Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12067 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fréefree

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

Puritas changed it: 1,426 times in 147 works
Consistency: 100% (1,426 of 1,426)
Reach if approved: ~1,498 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: free
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,426 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,426 changes in 147 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,426)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
How Chriſt his Death hath made vs fréefree,
With rule
How Chriſt his Death hath made vs fréefree,
Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader
Printed
… of doing, beginning and endyng, beyond mans power & habilitie, ſo that he ſpeaketh againſt fréefree will, becauſe it is not in our power, to appoint y^e tyme, the meane …
With rule
… of doing, beginning and endyng, beyond mans power & habilitie, ſo that he ſpeaketh againſt fréefree will, becauſe it is not in our power, to appoint y^e tyme, the meane …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Ecclesiastes · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Scriptures it doth signifye. We describe and define election to bée the fréefree choyce of the good wyll of the almighty God, appoynting and prescribing in the …
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… in the Scriptures it doth signifye. We describe and define election to bée the fréefree choyce of the good wyll of the almighty God, appoynting and prescribing in the …
Theodore Beza · The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… necessarie maintenance of my poore estate, so as I hauing alwaies sufficient, maie be fréefree from all couetousnes, ambition, and filthie auarice, being alwaies perswaded that godlinesse is great …
With rule
… necessarie maintenance of my poore estate, so as I hauing alwaies sufficient, maie be fréefree from all couetousnes, ambition, and filthie auarice, being alwaies perswaded that godlinesse is great …
Philip Stubbes · A Perfect Pathway to Felicity · Open in the reader
Printed
And what elſe is this fréefree loue, this forgiueneſſe of ſinnes, this turning awaie of anger, this Chriſtian peace, which …
With rule
And what elſe is this fréefree loue, this forgiueneſſe of ſinnes, this turning awaie of anger, this Chriſtian peace, which …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fourthly, whether our hearts are fréefree from malice, and hatred; and whether wee beare true, and sincere affection to all …
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Fourthly, whether our hearts are fréefree from malice, and hatred; and whether wee beare true, and sincere affection to all …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God, is in the corrupt nature of man, before hée being preuented by the fréefree mercy and grace of God, bee indowed with the gift of faith, through the …
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… God, is in the corrupt nature of man, before hée being preuented by the fréefree mercy and grace of God, bee indowed with the gift of faith, through the …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cléere all thoſe which mourned for the abhominations of Ieruſalem, Ezechiel. 9. ſo were they fréefree and not leauened, which did mourne at Corinth for ſuch abuſes. Moreouer, it is …
With rule
… cléere all thoſe which mourned for the abhominations of Ieruſalem, Ezechiel. 9. ſo were they fréefree and not leauened, which did mourne at Corinth for ſuch abuſes. Moreouer, it is …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 63 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.