Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1367 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

armearm

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

Puritas changed it: 6,550 times in 1,692 works
Consistency: 99.9% (6,550 of 6,554)
Reach if approved: ~6,886 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: arm
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 6,554 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (6,550 changes in 1,692 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 6,550)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… splinters running into his hand: and cursed is he that makes fl…sh his armearm: but who leanes faithfully on this Staffe, shal neuer perish. Thus you haue heard …
With rule
… splinters running into his hand: and cursed is he that makes fl…sh his armearm: but who leanes faithfully on this Staffe, shal neuer perish. Thus you haue heard …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make vs stande fast to our God: The trueth is, that our pollicie and armearm hath not wrought it, but our … God who hath kept continuall vvatch ouer vs …
With rule
… make vs stande fast to our God: The trueth is, that our pollicie and armearm hath not wrought it, but our … God who hath kept continuall vvatch ouer vs …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… all we plead for. For what, I pray you, letteth him; Or is his armearm now shortened; that he may not in the like manner and in the like …
With rule
… all we plead for. For what, I pray you, letteth him; Or is his armearm now shortened; that he may not in the like manner and in the like …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mans hand once cut off, doth take blood, nourishment, spirite, or life, from the armearm, from which it is now separated, as most learnedly saint Austen doeth discourse. Wherfore …
With rule
… mans hand once cut off, doth take blood, nourishment, spirite, or life, from the armearm, from which it is now separated, as most learnedly saint Austen doeth discourse. Wherfore …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinne, and briefly, a safegard and presumptuous warrant, from the iudgement of Gods mighty armearm, which reacheth ouer thoffences of the whole world. Euill we were before by other …
With rule
… sinne, and briefly, a safegard and presumptuous warrant, from the iudgement of Gods mighty armearm, which reacheth ouer thoffences of the whole world. Euill we were before by other …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take heed? yea will he not bee glad to learne how he may ſo armearm and ſtrengthen himſelfe that hee may withſtand his ſaide cruell enemie when hee commeth …
With rule
… take heed? yea will he not bee glad to learne how he may ſo armearm and ſtrengthen himſelfe that hee may withſtand his ſaide cruell enemie when hee commeth …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maruel of thy almighty power. Whom thou haſte defended and kept wyth thy myghtye armearm, thys tyme of hys infancye, from domeſtical and for an enemies. Vnder home in …
With rule
… maruel of thy almighty power. Whom thou haſte defended and kept wyth thy myghtye armearm, thys tyme of hys infancye, from domeſtical and for an enemies. Vnder home in …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… as, his Soule, his Name, his Excellency, his Holineſſe, his Right Hand, and Strong ArmeArm, and here his Throne. Yea, he doth alſo by way of Imprecation bind himſelfe …
With rule
… as, his Soule, his Name, his Excellency, his Holineſſe, his Right Hand, and Strong ArmeArm, and here his Throne. Yea, he doth alſo by way of Imprecation bind himſelfe …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 335 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 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 Christian Warfare Part 2 A69233

Printed
… SECOND PART OF THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE; or the Contempt of the World: TENDING TO ARMEARM AND CONFIRME THE WEAKE CHRISTIAN against the tentations of prosperitie, and to preserue him …
With rule
… SECOND PART OF THE CHRISTIAN WARFARE; or the Contempt of the World: TENDING TO ARMEARM AND CONFIRME THE WEAKE CHRISTIAN against the tentations of prosperitie, and to preserue him …
John Downame · The Christian Warfare Part 2 · Open in the reader

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America A77237

Printed
ARmeArm, armearm, Soldado's armearm, Horſe, Horſe, ſpeed to your Horſes,
With rule
ARmeArm, armearm, Soldado's armearm, Horſe, Horſe, ſpeed to your Horſes,
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · Open in the reader

A Good Soldier Maintaining His Militia A96891

Printed
… dayes to this day, That mans very ſhort ArmeArm could out-reach the ALMIGHTIES ARMEARM. And let me give you an account of my Faith touching this bleeding countrey …
With rule
… dayes to this day, That mans very ſhort ArmeArm could out-reach the ALMIGHTIES ARMEARM. And let me give you an account of my Faith touching this bleeding countrey …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Good Soldier Maintaining His Militia · p. 101 · Open in the reader

The Kings Chronicle A96897

Printed
… Then the LORD wrought gloriouſly for David, and then David could ſee the Bare-ARMEARM of the LORD in his deliverance, which he not ſeene if the LORD had …
With rule
… Then the LORD wrought gloriouſly for David, and then David could ſee the Bare-ARMEARM of the LORD in his deliverance, which he not ſeene if the LORD had …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Kings Chronicle · p. 16 · Open in the reader