Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12268 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

béenbeen

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

Puritas changed it: 674 times in 94 works
Consistency: 100% (674 of 674)
Reach if approved: ~708 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: been
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 674 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (674 changes in 94 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 674)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Which to their Prince haue traitors béenbeen.
With rule
Which to their Prince haue traitors béenbeen.
Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader
Printed
A. 1. To ſée whether Children haue béenbeen ſo religiouſly trained vp, as their God-fathers and God-mothers promiſed, and vowed …
With rule
A. 1. To ſée whether Children haue béenbeen ſo religiouſly trained vp, as their God-fathers and God-mothers promiſed, and vowed …
Richard Bernard · The Common Catechism with Commentary · Open in the reader
Printed
… caſt out of his poſſeſſion. The ambition of P. and of the people, hath béenbeen one cauſe to vphold it ſo long, who as the prophet cōplaineth, delight in …
With rule
… caſt out of his poſſeſſion. The ambition of P. and of the people, hath béenbeen one cauſe to vphold it ſo long, who as the prophet cōplaineth, delight in …
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
A. No, for God is free, and some have béenbeen saved without it.
With rule
A. No, for God is free, and some have béenbeen saved without it.
William Ward · Short Grounds of Catechism · p. 89 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for by them I perceiue that (as hard as it is) yet it hath béenbeen found, and therefore it may, and ought to bée found in the children of …
With rule
… for by them I perceiue that (as hard as it is) yet it hath béenbeen found, and therefore it may, and ought to bée found in the children of …
William Burton · An Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 100 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be of effect, and operatory, and Christ vnder the forme of bread to haue béenbeen his very body. According whereunto S. Paule noteth the receauer to be gilty, when …
With rule
… be of effect, and operatory, and Christ vnder the forme of bread to haue béenbeen his very body. According whereunto S. Paule noteth the receauer to be gilty, when …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Answer unto a Crafy and Sophistical Cavillation · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good. The iudge aſking him what trade he was, ſaid, of late he had béenbeen a ſhoomaker: the Iudge aſking what trade hee had before vſed, ſaid: he was …
With rule
… good. The iudge aſking him what trade he was, ſaid, of late he had béenbeen a ſhoomaker: the Iudge aſking what trade hee had before vſed, ſaid: he was …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 457 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to that in which Petilian erred. Petilian denying that it was baptiſme that had béenbeen miniſtred by an vngodlie man: rendereth this reaſon, that euerie thing muſt haue an …
With rule
… to that in which Petilian erred. Petilian denying that it was baptiſme that had béenbeen miniſtred by an vngodlie man: rendereth this reaſon, that euerie thing muſt haue an …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 42 · 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.