Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1530 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blackeblack

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

Puritas changed it: 2,805 times in 871 works
Consistency: 100% (2,805 of 2,805)
Reach if approved: ~2,947 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: black
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 (2,805 changes in 871 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,805)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
We ſhall be blackeblack as divels it we goe there.
With rule
We ſhall be blackeblack as divels it we goe there.
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus the Church of Chriſt did: I am blackeblack, (O yee daughters of Ieruſalem) yet comely as the curteines of Salomon. How could …
With rule
Thus the Church of Chriſt did: I am blackeblack, (O yee daughters of Ieruſalem) yet comely as the curteines of Salomon. How could …
Henry Greenwood · The Jailors Jail · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cheerefull after my heauy sorrowes and grieuous afflictions, that though I haue beene as blackeblack and sad in my heart and countenance, as if I had layen among the …
With rule
… cheerefull after my heauy sorrowes and grieuous afflictions, that though I haue beene as blackeblack and sad in my heart and countenance, as if I had layen among the …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 418 · Open in the reader
Printed
… losse. Some of them, saith Bishop Iewell, haue written in defence of filthinesse. VVhat blackeblack Vice shall vvant some Patronage? But causa patrocinio non bona, peior erit. Powerfull arguments …
With rule
… losse. Some of them, saith Bishop Iewell, haue written in defence of filthinesse. VVhat blackeblack Vice shall vvant some Patronage? But causa patrocinio non bona, peior erit. Powerfull arguments …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which dwelleth in him, is most pure and glorious,) His lockes are curled, and blackeblack as a Rauen, (his godhead deriuing to his humane nature such wondrous beauty, as …
With rule
… which dwelleth in him, is most pure and glorious,) His lockes are curled, and blackeblack as a Rauen, (his godhead deriuing to his humane nature such wondrous beauty, as …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier dwelling in the BlackeBlack Friers. 1577.
With rule
Imprinted at London by Thomas Vautrollier dwelling in the BlackeBlack Friers. 1577.
William Fulke · Answer to the Proud Challenge of a Counterset Catholic · Open in the reader
Printed
… approacheſt pale, and leane, to the old man; bloody, & boyſterous, to the yong man; blackeblack as hell, to the bad man, and but vgly, vnto euery man. Thou comeſt …
With rule
… approacheſt pale, and leane, to the old man; bloody, & boyſterous, to the yong man; blackeblack as hell, to the bad man, and but vgly, vnto euery man. Thou comeſt …
John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if there want perfection? The Church militant muſt euer confeſſe; I am louely, yet blackeblack▪ For it is impoſsible that any Church ſhould be without imperfectiō, ſo long as …
With rule
… if there want perfection? The Church militant muſt euer confeſſe; I am louely, yet blackeblack▪ For it is impoſsible that any Church ſhould be without imperfectiō, ſo long as …
Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 72 · 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.