Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11585 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

brestsbreasts

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 1,011 times in 474 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,011 of 1,013)
Reach if approved: ~1,064 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: breasts
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,013 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,011 changes in 474 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,011)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Thy name for ever is, My brestsbreasts chaste Valentine.
With rule
Thy name for ever is, My brestsbreasts chaste Valentine.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the most sauage madde-men, that were euer nurst among wolues, or suck'd the brestsbreasts of inhumanity.
With rule
… the most sauage madde-men, that were euer nurst among wolues, or suck'd the brestsbreasts of inhumanity.
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… coat, and had no other meat but milke which he ſucked from his mothers breſtsbreasts. After this manner ſaith Toſſanus may we iudge of the Couenant, Idem Deus, eadem …
With rule
… coat, and had no other meat but milke which he ſucked from his mothers breſtsbreasts. After this manner ſaith Toſſanus may we iudge of the Couenant, Idem Deus, eadem …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I gaue you other faces, other complexions, other hayre, other bones, other bodies, other breſtsbreasts, other bellies, depart from me, I know you not. The like crime are both …
With rule
… I gaue you other faces, other complexions, other hayre, other bones, other bodies, other breſtsbreasts, other bellies, depart from me, I know you not. The like crime are both …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 74 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the glory of God in his fear and doctrin. Engraffe in their yong brestsbreasts, euen frō their tender age, vertue, godlines, and good māners, loke wel vnto your …
With rule
… in the glory of God in his fear and doctrin. Engraffe in their yong brestsbreasts, euen frō their tender age, vertue, godlines, and good māners, loke wel vnto your …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſowre face demonſtrates that ſhee is pained in giving the childe ſucke of her breſtsbreasts; ſo an auſtere and frowning face, ſufficiently argueth that the heart is pained and …
With rule
… ſowre face demonſtrates that ſhee is pained in giving the childe ſucke of her breſtsbreasts; ſo an auſtere and frowning face, ſufficiently argueth that the heart is pained and …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 247 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to be aband…ed, that so not onely no vices might harbour in our brestsbreasts, but that the custom… of no pleasure might ever overcome us, and so turne …
With rule
… to be aband…ed, that so not onely no vices might harbour in our brestsbreasts, but that the custom… of no pleasure might ever overcome us, and so turne …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 466 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Church to the worlds end: it is ſo in one of theſe breſtsbreasts, and therefore it is ſo in the other; it is ſo in Baptiſme, therefore …
With rule
… of the Church to the worlds end: it is ſo in one of theſe breſtsbreasts, and therefore it is ſo in the other; it is ſo in Baptiſme, therefore …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 32 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
To my onely chosen Valentine and wife, Anagram. MAYSTRESS ELISABETH VINCENT IS MY BRESTSBREASTS CHASTE VALENTINE.
With rule
To my onely chosen Valentine and wife, Anagram. MAYSTRESS ELISABETH VINCENT IS MY BRESTSBREASTS CHASTE VALENTINE.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 79 · Open in the reader