Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #7971 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aduersaryesadversaries

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

Puritas changed it: 146 times in 68 works
Consistency: 91.8% (146 of 159)
Reach if approved: ~167 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: adversaries
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 (146 changes in 68 works, 91.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 146)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it foloweth in the texte, that occasion was gynen by such wantonnesse to the aduersaryesadversaries to speake euyll of the Christen relygyon. Thus was it the mynde of the …
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… it foloweth in the texte, that occasion was gynen by such wantonnesse to the aduersaryesadversaries to speake euyll of the Christen relygyon. Thus was it the mynde of the …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. lxxxvii · Open in the reader
Printed
… or more zelously louing his countrey. Herewithall he considered the slaunderous cauillations of his aduersaryesadversaries, to whome hereby might seme an occasion giuen, as if the Admirall were of …
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… or more zelously louing his countrey. Herewithall he considered the slaunderous cauillations of his aduersaryesadversaries, to whome hereby might seme an occasion giuen, as if the Admirall were of …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XV · Open in the reader
Printed
… from y^e rote and grounde of the herte / and ſheweth hym lelfe to his aduerſaryesadversaries and enemyes not hurtīge them / not iudgynge them / not abhorrynge them / not curſynge them …
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… from y^e rote and grounde of the herte / and ſheweth hym lelfe to his aduerſaryesadversaries and enemyes not hurtīge them / not iudgynge them / not abhorrynge them / not curſynge them …
Martin Luther · Treatise of Good Works · Open in the reader
Printed
… to expende and marke, what on bothe partes may be ſayde and alledged. Our aduerſaryesadversaries do confeſſe, that there muſt nedes be terrors and tormentes of the minde: but …
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… to expende and marke, what on bothe partes may be ſayde and alledged. Our aduerſaryesadversaries do confeſſe, that there muſt nedes be terrors and tormentes of the minde: but …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… issue of the same, to his owne eternall glorye, the endlesse confusion of our aduersaryesadversaries that molest vs, & to the euerlasting consolation of our own soules.
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… issue of the same, to his owne eternall glorye, the endlesse confusion of our aduersaryesadversaries that molest vs, & to the euerlasting consolation of our own soules.
John Udall · The Combat Betwixt Christ and the Devil · Open in the reader
Printed
… hygheſt: inſomuche that yf ony mā yet nowe a dayes ſhuld call them the aduerſaryesadversaries or enemyes of God, he ſhulde ſcarſely eſcape theyr handes alyue. Beſydes thys, the …
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… hygheſt: inſomuche that yf ony mā yet nowe a dayes ſhuld call them the aduerſaryesadversaries or enemyes of God, he ſhulde ſcarſely eſcape theyr handes alyue. Beſydes thys, the …
Henrich Bullinger · Commentary on 2 Thessalonians · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a proteſtation of his good conduct and guydance, and of the malice of his aduerſaryesadversaries: Thirdly, he calleth vppon God in his afflictions. Now as concerning the firſt, hee …
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… a proteſtation of his good conduct and guydance, and of the malice of his aduerſaryesadversaries: Thirdly, he calleth vppon God in his afflictions. Now as concerning the firſt, hee …
John Calvin · Twenty-Two Sermons on Psalm 119 · Open in the reader
Printed
… embrace wyllyngly the pouerte of ſprete, and to ſuffre iniury, to permitte vnto oure aduerſaryesadversaries theyr requeſt, for they ſhal not longe reioyce. Herein is a ſtronge and ſure …
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… embrace wyllyngly the pouerte of ſprete, and to ſuffre iniury, to permitte vnto oure aduerſaryesadversaries theyr requeſt, for they ſhal not longe reioyce. Herein is a ſtronge and ſure …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Marys Magnificat · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Sacrament of the Lords Supper A14347

Printed
… plain. Therfore we passe litell of that Councell seeyng they erred so grosely. The AduersaryesAdversaries dooe also obiecte the Synode or Counsel of Constaunce wher Wicliefe was condemned, and …
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… plain. Therfore we passe litell of that Councell seeyng they erred so grosely. The AduersaryesAdversaries dooe also obiecte the Synode or Counsel of Constaunce wher Wicliefe was condemned, and …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader

The Scholars Purgatory Discovered A15655

Printed
… feeling of that which he suffred (by reason of the Combinations of his vvicked AduersaryesAdversaries) and …oe be made the abler to expresse his passions, and the persecutions of …
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… feeling of that which he suffred (by reason of the Combinations of his vvicked AduersaryesAdversaries) and …oe be made the abler to expresse his passions, and the persecutions of …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of too much bitternesse in the reprouing and laying open the cruelty of my AduersaryesAdversaries. For, my conscience is vvitnesse that I haue vsed no termes of sharpenesse but …
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… of too much bitternesse in the reprouing and laying open the cruelty of my AduersaryesAdversaries. For, my conscience is vvitnesse that I haue vsed no termes of sharpenesse but …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vvill not be left me in all the world, to defend me against my AduersaryesAdversaries, & supply the comon necessityes of nature, so much as vvill feed me one vveeke …
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… vvill not be left me in all the world, to defend me against my AduersaryesAdversaries, & supply the comon necessityes of nature, so much as vvill feed me one vveeke …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpstart vvriters; that the Common people scarce knovve vvhat principles vvee professe; and our AduersaryesAdversaries take aduantage, out of their vnallovved Pamphlets, to impute to the Church of England …
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… vpstart vvriters; that the Common people scarce knovve vvhat principles vvee professe; and our AduersaryesAdversaries take aduantage, out of their vnallovved Pamphlets, to impute to the Church of England …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 128 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
Amongest many other impugners and AduersaryesAdversaries, whereof there was no small sort which did infest this good man in Sermons …
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Amongest many other impugners and AduersaryesAdversaries, whereof there was no small sort which did infest this good man in Sermons …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1743 · Open in the reader
Printed
… awaye and murren of so many persecutyng Byshoppes, so many bloudye Promoters, and malicious AduersaryesAdversaries, in suche a shorte tyme together with Queene Marye, and that wythout anye mans …
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… awaye and murren of so many persecutyng Byshoppes, so many bloudye Promoters, and malicious AduersaryesAdversaries, in suche a shorte tyme together with Queene Marye, and that wythout anye mans …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 2114 · Open in the reader
Printed
Aunsweres concerning Marbecke to the cauilling AduersaryesAdversaries. 1221
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Aunsweres concerning Marbecke to the cauilling AduersaryesAdversaries. 1221
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader