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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1374 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

losseloss

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

Puritas changed it
14,099 times in 2,484 works
Consistency
99.9% (14,099 of 14,103)
Reach if approved
~14,820 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: lose
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
14,105 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (14,099 changes in 2,484 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 14,099)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Grow richer by their losseloss, and wealthy by expending.
    With rule
    Grow richer by their losseloss, and wealthy by expending.

    Phineas Fletcher · Britains Ida · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … himſelfe to gaine Chriſt, rather and aboue all things, esteeming all other things but loſſeloss, and judging all to be but dung for the excellent knowledg ſake of Ieſus …
    With rule
    … himſelfe to gaine Chriſt, rather and aboue all things, esteeming all other things but loſſeloss, and judging all to be but dung for the excellent knowledg ſake of Ieſus …

    John Forbes · A Fruitful Sermon · p. 92 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … their carkasses to all maner of horrible tortures, not in woordes onely, but with losseloss of lyfe also, ratifiyng and test…fiyng the thing, whi…h they knewe to …
    With rule
    … their carkasses to all maner of horrible tortures, not in woordes onely, but with losseloss of lyfe also, ratifiyng and test…fiyng the thing, whi…h they knewe to …

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

  4. Printed
    … Babylon not so muche for any loue they haue towardes her, as for the losseloss of there owne gaine. Bycause no man here after will bye there most precious …
    With rule
    … Babylon not so muche for any loue they haue towardes her, as for the losseloss of there owne gaine. Bycause no man here after will bye there most precious …

    William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … his Ioy in the Collossians. Without order, Faith it selfe would bee at a losseloss. Euen the Starres doe not fight from heauen, but in their order. Therefore is …
    With rule
    … his Ioy in the Collossians. Without order, Faith it selfe would bee at a losseloss. Euen the Starres doe not fight from heauen, but in their order. Therefore is …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Husband, ſome loſt a Father, and (to mine owne particular) next a Father, his loſſeloss was mine. To reckon ſo manifold a loſſeloss, my Teares begin to ſtop my …
    With rule
    … Husband, ſome loſt a Father, and (to mine owne particular) next a Father, his loſſeloss was mine. To reckon ſo manifold a loſſeloss, my Teares begin to ſtop my …

    John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … at our owne will in worldly losses; but none at God's command for the losseloss of his grace. Wee take on for the death of our friends departing frō …
    With rule
    … at our owne will in worldly losses; but none at God's command for the losseloss of his grace. Wee take on for the death of our friends departing frō …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the weight of the Sanctua…ie, be found too light. I will beare that loſſeloss, ſo the reſt, being pure golde and ſiluer out of God his worde, may …
    With rule
    … the weight of the Sanctua…ie, be found too light. I will beare that loſſeloss, ſo the reſt, being pure golde and ſiluer out of God his worde, may …

    Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Saints Loss and Lamentation A03795

  • Printed
    THE SAINTS LOSSELOSS AND Lamentation
    With rule
    THE SAINTS LOSSELOSS AND Lamentation

    George Hughes · The Saints Loss and Lamentation · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE SAINTS LOSSELOSS AND LAMENTATION.
    With rule
    THE SAINTS LOSSELOSS AND LAMENTATION.

    George Hughes · The Saints Loss and Lamentation · p. 1 · Open in the reader

A Body of Divinity A64622

  • Printed
    I COUNT ALL THINGS BUT LOSSELOSS, FOR THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD.
    With rule
    I COUNT ALL THINGS BUT LOSSELOSS, FOR THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD.

    James Ussher · A Body of Divinity · p. 24 · Open in the reader