Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1348 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thingething

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

Puritas changed it: 3,754 times in 380 works
Consistency: 99.8% (3,754 of 3,761)
Reach if approved: ~3,952 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: thing
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,761 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,754 changes in 380 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,754)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
The ſeconde thingething to be obſerued in perfit prayer is / that ſtanding in the preſens of God …
With rule
The ſeconde thingething to be obſerued in perfit prayer is / that ſtanding in the preſens of God …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · p. iiij · Open in the reader
Printed
… their stewes and the maintenaunce of whordome as they had of other vices. One thingething I must here desier you to reform my Lords, you haue put downe the …
With rule
… their stewes and the maintenaunce of whordome as they had of other vices. One thingething I must here desier you to reform my Lords, you haue put downe the …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the very humayne fleshe: not in the beholding, but in the nature of the thingething it selfe: not in that which the eye doth beholde, but in that which …
With rule
… the very humayne fleshe: not in the beholding, but in the nature of the thingething it selfe: not in that which the eye doth beholde, but in that which …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… significatur paria sunt. Those were sacraments, they are diuerse in signes, but in the thingething which is signified, they are equall. in Ioan. 6. Tr. 26. Ouer, and beside this, examining …
With rule
… significatur paria sunt. Those were sacraments, they are diuerse in signes, but in the thingething which is signified, they are equall. in Ioan. 6. Tr. 26. Ouer, and beside this, examining …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 429 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it with deteſtation, ſaying, God forbid: as if he ſhould ſay, It is a thingething that ought not to enter into our thoughts. And then he propoundeth the firſt …
With rule
… it with deteſtation, ſaying, God forbid: as if he ſhould ſay, It is a thingething that ought not to enter into our thoughts. And then he propoundeth the firſt …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… spouse of Christ. If a man commaund his wife (saith he) to do a thingething / and ther be violent force to withhold her / shee is not to be blamed …
With rule
… spouse of Christ. If a man commaund his wife (saith he) to do a thingething / and ther be violent force to withhold her / shee is not to be blamed …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to him the dignitye of Senatorship which Pope Nicolas had taken frō him: which thingething displeased many, because it should make seditiō in the Citye, the Vrsine being now …
With rule
… to him the dignitye of Senatorship which Pope Nicolas had taken frō him: which thingething displeased many, because it should make seditiō in the Citye, the Vrsine being now …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to Nobilitye, and as I oughte, ſo I wonte to reuerence it. As a thingething of nature excellent, through fortune honourable, to it ſelfe glorious, to others neither ſeld …
With rule
… to Nobilitye, and as I oughte, ſo I wonte to reuerence it. As a thingething of nature excellent, through fortune honourable, to it ſelfe glorious, to others neither ſeld …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 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.

A Quench-Coal A10197

Printed
… of the faith: NEITHER SHALL WEE EVER GIVE WAY TO THE AUTHORIZINGE OF ANY THINGETHING WHERE BY ANY INNOUATION MAY STEALE OR CREEP INTO THE CHURCH, but preserue the …
With rule
… of the faith: NEITHER SHALL WEE EVER GIVE WAY TO THE AUTHORIZINGE OF ANY THINGETHING WHERE BY ANY INNOUATION MAY STEALE OR CREEP INTO THE CHURCH, but preserue the …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 188 · Open in the reader

Collection of Discourses A14212

Printed
… is an vnion of Relation and reſpect, to wit. A myſticall ſignification of the ThingeThing ſigned by the Signe, a ſealing, exhibiting, & receiving thereof after a lawful vſe, which …
With rule
… is an vnion of Relation and reſpect, to wit. A myſticall ſignification of the ThingeThing ſigned by the Signe, a ſealing, exhibiting, & receiving thereof after a lawful vſe, which …
Zacharias Ursinus · Collection of Discourses · p. 157 · Open in the reader

A Treatise of the Nature and Use of Things Indifferent A16623

Printed
2 A ThingeThing Indifferent in reſpect of the bodie is any ſuch thing that applyed to the …
With rule
2 A ThingeThing Indifferent in reſpect of the bodie is any ſuch thing that applyed to the …
William Bradshaw · A Treatise of the Nature and Use of Things Indifferent · p. 18 · Open in the reader

A Sum of Moral Philosophy B15223

Printed
ThingeThing.
With rule
ThingeThing.
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
ThingeThing
With rule
ThingeThing
William Pemble · A Sum of Moral Philosophy · p. 45 · Open in the reader