Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1483 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sweetesweet

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

Puritas changed it: 4,986 times in 935 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,986 of 4,990)
Reach if approved: ~5,243 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sweet
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,990 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,986 changes in 935 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,986)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… grace intendeth by grace to moue mans wil, to aſſent by a gentle and ſweetesweet ſwaſion; which motion doth not onely not take away the free conſent of freewill …
With rule
… grace intendeth by grace to moue mans wil, to aſſent by a gentle and ſweetesweet ſwaſion; which motion doth not onely not take away the free conſent of freewill …
Daniel Featley · Pelagius Raked out of the Ashes by Arminius and his Scholars · Open in the reader
Printed
Playing ith'breath, more sweetesweet then is that firing,
With rule
Playing ith'breath, more sweetesweet then is that firing,
Phineas Fletcher · Britains Ida · Open in the reader
Printed
… so making Peace, as if hee were made of peace. That blessed Queene of sweetesweet and sacred memory before him, was Filia Pacis: who, as by her Sexuall graces …
With rule
… so making Peace, as if hee were made of peace. That blessed Queene of sweetesweet and sacred memory before him, was Filia Pacis: who, as by her Sexuall graces …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by darknes we learne how to esteeme light, and by bitter that which is sweetesweet, and euery other thing by his contrarie: euen so by the deformitie of euill …
With rule
… by darknes we learne how to esteeme light, and by bitter that which is sweetesweet, and euery other thing by his contrarie: euen so by the deformitie of euill …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
In the firſt the voice of Chriſt is as a ſweetesweet Cimball.
With rule
In the firſt the voice of Chriſt is as a ſweetesweet Cimball.
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… taſt howe ſower this Crabbe is, which Maiſter Greenewood conueieth in among ſo many ſweetesweet Apples? But he replieth further to confirme his matter by argument thus, if anie …
With rule
… taſt howe ſower this Crabbe is, which Maiſter Greenewood conueieth in among ſo many ſweetesweet Apples? But he replieth further to confirme his matter by argument thus, if anie …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it might bee. Prayer is not like a noſe-gay, which is no longer ſweetesweet then the flowers are new and freſh: For the ſweetesweet ſauour of prayer conſiſteth …
With rule
… it might bee. Prayer is not like a noſe-gay, which is no longer ſweetesweet then the flowers are new and freſh: For the ſweetesweet ſauour of prayer conſiſteth …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 428 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for they have sometimes beene pleasing to him; and he hath oftentimes smelt, a sweetesweet odour from them; but I considered, that sacrifices were but shadowes of things to …
With rule
… for they have sometimes beene pleasing to him; and he hath oftentimes smelt, a sweetesweet odour from them; but I considered, that sacrifices were but shadowes of things to …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 150 · p. 69 · 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.

Works A02178

Printed
SWEETESWEET AND SVRE SIGNES OF ELECTION, TO THEM THAT ARE BROVGHT LOW.
With rule
SWEETESWEET AND SVRE SIGNES OF ELECTION, TO THEM THAT ARE BROVGHT LOW.
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 122 · Open in the reader

Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience A02180

Printed
A MOST SWEETESWEET AND assured Comfort for all those that are afflicted in Consciscience, or troubled in …
With rule
A MOST SWEETESWEET AND assured Comfort for all those that are afflicted in Consciscience, or troubled in …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader

Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 A09272

Printed
A SHORT AND SWEETESWEET EXPOSITION VPON THE FIRST NINE CHAPTERS OF ZACHARY.
With rule
A SHORT AND SWEETESWEET EXPOSITION VPON THE FIRST NINE CHAPTERS OF ZACHARY.
William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · Open in the reader