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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1506 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blindnesseblindness

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

Puritas changed it
3,440 times in 1,083 works
Consistency
100% (3,440 of 3,440)
Reach if approved
~3,616 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: blindness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,441 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,440 changes in 1,083 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,440)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Sunne, so much more the soule, which hath beene long held in miserable blindnesseblindness and darkenesse, cannot but rejoyce in the word, which brings him that true light …
    With rule
    … the Sunne, so much more the soule, which hath beene long held in miserable blindnesseblindness and darkenesse, cannot but rejoyce in the word, which brings him that true light …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 94 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … weighed, and compared, with them from whom he came, doth set forth their blockish blindnesseblindness, and also marueilously commend her inuincible faith. They were wise men, she was a …
    With rule
    … weighed, and compared, with them from whom he came, doth set forth their blockish blindnesseblindness, and also marueilously commend her inuincible faith. They were wise men, she was a …

    William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Chriſt, and carry a zeale unto him. But this doth bewray a moſt horrible blindneſſeblindness, and groſſe darkeneſſe in them, which cannot ſee, that to confeſſe the name of …
    With rule
    … Chriſt, and carry a zeale unto him. But this doth bewray a moſt horrible blindneſſeblindness, and groſſe darkeneſſe in them, which cannot ſee, that to confeſſe the name of …

    George Gifford · Treatise Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ſaue him: marke and obſerue this well, for héere at the firſt enteraunce, the blindneſſeblindness of the Papiſtes and their folly, doth manifeſtly bewraie it ſelfe, when as they …
    With rule
    … ſaue him: marke and obſerue this well, for héere at the firſt enteraunce, the blindneſſeblindness of the Papiſtes and their folly, doth manifeſtly bewraie it ſelfe, when as they …

    George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſaid not to have it. To him that hath ſhall be given, &c.) A blindneſſeblindness ſoone falls on ſuch a man, & he forgetteth all that ever he had (as …
    With rule
    … ſaid not to have it. To him that hath ſhall be given, &c.) A blindneſſeblindness ſoone falls on ſuch a man, & he forgetteth all that ever he had (as …

    Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 130 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    Yea, this blindneſſeblindness preuaileth much oft times with the godly, as here we ſee in the example …
    With rule
    Yea, this blindneſſeblindness preuaileth much oft times with the godly, as here we ſee in the example …

    Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not esteeme so reuerently of the trueth, nor are so much grieued with their blindnesseblindness and ignorance as they should be.
    With rule
    … not esteeme so reuerently of the trueth, nor are so much grieued with their blindnesseblindness and ignorance as they should be.

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 475 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    4. They are the effects of blindnesseblindness of minde: and Ignorance is a greeuous inward Darknesse. Their fool sh heart was …
    With rule
    4. They are the effects of blindnesseblindness of minde: and Ignorance is a greeuous inward Darknesse. Their fool sh heart was …

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 13 · 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.