Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1578 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

personespersons

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

Puritas changed it: 876 times in 177 works
Consistency: 97.1% (876 of 902)
Reach if approved: ~949 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: persons
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 903 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (876 changes in 177 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 876)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… Moses in the election of Iudges, and of a King, describeth, not onelye what personespersons shall be chosen to that honour, but doth also giue to him that is …
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… Moses in the election of Iudges, and of a King, describeth, not onelye what personespersons shall be chosen to that honour, but doth also giue to him that is …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · Open in the reader
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… as the Tytell is great. For therfore doeth the Pope kepe the two thouſand perſonespersons, whome he calleth hys Commenſales or boorderers, whereof he doeth yet kepe none to …
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… as the Tytell is great. For therfore doeth the Pope kepe the two thouſand perſonespersons, whome he calleth hys Commenſales or boorderers, whereof he doeth yet kepe none to …
Martin Luther · Exposition of Jeremiah 22 · Open in the reader
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… thee thanks for thy merueilous & vnspekeable charitie & loue wherwith thou didst loue vs vnwurthi personespersons, and didst saue vs by thine only and be loued sōne, for so thou …
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… thee thanks for thy merueilous & vnspekeable charitie & loue wherwith thou didst loue vs vnwurthi personespersons, and didst saue vs by thine only and be loued sōne, for so thou …
Thomas Becon · The Pomander of Prayer · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… vnder two heades, either ſuch as God afflicteth for bearing with or fauouring ſuch perſonespersons: or ſuch as they them ſelues doe bringe alwayes with them. In the firſt …
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… vnder two heades, either ſuch as God afflicteth for bearing with or fauouring ſuch perſonespersons: or ſuch as they them ſelues doe bringe alwayes with them. In the firſt …
Josias Nichols · The Plea of the Innocent · p. 170 · Open in the reader
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… all partes of the Realme, to the afflicting of a great number of godly perſonespersons, eſpecially in Kent, Eſſex, Northfolke, and Suffolke. The preachers before had put vp a …
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… all partes of the Realme, to the afflicting of a great number of godly perſonespersons, eſpecially in Kent, Eſſex, Northfolke, and Suffolke. The preachers before had put vp a …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 120 · Open in the reader
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14 He hates prodigall and diſſolute perſonespersons, becauſe he thinkes they hate him, and loue him as Lyons do their prey.
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14 He hates prodigall and diſſolute perſonespersons, becauſe he thinkes they hate him, and loue him as Lyons do their prey.
Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 51 · Open in the reader
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… chose but prospere in all your affayres. Lete it be treason agaynst your owne personespersons accordynge to the actes of the Emperour Sigysmundus and of kynge henrye the fift …
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… chose but prospere in all your affayres. Lete it be treason agaynst your owne personespersons accordynge to the actes of the Emperour Sigysmundus and of kynge henrye the fift …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
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And finds fòr diuers personespersons diuers laws,
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And finds fòr diuers personespersons diuers laws,
Alexander Hume · Hymns or Sacred Songs · p. 54 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle A02633

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… of Rome. By whose specyall power in churches partycular be ordayned Prelates / as Archebyshoppes / PersonesPersons / Curates / and other degrees more. Vnto whom Christen menne ought to obeye after the …
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… of Rome. By whose specyall power in churches partycular be ordayned Prelates / as Archebyshoppes / PersonesPersons / Curates / and other degrees more. Vnto whom Christen menne ought to obeye after the …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · Open in the reader

The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith A06491

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… THat Father, Sonne, and holy gooſt in one godly eſſence and nature, three ſondry PerſonesPersons, is one onely God, whiche created heauen and earth.
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… THat Father, Sonne, and holy gooſt in one godly eſſence and nature, three ſondry PerſonesPersons, is one onely God, whiche created heauen and earth.
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
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… mē might haue, Paſtours, Preachers and other miniſters of the Churche. Alſo other neceſſary PerſonesPersons for the tēporall Gouernaunce, in Cities and Countrees. Alſo well taught ladyes, brought vp …
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… mē might haue, Paſtours, Preachers and other miniſters of the Churche. Alſo other neceſſary PerſonesPersons for the tēporall Gouernaunce, in Cities and Countrees. Alſo well taught ladyes, brought vp …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion A07769

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… in Plato, he leaueth vs there an euident marke of the thrée Inbeeings or PersonesPersons as Plotine noteth; but we shall see it layd foorth more playnly hereafter by …
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… in Plato, he leaueth vs there an euident marke of the thrée Inbeeings or PersonesPersons as Plotine noteth; but we shall see it layd foorth more playnly hereafter by …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 74 · Open in the reader
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… he wrote, and my e…pounding of them of the three I… béeings or PersonesPersons in the Godhead, is by the consent of all the Platonists, who haue made …
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… he wrote, and my e…pounding of them of the three I… béeings or PersonesPersons in the Godhead, is by the consent of all the Platonists, who haue made …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 74 · Open in the reader
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… not haue spoken better, nor haue sayd more plainly that the thrée Inbeings or PersonesPersons differ onely by way of relation, so as there is a Father, a Sonne …
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… not haue spoken better, nor haue sayd more plainly that the thrée Inbeings or PersonesPersons differ onely by way of relation, so as there is a Father, a Sonne …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 92 · Open in the reader
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… by one of the beginnings, that is to wit, by one of the three PersonesPersons or Inbeeings of Gods essence. And likewise these poynts which I haue proued already …
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… by one of the beginnings, that is to wit, by one of the three PersonesPersons or Inbeeings of Gods essence. And likewise these poynts which I haue proued already …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 589 · Open in the reader

Reply Against Gilbert Brown A14926

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… ſet vp other office bearers, as Legats, Cardinals, Primats, Patriarcks, Archbiſhops, Lord Biſhops, Canones, PerſonesPersons, Vicares, Arch-deacons, Prieſts, Abbots, Prouincials, Popes inquiſitors, Commiſsioners, Officers, Procutors, Promoters, & the innumerable …
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… ſet vp other office bearers, as Legats, Cardinals, Primats, Patriarcks, Archbiſhops, Lord Biſhops, Canones, PerſonesPersons, Vicares, Arch-deacons, Prieſts, Abbots, Prouincials, Popes inquiſitors, Commiſsioners, Officers, Procutors, Promoters, & the innumerable …
John Welch · Reply Against Gilbert Brown · p. 334 · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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PersonesPersons pleasaunt answer, cariyng his woman behynd.
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PersonesPersons pleasaunt answer, cariyng his woman behynd.
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

The Hurt of Hearing Mass A16588

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… Pope Cardinalles, Legates, Archbiſſhoppes biſſheppes, ſuffraganes, Abbores, Priores. Deanes, Prebendarres, archedeacons, Canons, Monkes, Friers, PerſonesPersons, Vicares, Paryſhpryſtes, Maſſe pryſtes, Nonnes, ſuſters, nonices, Deacones, ſubdecones, &c. and a thouſande moe …
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… Pope Cardinalles, Legates, Archbiſſhoppes biſſheppes, ſuffraganes, Abbores, Priores. Deanes, Prebendarres, archedeacons, Canons, Monkes, Friers, PerſonesPersons, Vicares, Paryſhpryſtes, Maſſe pryſtes, Nonnes, ſuſters, nonices, Deacones, ſubdecones, &c. and a thouſande moe …
John Bradford · The Hurt of Hearing Mass · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

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… the Churche of great necessitie was enforced to vse the names of Trinitie, and PersonesPersons, if any shall then fynde faulte with the newenesse of woordes, shall he not …
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… the Churche of great necessitie was enforced to vse the names of Trinitie, and PersonesPersons, if any shall then fynde faulte with the newenesse of woordes, shall he not …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
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… of the Sonne, and of the Holy ghost, and partly cōcernyng their distinction of PersonesPersons. And as in a maner in all ages he hath stirred vp wicked spirites …
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… of the Sonne, and of the Holy ghost, and partly cōcernyng their distinction of PersonesPersons. And as in a maner in all ages he hath stirred vp wicked spirites …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
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… shame of the wickednesse of Seruetto, haue in dede confessed, that there are thre PersonesPersons, but addyng a maner howe: that the Father whiche truely and proprely is the …
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… shame of the wickednesse of Seruetto, haue in dede confessed, that there are thre PersonesPersons, but addyng a maner howe: that the Father whiche truely and proprely is the …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
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Essence of God one and PersonesPersons three.
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Essence of God one and PersonesPersons three.
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion A61509

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… allovved to defend their rights, notvvithſtanding of theſe acts: Then much more may private PerſonesPersons be allovved to defend Chriſt's rights, and their ovvne rights, as to their ſoull …
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… allovved to defend their rights, notvvithſtanding of theſe acts: Then much more may private PerſonesPersons be allovved to defend Chriſt's rights, and their ovvne rights, as to their ſoull …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 171 · Open in the reader
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… violente hand, by King and Parliaments, and there is no meane left unto Private PerſonesPersons, when violented and conſtrained to a complyance, by acts, and tyrannical and arbitrary executions …
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… violente hand, by King and Parliaments, and there is no meane left unto Private PerſonesPersons, when violented and conſtrained to a complyance, by acts, and tyrannical and arbitrary executions …
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 184 · Open in the reader
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… and a land devoted to God, is carryed on, more is required of Private PerſonesPersons, then to mourne and ſigh in ſecret: as,
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… and a land devoted to God, is carryed on, more is required of Private PerſonesPersons, then to mourne and ſigh in ſecret: as,
James Stewart · The Peoples Right to Defend Themselves and their Covenanted Religion · p. 186 · Open in the reader