Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1566 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

boldebold

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

Puritas changed it: 1,400 times in 427 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,400 of 1,405)
Reach if approved: ~1,476 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bold
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,405 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,400 changes in 427 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,400)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and labours, from the blowes of all maleuolent Censurers. In which thoughts, I was boldebold to center my selfe in your Honour; as the indiuiduall point of my refuge …
With rule
… and labours, from the blowes of all maleuolent Censurers. In which thoughts, I was boldebold to center my selfe in your Honour; as the indiuiduall point of my refuge …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · Open in the reader
Printed
And therfor be boldebold, thys enterpryſe to ieoparde·
With rule
And therfor be boldebold, thys enterpryſe to ieoparde·
John Bale · Brief Comedy Concerning the Temptation of Jesus Christ by Satan · Open in the reader
Printed
… trouble yow if we list, for oure coniecture hes more probabilitie, nor hes your boldebold affirmation, Christes body wes offred before it wes eaten, because the pasouer wes offred …
With rule
… trouble yow if we list, for oure coniecture hes more probabilitie, nor hes your boldebold affirmation, Christes body wes offred before it wes eaten, because the pasouer wes offred …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they ruſh vpon the candle: or blinde horſes doe runne againſt the wall: but boldebold and confident in him, they can not be, who knowes him not in Chriſt …
With rule
… they ruſh vpon the candle: or blinde horſes doe runne againſt the wall: but boldebold and confident in him, they can not be, who knowes him not in Chriſt …
John Forbes · Letter to Merchants · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… After these thinges, hauing made them a false Byshop by heretikes, they dare bée boldebold to sayle, beyond the Sea, and to cary prophane letters fr…m Schismatiks, vnto …
With rule
… After these thinges, hauing made them a false Byshop by heretikes, they dare bée boldebold to sayle, beyond the Sea, and to cary prophane letters fr…m Schismatiks, vnto …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
Printed
… perillous Logician, that he will admit nothing but necessarie consequences, which we must be boldebold to vrge and require of him, for the mention of the signe of the …
With rule
… perillous Logician, that he will admit nothing but necessarie consequences, which we must be boldebold to vrge and require of him, for the mention of the signe of the …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 136 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with them, euen a Preacher of the Gospell. If any man will be so boldebold or rather impudent, to affirme that this was not the Deuill which gaue aunsweres …
With rule
… with them, euen a Preacher of the Gospell. If any man will be so boldebold or rather impudent, to affirme that this was not the Deuill which gaue aunsweres …
George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader
Printed
… you cā expound your doctours to maynteyne your opinion, ſeinge you dare be ſo boldebold to cauſe Chriſtes wordes to ſerue for your carnall purpoſe. I entende not therfore …
With rule
… you cā expound your doctours to maynteyne your opinion, ſeinge you dare be ſo boldebold to cauſe Chriſtes wordes to ſerue for your carnall purpoſe. I entende not therfore …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies A01760

Printed
… a man doth, is not ever a good conscience, but often times an Erring, BoldeBold, Presuming, Secure, yea perhaps a Seared conscience. A good Conscience, the testimony whereof giveth …
With rule
… a man doth, is not ever a good conscience, but often times an Erring, BoldeBold, Presuming, Secure, yea perhaps a Seared conscience. A good Conscience, the testimony whereof giveth …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs A20796

Printed
BoldeBold Beauchampe.
With rule
BoldeBold Beauchampe.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 17 · Open in the reader