Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1509 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stealesteal

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

Puritas changed it: 2,803 times in 1,015 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,803 of 2,805)
Reach if approved: ~2,947 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: steal
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,805 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,803 changes in 1,015 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,803)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… if we would goe to Rome for a medicine. (For the Papist may better stealesteal the horse, than the Protestant looke on.) But so long as we haue approoued …
With rule
… if we would goe to Rome for a medicine. (For the Papist may better stealesteal the horse, than the Protestant looke on.) But so long as we haue approoued …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a lie, namely that while the watchmen were aſleep, the diſciples of Chriſt did ſtealesteal him away, and then ſayd he was riſen, and this lie was beleeued (though …
With rule
… a lie, namely that while the watchmen were aſleep, the diſciples of Chriſt did ſtealesteal him away, and then ſayd he was riſen, and this lie was beleeued (though …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a lie, namely that while the watchmen were aſleep, the diſciples of Chriſt did ſtealesteal him away, and then ſayd he was riſen, and this lie was beleeued (though …
With rule
… a lie, namely that while the watchmen were aſleep, the diſciples of Chriſt did ſtealesteal him away, and then ſayd he was riſen, and this lie was beleeued (though …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abſent and away. Thwit me not here with any carnall loue, or loue to ſtealesteal my heart from God; farre be that from my thoughts: I meane nothing but …
With rule
… abſent and away. Thwit me not here with any carnall loue, or loue to ſtealesteal my heart from God; farre be that from my thoughts: I meane nothing but …
Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but a shift? If to digge they are too lazie, to begge ashamed, to stealesteal afrayde, to cheate want witte, and to liue, meanes, then thrust in for a …
With rule
… but a shift? If to digge they are too lazie, to begge ashamed, to stealesteal afrayde, to cheate want witte, and to liue, meanes, then thrust in for a …
Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… earth, where the ruſt and the moath corrupt, and where theeves break thorough and ſtealesteal, but let us lay up for our ſelves treaſure in heaven. For this is …
With rule
… earth, where the ruſt and the moath corrupt, and where theeves break thorough and ſtealesteal, but let us lay up for our ſelves treaſure in heaven. For this is …
Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the walls of your body, and enter into the cloſet of your heart, and ſtealesteal away all your joy and contentment; but lay up for your ſelves treaſures in …
With rule
… the walls of your body, and enter into the cloſet of your heart, and ſtealesteal away all your joy and contentment; but lay up for your ſelves treaſures in …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 627 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is layd up with Christ in God; where no thiefe can digge through or stealesteal, where it cannot corrupt. Looke as it is with children that are heires, yet …
With rule
… is layd up with Christ in God; where no thiefe can digge through or stealesteal, where it cannot corrupt. Looke as it is with children that are heires, yet …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 150 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 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.

A Quench-Coal A10197

Printed
… EVER GIVE WAY TO THE AUTHORIZINGE OF ANY THINGE WHERE BY ANY INNOUATION MAY STEALESTEAL OR CREEP INTO THE CHURCH, but preserue the vnity of Doctrine & discipline established in …
With rule
… EVER GIVE WAY TO THE AUTHORIZINGE OF ANY THINGE WHERE BY ANY INNOUATION MAY STEALESTEAL OR CREEP INTO THE CHURCH, but preserue the vnity of Doctrine & discipline established in …
William Prynne · A Quench-Coal · p. 188 · Open in the reader

Divine Poems A66751

Printed
VIII THOV SHALT NOT STEALESTEAL
With rule
VIII THOV SHALT NOT STEALESTEAL
George Wither · Divine Poems · p. 1 · Open in the reader