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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1301 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

earesears

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

Puritas changed it
12,838 times in 2,332 works
Consistency
99.9% (12,838 of 12,839)
Reach if approved
~13,492 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: ears
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
12,841 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (12,838 changes in 2,332 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 12,838)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Laiety to sucke out the consecrated wine, ring not well in the purified earesears of Romane Catholiques. For not onely, Rhenanus out of Conradus Pellicanus relateth a constitution …
    With rule
    … the Laiety to sucke out the consecrated wine, ring not well in the purified earesears of Romane Catholiques. For not onely, Rhenanus out of Conradus Pellicanus relateth a constitution …

    Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Cell, and into our highest Capitolium to schriche and howle so ylfauouredly in the earesears of our Prince for the mayntenance of cursed Idolatrie against the trueth of God …
    With rule
    … Cell, and into our highest Capitolium to schriche and howle so ylfauouredly in the earesears of our Prince for the mayntenance of cursed Idolatrie against the trueth of God …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … where hee pleaseth: and though the sound of the raine be to all open earesears alike, yet the spirituall deaw drops only into the open hart. Many come to …
    With rule
    … where hee pleaseth: and though the sound of the raine be to all open earesears alike, yet the spirituall deaw drops only into the open hart. Many come to …

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … or formed, & fashioned by educatiō, that except wée be wakened, or shooke by the earesears, and bitt with some aduersitie or other, wée seldome, or neuer lift vp our …
    With rule
    … or formed, & fashioned by educatiō, that except wée be wakened, or shooke by the earesears, and bitt with some aduersitie or other, wée seldome, or neuer lift vp our …

    John Foxe · Christ Jesus Triumphant · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his general promises contayned in the Scripture, which sounded so lowd cōtinually in ye earesears of her hart, that by them she was assured ye Christ called her vnto …
    With rule
    … his general promises contayned in the Scripture, which sounded so lowd cōtinually in ye earesears of her hart, that by them she was assured ye Christ called her vnto …

    William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … shamefullie foyled in your owne grounde and many of your fortes beaten about your earesears. But you doe not well to teach your schollers to seeke a gentle aduersarie …
    With rule
    … shamefullie foyled in your owne grounde and many of your fortes beaten about your earesears. But you doe not well to teach your schollers to seeke a gentle aduersarie …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    The third Motive is from the time, These seven full EaresEars, these seven fat Kine; these seven weekes of Feasting, betweene Christmas and Shrovetide are …
    With rule
    The third Motive is from the time, These seven full EaresEars, these seven fat Kine; these seven weekes of Feasting, betweene Christmas and Shrovetide are …

    Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 148 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … them, that continueth with them, and sticketh by them, till it haue opened their earesears that were stopt before, and pulled downe their pride, or taken downe their stomack …
    With rule
    … them, that continueth with them, and sticketh by them, till it haue opened their earesears that were stopt before, and pulled downe their pride, or taken downe their stomack …

    Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 71 · 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 Exceeding Riches of Grace A46836

  • Printed
    … open her eyes, and shee saw and knew her mother: and then immediately her EARESEARS also were opened, that shee might heare her mother speake to her, and shee …
    With rule
    … open her eyes, and shee saw and knew her mother: and then immediately her EARESEARS also were opened, that shee might heare her mother speake to her, and shee …

    Henry Jessey · The Exceeding Riches of Grace · p. 25 · Open in the reader