Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1291 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

backeback

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

Puritas changed it: 12,248 times in 1,681 works
Consistency: 99.9% (12,248 of 12,249)
Reach if approved: ~12,871 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: back
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 12,250 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (12,248 changes in 1,681 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 12,248)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… first by this temptation: and experience teacheth vs, how many are offended and driuen backeback with much lesse temptation then this, for if aduersity, or affliction follow their new …
With rule
… first by this temptation: and experience teacheth vs, how many are offended and driuen backeback with much lesse temptation then this, for if aduersity, or affliction follow their new …
William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
1 BVt nowe the other side seeketh for some shiftes, and draweth backeback in this extremity thus. That the places of the olde and new Testament, now …
With rule
1 BVt nowe the other side seeketh for some shiftes, and draweth backeback in this extremity thus. That the places of the olde and new Testament, now …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
And, good Reader, be pleased to looke backeback to what was before answered to this friuolous exception. For I am euen weary …
With rule
And, good Reader, be pleased to looke backeback to what was before answered to this friuolous exception. For I am euen weary …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the Diall of Ahaz, which will tell how farre the Sunne is gone backeback, euen to a Degree: By examining what ſpirituall benefits & graces we haue receiued, what …
With rule
… in the Diall of Ahaz, which will tell how farre the Sunne is gone backeback, euen to a Degree: By examining what ſpirituall benefits & graces we haue receiued, what …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the Bishop of London that then was, yet they were all given me backeback againe: and by the stirre hee made about them, they were much more inquired …
With rule
… to the Bishop of London that then was, yet they were all given me backeback againe: and by the stirre hee made about them, they were much more inquired …
Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Iewes, from which Sacramēt thoſe that giue publike offence are to bee kept backeback till the Church be ſatisfied.
With rule
… the Iewes, from which Sacramēt thoſe that giue publike offence are to bee kept backeback till the Church be ſatisfied.
Henry Finch · The Sacred Doctrine of Divinity · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs to these seats with other minds, if we remembred, that wee returne not backeback to our owne doores the very same wee came out; but either somewhat better …
With rule
… vs to these seats with other minds, if we remembred, that wee returne not backeback to our owne doores the very same wee came out; but either somewhat better …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… here all the Princes, and Potentates of the Earth abate their corage, and goe backeback a foote: nay rather be as contemptible and séely créeping wormes, in comparison of …
With rule
… here all the Princes, and Potentates of the Earth abate their corage, and goe backeback a foote: nay rather be as contemptible and séely créeping wormes, in comparison of …
John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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 Resurrection Revealed A44277

Printed
… you a name, and apraiſe among all people of the earth, when I TVRNE BACKEBACK YOVR CAPTIVITY before your eyes, ſaith the Lord. In which words you have the …
With rule
… you a name, and apraiſe among all people of the earth, when I TVRNE BACKEBACK YOVR CAPTIVITY before your eyes, ſaith the Lord. In which words you have the …
Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 331 · Open in the reader