Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7589 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

goddesgods

Two or more mechanical changes in one word: sinne → sin, vnderstande → understand.

Puritas changed it: 1,090 times in 170 works
Consistency: 43.1% (1,090 of 2,524)
Reach if approved: ~2,653 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gods
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,525 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: god's (1,430)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,090 changes in 170 works, 43.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,090)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… gaue commandement vnto his familie, & to all that were with him: Put away the goddesgods of the people, which are amongſt you, & cleanſe your ſelues, changing your garmēts. 3 Afterward …
With rule
… gaue commandement vnto his familie, & to all that were with him: Put away the goddesgods of the people, which are amongſt you, & cleanſe your ſelues, changing your garmēts. 3 Afterward …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… friends: when as their conſcience within ſhall be deeply wounded withe hellike tormentes? when goddesgods curſe and indignation hangeth contynually ouer the heades of ſuch, ready to be powred …
With rule
… friends: when as their conſcience within ſhall be deeply wounded withe hellike tormentes? when goddesgods curſe and indignation hangeth contynually ouer the heades of ſuch, ready to be powred …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 220 · Open in the reader
Printed
If Israel (sayth the Lord) shall hold vpon other goddesgods, and worship them. I wyl cast hym out of my syght, and he shall …
With rule
If Israel (sayth the Lord) shall hold vpon other goddesgods, and worship them. I wyl cast hym out of my syght, and he shall …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… As though he would say: so odious are the names of false and …aine goddesgods, that the mencion of them is righteously compared to stinckynge dounge and vile carion …
With rule
… As though he would say: so odious are the names of false and …aine goddesgods, that the mencion of them is righteously compared to stinckynge dounge and vile carion …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… and conpulsed. And they that marrye thus marrye in a forgetfulnes and obliuiousnes of goddesgods commaundementes. But as in the tyme of Noe, sodenlye a clappe fel in theyr …
With rule
… and conpulsed. And they that marrye thus marrye in a forgetfulnes and obliuiousnes of goddesgods commaundementes. But as in the tyme of Noe, sodenlye a clappe fel in theyr …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
That day dame Ceres goddesgods of the corne
With rule
That day dame Ceres goddesgods of the corne
David Lindsay · The Complaint and Testament of a Popinjay · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the hye preſtes (and ordred thē ſelues, as yf they had ben very goddesgods, and all the other but greſhoppers) and went euen thorowe with all power and …
With rule
… and the hye preſtes (and ordred thē ſelues, as yf they had ben very goddesgods, and all the other but greſhoppers) and went euen thorowe with all power and …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… They be condemned. So that althoughe they be yet fre from y^• playes of goddesgods vengeaunce, as the these is before he commeth vnto the gallowes, yet they maye …
With rule
… They be condemned. So that althoughe they be yet fre from y^• playes of goddesgods vengeaunce, as the these is before he commeth vnto the gallowes, yet they maye …
Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. xxxii · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 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.

Sermon of Repentance A16590

Printed
… I meane for the meanes of workynge contricion. Fyrſte vſe prayer, thē looke on GODDESGODS lawe, thyrdely, ſe hys curſe, fourthlye, ſette exaumples of his anger: and laſte of …
With rule
… I meane for the meanes of workynge contricion. Fyrſte vſe prayer, thē looke on GODDESGODS lawe, thyrdely, ſe hys curſe, fourthlye, ſette exaumples of his anger: and laſte of …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall moue thee, praye thou fyrſte of all, and looke for thy requeſt at GODDESGODS hande withoute any doubtyng, thoughe forthwith thou feeleſte not the ſame: for often tymes …
With rule
… ſhall moue thee, praye thou fyrſte of all, and looke for thy requeſt at GODDESGODS hande withoute any doubtyng, thoughe forthwith thou feeleſte not the ſame: for often tymes …
John Bradford · Sermon of Repentance · Open in the reader

A Consent of Scripture A16964

Printed
… as Gramarians ſpeake: which as Prophane men ſpeake it, by frame of language ſoundeth GODDESGODS. God woulde neuer ſo ſpeake of hym ſelfe, vnleſſe he would haue vs to …
With rule
… as Gramarians ſpeake: which as Prophane men ſpeake it, by frame of language ſoundeth GODDESGODS. God woulde neuer ſo ſpeake of hym ſelfe, vnleſſe he would haue vs to …
Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

Confutation of Unwritten Verities A19566

Printed
… farther / then they canne proue theyr doctrines and exhortacyons to aunswere / and agree wyth GODDESGODS mosre holye woorde. Seke / aske / crye / cal / knock / faste / and praye wyth a constaunte …
With rule
… farther / then they canne proue theyr doctrines and exhortacyons to aunswere / and agree wyth GODDESGODS mosre holye woorde. Seke / aske / crye / cal / knock / faste / and praye wyth a constaunte …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader