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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1297 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

holdehold

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

Puritas changed it
6,559 times in 728 works
Consistency
100% (6,559 of 6,559)
Reach if approved
~6,892 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hold
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
6,559 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,559 changes in 728 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,559)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … pious rites: they sing not with the Church, a Tenebo te Domine, I will holdehold thee fast, oh Lord; but with Simeon, a Nunc dimittis, though with another spirit …
    With rule
    … pious rites: they sing not with the Church, a Tenebo te Domine, I will holdehold thee fast, oh Lord; but with Simeon, a Nunc dimittis, though with another spirit …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … him so sternely, and murthered him so horribly. Well, and why dydst thou not holdehold him fast, when thou hadst slayne him? Howe chaunced that he slypt out of …
    With rule
    … him so sternely, and murthered him so horribly. Well, and why dydst thou not holdehold him fast, when thou hadst slayne him? Howe chaunced that he slypt out of …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … chief maister of the worke, is so subtill, and so slye, that nothinge can holdehold hym, nothing can kyll hym. For if the glasse be not very thyck, he …
    With rule
    … chief maister of the worke, is so subtill, and so slye, that nothinge can holdehold hym, nothing can kyll hym. For if the glasse be not very thyck, he …

    William Fulke · A Goodly Gallery · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … For although theſe and ſuch like defended ſome parte of the trueth, which we holdehold againſt you, yet leſt you ſhould obiect, it was but in ſome one or …
    With rule
    … For although theſe and ſuch like defended ſome parte of the trueth, which we holdehold againſt you, yet leſt you ſhould obiect, it was but in ſome one or …

    William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … time it is buſied, and ſetteth the body a worke: if the bodie could holdehold out, it would alſo, and neuer reſt: but it cannot, and therefore in the …
    With rule
    … time it is buſied, and ſetteth the body a worke: if the bodie could holdehold out, it would alſo, and neuer reſt: but it cannot, and therefore in the …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … and to ſwallow vp into hell the ſoules and bodies of men: as to holdehold ſome in blindneſſe and ignorance, to lead others into ſectes, errours and hereſies, to …
    With rule
    … and to ſwallow vp into hell the ſoules and bodies of men: as to holdehold ſome in blindneſſe and ignorance, to lead others into ſectes, errours and hereſies, to …

    George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … himſelfe againe vnto vs, wee beginne to haue our faith reuiued, wee lay faſter holdehold vpon him, and with all the powers of our ſoule, cleaue as neere vnto …
    With rule
    … himſelfe againe vnto vs, wee beginne to haue our faith reuiued, wee lay faſter holdehold vpon him, and with all the powers of our ſoule, cleaue as neere vnto …

    Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in the day of the Lord, 1. Cor. 5. 4. 5. The reaſon followeth: for he will not holdehold him innocent that taketh his name in vaine. That is, he will condemne him …
    With rule
    … in the day of the Lord, 1. Cor. 5. 4. 5. The reaſon followeth: for he will not holdehold him innocent that taketh his name in vaine. That is, he will condemne him …

    Dudley Fenner · Brief Treatise Upon the First Table of the Law · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.