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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1591 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bearesbears

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

Puritas changed it
2,939 times in 1,078 works
Consistency
100% (2,939 of 2,939)
Reach if approved
~3,089 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bears
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,940 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,939 changes in 1,078 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,939)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the image of God; as shee was woman, the image of man: now she bearesbears the image of man indeed, but in a crosse and mad fashion; almost to …
    With rule
    … the image of God; as shee was woman, the image of man: now she bearesbears the image of man indeed, but in a crosse and mad fashion; almost to …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to ſay, they appeale to God and Conſcience. God knowes, their hearts, their Conſcience bearesbears them witneſſe, they'le take it on their Conſcience, tis ſo, not ſo. O the …
    With rule
    … to ſay, they appeale to God and Conſcience. God knowes, their hearts, their Conſcience bearesbears them witneſſe, they'le take it on their Conſcience, tis ſo, not ſo. O the …

    Robert Harris · Two Sermons 2 · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … bee answerable. If his place will afford it, his grace will without question. He bearesbears an earnest affection to the Temple, as a hungry man to his meate, onely …
    With rule
    … bee answerable. If his place will afford it, his grace will without question. He bearesbears an earnest affection to the Temple, as a hungry man to his meate, onely …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … adoption being chiefly the action of God the Father (for none ſave he who bearesbears the perſon of a Father can properly bee ſaid to adopt any to be …
    With rule
    … adoption being chiefly the action of God the Father (for none ſave he who bearesbears the perſon of a Father can properly bee ſaid to adopt any to be …

    John Forbes · The Doctrine of Justification · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … giue women leaue to baptize. Ep. lib. 1. Tom. Haer. 42. George, Bishop of Alexandria, inuented bearesbears to carry deade corpses, charging all men to vse them for his owne aduantage …
    With rule
    … giue women leaue to baptize. Ep. lib. 1. Tom. Haer. 42. George, Bishop of Alexandria, inuented bearesbears to carry deade corpses, charging all men to vse them for his owne aduantage …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the ſweete Pſalmodicall harmonie of the Vultures, Crowes, Gleads, Owles, Geeſe, of the Leopards, BearesBears, Wolues, Dogs, Foxes, Swine, Goates, (pardon mee, for thus the holy Ghoſt termeth and …
    With rule
    … the ſweete Pſalmodicall harmonie of the Vultures, Crowes, Gleads, Owles, Geeſe, of the Leopards, BearesBears, Wolues, Dogs, Foxes, Swine, Goates, (pardon mee, for thus the holy Ghoſt termeth and …

    George Gifford · Short Reply to the Donatists · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    4. Lastly, Iesus Christ bearesbears vs company. Hee is both Via and Conuiator; the way, and companion in the …
    With rule
    4. Lastly, Iesus Christ bearesbears vs company. Hee is both Via and Conuiator; the way, and companion in the …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 424 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … it comes but to his middle, or but up to his ſhoulders, endures and bearesbears it ſafty enough; but when it comes once to goe over his head, it …
    With rule
    … it comes but to his middle, or but up to his ſhoulders, endures and bearesbears it ſafty enough; but when it comes once to goe over his head, it …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 80 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.