Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #16644 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heretiqueheretic

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

Puritas changed it: 651 times in 230 works
Consistency: 99.8% (651 of 652)
Reach if approved: ~685 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heretic
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 652 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (651 changes in 230 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 651)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cryed out alowde and blasphemously saide: Beleeue him not good people, he is an heretiqueheretic, and a mad man out of his witte: beleeue him not, for it is …
With rule
… cryed out alowde and blasphemously saide: Beleeue him not good people, he is an heretiqueheretic, and a mad man out of his witte: beleeue him not, for it is …
William Perkins · The Government of the Tongue · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon his Soule, and score at last: For if hee who bids but an HeretiqueHeretic God speed, be made a partaker of his euill deedes: or if Saul, by …
With rule
… vpon his Soule, and score at last: For if hee who bids but an HeretiqueHeretic God speed, be made a partaker of his euill deedes: or if Saul, by …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… three deuils of an vgly ſhape, and this inſcription added, This is an Arch-heretiqueheretic: when he beheld it, ſaid very mildly, My Lord Ieſus Chriſt who was innocent …
With rule
… three deuils of an vgly ſhape, and this inſcription added, This is an Arch-heretiqueheretic: when he beheld it, ſaid very mildly, My Lord Ieſus Chriſt who was innocent …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Archbishop of Armach thus wardeth off a blow of the Armenians, when the Armenian heretiqueheretic obiected against him: vnlesse you eat the flesh of the sonne of man, and …
With rule
… Archbishop of Armach thus wardeth off a blow of the Armenians, when the Armenian heretiqueheretic obiected against him: vnlesse you eat the flesh of the sonne of man, and …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſtant courſe in entertaining ſuch, the Catholike Church adjudged Novatus to be accounted an HeretiqueHeretic, and put Novatians into the Catalogue of Heretiques. For bowells of mercy ought no …
With rule
… conſtant courſe in entertaining ſuch, the Catholike Church adjudged Novatus to be accounted an HeretiqueHeretic, and put Novatians into the Catalogue of Heretiques. For bowells of mercy ought no …
William Gouge · Recover from Apostasy · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… depoſed by the Councell of Constance: and Eugenius 4. was condemned and depoſed as an heretiqueheretic in the Councell of Baſil. As for their Liues, In reſpect of all, it …
With rule
… depoſed by the Councell of Constance: and Eugenius 4. was condemned and depoſed as an heretiqueheretic in the Councell of Baſil. As for their Liues, In reſpect of all, it …
James Balmford · Concerning the Lords Day, State of the Church of Rome, Execution of Priests · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
As for his power, who was euer able to resist it? either Heroique, or HeretiqueHeretic? Let the fatall destructions, and fearefull downfalls of Herod Ascalonita, that murthered the infants …
With rule
As for his power, who was euer able to resist it? either Heroique, or HeretiqueHeretic? Let the fatall destructions, and fearefull downfalls of Herod Ascalonita, that murthered the infants …
William Loe · Come and See the Bliss of Brightest Beauty · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… herd of before the popis then being Felix, or rather In felix. Euticianus an heretiqueheretic, Caius, not good. By whose contencious scismes and sectis and their so gredy ambicion …
With rule
… herd of before the popis then being Felix, or rather In felix. Euticianus an heretiqueheretic, Caius, not good. By whose contencious scismes and sectis and their so gredy ambicion …
Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · 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.

A Greek in the Temple A59915

Printed
… to command an impietie and great wickedneſſe: it is therefore a figure, WILL THE HERETIQUEHERETIC SAY. Theſe words will the heretiqueheretic ſay, are put in by him that ſet …
With rule
… to command an impietie and great wickedneſſe: it is therefore a figure, WILL THE HERETIQUEHERETIC SAY. Theſe words will the heretiqueheretic ſay, are put in by him that ſet …
John Sherman · A Greek in the Temple · p. 48 · Open in the reader