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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1505 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beastesbeasts

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

Puritas changed it
3,361 times in 529 works
Consistency
100% (3,361 of 3,361)
Reach if approved
~3,531 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: beasts
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,361 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,361 changes in 529 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,361)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and then to bee sicke, and die are common to him with plants and beastesbeasts; and what suffering is there in the one, more then in the other, saue …
    With rule
    … and then to bee sicke, and die are common to him with plants and beastesbeasts; and what suffering is there in the one, more then in the other, saue …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the 13. chapter of this Reuelation, where it is sayde, that the number of the BeastesBeasts name is sixe hundred, sixtye and sixe, sheweth that the opinion of many in …
    With rule
    … the 13. chapter of this Reuelation, where it is sayde, that the number of the BeastesBeasts name is sixe hundred, sixtye and sixe, sheweth that the opinion of many in …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … to a liuing Dogge, then a dead Lyon: which I would yeeld true among BeastesBeasts; but among men, a dead Beast is better then a lyuing Atheist: let them …
    With rule
    … to a liuing Dogge, then a dead Lyon: which I would yeeld true among BeastesBeasts; but among men, a dead Beast is better then a lyuing Atheist: let them …

    Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … was their deſire? Was it no more then for to deſtroy the poore dumbe beaſtesbeasts? Yes verely they had a further reach, & a deeper practiſe. This it was, they …
    With rule
    … was their deſire? Was it no more then for to deſtroy the poore dumbe beaſtesbeasts? Yes verely they had a further reach, & a deeper practiſe. This it was, they …

    George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … saints. Let vs remember then, that we liue not to eate, as doe bruite beastesbeasts; we liue not to liue, as doe the heathen: we liue to liue well …
    With rule
    … saints. Let vs remember then, that we liue not to eate, as doe bruite beastesbeasts; we liue not to liue, as doe the heathen: we liue to liue well …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 606 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    ¶Sealynges to the BeastesBeasts obedyence
    With rule
    ¶Sealynges to the BeastesBeasts obedyence

    John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … of those thynges whych they knowe not. And what thynges they knowe naturally, as beastesbeasts which are wtout reasō they corrupt in thē selues. Wo be vnto thē, for …
    With rule
    … of those thynges whych they knowe not. And what thynges they knowe naturally, as beastesbeasts which are wtout reasō they corrupt in thē selues. Wo be vnto thē, for …

    John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … vaines, nor blesse the heart with the smallest addition of content. They browse like BeastesBeasts on these sweet boughes, but they looke thinne after it, as if they had …
    With rule
    … vaines, nor blesse the heart with the smallest addition of content. They browse like BeastesBeasts on these sweet boughes, but they looke thinne after it, as if they had …

    Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 70 · 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.