Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8230 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deuillishdevilish

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

Puritas changed it: 239 times in 97 works
Consistency: 91.5% (239 of 261)
Reach if approved: ~274 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: devilish
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 261 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (239 changes in 97 works, 91.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 239)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… cleare a demonstration: when the spirite speaking euidently, giueth these euident markes of erronious & deuillishdevilish doctrine, which are found in you, as wel as in those olde heretikes. For …
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… cleare a demonstration: when the spirite speaking euidently, giueth these euident markes of erronious & deuillishdevilish doctrine, which are found in you, as wel as in those olde heretikes. For …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
An anſvver to the deuilliſhdevilish detection of Stephane Gardiner, Biſhoppe of Wyncheſter, publiſhed to the intent that ſuch as …
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An anſvver to the deuilliſhdevilish detection of Stephane Gardiner, Biſhoppe of Wyncheſter, publiſhed to the intent that ſuch as …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… is, when denying, as is ſaid, our owne reaſon & wiſdom, or worldly, ſenſuall and deuilliſhdevilish wiſdome, we ſeeke onely to be wiſe in him. So, whatſoeuer thy will inclines …
With rule
… is, when denying, as is ſaid, our owne reaſon & wiſdom, or worldly, ſenſuall and deuilliſhdevilish wiſdome, we ſeeke onely to be wiſe in him. So, whatſoeuer thy will inclines …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
… preachings, the kyngdom of Antichrist, so much as they can, with his Antichristian actes, deuillishdevilish decrees, croked cōstitutions, trifling traditions drousie dreames, idle inuentions, vnwritten verities. &c. yet is …
With rule
… preachings, the kyngdom of Antichrist, so much as they can, with his Antichristian actes, deuillishdevilish decrees, croked cōstitutions, trifling traditions drousie dreames, idle inuentions, vnwritten verities. &c. yet is …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… God had called them, they did for euer lay aside all such wicked and deuillishdevilish practises, forbidden by God, and yet in vse among the Egyptians and Chaldeans.
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… God had called them, they did for euer lay aside all such wicked and deuillishdevilish practises, forbidden by God, and yet in vse among the Egyptians and Chaldeans.
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne Sonne, vndertaking our ſinnes, with that ſeueritie? Malice it ſelfe, though more then deuilliſhdevilish, knowes not how to quarrell at the Truth and Iuſtice of God; or to …
With rule
… owne Sonne, vndertaking our ſinnes, with that ſeueritie? Malice it ſelfe, though more then deuilliſhdevilish, knowes not how to quarrell at the Truth and Iuſtice of God; or to …
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 449 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinne, that can be committed, but it is fathered vpon some of vs: which deuillishdevilish dealing, albeit we know that it shall turne to their eternall destruction, vnlesse the …
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… sinne, that can be committed, but it is fathered vpon some of vs: which deuillishdevilish dealing, albeit we know that it shall turne to their eternall destruction, vnlesse the …
John Udall · Obedience to the Gospel · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Papists thinke no: for they admit no cause of depriuation but heresie. This deuillishdevilish Pope, through the harlots of Rome (for he was well beloued of them) recouered …
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… the Papists thinke no: for they admit no cause of depriuation but heresie. This deuillishdevilish Pope, through the harlots of Rome (for he was well beloued of them) recouered …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 127 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (22)

18 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass A02831

Printed
… imprecations, as they procead of an obstinate and contumatious heart, so they be altogether DeuillishDevilish, to deceaue and draw back the simple ignorant and vnskilful Reader, vnto vtter distructiō …
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… imprecations, as they procead of an obstinate and contumatious heart, so they be altogether DeuillishDevilish, to deceaue and draw back the simple ignorant and vnskilful Reader, vnto vtter distructiō …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 4 · Open in the reader

The White Devil A02959

Printed
… fraud; a trade, a profession, a mysterie, like a Rome-harted Protestant, hides this DeuillishDevilish Seminary vnder his roofe without suspicion. To say truth, most of our professions (thanks …
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… fraud; a trade, a profession, a mysterie, like a Rome-harted Protestant, hides this DeuillishDevilish Seminary vnder his roofe without suspicion. To say truth, most of our professions (thanks …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 36 · Open in the reader

The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry A04378

Printed
… whom, by their reſembling of Satan in their deuilliſhdevilish policies, we may giue iudgement. DeuilliſhDevilish policies I call them, that ſo I might not be thought ſimply to condemne …
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… whom, by their reſembling of Satan in their deuilliſhdevilish policies, we may giue iudgement. DeuilliſhDevilish policies I call them, that ſo I might not be thought ſimply to condemne …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
CHAP. IX. DeuilliſhDevilish and Popiſh Policies for the corrupting of the will, affections and outward ſenſes.
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CHAP. IX. DeuilliſhDevilish and Popiſh Policies for the corrupting of the will, affections and outward ſenſes.
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… people to caſt them into the riuer and drowne them. Now this was a DeuilliſhDevilish Policy, and fit for him to practiſe who is a deuouring Dragon, which accordingly …
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… people to caſt them into the riuer and drowne them. Now this was a DeuilliſhDevilish Policy, and fit for him to practiſe who is a deuouring Dragon, which accordingly …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 119 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… saith he had read, and supposed that they were done either by Naturall or DeuillishDevilish Magike. The Fessans after their Easter, yearely resort to his Tombe with such numbers …
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… saith he had read, and supposed that they were done either by Naturall or DeuillishDevilish Magike. The Fessans after their Easter, yearely resort to his Tombe with such numbers …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 509 · Open in the reader

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

Printed
3. DeuilliſhDevilish wiſdome, when a man hath his wits about him to defend and maintaine ſinne …
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3. DeuilliſhDevilish wiſdome, when a man hath his wits about him to defend and maintaine ſinne …
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 32 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
2 One who is like the Deuill, of a DeuillishDevilish quality. Iohn 6, 70. Haue I not chosen twelue, and one of you is a Deuill …
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2 One who is like the Deuill, of a DeuillishDevilish quality. Iohn 6, 70. Haue I not chosen twelue, and one of you is a Deuill …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light A19294

Printed
… to follow mee with this Tentation, to bee assaulted with this pestilent-brood, and DeuillishDevilish Generation? Hath not hee vsed mee as an instrument, though most vnworthy, to comfort …
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… to follow mee with this Tentation, to bee assaulted with this pestilent-brood, and DeuillishDevilish Generation? Hath not hee vsed mee as an instrument, though most vnworthy, to comfort …
Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 13 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature A19295

Printed
… to follow mee with this Tentation, to bee assaulted with this pestilent-brood, and DeuillishDevilish Generation? Hath not hee vsed mee as an instrument, though most vnworthy, to comfort …
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… to follow mee with this Tentation, to bee assaulted with this pestilent-brood, and DeuillishDevilish Generation? Hath not hee vsed mee as an instrument, though most vnworthy, to comfort …
Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 13 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Sacred Divinity A20766

Printed
… Deuill, whether in direct ſeeking vnto him, coniuring and inuocating of him, or in DeuilliſhDevilish meanes, though pretending other cauſes.
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… Deuill, whether in direct ſeeking vnto him, coniuring and inuocating of him, or in DeuilliſhDevilish meanes, though pretending other cauſes.
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnto ſinne. Whereupon Peter vſeth the will of the Gentiles, in ſtead of a DeuilliſhDevilish and wicked will; to ſhew, that ſuch is the will of vs all without …
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… vnto ſinne. Whereupon Peter vſeth the will of the Gentiles, in ſtead of a DeuilliſhDevilish and wicked will; to ſhew, that ſuch is the will of vs all without …
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Apoſtle Iames maketh naturall wiſedome all one with that which is earthly and DeuilliſhDevilish. Whereby we may eaſily vnderſtand, what is to bee ſaid of the inferiour parts …
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… the Apoſtle Iames maketh naturall wiſedome all one with that which is earthly and DeuilliſhDevilish. Whereby we may eaſily vnderſtand, what is to bee ſaid of the inferiour parts …
John Downame · The Sum of Sacred Divinity · p. 241 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
… of all true religion, that is Gods worde. What worde of God hath that DeuillishDevilish drabbe, for the maintenaunce of her manifolde abhominations, and to set to sell such …
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… of all true religion, that is Gods worde. What worde of God hath that DeuillishDevilish drabbe, for the maintenaunce of her manifolde abhominations, and to set to sell such …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1779 · Open in the reader

Of Domestical Duties A68107

Printed
… or buried in gardens, or other places, or other wayes conueyed out of ſight? DeuilliſhDevilish muſt that doctrine needs be, which hath ſuch deuilliſhdevilish effects. Well did he wiſh …
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… or buried in gardens, or other places, or other wayes conueyed out of ſight? DeuilliſhDevilish muſt that doctrine needs be, which hath ſuch deuilliſhdevilish effects. Well did he wiſh …
William Gouge · Of Domestical Duties · p. 184 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
… can looke to be entertained no otherwiſe at our hand, than as ſuch a DeuilliſhDevilish fancie deſerueth, with hatred, and execration.
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… can looke to be entertained no otherwiſe at our hand, than as ſuch a DeuilliſhDevilish fancie deſerueth, with hatred, and execration.
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 656 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a woman that hath a familiar ſpirit.) If Saul had not knowne this courſe DeuilliſhDevilish, why did he decree to baniſh it, to mulct it with death? yet now …
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… a woman that hath a familiar ſpirit.) If Saul had not knowne this courſe DeuilliſhDevilish, why did he decree to baniſh it, to mulct it with death? yet now …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not the Lord beene gone from Saul; hee had neuer co…ne to the DeuilliſhDevilish Oracle of Endor, and yet the counterfetting ſpirit can ſay; Why doſt thou arke …
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… not the Lord beene gone from Saul; hee had neuer co…ne to the DeuilliſhDevilish Oracle of Endor, and yet the counterfetting ſpirit can ſay; Why doſt thou arke …
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 1111 · Open in the reader