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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1522 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

worthyeworthy

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

Puritas changed it
515 times in 160 works
Consistency
99.2% (515 of 519)
Reach if approved
~545 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: worthy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
519 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (515 changes in 160 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 515)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Lorde to reygne ouer them / & most cruelty put hym to death? Were they not worthyeworthy to be seduced by a sorte of fals ra…es / as they are at …
    With rule
    … Lorde to reygne ouer them / & most cruelty put hym to death? Were they not worthyeworthy to be seduced by a sorte of fals ra…es / as they are at …

    Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    And so worthyeworthy lyuynges purchase.
    With rule
    And so worthyeworthy lyuynges purchase.

    Thomas Becon · A New Dialogue Between the Angel of God and the Shepherds in the Field · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    ¶Bernarde alſo is no leſſe worthyeworthy of commendation: for that he writeth concernyng feythe, whoſe wordes are theſe folowing, written …
    With rule
    ¶Bernarde alſo is no leſſe worthyeworthy of commendation: for that he writeth concernyng feythe, whoſe wordes are theſe folowing, written …

    Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. xliii · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … sufficiente warrant in the word of God, that the labourers in this function, are worthyeworthy of their wages; not onely for the honeste intertenemente of themselues, but also of …
    With rule
    … sufficiente warrant in the word of God, that the labourers in this function, are worthyeworthy of their wages; not onely for the honeste intertenemente of themselues, but also of …

    Robert Pont · Against Sacrilege · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … noble courage and iuſtice, the glorye and wyſdome of Salomō, or whatſoeuer was praiſe worthyeworthy in the begynnynge: that ſame ſhal mooſte fullye be reſtored in thys raygne of …
    With rule
    … noble courage and iuſtice, the glorye and wyſdome of Salomō, or whatſoeuer was praiſe worthyeworthy in the begynnynge: that ſame ſhal mooſte fullye be reſtored in thys raygne of …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … heauen, that I haue in hys syght done fylthynesse, and that I am not worthyeworthy from henceforth to beare name of his sonne. Whan he beholdeth my wretched nakydnesse …
    With rule
    … heauen, that I haue in hys syght done fylthynesse, and that I am not worthyeworthy from henceforth to beare name of his sonne. Whan he beholdeth my wretched nakydnesse …

    John Bale · A Dialogue to be had at Table Between Two Children · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    Whoſe fiſhepondes had ſpringes of roſewater. O daynty monſter, worthyeworthy to die in a draught, as after happed. But we muſt imitate, and expreſſe …
    With rule
    Whoſe fiſhepondes had ſpringes of roſewater. O daynty monſter, worthyeworthy to die in a draught, as after happed. But we muſt imitate, and expreſſe …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    Nowe good master doctor ye saye the verye truthe, and therfore be they more worthyeworthy to haue the benefice then you your selfe, and yet neyther of you bothe …
    With rule
    Nowe good master doctor ye saye the verye truthe, and therfore be they more worthyeworthy to haue the benefice then you your selfe, and yet neyther of you bothe …

    Thomas Lever · A Fruitful Sermon · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

4 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.

Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue A01309

  • Printed
    … from the deade, neyther marye, nor are maried. and, 2. Thess. 1. That you may BE WORTHYEWORTHY of the kingdome of God, for which also ye suffer.
    With rule
    … from the deade, neyther marye, nor are maried. and, 2. Thess. 1. That you may BE WORTHYEWORTHY of the kingdome of God, for which also ye suffer.

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 279 · Open in the reader

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    … beastes, and the elders. 3. And I harde thousand thousandes, saying with a loude voyce. 4. WorthyeWorthy is the Lambe that was killed, to receaue power, and riches and wisdome, and …
    With rule
    … beastes, and the elders. 3. And I harde thousand thousandes, saying with a loude voyce. 4. WorthyeWorthy is the Lambe that was killed, to receaue power, and riches and wisdome, and …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 66 · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

  • Printed
    … For, as the rulers leade, ſo foloweth and formeth it ſelfe the rable reſt. WorthyeWorthy it is, that Plutarche noteth of Dioniſius. To whom lieng at Siracuſe when Plato …
    With rule
    … For, as the rulers leade, ſo foloweth and formeth it ſelfe the rable reſt. WorthyeWorthy it is, that Plutarche noteth of Dioniſius. To whom lieng at Siracuſe when Plato …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … onelye theym ſelues be not iniurious, but alſo repreſſe they like rauenours and extorcioners WorthyeWorthy honour he is who harmeth none. But who neyther ſuffereth others, earneth doubled prayſe …
    With rule
    … onelye theym ſelues be not iniurious, but alſo repreſſe they like rauenours and extorcioners WorthyeWorthy honour he is who harmeth none. But who neyther ſuffereth others, earneth doubled prayſe …

    Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader