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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1470 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

foolesfools

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

Puritas changed it
5,267 times in 1,330 works
Consistency
99.9% (5,267 of 5,271)
Reach if approved
~5,539 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fools
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
5,272 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,267 changes in 1,330 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,267)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the firſt, two contrarie humors that raigne… in man, and (as it were) two foolesfools of hi… councell that did rule him, Pleaſure an… …ine. Each had two other …
    With rule
    … the firſt, two contrarie humors that raigne… in man, and (as it were) two foolesfools of hi… councell that did rule him, Pleaſure an… …ine. Each had two other …

    Henry Finch · Law · p. 4 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … could not, possiblie, in all his three yeares and a halfe, find three phrenetick foolesfools to be his followers. As if, foresooth, one, directlie damning all Christianitie, openlie blaspheming …
    With rule
    … could not, possiblie, in all his three yeares and a halfe, find three phrenetick foolesfools to be his followers. As if, foresooth, one, directlie damning all Christianitie, openlie blaspheming …

    Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … altogether vntrue, in them that are wise and learned. If a fewe, froward, schismaticall foolesfools, doe refrain from it, there is smal reason why it should be iudged naught …
    With rule
    … altogether vntrue, in them that are wise and learned. If a fewe, froward, schismaticall foolesfools, doe refrain from it, there is smal reason why it should be iudged naught …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the religious men, which worde might well be vsed, but that he would haue foolesfools to thinke, that there were Monkes, and fryers in that tyme, which were vsed …
    With rule
    … the religious men, which worde might well be vsed, but that he would haue foolesfools to thinke, that there were Monkes, and fryers in that tyme, which were vsed …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 247 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … was to make uſe of it accordingly, (for ſhe was not one of Solomons foolesfools) that have a price in their hands to get wiſedome with, but have no …
    With rule
    … was to make uſe of it accordingly, (for ſhe was not one of Solomons foolesfools) that have a price in their hands to get wiſedome with, but have no …

    Thomas Gataker · Saint Stephens Last Will and Testament · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … we behold them, among the children of men, which are wrought by wilfull conceipted foolesfools. It is a common ſicknes, euery man almoſt is wiſe, and many are ſo …
    With rule
    … we behold them, among the children of men, which are wrought by wilfull conceipted foolesfools. It is a common ſicknes, euery man almoſt is wiſe, and many are ſo …

    George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … will damn as much as abuſing it. This you may ſee in Prov. 1. 23. Ye foolesfools (ſayes wiſedome) you that hate knowledge, Turne, and I will poure my ſpirit upon …
    With rule
    … will damn as much as abuſing it. This you may ſee in Prov. 1. 23. Ye foolesfools (ſayes wiſedome) you that hate knowledge, Turne, and I will poure my ſpirit upon …

    Thomas Goodwin · Aggravation of Sin · p. 90 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … iust cause, though the grieued partie be inferior to vs, though we be counted foolesfools for our labour, yea so farre ought we our selues to bee from anger …
    With rule
    … iust cause, though the grieued partie be inferior to vs, though we be counted foolesfools for our labour, yea so farre ought we our selues to bee from anger …

    George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

Commentary Upon Proverbs A07874

  • Printed
    FOolesFools or ignorant and wicked perſons, are by no meanes to bee aduanced vnto the …
    With rule
    FOolesFools or ignorant and wicked perſons, are by no meanes to bee aduanced vnto the …

    Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 218 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King A96886

  • Printed
    … an holy, a ſ…e, an une…ring way, The way faring men, though FOOLESFOOLS, ſhall not erre therin. Ye may fall into the ſtraits there (as was ſaid …
    With rule
    … an holy, a ſ…e, an une…ring way, The way faring men, though FOOLESFOOLS, ſhall not erre therin. Ye may fall into the ſtraits there (as was ſaid …

    Hezekiah Woodward · The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King · p. 87 · Open in the reader