Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1617 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dreamesdreams

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

Puritas changed it: 3,373 times in 878 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,373 of 3,376)
Reach if approved: ~3,547 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dreams
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,376 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,373 changes in 878 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,373)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and natural: yet to you I might rather ſeeme perhaps to haue proponed Cabaliſticall dreamesdreams, then any ſound argument to the thing in queſtion.
With rule
… and natural: yet to you I might rather ſeeme perhaps to haue proponed Cabaliſticall dreamesdreams, then any ſound argument to the thing in queſtion.
Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
V. All vnchaſte dreamesdreams ariſing from concupiſence.
With rule
V. All vnchaſte dreamesdreams ariſing from concupiſence.
Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but according to that forme and those instructions: and now leave of your popish dreamesdreams. Yet you would make men belive, I reasoned thus, that the Apostles did not …
With rule
… but according to that forme and those instructions: and now leave of your popish dreamesdreams. Yet you would make men belive, I reasoned thus, that the Apostles did not …
John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be borne; but when God breakes the bones within, when our owne thoughts and dreamesdreams amaze vs, and wee be a terrour to our ſelues, and our conſciences be …
With rule
… be borne; but when God breakes the bones within, when our owne thoughts and dreamesdreams amaze vs, and wee be a terrour to our ſelues, and our conſciences be …
Robert Harris · The Blessedness of a Sound Spirit · p. 21 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rest, voyde of cares & feares, free from distempers and diseases, as also all dangers, dreamesdreams, fancies, pollutions, and temptations. And make it I pray thee as profitable to my …
With rule
… rest, voyde of cares & feares, free from distempers and diseases, as also all dangers, dreamesdreams, fancies, pollutions, and temptations. And make it I pray thee as profitable to my …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 133 · Open in the reader
Printed
Come shake off dreamesdreams, sleepe is not fit for louers,
With rule
Come shake off dreamesdreams, sleepe is not fit for louers,
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… yours is, that call euery thing hereticall, that sauoureth not of your owne drowsie dreamesdreams, of antichristian heresie. Neither is it reason that by vsing the testimonie of Augustine …
With rule
… yours is, that call euery thing hereticall, that sauoureth not of your owne drowsie dreamesdreams, of antichristian heresie. Neither is it reason that by vsing the testimonie of Augustine …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 480 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is the vsuall appellation of the other? But a number of such absurd dreamesdreams and dotages doth this prodigious doctrine produce. Accidents without subiects: Bodies without bignesse: Parts …
With rule
… which is the vsuall appellation of the other? But a number of such absurd dreamesdreams and dotages doth this prodigious doctrine produce. Accidents without subiects: Bodies without bignesse: Parts …
Thomas Gataker · Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · p. 178 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 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.

Epigrams A08687

Printed
DReamesDreams which be Bad, are very Good,
With rule
DReamesDreams which be Bad, are very Good,
John Owen · Epigrams · Open in the reader

Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland A14227

Printed
… Panegyricall oration upon Mamas) as many of you as have en…oyed him by DREAMESDREAMS; as many of you as comming to this place, have had him a helper …
With rule
… Panegyricall oration upon Mamas) as many of you as have en…oyed him by DREAMESDREAMS; as many of you as comming to this place, have had him a helper …
James Ussher · Answer to a Jesuit in Ireland · p. 398 · Open in the reader

The Quakers Unmasked A91253

Printed
… own heart; which think to cauſe my people to forget my name by THEIR DREAMESDREAMS which they TELL EVERY MAN TO HIS NEIGHBOR. Therefore behold, I am againſt the …
With rule
… own heart; which think to cauſe my people to forget my name by THEIR DREAMESDREAMS which they TELL EVERY MAN TO HIS NEIGHBOR. Therefore behold, I am againſt the …
William Prynne · The Quakers Unmasked · p. 17 · Open in the reader