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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2423 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

adulteresseadulteress

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
530 times in 229 works
Consistency
100% (530 of 530)
Reach if approved
~558 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: adulteress
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
531 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (530 changes in 229 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 530)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lawe. Neither can ſhee, nor ought ſhee, in ſuch caſe, be diuorced, as an AdultereſſeAdulteress ought. And thus it appeareth … ſtill, that you ſinne again ſtabe Third Commaundment in …
    With rule
    … lawe. Neither can ſhee, nor ought ſhee, in ſuch caſe, be diuorced, as an AdultereſſeAdulteress ought. And thus it appeareth … ſtill, that you ſinne again ſtabe Third Commaundment in …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … what then? will they make the Church a monſter with two heads, and an adultereſſeadulteress with two huſbands? For Chriſt muſt be one head and huſband and the Pope …
    With rule
    … what then? will they make the Church a monſter with two heads, and an adultereſſeadulteress with two huſbands? For Chriſt muſt be one head and huſband and the Pope …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 276 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … here he doth by a moſt fit ſimilitude. There is great likeneſſe betweene the adultereſſeadulteress and fire, both in the propertie of inflaming and conſuming. Can any take fire …
    With rule
    … here he doth by a moſt fit ſimilitude. There is great likeneſſe betweene the adultereſſeadulteress and fire, both in the propertie of inflaming and conſuming. Can any take fire …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … loves the world: and hee that loves the world is an Adulterer and an AdulteresseAdulteress, saith St. Iames.
    With rule
    … loves the world: and hee that loves the world is an Adulterer and an AdulteresseAdulteress, saith St. Iames.

    John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of an extortioner, and oppreſſor, a liberall and bountifull giuer, as Zaccheus: of an adultereſſeadulteress, a penitent woman, reclaimed from the courſe of vncleane life, as the woman in …
    With rule
    … of an extortioner, and oppreſſor, a liberall and bountifull giuer, as Zaccheus: of an adultereſſeadulteress, a penitent woman, reclaimed from the courſe of vncleane life, as the woman in …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 191 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … bin shewed, or what higher blasphemie? But these are the right notes of an adulteresseadulteress, to equall hirself with her husband. Yea, What should I say more? They holde …
    With rule
    … bin shewed, or what higher blasphemie? But these are the right notes of an adulteresseadulteress, to equall hirself with her husband. Yea, What should I say more? They holde …

    Henry Smith · Gods Arrow Against Atheists · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … men seare the Euill of Punishment only; not the Euill of Sinne, as an AdulteresseAdulteress feares the Comming home of her Husband; but feares not the Committing of Adultery …
    With rule
    … men seare the Euill of Punishment only; not the Euill of Sinne, as an AdulteresseAdulteress feares the Comming home of her Husband; but feares not the Committing of Adultery …

    Hannibal Gamon · The Praise of a Godly Woman · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in a ſubiects mariage-bed? Wert thou ouercome by the vehement ſolicitations of an adultereſſeadulteress? wert thou not the tempter, the proſecutor of this vncleaneneſſe? I ſhould accuſe thee …
    With rule
    … in a ſubiects mariage-bed? Wert thou ouercome by the vehement ſolicitations of an adultereſſeadulteress? wert thou not the tempter, the proſecutor of this vncleaneneſſe? I ſhould accuſe thee …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 237 · 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.