the afflicted. And these are the three uses to which all ExpositoursExpositors of the Word ought to applie the doctrine they deliver.
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader
Printed
… honourable counsell. If Abbas Ioachim, Nicolas Lyra, Iohā Tylneye, and other of our latter expositoursexpositors hath taken great Constantine the Emprour, for that other angell in. S. Iohās reuelacion …
With rule
… honourable counsell. If Abbas Ioachim, Nicolas Lyra, Iohā Tylneye, and other of our latter expositoursexpositors hath taken great Constantine the Emprour, for that other angell in. S. Iohās reuelacion …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… enemies, but now we are plainly taught to loue our enemies, and herein moſt ExpoſitoursExpositors agree. Tho. Aquinas maketh this reaſon but one of fiue, why it is called …
With rule
… enemies, but now we are plainly taught to loue our enemies, and herein moſt ExpoſitoursExpositors agree. Tho. Aquinas maketh this reaſon but one of fiue, why it is called …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Trent, though closely sometimes to couer their deceit with darknes, yet so, that their expositoursexpositors bring their hidden meanings out into the light. For, first and formost, they will …
With rule
… Trent, though closely sometimes to couer their deceit with darknes, yet so, that their expositoursexpositors bring their hidden meanings out into the light. For, first and formost, they will …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 687 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the lesse, because I tread in the steps of our most learned and soundest expositoursexpositors, whose opinions, with their reasons, I doe report, leauing it to the Reader to …
With rule
… the lesse, because I tread in the steps of our most learned and soundest expositoursexpositors, whose opinions, with their reasons, I doe report, leauing it to the Reader to …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thei know neither ende nor begynnyng. If any man, ſhoulde call them prophetes and expoſitoursexpositors of the ſcriptures, it were none other thyng, but to call a filthy ſwine …
With rule
… thei know neither ende nor begynnyng. If any man, ſhoulde call them prophetes and expoſitoursexpositors of the ſcriptures, it were none other thyng, but to call a filthy ſwine …
Henrich Bullinger · A Wholesome Antidote Against Anabaptists · Open in the reader
Printed
… underſtood de naturalibus, of our naturall faculties; yet Origen, and not onely ſuch allegoricall expoſitoursexpositors, but Saint Baſil, and Niſſen, and Ambroſe, and others, who are literall enough, aſſigne …
With rule
… underſtood de naturalibus, of our naturall faculties; yet Origen, and not onely ſuch allegoricall expoſitoursexpositors, but Saint Baſil, and Niſſen, and Ambroſe, and others, who are literall enough, aſſigne …
John Donne · Two Sermons Preached Before King Charles on Genesis 1:26 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Jews, they pervert the Text, and some other ExpositoursExpositors mistake it; and draw down the height and mysterie of this speech, to an …
With rule
The Jews, they pervert the Text, and some other ExpositoursExpositors mistake it; and draw down the height and mysterie of this speech, to an …
Ralph Brownrig · Twenty-Five Sermons · p. 254 · 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.