Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1607 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

steadestead

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

Puritas changed it: 728 times in 251 works
Consistency: 100% (728 of 728)
Reach if approved: ~765 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stead
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 728 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (728 changes in 251 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 728)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… then hold these two to be the matters in hand, the one, reading in steadestead of praying, the other, stinging and limiting by a written liturgie, what & howe many …
With rule
… then hold these two to be the matters in hand, the one, reading in steadestead of praying, the other, stinging and limiting by a written liturgie, what & howe many …
John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… appointed, thereby to conſecrate for euer them that are ſanctified: and haue erected in ſteadestead therof, a continuall offering, and oblation for ſinne, wherin euery man muſt play the …
With rule
… appointed, thereby to conſecrate for euer them that are ſanctified: and haue erected in ſteadestead therof, a continuall offering, and oblation for ſinne, wherin euery man muſt play the …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… banished the only true cōfort and trust in Christ, & haue taught the people in steadestead of Christ▪ to gape vpon theyr owne woorkes, & to trust to be saued by …
With rule
… banished the only true cōfort and trust in Christ, & haue taught the people in steadestead of Christ▪ to gape vpon theyr owne woorkes, & to trust to be saued by …
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyse in knowynge thys chyrche of Christe, vnlesse they erre & mayntayne an whore in steadestead of a spouse, an vnchast harlotte for a true wyfe, a fylthy strompette for …
With rule
… wyse in knowynge thys chyrche of Christe, vnlesse they erre & mayntayne an whore in steadestead of a spouse, an vnchast harlotte for a true wyfe, a fylthy strompette for …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… D. ouersight / in naming Iunius his Syriacke Testament: and the sermon vpon 1. Cor. 12. in steadestead of Rom. 12. But what then / should you therefore take him vp for it / as …
With rule
… D. ouersight / in naming Iunius his Syriacke Testament: and the sermon vpon 1. Cor. 12. in steadestead of Rom. 12. But what then / should you therefore take him vp for it / as …
Martin Marprelate · Read John Bridges · Open in the reader
Printed
… take away ſin, that there is now no more offering for ſin. And in ſteadestead of the paſſeouer which was a figure of Chriſt to come, wee haue the …
With rule
… take away ſin, that there is now no more offering for ſin. And in ſteadestead of the paſſeouer which was a figure of Chriſt to come, wee haue the …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God: We ought wholly to yeald our ſelues vnto him, So then, in ſteadestead that it was ſaid to the auncient people, that God had deliuered them out …
With rule
… of God: We ought wholly to yeald our ſelues vnto him, So then, in ſteadestead that it was ſaid to the auncient people, that God had deliuered them out …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his sinnes. Thinke you here a protestāt preacher with a mery mouth in Nathans steadestead, could haue driuen him from this course of penaūce, dissuaded him from the feare …
With rule
… his sinnes. Thinke you here a protestāt preacher with a mery mouth in Nathans steadestead, could haue driuen him from this course of penaūce, dissuaded him from the feare …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 77 · 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.