Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #15517 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

béenebeen

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 1,669 times in 118 works
Consistency: 100% (1,669 of 1,669)
Reach if approved: ~1,754 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: been
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,669 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,669 changes in 118 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,669)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… fiue bookes. For if they had béenebeen additions of any newe doctrine, they had béenebeen contrarie to the prohibition of the same law, and subiect to the curse of …
With rule
… fiue bookes. For if they had béenebeen additions of any newe doctrine, they had béenebeen contrarie to the prohibition of the same law, and subiect to the curse of …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
So what a world of trouble hath béenebeen ſtirred up in England about matters of nothing, about ceremonies of the Church, Croſſe …
With rule
So what a world of trouble hath béenebeen ſtirred up in England about matters of nothing, about ceremonies of the Church, Croſſe …
Henry Greenwood · Marks and No Marks · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
I haue béenebeen seik, and to the Lord did airly cry and call,
With rule
I haue béenebeen seik, and to the Lord did airly cry and call,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
6. According as the testimony or witnesse of Iesus Christ hath béenebeen confirmed in you.
With rule
6. According as the testimony or witnesse of Iesus Christ hath béenebeen confirmed in you.
Theodore Beza · The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… Princes. Yea that pernicious antichrist of Rome, in those daies of ignorance hath not béenebeen ashamed to make Kings, Queenes, Emperours, Dukes, Lords, and all other how honorable or …
With rule
… Princes. Yea that pernicious antichrist of Rome, in those daies of ignorance hath not béenebeen ashamed to make Kings, Queenes, Emperours, Dukes, Lords, and all other how honorable or …
Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… repentance, done for the ſaluation of them which are in purgatorie, it ſhould haue béenebeen vſed rather actiuely: And S. Paul ſhould haue ſaid; what do they which baptize …
With rule
… repentance, done for the ſaluation of them which are in purgatorie, it ſhould haue béenebeen vſed rather actiuely: And S. Paul ſhould haue ſaid; what do they which baptize …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 407 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sinfull shifting which some vse to make from one sinne to another: I haue béenebeen an adulterer (will some man say) but I thanke God, I haue left that …
With rule
… sinfull shifting which some vse to make from one sinne to another: I haue béenebeen an adulterer (will some man say) but I thanke God, I haue left that …
William Ward · Gods Arrows · Open in the reader
Printed
… be the moſt acceptable ſeruice vnto Him, whom wee eſtéeme as God. This hath béenebeen the cauſe that euen the Gentiles and ſuch as knew not the true God …
With rule
… be the moſt acceptable ſeruice vnto Him, whom wee eſtéeme as God. This hath béenebeen the cauſe that euen the Gentiles and ſuch as knew not the true God …
Francis Bunny · A Guide Unto Godliness · p. 29 · 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.