Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1480 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

kneweknew

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

Puritas changed it: 2,566 times in 479 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,566 of 2,567)
Reach if approved: ~2,697 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: knew
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,567 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,566 changes in 479 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,566)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Dauid when he had committed murther and adulterie, being reprooued by Nathan, although he kneweknew right well that the Diuell was a greate furtherer, in the matter: likewiſe he …
With rule
… Dauid when he had committed murther and adulterie, being reprooued by Nathan, although he kneweknew right well that the Diuell was a greate furtherer, in the matter: likewiſe he …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… put to death, of whom one can not say, but by divination, that they kneweknew the Sacraments and made a vow.
With rule
… put to death, of whom one can not say, but by divination, that they kneweknew the Sacraments and made a vow.
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… both like and commend it. &c. This mind was I euer of since I kneweknew what gods Religion & good Diuiuitie meant: howe say you? Is not sound preaching much …
With rule
… both like and commend it. &c. This mind was I euer of since I kneweknew what gods Religion & good Diuiuitie meant: howe say you? Is not sound preaching much …
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
If ye kneweknew how he coulde pelfe,
With rule
If ye kneweknew how he coulde pelfe,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… and a cōpanion of his were murthered in a thronge, by whom no man kneweknew.
With rule
… and a cōpanion of his were murthered in a thronge, by whom no man kneweknew.
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… them any such immunitie as can free and exempt them from all chastisements: he kneweknew that as God said, I will continue my mercy for ever towards them; so …
With rule
… them any such immunitie as can free and exempt them from all chastisements: he kneweknew that as God said, I will continue my mercy for ever towards them; so …
Richard Hooker · Sermon of the Certainty and Perpetuity of Faith in the Elect · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ignoraunce, or to the wrathful vengeāce of God for your vnbeliefe sake, because ye kneweknew not the tyme of your visitation. And beyng allured & stirred vp to better remembrance …
With rule
… ignoraunce, or to the wrathful vengeāce of God for your vnbeliefe sake, because ye kneweknew not the tyme of your visitation. And beyng allured & stirred vp to better remembrance …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… ambiguous, and that the trueth can not be found in them, by such as kneweknew not the tradition, which was not deliuered by writing, but by worde of mouth …
With rule
… ambiguous, and that the trueth can not be found in them, by such as kneweknew not the tradition, which was not deliuered by writing, but by worde of mouth …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 314 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 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.

Sermons in One Volume A12406

Printed
… drowned them: while the Steward was recounting with himſelfe, and thinking that his Maſter KneweKnew not what policie was in his heart, ſuddenly his Lorde called him to account …
With rule
… drowned them: while the Steward was recounting with himſelfe, and thinking that his Maſter KneweKnew not what policie was in his heart, ſuddenly his Lorde called him to account …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 380 · Open in the reader