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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1360 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

mindesminds

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

Puritas changed it
10,975 times in 1,999 works
Consistency
99.9% (10,975 of 10,978)
Reach if approved
~11,536 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: minds
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
10,979 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (10,975 changes in 1,999 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 10,975)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … eternall life is a thing beyond the limits of naturall knowledge and deſire, which mindesminds onely the well-being and continuance of the whole man according to the preſent …
    With rule
    … eternall life is a thing beyond the limits of naturall knowledge and deſire, which mindesminds onely the well-being and continuance of the whole man according to the preſent …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … Austen, by framing the former Apology for Cyprian, made the easier way in the mindesminds of all indifferently-affected, for his owne defence. I would, that this most judicious …
    With rule
    … Austen, by framing the former Apology for Cyprian, made the easier way in the mindesminds of all indifferently-affected, for his owne defence. I would, that this most judicious …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thought of Olympus; so let euery Obiect, though low in it selfe, eleuate our mindesminds to Mount Syon. A meane scaffold may serue to raise vp a goodly building …
    With rule
    … thought of Olympus; so let euery Obiect, though low in it selfe, eleuate our mindesminds to Mount Syon. A meane scaffold may serue to raise vp a goodly building …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 218 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … if the loue, and care of earthly things, be not rooted out of our mindesminds, the loue, and care of heauenly things can take no place in them: this …
    With rule
    … if the loue, and care of earthly things, be not rooted out of our mindesminds, the loue, and care of heauenly things can take no place in them: this …

    John Forbes · Preparative Sermon to the Lords Table · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Iewes, (which by interpretation is called Confessours) plucke vp your hearts, rayse vp your mindesminds, perseuere no l…nger in your woont…d obstinacie against your owne Prophetes: withstande …
    With rule
    … Iewes, (which by interpretation is called Confessours) plucke vp your hearts, rayse vp your mindesminds, perseuere no l…nger in your woont…d obstinacie against your owne Prophetes: withstande …

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

  6. Printed
    … with so earnest indeuour. We ought therefore with diligence to imprint throughly in oure mindesminds the doctrine which followeth to the hearinge whereof the holye ghost doth as it …
    With rule
    … with so earnest indeuour. We ought therefore with diligence to imprint throughly in oure mindesminds the doctrine which followeth to the hearinge whereof the holye ghost doth as it …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … boyes, and such persons as are naught themselues, to make signes of disgrace; good mindesminds vse to pitie them that are so publikely (though deseruedly) disgraced. But here, for …
    With rule
    … boyes, and such persons as are naught themselues, to make signes of disgrace; good mindesminds vse to pitie them that are so publikely (though deseruedly) disgraced. But here, for …

    Thomas Gataker · Two Marriage Sermons · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … And here we may remember by the way, how abiect and baſe the proud mindesminds of men be which know not God. They be as loftie in conceit, as …
    With rule
    … And here we may remember by the way, how abiect and baſe the proud mindesminds of men be which know not God. They be as loftie in conceit, as …

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

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

The Players Scourge A10187

  • Printed
    … INSTIGATIONS VNTO VICE, (pray marke it) AND THE MOST POVVERFVLL INSTRVMENTS TO CORRVPT MENS MINDESMINDS, ARE VVHOLY TO BE ABOLISHED FROM AMONG VS; Since they doe not onely, not …
    With rule
    … INSTIGATIONS VNTO VICE, (pray marke it) AND THE MOST POVVERFVLL INSTRVMENTS TO CORRVPT MENS MINDESMINDS, ARE VVHOLY TO BE ABOLISHED FROM AMONG VS; Since they doe not onely, not …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 329 · Open in the reader