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Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8241 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

harlottesharlots

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

Puritas changed it
87 times in 48 works
Consistency
93.5% (87 of 93)
Reach if approved
~98 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: harlots
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
93 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (87 changes in 48 works, 93.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 87)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … am sured, that the fleshe and bloode of Christe ascended, then be ye false harlottesharlots to god and to vs, for when we shalbe housholde ye brynge to vs …
    With rule
    … am sured, that the fleshe and bloode of Christe ascended, then be ye false harlottesharlots to god and to vs, for when we shalbe housholde ye brynge to vs …

    John Wycliffe · Wycliffes Wicket · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … iudged by the doctrine of Peter and the other Apostles. Wherefore lette these Romishe harlottesharlots looke rather vppon their owne wallet, and diligently consider what greate honoures they giue …
    With rule
    … iudged by the doctrine of Peter and the other Apostles. Wherefore lette these Romishe harlottesharlots looke rather vppon their owne wallet, and diligently consider what greate honoures they giue …

    Henrich Bullinger · Questions of Religion · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … yet if the husbande bee an whooremonger, and wasteth his goods and substaunce vppon harlottesharlots, so as his wife is shutte out of doores, or bee kept in with …
    With rule
    … yet if the husbande bee an whooremonger, and wasteth his goods and substaunce vppon harlottesharlots, so as his wife is shutte out of doores, or bee kept in with …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 840 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … at high noone dayes, and (as it is ſaide in the Prophet) they reſemble harlottesharlots, which vncouer their legges, and haue neyther ſhame nor diſcretion to diſcerne good or …
    With rule
    … at high noone dayes, and (as it is ſaide in the Prophet) they reſemble harlottesharlots, which vncouer their legges, and haue neyther ſhame nor diſcretion to diſcerne good or …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 471 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … for these holie and religious men that they should liue with the goods of harlottesharlots, and miscreantes, or that they should winne them to them selues frome others by …
    With rule
    … for these holie and religious men that they should liue with the goods of harlottesharlots, and miscreantes, or that they should winne them to them selues frome others by …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 440 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Leua the Archewhore (as the Comedyes ſay, vntyl ye old whores make agayne yong harlottesharlots, and ſo furth increaſe and augmente the Popes ye the deuyls churche, and ſeduce …
    With rule
    … Leua the Archewhore (as the Comedyes ſay, vntyl ye old whores make agayne yong harlottesharlots, and ſo furth increaſe and augmente the Popes ye the deuyls churche, and ſeduce …

    Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … where to reste his heade? Dyd not he kepe company wyth Publicans, synners and harlottesharlots, that he myghte brynge them to grace? whome other so greatly dyd abhorre? Dyd …
    With rule
    … where to reste his heade? Dyd not he kepe company wyth Publicans, synners and harlottesharlots, that he myghte brynge them to grace? whome other so greatly dyd abhorre? Dyd …

    Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … heauen (as this voyce did) muſt ſpeake like Iohn Baptiſt among the Publicanes and harlottesharlots, and ſoldiers, as though he went from one to another, and ſaide, this is …
    With rule
    … heauen (as this voyce did) muſt ſpeake like Iohn Baptiſt among the Publicanes and harlottesharlots, and ſoldiers, as though he went from one to another, and ſaide, this is …

    Henry Smith · The Fall of King Nebuchadnezzar · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 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.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

  • Printed
    … Ye see then that these nations are no better worthie than to bee counted HarlottesHarlots birdes borne in a brothelhouse: but that they were yet in more horrible plight …
    With rule
    … Ye see then that these nations are no better worthie than to bee counted HarlottesHarlots birdes borne in a brothelhouse: but that they were yet in more horrible plight …

    John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 68 · Open in the reader