Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1579 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

proudeproud

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

Puritas changed it: 1,910 times in 478 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,910 of 1,911)
Reach if approved: ~2,010 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: proud
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,913 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,910 changes in 478 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,910)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ſleepe out their eyes, and to make fooles runne ſtarke madde. They winke at proudeproud carnalls, but doe not mortifie them, that they might deuote themſelues to good workes …
With rule
… ſleepe out their eyes, and to make fooles runne ſtarke madde. They winke at proudeproud carnalls, but doe not mortifie them, that they might deuote themſelues to good workes …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 330 · Open in the reader
Printed
The proudeproud papystes all
With rule
The proudeproud papystes all
John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
Whence this priuiledge ouer kings and kingdoms ſhould come vnto this proudeproud Prieſt of Rome, I cannot finde, vnleſſe he fetcheth it from that ſpirit, that …
With rule
Whence this priuiledge ouer kings and kingdoms ſhould come vnto this proudeproud Prieſt of Rome, I cannot finde, vnleſſe he fetcheth it from that ſpirit, that …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and maketh a very Ieſt of it. The third in this ranke is the proudeproud conceipted man; who walking in the ſunne is tanned though he meant it not …
With rule
… and maketh a very Ieſt of it. The third in this ranke is the proudeproud conceipted man; who walking in the ſunne is tanned though he meant it not …
Samuel Hieron · Truths Purchase · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… cannot helpe it. Let vs correct these exorbitant and superfluous conceits, which are like proudeproud flesh vpon vs; and knowe, wee are able to doe nothing of our selues …
With rule
… cannot helpe it. Let vs correct these exorbitant and superfluous conceits, which are like proudeproud flesh vpon vs; and knowe, wee are able to doe nothing of our selues …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we haue to pleade before God, and likewyse what cause we haue to be proudeproud among men. Which thing if all men would consider, that by kynde without Christ …
With rule
… we haue to pleade before God, and likewyse what cause we haue to be proudeproud among men. Which thing if all men would consider, that by kynde without Christ …
William Fulke · A Comfortable Sermon of Faith in Temptations · Open in the reader
Printed
… to vse that terme but in derision of them, that when they would be proudeproud against the Cleargie, they alledged, that we are all Priestes, &c. but when we …
With rule
… to vse that terme but in derision of them, that when they would be proudeproud against the Cleargie, they alledged, that we are all Priestes, &c. but when we …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeparation are both vaine and pernicious, yea ſacrilegious, becauſe they become both wicked and proudeproud, and doo more trouble the good which are weake, than chaſtice the ſturdie ones …
With rule
… ſeparation are both vaine and pernicious, yea ſacrilegious, becauſe they become both wicked and proudeproud, and doo more trouble the good which are weake, than chaſtice the ſturdie ones …
George Gifford · Plain Declaration that Brownists be Full Donatists · p. 23 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christian Observations and Resolutions A13075

Printed
PRoudeProud Sinners haue strongest conceat, that they goe right, at leaste in the way of …
With rule
PRoudeProud Sinners haue strongest conceat, that they goe right, at leaste in the way of …
William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 68 · Open in the reader