Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1330 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

meatemeat

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

Puritas changed it: 8,933 times in 1,344 works
Consistency: 99.9% (8,933 of 8,939)
Reach if approved: ~9,393 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: meat
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 8,940 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (8,933 changes in 1,344 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 8,933)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vpon mens departure. Some tooke foolish occasiō by this place, to set store of meatemeat vpon the graue it selfe, where their father or freinde was buried, as though …
With rule
… vpon mens departure. Some tooke foolish occasiō by this place, to set store of meatemeat vpon the graue it selfe, where their father or freinde was buried, as though …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 229 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoule!) and meet thy Sauiour in the ayre; my body may be but wormes-meatemeat for a while, my ſoule (I am aſſured) ſhall be an Angels fellow for …
With rule
… ſoule!) and meet thy Sauiour in the ayre; my body may be but wormes-meatemeat for a while, my ſoule (I am aſſured) ſhall be an Angels fellow for …
John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his righteouſneſſe. I will not labour for y^e meat which periſheth, but for the meatemeat which indureth vnto eternall life. Vnto this I ſay we be admoniſhed.
With rule
… his righteouſneſſe. I will not labour for y^e meat which periſheth, but for the meatemeat which indureth vnto eternall life. Vnto this I ſay we be admoniſhed.
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… uncle at ſupper, as the manner of that countrey was ſometime, to eate their meatemeat lying on the ground.
With rule
… uncle at ſupper, as the manner of that countrey was ſometime, to eate their meatemeat lying on the ground.
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… day ſhall 7. women take holde of one man, ſaying: We will eate our owne meatemeat, and put on our owne clothes: only that we may be called by thy …
With rule
… day ſhall 7. women take holde of one man, ſaying: We will eate our owne meatemeat, and put on our owne clothes: only that we may be called by thy …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… a whole one sounder. It is not onely Phisicke when men be sicke, but meatemeat when they be vvhole. Triacle to expell, preseruatiues to preuent poyson. It is not …
With rule
… a whole one sounder. It is not onely Phisicke when men be sicke, but meatemeat when they be vvhole. Triacle to expell, preseruatiues to preuent poyson. It is not …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 272 · Open in the reader
Printed
… came downe to their burning. They praied together both before and and after their meatemeat. Wats went and praied priuatly to himſelfe, and afterward came to his wife and …
With rule
… came downe to their burning. They praied together both before and and after their meatemeat. Wats went and praied priuatly to himſelfe, and afterward came to his wife and …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… so confidently, so purposedly commit so vile and shamefull forgerie. Beza saith that our meatemeat is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer and thankesgiuing. For the 1. Tim …
With rule
… so confidently, so purposedly commit so vile and shamefull forgerie. Beza saith that our meatemeat is sanctified by the worde of God and prayer and thankesgiuing. For the 1. Tim …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 432 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

Printed
… for a mans liuing, and as you translats Io. 6. v. 27. LABOVR NOT FOR THE MEATEMEAT that perisheth, but for that meatemeat which endureth vnto life euerlasting. Such labourers God …
With rule
… for a mans liuing, and as you translats Io. 6. v. 27. LABOVR NOT FOR THE MEATEMEAT that perisheth, but for that meatemeat which endureth vnto life euerlasting. Such labourers God …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 291 · Open in the reader

Meat for Men B07539

Printed
MEATEMEAT FOR MEN.
With rule
MEATEMEAT FOR MEN.
William Crashaw · Meat for Men · Open in the reader
Printed
MEATEMEAT FOR MEN.
With rule
MEATEMEAT FOR MEN.
William Crashaw · Meat for Men · Open in the reader