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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #52899 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

preistpriest

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

Puritas changed it
823 times in 205 works
Consistency
99.6% (823 of 826)
Reach if approved
~868 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: priest
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
826 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (823 changes in 205 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 823)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … our adversaryes do not iustify their mariages in the assemblyes, celebrated by the parish preistpriest, as a parte of the solemn worship of God: & in that respect agaynst the …
    With rule
    … our adversaryes do not iustify their mariages in the assemblyes, celebrated by the parish preistpriest, as a parte of the solemn worship of God: & in that respect agaynst the …

    John Robinson · Of Religious Communion Private and Public · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … her own tabernacle. So Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching PreistPriest, and without Law, 2 Chron. 15. 3. and the Lord was not with Jsrael: 2 Chron. 25. 7. but at …
    With rule
    … her own tabernacle. So Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching PreistPriest, and without Law, 2 Chron. 15. 3. and the Lord was not with Jsrael: 2 Chron. 25. 7. but at …

    Henry Ainsworth · A Reply to a Pretended Christians Plea for the Church of Rome · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Doe want a PreistPriest to shrive them,
    With rule
    Doe want a PreistPriest to shrive them,

    Robert Wild · Alas Poor Scholar Whither Wilt Thou Go · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    So cryed the High PreiſtPriest, when Chriſt confeſſed himſelfe to be the Sonne of the livyng God. Math. 27.65. If …
    With rule
    So cryed the High PreiſtPriest, when Chriſt confeſſed himſelfe to be the Sonne of the livyng God. Math. 27.65. If …

    William Bradshaw · A Mild and Just Defense of Certain Arguments · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … prescribe how it was to be …eboursed, and likewise take from good Iehojada the PreistPriest the administration of the same. Now, where he hath read that Ioash made himselfe …
    With rule
    … prescribe how it was to be …eboursed, and likewise take from good Iehojada the PreistPriest the administration of the same. Now, where he hath read that Ioash made himselfe …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 128 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    To Mars his PreistPriest at my Interrement.
    With rule
    To Mars his PreistPriest at my Interrement.

    David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … that can read this book… distinctly, is fit ynough with them to be a PreistPriest, yea many that have ben Artificers, as Shoemakers, Taylers, Weavers, Porters, &c, and without …
    With rule
    … that can read this book… distinctly, is fit ynough with them to be a PreistPriest, yea many that have ben Artificers, as Shoemakers, Taylers, Weavers, Porters, &c, and without …

    Henry Ainsworth · The Confession of Faith of English People in Exile · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … annoynted with the Deitie and holy Ghost and that to be both a Kinge, PreistPriest and Prophet to his Church, but hee? Psal. 45.7. Acts. 4.27. Chap. 10.38. Isai. 61.1.
    With rule
    … annoynted with the Deitie and holy Ghost and that to be both a Kinge, PreistPriest and Prophet to his Church, but hee? Psal. 45.7. Acts. 4.27. Chap. 10.38. Isai. 61.1.

    William Prynne · Queries Propounded to the Bowers · p. 6 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05604

  • Printed
    … ſo much the rather becauſe as ſoone as my apology was arriued NEWCOMIN the PREISTPRIEST reported in the country, that it should cost mee my eares: and the one …
    With rule
    … ſo much the rather becauſe as ſoone as my apology was arriued NEWCOMIN the PREISTPRIEST reported in the country, that it should cost mee my eares: and the one …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 A05611

  • Printed
    … ſo much the rather becauſe as ſoone as my apology was arriued NEWCOMIN the PREISTPRIEST reported in the country, that it should cost mee my eares: and the one …
    With rule
    … ſo much the rather becauſe as ſoone as my apology was arriued NEWCOMIN the PREISTPRIEST reported in the country, that it should cost mee my eares: and the one …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

A Quench-Coal A10197

  • Printed
    … SACRIFICE (therfore neither commemoratiue, … propitiatory: for this vniuerfull Negatiue includes both) or … NO SACRIFICING PREISTPRIEST … New PreistPriest… observe this well to which they haue subscribed) NO MASSE, (let those …
    With rule
    … SACRIFICE (therfore neither commemoratiue, … propitiatory: for this vniuerfull Negatiue includes both) or … NO SACRIFICING PREISTPRIEST … New PreistPriest… observe this well to which they haue subscribed) NO MASSE, (let those …

    William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 203 · Open in the reader