Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7847 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deuoutedevout

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

Puritas changed it: 157 times in 90 works
Consistency: 98.7% (157 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devout
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 159 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (157 changes in 90 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 157)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Chriſt with the holy mynyſtracyon of his ſupper is there had in deryſyon: a deuoutedevout conſcience will not preſume to applye vnto it / the promyſes that were geuen vnto …
With rule
… Chriſt with the holy mynyſtracyon of his ſupper is there had in deryſyon: a deuoutedevout conſcience will not preſume to applye vnto it / the promyſes that were geuen vnto …
Henrich Bullinger · Two Epistles · Open in the reader
Printed
… S. Ierome according in the same note, summeth vp the whole practice of a deuoutedevout soule in her priuate carriage with God in these words She sorroweth after a …
With rule
… S. Ierome according in the same note, summeth vp the whole practice of a deuoutedevout soule in her priuate carriage with God in these words She sorroweth after a …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader
Printed
A man may be deuoutedevout enough: too much, when their zeale is like the horne in the Vnicorns head …
With rule
A man may be deuoutedevout enough: too much, when their zeale is like the horne in the Vnicorns head …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forth in the great audite of Christ, and end of the world. For what deuoutedevout soule trembleth not? yea shuddereth not with horror, to know that Sathan is the …
With rule
… forth in the great audite of Christ, and end of the world. For what deuoutedevout soule trembleth not? yea shuddereth not with horror, to know that Sathan is the …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the vnfaythfull, vnto the fayth of Christ. Thus se we that all holye & deuoutedevout persons dyd euer premeditate with them selues, wherfore they shoulde pray before they prayed …
With rule
… of the vnfaythfull, vnto the fayth of Christ. Thus se we that all holye & deuoutedevout persons dyd euer premeditate with them selues, wherfore they shoulde pray before they prayed …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader
Printed
… to saluation, all true and faithfull beleeuers (which out of an humbled heart, by deuoutedevout prayer doe seeke it at Gods hand) are sure to haue reuealed vnto them …
With rule
… to saluation, all true and faithfull beleeuers (which out of an humbled heart, by deuoutedevout prayer doe seeke it at Gods hand) are sure to haue reuealed vnto them …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doctrines mens preceptes, thereby telling the Phariſtes though they were neuer ſo paynefull and deuoutedevout in obſeruing their owne traditions, yet hée would make no accompt of their ſo …
With rule
… doctrines mens preceptes, thereby telling the Phariſtes though they were neuer ſo paynefull and deuoutedevout in obſeruing their owne traditions, yet hée would make no accompt of their ſo …
Thomas Sparke · To All Christians Troubled and Disquieted · Open in the reader
Printed
… the soules of the dead were present at the affaires of the liuing, my deuoutedevout mother would neuer a night be from me, who when she liued, followed me …
With rule
… the soules of the dead were present at the affaires of the liuing, my deuoutedevout mother would neuer a night be from me, who when she liued, followed me …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 338 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Handmaid to Private Devotion A00587

Printed
… sorrow. Godly sorrow for sinne, and holy ioy for that sorrow, is the whole DeuouteDevout man. Madame, if my Meditations vpon the fasting, suffering, and death of our Sauiour …
With rule
… sorrow. Godly sorrow for sinne, and holy ioy for that sorrow, is the whole DeuouteDevout man. Madame, if my Meditations vpon the fasting, suffering, and death of our Sauiour …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader