Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1520 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

madnessemadness

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

Puritas changed it: 3,750 times in 1,219 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,750 of 3,752)
Reach if approved: ~3,943 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: madness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,753 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,750 changes in 1,219 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,750)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of their consciences, and driuen forth lusts, like crawling worms; they in a voluntary madnessemadness put them in againe. As the Tode casts ont per poison, when she goes …
With rule
… of their consciences, and driuen forth lusts, like crawling worms; they in a voluntary madnessemadness put them in againe. As the Tode casts ont per poison, when she goes …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
FVLK. 7. Marke howe malice carieth this man almost into madnessemadness. For who but a madde man woulde thinke, that Beza opposeth prophane writers to …
With rule
FVLK. 7. Marke howe malice carieth this man almost into madnessemadness. For who but a madde man woulde thinke, that Beza opposeth prophane writers to …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
And yet strange and miserable is the blindnesse and madnessemadness (as one well obserueth) of most men, who, whereas in other and better matters …
With rule
And yet strange and miserable is the blindnesse and madnessemadness (as one well obserueth) of most men, who, whereas in other and better matters …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 340 · Open in the reader
Printed
… He onely beares witneſſe unto the faithfull ſoule, of Chriſts eternall Prieſt-hood. The madneſſemadness of Mahumed, you ſhall finde, Chap. 34. § 5. N. 8.
With rule
… He onely beares witneſſe unto the faithfull ſoule, of Chriſts eternall Prieſt-hood. The madneſſemadness of Mahumed, you ſhall finde, Chap. 34. § 5. N. 8.
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they might have prevented that occaſion of after-repentance. It is a kind of madneſſemadness not to thinke and know that lies cannot long deceive: and that it is …
With rule
… they might have prevented that occaſion of after-repentance. It is a kind of madneſſemadness not to thinke and know that lies cannot long deceive: and that it is …
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · p. 151 · Open in the reader
Printed
If this bee madnessemadness, who are well in their wittes? And yet madnessemadness it is, and infatuate frenzy …
With rule
If this bee madnessemadness, who are well in their wittes? And yet madnessemadness it is, and infatuate frenzy …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sycknesses of Egypte / pestilence / poxe / botch / feuers / collycke / heate / em…odes / scalle / mange / meselles / madnessemadness / losse of goodes / wyndes / blastes / waters wythering / wastyng / burnyng / drought / rayne oppressyon / robberye / theues …
With rule
… sycknesses of Egypte / pestilence / poxe / botch / feuers / collycke / heate / em…odes / scalle / mange / meselles / madnessemadness / losse of goodes / wyndes / blastes / waters wythering / wastyng / burnyng / drought / rayne oppressyon / robberye / theues …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iſraelites did, one ſpirituall meat and drinke in this Sacrament: wherein is confuted the madneſſemadness of the Papiſtes, who doe ſhut out manie of the people from this work …
With rule
… Iſraelites did, one ſpirituall meat and drinke in this Sacrament: wherein is confuted the madneſſemadness of the Papiſtes, who doe ſhut out manie of the people from this work …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 167 · 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 Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 A17385

Printed
MAdnesseMadness. Signes of spirituall MadnesseMadness,
With rule
MAdnesseMadness. Signes of spirituall MadnesseMadness,
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
MAdneſſeMadness: he is a rare man that hath not ſome kind of madneſſemadness in him. 143
With rule
MAdneſſeMadness: he is a rare man that hath not ſome kind of madneſſemadness in him. 143
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · Open in the reader