Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11982 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

freindsfriends

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

Puritas changed it: 816 times in 285 works
Consistency: 99.8% (816 of 817)
Reach if approved: ~858 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: friends
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 817 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (816 changes in 285 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 816)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in giving honour, to goe one before an other; saluting, kissing, and embracing of freindsfriends, as ther is occasion. In words, softnes, meeknes and gentlenes towards all, without bitternes …
With rule
… in giving honour, to goe one before an other; saluting, kissing, and embracing of freindsfriends, as ther is occasion. In words, softnes, meeknes and gentlenes towards all, without bitternes …
Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 398 · Open in the reader
Printed
THey come vnto him partly with those his freindsfriends, which brought him victualls, c. 17.28. partly the tribes of Ruben, Gad, and Manasses, which …
With rule
THey come vnto him partly with those his freindsfriends, which brought him victualls, c. 17.28. partly the tribes of Ruben, Gad, and Manasses, which …
Andrew Willet · Harmony Upon 2 Samuel · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a silken hand: for by their smooth tongues, and milky language, they serve their freindsfriends, as the Tyrannous Emperor served his servauts, whom hee stifled in a chamber filled …
With rule
… a silken hand: for by their smooth tongues, and milky language, they serve their freindsfriends, as the Tyrannous Emperor served his servauts, whom hee stifled in a chamber filled …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 745 · Open in the reader
Printed
But, ſay you, the adverſaries admitt not of this reaſō. Surely nor your freindsfriends, I beleev, unleſſe it be ſome foxes, that prayſe the crow for his ſweet …
With rule
But, ſay you, the adverſaries admitt not of this reaſō. Surely nor your freindsfriends, I beleev, unleſſe it be ſome foxes, that prayſe the crow for his ſweet …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 518 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as was neuer heard of: for both he and certaine Cardinals with other his freindsfriends, were poysoned with the smell and smoake of a Taper, which was poysoned for …
With rule
… as was neuer heard of: for both he and certaine Cardinals with other his freindsfriends, were poysoned with the smell and smoake of a Taper, which was poysoned for …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… too much honoured, ſometime with their daughters or allyes, ſometime which their ſeruants, or freindsfriends, of which the Kingdome cryes ſhame, they profeſſedly carrying kiſſing comfits in their pockets …
With rule
… too much honoured, ſometime with their daughters or allyes, ſometime which their ſeruants, or freindsfriends, of which the Kingdome cryes ſhame, they profeſſedly carrying kiſſing comfits in their pockets …
John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he confesseth the fact, beeing conuicted the law proceeds to condemnation. The same mans freindsfriends come in, and alledge before the Iudge in this māner: This man hath a …
With rule
… he confesseth the fact, beeing conuicted the law proceeds to condemnation. The same mans freindsfriends come in, and alledge before the Iudge in this māner: This man hath a …
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… herein, albeeit censuring them with gentler words, as he is wont his favorites and freindsfriends. For the explicationsl (sayth hee) which the Bishop of Auila, Alphonsus a Castro, and …
With rule
… herein, albeeit censuring them with gentler words, as he is wont his favorites and freindsfriends. For the explicationsl (sayth hee) which the Bishop of Auila, Alphonsus a Castro, and …
John Rainolds · Defense of Divorce and Remarriage · p. 10 · 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.

Milk for Babes and Meat for Men A09518

Printed
BELOVED FREINDSFRIENDS.
With rule
BELOVED FREINDSFRIENDS.
Hugh Peters · Milk for Babes and Meat for Men · Open in the reader