Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1452 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

leadelead

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

Puritas changed it: 4,606 times in 1,137 works
Consistency: 100% (4,606 of 4,606)
Reach if approved: ~4,840 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: lead
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,606 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,606 changes in 1,137 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,606)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſimple axiome, adorned with a metaphor taken from warre, where men are leadde captiue: LeadeLead vs not, that is, though we daily deſerue it, yet ſeeing we haue begged …
With rule
… ſimple axiome, adorned with a metaphor taken from warre, where men are leadde captiue: LeadeLead vs not, that is, though we daily deſerue it, yet ſeeing we haue begged …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… vse of this to our selues is, that the patient forbearance of God may leadelead vs to repentance, Romans the second and the fourth. The Prophet Ioel bids vs …
With rule
… vse of this to our selues is, that the patient forbearance of God may leadelead vs to repentance, Romans the second and the fourth. The Prophet Ioel bids vs …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 148 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thing. Reason 11 And therefore thus prayeth Dauid vnto God, Psal. 143. Let thy good Spirit leadelead mee vnto the land of righteousnesse. And Gal. 5. Walke in the Spirit, and ye …
With rule
… thing. Reason 11 And therefore thus prayeth Dauid vnto God, Psal. 143. Let thy good Spirit leadelead mee vnto the land of righteousnesse. And Gal. 5. Walke in the Spirit, and ye …
John Frewen · Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion · p. 336 · Open in the reader
Printed
… earnestly mainteine. The deepe and perpetuall feare whereof, caused our elders not only to leadelead their life in such perpetual paine, but further forced them to breake out in …
With rule
… earnestly mainteine. The deepe and perpetuall feare whereof, caused our elders not only to leadelead their life in such perpetual paine, but further forced them to breake out in …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 156 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not teaching their children the feare of God: But alſo by corrupt example doe leadelead them into euill, and ſo murther their ſoules: for the childe inſteede of a …
With rule
… not teaching their children the feare of God: But alſo by corrupt example doe leadelead them into euill, and ſo murther their ſoules: for the childe inſteede of a …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… the earth, as the fancies of the h…athen that knew not their originall, leadelead them to beleeve.
With rule
… the earth, as the fancies of the h…athen that knew not their originall, leadelead them to beleeve.
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… comforts, hee doth ſometimes deſert. And as before great diſtreſſes, which he meanes to leadelead his children into, hee fills their hearts with joy unſpeakable and glorious, to ſtrengthen …
With rule
… comforts, hee doth ſometimes deſert. And as before great diſtreſſes, which he meanes to leadelead his children into, hee fills their hearts with joy unſpeakable and glorious, to ſtrengthen …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 124 · Open in the reader
Printed
And when thou comſt to Egypt, leadelead them further,
With rule
And when thou comſt to Egypt, leadelead them further,
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · 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.