Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1248 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

greategreat

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

Puritas changed it: 7,229 times in 632 works
Consistency: 99.9% (7,229 of 7,231)
Reach if approved: ~7,599 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: great
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 7,232 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7,229 changes in 632 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 7,229)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
HEre is a greategreat storme / and yet nothing but wynde. If you were in Cai…has his place …
With rule
HEre is a greategreat storme / and yet nothing but wynde. If you were in Cai…has his place …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
For the ſecond thing, which greategreat us a kindneſſe, to wit greatneſſe and multitude of kindneſſes, who is able to …
With rule
For the ſecond thing, which greategreat us a kindneſſe, to wit greatneſſe and multitude of kindneſſes, who is able to …
Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may devoure: Even the ſoules of men, that is his preye. His force, very greategreat, his wiles, and advantages, not unowne, his malice experienced, his cruelty, ſuch as as …
With rule
… may devoure: Even the ſoules of men, that is his preye. His force, very greategreat, his wiles, and advantages, not unowne, his malice experienced, his cruelty, ſuch as as …
Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cardinall of Burbon the king of Nauars vnkle: and so the matrimonie celebrate with greategreat ioy of the king and all good men, the bride was with greategreat trayne …
With rule
… Cardinall of Burbon the king of Nauars vnkle: and so the matrimonie celebrate with greategreat ioy of the king and all good men, the bride was with greategreat trayne …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. XXXVI · Open in the reader
Printed
… the temple from the top to the bottome, and therfore it is not vvithout greategreat, & vveightie cauſe, that the Apoſtle Paul amongſt the heades, and points of the miſteries …
With rule
… the temple from the top to the bottome, and therfore it is not vvithout greategreat, & vveightie cauſe, that the Apoſtle Paul amongſt the heades, and points of the miſteries …
John Forbes · Sermon on 1 Timothy 2:4 · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… any mannes conscience with all. Your féeble kinde of reasonyng, should not incurre so greategreat reprehension, if you had not as well in your title, as in youre conclusion …
With rule
… any mannes conscience with all. Your féeble kinde of reasonyng, should not incurre so greategreat reprehension, if you had not as well in your title, as in youre conclusion …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · Open in the reader
Printed
… alwayes, which were neuer obedient to the see of Rome, neither partakers of a greategreat nomber of her horrible heresies, so that if it were graunted, that the Churche …
With rule
… alwayes, which were neuer obedient to the see of Rome, neither partakers of a greategreat nomber of her horrible heresies, so that if it were graunted, that the Churche …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with him, Iohn Voſſ. De extr. Iud. Pte. 1. Theſſ. 4. writes. Ierom. Auguſt. Greg. the GreateGreat, and Iſidore of Sivil. But Lactantius hath many things concerning the worlds reſtoring, and …
With rule
… with him, Iohn Voſſ. De extr. Iud. Pte. 1. Theſſ. 4. writes. Ierom. Auguſt. Greg. the GreateGreat, and Iſidore of Sivil. But Lactantius hath many things concerning the worlds reſtoring, and …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 107 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony A17171

Printed
GReateGreat ioye & quietnes it bryngethe to the parētes to se theyr childrē godly & vertue ously …
With rule
GReateGreat ioye & quietnes it bryngethe to the parētes to se theyr childrē godly & vertue ously …
Henrich Bullinger · The Golden Book of Christian Matrimony · Open in the reader

The Root of Romish Rites and Ceremonies A20854

Printed
… painted the Armes of the Pope, with this inſcription in greategreat letters, TO THE GREATEGREAT JUBILE. Such are the buſhes and ſignes of drinking howſes, where they ſell the …
With rule
… painted the Armes of the Pope, with this inſcription in greategreat letters, TO THE GREATEGREAT JUBILE. Such are the buſhes and ſignes of drinking howſes, where they ſell the …
Charles Drelincourt · The Root of Romish Rites and Ceremonies · p. 13 · Open in the reader