Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #35627 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

scotfreescot-free

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it: 90 times in 50 works
Consistency: 95.7% (90 of 94)
Reach if approved: ~99 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 94 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (90 changes in 50 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 90)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… many of our neighbours houſes are on fire, why ſhould we think to eſcape ſcotfreescot-free, that are as deep in ſin as they? being therefore forewarn'd, let us be …
With rule
… many of our neighbours houſes are on fire, why ſhould we think to eſcape ſcotfreescot-free, that are as deep in ſin as they? being therefore forewarn'd, let us be …
William Bridge · The Wounded Conscience Cured · Open in the reader
Printed
… cursing, breaking of the Sabbath, drunkennesse, adulterie and lying, which in mans law escape scotfreescot-free; as of theft, which by Ciuill law is adiudged worthie of death: because that …
With rule
… cursing, breaking of the Sabbath, drunkennesse, adulterie and lying, which in mans law escape scotfreescot-free; as of theft, which by Ciuill law is adiudged worthie of death: because that …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without check or censure. Yet I hope your Majesty will not let them goe scotfreescot-free for these their forgeries & corruptiōs; If not all done by their Commaund and privity …
With rule
… without check or censure. Yet I hope your Majesty will not let them goe scotfreescot-free for these their forgeries & corruptiōs; If not all done by their Commaund and privity …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prieſthood and burnte incenſe in the temple off god. But he wēt not away ſcotfreescot-free with his pride / but being ſodenly ſtricken with the leprouſy was made an example …
With rule
… prieſthood and burnte incenſe in the temple off god. But he wēt not away ſcotfreescot-free with his pride / but being ſodenly ſtricken with the leprouſy was made an example …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtoppe at it to laye a tyrannicall yoke vpon conſciences, that they might ſcape ſcotfreescot-free from bodily vexation. Therefore for feare of the croſſe they corrupted the true preaching …
With rule
… ſtoppe at it to laye a tyrannicall yoke vpon conſciences, that they might ſcape ſcotfreescot-free from bodily vexation. Therefore for feare of the croſſe they corrupted the true preaching …
John Calvin · Commentary on Galatians · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and I ſhall bee caſt alſo. And on that day, ſhall our forſakers eſcape ſcotfreescot-free? ſhall they not paſſe a ſtrickt triall and examination? Have yee had a care …
With rule
… and I ſhall bee caſt alſo. And on that day, ſhall our forſakers eſcape ſcotfreescot-free? ſhall they not paſſe a ſtrickt triall and examination? Have yee had a care …
Robert Abbot · A Trial of Church-Forsakers · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and unjuſt in his Office, puniſhing one or two ſins, letting all others go ſcotfreescot-free: For the Biſhop in the Conſiſtory puniſheth Adultery and Fornication with Excommunication, but lets …
With rule
… and unjuſt in his Office, puniſhing one or two ſins, letting all others go ſcotfreescot-free: For the Biſhop in the Conſiſtory puniſheth Adultery and Fornication with Excommunication, but lets …
Theophilus Brabourne · Sundry Particulars Concerning Bishops · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hand in all the troubles that befal them. 2. That their enemies ſhall not ſcape ſcotfreescot-free, but be ſoundly puniſhed.
With rule
… hand in all the troubles that befal them. 2. That their enemies ſhall not ſcape ſcotfreescot-free, but be ſoundly puniſhed.
John Trapp · Commentary on Prov Ecc SoS Isa Jer Lam Eze Dan · p. 373 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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