Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1582 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

brainebrain

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

Puritas changed it: 2,220 times in 846 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,220 of 2,221)
Reach if approved: ~2,334 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: brain
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,221 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,220 changes in 846 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,220)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… created for ſence and motion; to wit, to procreate the ſinewes. For from the brainebrain, and the Nuche, proceed diuers combinations or couples of ſinewes, ſeruing for the ſences …
With rule
… created for ſence and motion; to wit, to procreate the ſinewes. For from the brainebrain, and the Nuche, proceed diuers combinations or couples of ſinewes, ſeruing for the ſences …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The obiect of the former is Reason: of the latter, Religion. That obsesseth the brainebrain, this the Heart. That expects the helpe of the naturall Physitian, this of the …
With rule
… The obiect of the former is Reason: of the latter, Religion. That obsesseth the brainebrain, this the Heart. That expects the helpe of the naturall Physitian, this of the …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bookes, and smelling to his exotecall positions, had hatcht this Serpents brood in his brainebrain. But because hee denieth it, in verbo Sacerdotis, I rest satisfied, that he neuer …
With rule
… bookes, and smelling to his exotecall positions, had hatcht this Serpents brood in his brainebrain. But because hee denieth it, in verbo Sacerdotis, I rest satisfied, that he neuer …
Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · Open in the reader
Printed
… it often very live-like portrayed with the forme of knowledge; so that the brainebrain may bee even printed with the Word, that he may be a light, and …
With rule
… it often very live-like portrayed with the forme of knowledge; so that the brainebrain may bee even printed with the Word, that he may be a light, and …
Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 267 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God hath well declared, and that it commeth not from the inuention of mans brainebrain, but from the moſt auntient inſtitution of God. Alſo that God hath made them …
With rule
… God hath well declared, and that it commeth not from the inuention of mans brainebrain, but from the moſt auntient inſtitution of God. Alſo that God hath made them …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and kepe them with in any bonde of Christianity. VVhat they caste in their brainebrain for their further proceding I can not tell, the serpent is suttel, and our …
With rule
… and kepe them with in any bonde of Christianity. VVhat they caste in their brainebrain for their further proceding I can not tell, the serpent is suttel, and our …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 378 · Open in the reader
Printed
Hee that made this tale, had a Chimaera in his brainebrain.
With rule
Hee that made this tale, had a Chimaera in his brainebrain.
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Paſternoſter, or elſſe al was marred, and infinite other madde inuencyons of mans idle brainebrain. By the whiche maddynge of mannes heade in al ages, whyche I haue but …
With rule
… Paſternoſter, or elſſe al was marred, and infinite other madde inuencyons of mans idle brainebrain. By the whiche maddynge of mannes heade in al ages, whyche I haue but …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.