Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1270 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

expresseexpress

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

Puritas changed it: 20,224 times in 2,909 works
Consistency: 99.9% (20,224 of 20,228)
Reach if approved: ~21,254 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: express
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 20,228 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (20,224 changes in 2,909 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 20,224)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… yeare, but daily; and communicates such inestimable fauours and comforts, as no tongue can expresseexpress.
With rule
… yeare, but daily; and communicates such inestimable fauours and comforts, as no tongue can expresseexpress.
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart▪ the malice of Sathan, the present difficulties, with that of Ieremiah, Where in expresseexpress wordes, our repentaunce is sayd to make GOD repent, euen of his threatned, and …
With rule
… heart▪ the malice of Sathan, the present difficulties, with that of Ieremiah, Where in expresseexpress wordes, our repentaunce is sayd to make GOD repent, euen of his threatned, and …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader
Printed
… Character of the Presse, to imprint both more deepely in thy memory: and to expresseexpress to thee my desire to serue as a voluntary, (as did that excellently learned …
With rule
… Character of the Presse, to imprint both more deepely in thy memory: and to expresseexpress to thee my desire to serue as a voluntary, (as did that excellently learned …
Daniel Featley · A Parallel of New-Old Pelgiarminian Error · Open in the reader
Printed
… of ma… upon himſelf as he is ſubject to God judgement. Divines uſe to expreſſeexpress i… in this Syllogiſme, He that truly believeth in Chriſt ſhall be ſaved: My …
With rule
… of ma… upon himſelf as he is ſubject to God judgement. Divines uſe to expreſſeexpress i… in this Syllogiſme, He that truly believeth in Chriſt ſhall be ſaved: My …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
For present goods, thy euill most expresseexpress,
With rule
For present goods, thy euill most expresseexpress,
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… power to the contrarie, becauſe it is a worke not of indifferency, but of expreſſeexpress commandement. The next article was almoſt one with this. That the eccleſiaſticall cenſures are …
With rule
… power to the contrarie, becauſe it is a worke not of indifferency, but of expreſſeexpress commandement. The next article was almoſt one with this. That the eccleſiaſticall cenſures are …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
… depriuing the lay people, cleane of the cup of Christes blood, whiche hee in expresseexpress woordes, commaundeth to hée drunke of all men. And Saynt Paule by his authoritie …
With rule
… depriuing the lay people, cleane of the cup of Christes blood, whiche hee in expresseexpress woordes, commaundeth to hée drunke of all men. And Saynt Paule by his authoritie …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… to repētance. But Bristow would make me contrarie to my selfe, who though in expresseexpress words I count D. Allen & his fellowes such as (by you) Heb. 6. cannot repent …
With rule
… to repētance. But Bristow would make me contrarie to my selfe, who though in expresseexpress words I count D. Allen & his fellowes such as (by you) Heb. 6. cannot repent …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 363 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Oxfords Plea Refuted A56225

Printed
… RESCINDRET; QVIBVS IPSI, interposito ad id Michaele Sergeaux juris utrius que Doctore legitimo procuratore, EXPRESSEEXPRESS ATQVE PUBLICE IN SYNODO RENVNCIARVNT. Eam RENVNCIATIONEM Archiepiscopus RATAM HABVIT, ET EXEMPTIONIS OXONIENSIS PRIVILEGIA …
With rule
… RESCINDRET; QVIBVS IPSI, interposito ad id Michaele Sergeaux juris utrius que Doctore legitimo procuratore, EXPRESSEEXPRESS ATQVE PUBLICE IN SYNODO RENVNCIARVNT. Eam RENVNCIATIONEM Archiepiscopus RATAM HABVIT, ET EXEMPTIONIS OXONIENSIS PRIVILEGIA …
William Prynne · Oxfords Plea Refuted · p. 9 · Open in the reader

The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent B15350

Printed
24 Ezechias had no EXPRESSEEXPRESS Word of GOD, for the taking away of the brazen Serpent, and yet it …
With rule
24 Ezechias had no EXPRESSEEXPRESS Word of GOD, for the taking away of the brazen Serpent, and yet it …
Gabriel Powel · The Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 27 · Open in the reader