Waiting for reviewJoins and splitsCandidate #9030 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

orelsor else

Words joined or split: to day → today, it selfe → itself, aswell → as well.

Puritas changed it: 83 times in 21 works
Consistency: 98.8% (83 of 84)
Reach if approved: ~88 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 84 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (83 changes in 21 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 83)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is not cleare (for truly God worketh w^t his, his part in all times) orelsor else bicause we haue not y^e like faith of thē for whose cause God wrought …
With rule
… is not cleare (for truly God worketh w^t his, his part in all times) orelsor else bicause we haue not y^e like faith of thē for whose cause God wrought …
Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… soule, withall thy minde, witha…l thy power, withall thy strength, and so foorth, orelsor else with none at all. Then séeing that we are to giue ouer our selues …
With rule
… soule, withall thy minde, witha…l thy power, withall thy strength, and so foorth, orelsor else with none at all. Then séeing that we are to giue ouer our selues …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader
Printed
… them of ſuche maters / he muſt holde his peace / or ſay as they ſaye / orelsor else they wyll curſe him and make an herityke on him: ſayeng / that he ſpeaketh …
With rule
… them of ſuche maters / he muſt holde his peace / or ſay as they ſaye / orelsor else they wyll curſe him and make an herityke on him: ſayeng / that he ſpeaketh …
William Tyndale · A Pathway Into the Holy Scripture · Open in the reader
Printed
… confesse the doctrine of truithe in religion / and to reproue and cōumce the false: orelsor else they ar vnlearned / weake / and vnable to stande in the confession of the truithe …
With rule
… confesse the doctrine of truithe in religion / and to reproue and cōumce the false: orelsor else they ar vnlearned / weake / and vnable to stande in the confession of the truithe …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… shoulde saye, that Christes sacrifice wer not sufficient for the remission of our synnes: orelsor else that his sacrifice shuld hange vpon the sacrifice of a priest.
With rule
… shoulde saye, that Christes sacrifice wer not sufficient for the remission of our synnes: orelsor else that his sacrifice shuld hange vpon the sacrifice of a priest.
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Defense of the True Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… In the meane season either ceasse to boaste of your rotten and cancred art, orelsor else by som… waie perswade your principles to be true, to suche as without proofe …
With rule
… In the meane season either ceasse to boaste of your rotten and cancred art, orelsor else by som… waie perswade your principles to be true, to suche as without proofe …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader
Printed
… purpose. Here I know that ye thīk that either I write against my self orelsor else that I conclude a great absurditie. for if I say that God did nothing …
With rule
… purpose. Here I know that ye thīk that either I write against my self orelsor else that I conclude a great absurditie. for if I say that God did nothing …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as whē y^• guids of the Lords flocke be either absent frō their shepe, orelsor else are negligēt in doīg theyr dutie, I mean in preching gods word, & in writing …
With rule
… as whē y^• guids of the Lords flocke be either absent frō their shepe, orelsor else are negligēt in doīg theyr dutie, I mean in preching gods word, & in writing …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Marys Magnificat A68425

Printed
… Simeon: LORDE, Novv letteſt thou thy ſeruaunte departe in peace, accordynge to thy vvorde : OrelsOr else wyth Paule: I deſyre to be lowſed and to be wyth Chriſte.
With rule
… Simeon: LORDE, Novv letteſt thou thy ſeruaunte departe in peace, accordynge to thy vvorde : OrelsOr else wyth Paule: I deſyre to be lowſed and to be wyth Chriſte.
Martin Luther · Exposition of Marys Magnificat · Open in the reader