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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1379 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

businessebusiness

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

Puritas changed it
13,874 times in 2,167 works
Consistency
100% (13,874 of 13,874)
Reach if approved
~14,579 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: business
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
13,875 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (13,874 changes in 2,167 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 13,874)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … But besides these he had solemn days of humiliation upon speciall occasions: and no businessebusiness of more then ordinary weight did he lightly undertake without some such imployment. It …
    With rule
    … But besides these he had solemn days of humiliation upon speciall occasions: and no businessebusiness of more then ordinary weight did he lightly undertake without some such imployment. It …

    Thomas Gataker · The Decrease of Lazarus · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … know you bare no ſmall ſhare of ſorrow with your beloved Siſter in this buſineſſebusiness, becauſe you have a long time loved your deceaſed Kinſwoman, as if ſhee had …
    With rule
    … know you bare no ſmall ſhare of ſorrow with your beloved Siſter in this buſineſſebusiness, becauſe you have a long time loved your deceaſed Kinſwoman, as if ſhee had …

    Stephen Geree · The Ornament of Women · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … are not, namely, to my meeting with the other mā, for talking of our businessebusiness, therefore the towne of Barwick, and the tenth day of May, must be accounted …
    With rule
    … are not, namely, to my meeting with the other mā, for talking of our businessebusiness, therefore the towne of Barwick, and the tenth day of May, must be accounted …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 113 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of God, of his worſhippe, and of his bleſſing. If in the morning neceſſary buſineſſebusiness bee to be performed, let vs riſe ſo much the ſooner to pray, rather …
    With rule
    … of God, of his worſhippe, and of his bleſſing. If in the morning neceſſary buſineſſebusiness bee to be performed, let vs riſe ſo much the ſooner to pray, rather …

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 477 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … yeeres, euen from our first father to this age. A worldly man in this businessebusiness would begin to adde and to multiply, putting still to the times past that …
    With rule
    … yeeres, euen from our first father to this age. A worldly man in this businessebusiness would begin to adde and to multiply, putting still to the times past that …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 659 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … published after his death, nor enter anie action of unkindenesse against any concerning that businessebusiness; but burie all in his grave: because though some of them perhaps intended much …
    With rule
    … published after his death, nor enter anie action of unkindenesse against any concerning that businessebusiness; but burie all in his grave: because though some of them perhaps intended much …

    Daniel Featley · Learned Decisions · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … yet hee is whether for a penny the next Spring. He is full of businessebusiness at Church, a stranger at home, a Scepticke abroad, an obseruer in the street …
    With rule
    … yet hee is whether for a penny the next Spring. He is full of businessebusiness at Church, a stranger at home, a Scepticke abroad, an obseruer in the street …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … time faile me. I being blinde, did foreſee all oportunitie of well ordering my buſineſſebusiness. Eleuen times, in ioyning battell, I went victor out of the fielde. I ſeemed …
    With rule
    … time faile me. I being blinde, did foreſee all oportunitie of well ordering my buſineſſebusiness. Eleuen times, in ioyning battell, I went victor out of the fielde. I ſeemed …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 348 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.