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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1236 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

weakeweak

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it
17,184 times in 2,143 works
Consistency
99.9% (17,184 of 17,188)
Reach if approved
~18,061 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: weak
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
17,189 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (17,184 changes in 2,143 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 17,184)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it were but some Counterfey…, and never-before-seene Comet: Because, for-sooth, their weakeweak Eyes had not continuallie perceived, all the particular progresse of it. VVhereas, in anie …
    With rule
    … it were but some Counterfey…, and never-before-seene Comet: Because, for-sooth, their weakeweak Eyes had not continuallie perceived, all the particular progresse of it. VVhereas, in anie …

    Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of the Sacraments, are stirred vp to be instruments to helpe our minde and weakeweak Faith. Our memory, in like manner, by the same means is much strengthned. And …
    With rule
    … of the Sacraments, are stirred vp to be instruments to helpe our minde and weakeweak Faith. Our memory, in like manner, by the same means is much strengthned. And …

    John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 213 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … bitter temptations least they should be altogether discoraged. For how could the feble and weakeweak multitude of the elect be able to suffer and indure so sturdy force as …
    With rule
    … bitter temptations least they should be altogether discoraged. For how could the feble and weakeweak multitude of the elect be able to suffer and indure so sturdy force as …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Which cannot helpe themselues, they are so weakeweak;
    With rule
    Which cannot helpe themselues, they are so weakeweak;

    Thomas Fuller · Davids Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, Heavy Punishment · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſtill, the higher he ſoreth, when hee is once gone aboue that that our weakeweak eie-ſight can well reach. thoſe that come neerer vs, and are neerer at …
    With rule
    … ſtill, the higher he ſoreth, when hee is once gone aboue that that our weakeweak eie-ſight can well reach. thoſe that come neerer vs, and are neerer at …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 56 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … appointed at all hands, armed with malice and mischiefe cap ape, assaults a poore weakeweak Fort, that hath nothing but bare walles, and naked gates, (and those set wide …
    With rule
    … appointed at all hands, armed with malice and mischiefe cap ape, assaults a poore weakeweak Fort, that hath nothing but bare walles, and naked gates, (and those set wide …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 68 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … the gospel, The pope can flye as wel as preach. * Christ being both poore & weakeweak vvas compelled to bear his ovvn crosse: the pope being fat & strōg is born …
    With rule
    … the gospel, The pope can flye as wel as preach. * Christ being both poore & weakeweak vvas compelled to bear his ovvn crosse: the pope being fat & strōg is born …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Let every weakeweak soule apply this soveraigne medicine to it selfe; thou shalt not utterly fall away …
    With rule
    Let every weakeweak soule apply this soveraigne medicine to it selfe; thou shalt not utterly fall away …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 158 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 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.

Grace A49244

  • Printed
    WEakeWeak eaſily ſeduced 23
    With rule
    WEakeWeak eaſily ſeduced 23

    Christopher Love · Grace · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

  • Printed
    HIS WEAKEWEAK AND VNWORTHY SERVANT HVMBLY DESIRES TO CONSECRATE HIMSELFE AND HIS POORE LABOVRS: BESEECHING HIM …
    With rule
    HIS WEAKEWEAK AND VNWORTHY SERVANT HVMBLY DESIRES TO CONSECRATE HIMSELFE AND HIS POORE LABOVRS: BESEECHING HIM …

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … THIS JMPOSTOR WAS openly arraigned: J. H. HVMBLY DEDICATES THIS PVBLIKE LIFE OF HIS WEAKEWEAK AND VNWORTHIE LABOVR.
    With rule
    … THIS JMPOSTOR WAS openly arraigned: J. H. HVMBLY DEDICATES THIS PVBLIKE LIFE OF HIS WEAKEWEAK AND VNWORTHIE LABOVR.

    Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 499 · Open in the reader

The Christian Warfare Part 2 A69233

  • Printed
    … CHRISTIAN WARFARE; or the Contempt of the World: TENDING TO ARME AND CONFIRME THE WEAKEWEAK CHRISTIAN against the tentations of prosperitie, and to preserue him from the immoderate loue …
    With rule
    … CHRISTIAN WARFARE; or the Contempt of the World: TENDING TO ARME AND CONFIRME THE WEAKEWEAK CHRISTIAN against the tentations of prosperitie, and to preserue him from the immoderate loue …

    John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · Open in the reader