Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #52466 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

divelsdevils

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

Puritas changed it: 2,400 times in 584 works
Consistency: 99.7% (2,400 of 2,405)
Reach if approved: ~2,528 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devils
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,406 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,400 changes in 584 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,400)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Chriſt his wordes are occaſioned …y his Diſciples their forbidding one who caſt out DivelsDevils in Chriſt his name. Forbid him not (ſaid Chriſt) for, He, that is not …
With rule
… Chriſt his wordes are occaſioned …y his Diſciples their forbidding one who caſt out DivelsDevils in Chriſt his name. Forbid him not (ſaid Chriſt) for, He, that is not …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in distresse, it is strange to see how folke come about it; are we divelsdevils then that we can see poore creatures burthened with the unconceivable wrath of the …
With rule
… in distresse, it is strange to see how folke come about it; are we divelsdevils then that we can see poore creatures burthened with the unconceivable wrath of the …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in Him, love Him; They that know thee, will truſt in thee; otherwiſe the divelsdevils doe know God in their kinde.
With rule
… in Him, love Him; They that know thee, will truſt in thee; otherwiſe the divelsdevils doe know God in their kinde.
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 292 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sea of bloud and wounds, and stripes, and waters of affl…ction; men and divelsdevils, yea and God himselfe fight against him; he is forsaken of God, persecuted, despised …
With rule
… sea of bloud and wounds, and stripes, and waters of affl…ction; men and divelsdevils, yea and God himselfe fight against him; he is forsaken of God, persecuted, despised …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… given to himselfe, this sinne was as the sin of Eve who beleeved the DivelsDevils word, when she had Gods Word expresly, and therefore let us when we have …
With rule
… given to himselfe, this sinne was as the sin of Eve who beleeved the DivelsDevils word, when she had Gods Word expresly, and therefore let us when we have …
John Preston · The Golden Scepter Held Forth to the Humble · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and clamour of our dissolute gracelesse times, wherein many turne professed Atheists, or incarnate DivelsDevils, to avoid the jealousie of being reputed Puritans: But since the whole Catholicke Church …
With rule
… and clamour of our dissolute gracelesse times, wherein many turne professed Atheists, or incarnate DivelsDevils, to avoid the jealousie of being reputed Puritans: But since the whole Catholicke Church …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 556 · Open in the reader
Printed
… saving Faith. For there is a Faith that worketh a trembling as in the DivelsDevils, and there is a Faith which worketh life, and peace as in those that …
With rule
… saving Faith. For there is a Faith that worketh a trembling as in the DivelsDevils, and there is a Faith which worketh life, and peace as in those that …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſay, Heaven and thy Crowne is departed from thee, thou muſt be turned to DivelsDevils for ever, this will be thy condition to the end; it is our duty …
With rule
… ſay, Heaven and thy Crowne is departed from thee, thou muſt be turned to DivelsDevils for ever, this will be thy condition to the end; it is our duty …
Thomas Goodwin · The Happiness of the Saints in Glory · p. 25 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… now take unto themselves more than at other seasons, may more truly bee stiled DIVELSDEVILS-MASSE, or SATVRNES-MASSE (for such too many make it) than Christ-masse; there …
With rule
… now take unto themselves more than at other seasons, may more truly bee stiled DIVELSDEVILS-MASSE, or SATVRNES-MASSE (for such too many make it) than Christ-masse; there …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 754 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a holy manner &c. But now that a Theatre, A PLACE SO FAMILIAR TO DIVELSDEVILS, AND SO ODIOVS VNTO GOD… (pray marke it) should be set up in the …
With rule
… a holy manner &c. But now that a Theatre, A PLACE SO FAMILIAR TO DIVELSDEVILS, AND SO ODIOVS VNTO GOD… (pray marke it) should be set up in the …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 754 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland A14227

Printed
… the name of the Lord. and he elsewhere telleth us, that it was the DIVELSDEVILS doing to draw men unto the calling upon Angels; as envying them the honour …
With rule
… the name of the Lord. and he elsewhere telleth us, that it was the DIVELSDEVILS doing to draw men unto the calling upon Angels; as envying them the honour …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 421 · Open in the reader