Waiting for reviewMixed spelling (two or more of the above)Candidate #8343 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deceyuedeceive

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

Puritas changed it: 327 times in 121 works
Consistency: 99.0% (327 of 330)
Reach if approved: ~347 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: deceive
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 330 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (327 changes in 121 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 327)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ravenous cruell poysonfull and singing as Lyons and scorpions, having powr to hurt and deceyuedeceive for a season, albeyt their … ād malice be limited ād repressed by the providence …
With rule
… ravenous cruell poysonfull and singing as Lyons and scorpions, having powr to hurt and deceyuedeceive for a season, albeyt their … ād malice be limited ād repressed by the providence …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sauiour Iesus Christ, take hede that neyther seruaunte, nor frende, reteyner, nor youreselues do deceyuedeceive you wyth flatterye.
With rule
… Sauiour Iesus Christ, take hede that neyther seruaunte, nor frende, reteyner, nor youreselues do deceyuedeceive you wyth flatterye.
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lorde take awai from vs these Marchaunts, that geue attendaūce vpon that filthy whore, & deceyuedeceive the whole world wyth theyr peltyng pedlary, thieuyshe trashe and masking marchaundyse. Lette theyre …
With rule
… Lorde take awai from vs these Marchaunts, that geue attendaūce vpon that filthy whore, & deceyuedeceive the whole world wyth theyr peltyng pedlary, thieuyshe trashe and masking marchaundyse. Lette theyre …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. xxiiii · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo in dede. For eyther I am greatly abuſed, or els ye do wittingly deceyuedeceive your ſelues. But now let vs come to youre argumentes, and to begin withall …
With rule
… ſo in dede. For eyther I am greatly abuſed, or els ye do wittingly deceyuedeceive your ſelues. But now let vs come to youre argumentes, and to begin withall …
Wolfgang Musculus · The Observer of Time · Open in the reader
Printed
… felaw shulde dye for hym. He cam agayne, desyryng rather to dye, then to deceyuedeceive his frende. The kynge not onely pardoned the man whome before he had condempned …
With rule
… felaw shulde dye for hym. He cam agayne, desyryng rather to dye, then to deceyuedeceive his frende. The kynge not onely pardoned the man whome before he had condempned …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
Well mine hoste, deceyuedeceive not your selfe, I perceiue that you and I are in a wrong boxe …
With rule
Well mine hoste, deceyuedeceive not your selfe, I perceiue that you and I are in a wrong boxe …
John Udall · The State of the Church of England · Open in the reader
Printed
… that there is hipocrasie in them: yet that grosse hipocrasie, whereby men labour to deceyuedeceive others, is not in them: but that most close and most dangerous hipocrasie, whereby …
With rule
… that there is hipocrasie in them: yet that grosse hipocrasie, whereby men labour to deceyuedeceive others, is not in them: but that most close and most dangerous hipocrasie, whereby …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the deuyll ād hys angels. Vengeable assaultes haue they / and innumerable craftes to deceyuedeceive the innocent not knowinge them. Oure first mother Eua was thus trapped in the …
With rule
… of the deuyll ād hys angels. Vengeable assaultes haue they / and innumerable craftes to deceyuedeceive the innocent not knowinge them. Oure first mother Eua was thus trapped in the …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

A Motive to Good Works A13103

Printed
… a scumme or bubble, before a man haue any vse or fruition of them. DeceyueDeceive the world no longer with your bableries for filthy lucre sake, repent and turne …
With rule
… a scumme or bubble, before a man haue any vse or fruition of them. DeceyueDeceive the world no longer with your bableries for filthy lucre sake, repent and turne …
Philip Stubbes · A Motive to Good Works · p. 112 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Galatians A17706

Printed
7 DeceyueDeceive not your ſelues: God cannot be mocked. For looke vvhat a man ſovveth, that …
With rule
7 DeceyueDeceive not your ſelues: God cannot be mocked. For looke vvhat a man ſovveth, that …
John Calvin · Sermons on Galatians · Open in the reader