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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1240 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

seekeseek

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

Puritas changed it
29,817 times in 2,180 works
Consistency
99.9% (29,817 of 29,826)
Reach if approved
~31,345 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: seek
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
29,832 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (29,817 changes in 2,180 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 29,817)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … if it bee ſo burden ſome that they cannot vndergoe the weight, they will ſeekeseek helpe, and lay it vpon anothers ſhoulders: ſo wee being vnable of our ſelues …
    With rule
    … if it bee ſo burden ſome that they cannot vndergoe the weight, they will ſeekeseek helpe, and lay it vpon anothers ſhoulders: ſo wee being vnable of our ſelues …

    Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it settle, and you shall see the streame run clearely, and the silver w… seekeseek for in the bottome bearing the Image of Christs Body. Tertullian here prooves the …
    With rule
    … it settle, and you shall see the streame run clearely, and the silver w… seekeseek for in the bottome bearing the Image of Christs Body. Tertullian here prooves the …

    Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … full and perfect poſſeſsion of the promiſed felicity, ſaying, heere is the place you ſeekeseek after, enter it. This cōmendation, notwithſtanding that incōparably it doeth agree to the eternall …
    With rule
    … full and perfect poſſeſsion of the promiſed felicity, ſaying, heere is the place you ſeekeseek after, enter it. This cōmendation, notwithſtanding that incōparably it doeth agree to the eternall …

    Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … backes, and they all to rent the countrey, with briberie and extortion. These men seekeseek after authority, and commanding-places, not with any intent of good to the common …
    With rule
    … backes, and they all to rent the countrey, with briberie and extortion. These men seekeseek after authority, and commanding-places, not with any intent of good to the common …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 132 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    The second part sheweth how the Philistines seekeseek to be reuenged of the Israelites, and therefore gathered an Army like the sand …
    With rule
    The second part sheweth how the Philistines seekeseek to be reuenged of the Israelites, and therefore gathered an Army like the sand …

    James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … true, that thence comes all infection? And that they who haue forsaken vs to seekeseek health there, haue gone out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne?
    With rule
    … true, that thence comes all infection? And that they who haue forsaken vs to seekeseek health there, haue gone out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne?

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … naturall vertues, proceade of lyke naturall causes, which by their effect the ingenious must seekeseek to fynde out. As for Magicall vertues be they, whiche are grounded of no …
    With rule
    … naturall vertues, proceade of lyke naturall causes, which by their effect the ingenious must seekeseek to fynde out. As for Magicall vertues be they, whiche are grounded of no …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it, or els a shamefull stoutnes vtterly to brast and breake it. They first seekeseek by suttelty to vnfasten the bonde of Gods trueth, which is euery waye so …
    With rule
    … it, or els a shamefull stoutnes vtterly to brast and breake it. They first seekeseek by suttelty to vnfasten the bonde of Gods trueth, which is euery waye so …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 211 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

8 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 Handmaid to Private Devotion A00587

  • Printed
    SEekeSeek peace and ensue it, Psal. 34. 14.
    With rule
    SEekeSeek peace and ensue it, Psal. 34. 14.

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 414 · Open in the reader

The Governance of Virtue A06832

  • Printed
    SEekeSeek after God, and your soule shall liue.
    With rule
    SEekeSeek after God, and your soule shall liue.

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 72 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

  • Printed
    1 SEekeSeek not out the thinges that are too harde for thee: neyther ſearch after, &c. 642
    With rule
    1 SEekeSeek not out the thinges that are too harde for thee: neyther ſearch after, &c. 642

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

  • Printed
    Vers. 1 SEekeSeek those things which are above] It implies, 1. An act of the understanding minde, and …
    With rule
    Vers. 1 SEekeSeek those things which are above] It implies, 1. An act of the understanding minde, and …

    Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 304 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    SEekeSeek first to loue God deare wife, with your whol hart and then shall it …
    With rule
    SEekeSeek first to loue God deare wife, with your whol hart and then shall it …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1701 · Open in the reader

The Kings Chronicle in Two Sections A97343

  • Printed
    … that Prieſts and Levites are come unto them, SUCH AS SET THEIR HEARTS TO SEEKESEEK THE LORD. It is notable alſo to conſider how long the Prince and people …
    With rule
    … that Prieſts and Levites are come unto them, SUCH AS SET THEIR HEARTS TO SEEKESEEK THE LORD. It is notable alſo to conſider how long the Prince and people …

    Hezekiah Woodward · The Kings Chronicle in Two Sections · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ſayes the Text, and renders a reaſon withall, BECAƲSE HE PREPARED NOT HIMSELFE TO SEEKESEEK THE LORD. And he did evill, this is to be noted, with the reaſon …
    With rule
    … ſayes the Text, and renders a reaſon withall, BECAƲSE HE PREPARED NOT HIMSELFE TO SEEKESEEK THE LORD. And he did evill, this is to be noted, with the reaſon …

    Hezekiah Woodward · The Kings Chronicle in Two Sections · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and this is the chiefeſt of all; THOƲ HAST PREPARED THY HE ART TO SEEKESEEK GOD . We ſhall reade anon, how mightily that King went-on, and prevailed. There …
    With rule
    … and this is the chiefeſt of all; THOƲ HAST PREPARED THY HE ART TO SEEKESEEK GOD . We ſhall reade anon, how mightily that King went-on, and prevailed. There …

    Hezekiah Woodward · The Kings Chronicle in Two Sections · p. 46 · Open in the reader