Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1569 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

towardetoward

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

Puritas changed it: 1,269 times in 249 works
Consistency: 99.5% (1,269 of 1,275)
Reach if approved: ~1,340 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: toward
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,275 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,269 changes in 249 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,269)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… manner maketh a poyſon, is no leſſe to bee reproued of want of loue towardetoward the good name and eſtimation of our brother. For there is no man y^t …
With rule
… manner maketh a poyſon, is no leſſe to bee reproued of want of loue towardetoward the good name and eſtimation of our brother. For there is no man y^t …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 172 · Open in the reader
Printed
… manye verye well learned: whyche bee nowe all clene gone, house and manne, young towardetoward scholers, and old fatherly… Doctors, not one of them lefte: one hundred also of …
With rule
… manye verye well learned: whyche bee nowe all clene gone, house and manne, young towardetoward scholers, and old fatherly… Doctors, not one of them lefte: one hundred also of …
Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader
Printed
… madenes, and that after our victory we were come agayne into Egypte, vſyng gentelnes towardetoward all nacyons, dyd as it became vs, and by proclamacion declarynge to forget in …
With rule
… madenes, and that after our victory we were come agayne into Egypte, vſyng gentelnes towardetoward all nacyons, dyd as it became vs, and by proclamacion declarynge to forget in …
Henrich Bullinger · Historical Table of the Bible · Open in the reader
Printed
… nacyō, a naciō y^t wold neuer be true harted nor beare an vpryght mynde towardetoward God.
With rule
… nacyō, a naciō y^t wold neuer be true harted nor beare an vpryght mynde towardetoward God.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue 2 · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
AN other sequele of their onely faith is, that the Sacraments also helpe nothing towardetoward our saluation, and therefore they partely take them cleane away, partly depriue them of …
With rule
AN other sequele of their onely faith is, that the Sacraments also helpe nothing towardetoward our saluation, and therefore they partely take them cleane away, partly depriue them of …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 379 · Open in the reader
Printed
… euill againſt men, for there is nothing recited in the ſame laſt commaundement, but towardetoward men: and when our Sauiour Chriſt ſetteth foorth the ſumme of the firſt Table …
With rule
… euill againſt men, for there is nothing recited in the ſame laſt commaundement, but towardetoward men: and when our Sauiour Chriſt ſetteth foorth the ſumme of the firſt Table …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if they had bene Pears of a realme, and knowen ſo wel their duetie towardetoward God and their contrye, as they did to Chriſt and his Churche, being Apoſtels …
With rule
… if they had bene Pears of a realme, and knowen ſo wel their duetie towardetoward God and their contrye, as they did to Chriſt and his Churche, being Apoſtels …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Anacletus sought wyth spendinge and brybinge, to winne and confirme all mens good wills towardetoward him, that anye way seemed to fauour him: He made Roger kinge of both …
With rule
… Anacletus sought wyth spendinge and brybinge, to winne and confirme all mens good wills towardetoward him, that anye way seemed to fauour him: He made Roger kinge of both …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 92 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

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

Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline A13880

Printed
… next Chapter, after a particular rehearſall of the thinges that belonged to the Tabernacle. TowardeToward the ende of the Chapter, it is ſaide, So ſet thou vp the Tabernacle …
With rule
… next Chapter, after a particular rehearſall of the thinges that belonged to the Tabernacle. TowardeToward the ende of the Chapter, it is ſaide, So ſet thou vp the Tabernacle …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… practiſes of attributing to him that which was not his, whiche contradiction appeareth thus: TowardeToward the ende of this Epiſtle to Titus, the Apoſtle ſayeth, Endeuour to come to …
With rule
… practiſes of attributing to him that which was not his, whiche contradiction appeareth thus: TowardeToward the ende of this Epiſtle to Titus, the Apoſtle ſayeth, Endeuour to come to …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 85 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Joshua A17638

Printed
… of it is called Antilibanus. Of that mount Hermon the reader shall find Deuteronomie. 4. TowardeToward the East is Hemath, which is also called Antiochia of Syria.
With rule
… of it is called Antilibanus. Of that mount Hermon the reader shall find Deuteronomie. 4. TowardeToward the East is Hemath, which is also called Antiochia of Syria.
John Calvin · Commentary on Joshua · p. 65 · Open in the reader

The Little Book A17684

Printed
… fewe, what is wonte to be done of most men euery where and dayly. TowardeToward some we are to rough & vnappeasable. But it were good to know what maner …
With rule
… fewe, what is wonte to be done of most men euery where and dayly. TowardeToward some we are to rough & vnappeasable. But it were good to know what maner …
John Calvin · The Little Book · p. 84 · Open in the reader