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Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50394 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

divilDevil

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
163 times in 41 works
Consistency
100% (163 of 163)
Reach if approved
~171 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: devil
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
163 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (163 changes in 41 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 163)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … books, as Iudith, Tobie &c. though exactly translated, is not inspired vnlesse of the DivilDevil; for lyes and fables are in them both, the translations I mean, and the …
    With rule
    … books, as Iudith, Tobie &c. though exactly translated, is not inspired vnlesse of the DivilDevil; for lyes and fables are in them both, the translations I mean, and the …

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … or other miniſter hav received eccleſiaſtical office from him, they received it from the DivilDevil & not from Chriſt. This bleſſing & benefit hath Mr Br. brought vpon his countrie. He …
    With rule
    … or other miniſter hav received eccleſiaſtical office from him, they received it from the DivilDevil & not from Chriſt. This bleſſing & benefit hath Mr Br. brought vpon his countrie. He …

    Hugh Broughton · Certain Questions · p. 20 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … him in the beauty of holineſs. Yea, Chriſt himſelf preacheth this doctrine, when the DivilDevil tempted him to fall down and worſhip him; he anſwered, It is written thou …
    With rule
    … him in the beauty of holineſs. Yea, Chriſt himſelf preacheth this doctrine, when the DivilDevil tempted him to fall down and worſhip him; he anſwered, It is written thou …

    Edward Bury · A Help to Holy Walking · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … which was ſown, (and in that caſe there is no great need of that DivilDevil towards the obſtructing effectuallneſs, let the ſeed ly there never ſo long, if it …
    With rule
    … which was ſown, (and in that caſe there is no great need of that DivilDevil towards the obſtructing effectuallneſs, let the ſeed ly there never ſo long, if it …

    Henry Hammond · A Pacific Discourse of Gods Grace · p. 79 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … belongs to no Scepter but Chriſt's. O then why ſhould any go to the DivilDevil for a Wind, if it belongs to the Soveraignty of God, to command them …
    With rule
    … belongs to no Scepter but Chriſt's. O then why ſhould any go to the DivilDevil for a Wind, if it belongs to the Soveraignty of God, to command them …

    John Ryther · A Plat for Mariners · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Holy and Heavenly words as Angels could have spoken, yet it was but the DivilDevil in Samuels Mantle.
    With rule
    … Holy and Heavenly words as Angels could have spoken, yet it was but the DivilDevil in Samuels Mantle.

    Roger Williams · George Fox Digged Out of His Burrows · p. 408 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … for this quotes Acts 19.19. Thoſe that uſed curious arts burnt their books. For the DivilDevil, the Dragon, doth labour to carry up mens minds to the top of the …
    With rule
    … for this quotes Acts 19.19. Thoſe that uſed curious arts burnt their books. For the DivilDevil, the Dragon, doth labour to carry up mens minds to the top of the …

    Christopher Fowler · Satan at Noon · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … horrible, if in any Chriſtian congregation, there ſhould be brought in pictures of the DivilDevil, or other like helliſh repreſentations. Yet men wil not ſee the horror of this …
    With rule
    … horrible, if in any Chriſtian congregation, there ſhould be brought in pictures of the DivilDevil, or other like helliſh repreſentations. Yet men wil not ſee the horror of this …

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 286 · 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.