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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1645 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chairechair

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

Puritas changed it
2,577 times in 782 works
Consistency
99.9% (2,577 of 2,578)
Reach if approved
~2,716 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: chair
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,585 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,577 changes in 782 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,577)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … those rebellious wayes, it will sit down with mockers, & rest it selfe in the chairechair of scorning. Certainely as that pure a…d glorious Spirit (when he enters into …
    With rule
    … those rebellious wayes, it will sit down with mockers, & rest it selfe in the chairechair of scorning. Certainely as that pure a…d glorious Spirit (when he enters into …

    Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … if Honour can winne it, Alassed what is it to sit groaning in a ChaireChair of State? or to lie panting on a bed of downe? It is little …
    With rule
    … if Honour can winne it, Alassed what is it to sit groaning in a ChaireChair of State? or to lie panting on a bed of downe? It is little …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … liker thy ſelfe. When thou ſeeſt a rich man, ſaith one, caried in his chairechair or on mens ſhoulders, haue an eye withall to them that cary him, and …
    With rule
    … liker thy ſelfe. When thou ſeeſt a rich man, ſaith one, caried in his chairechair or on mens ſhoulders, haue an eye withall to them that cary him, and …

    Thomas Gataker · True Contentment in the Gain of Godliness · p. 55 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the Cardinals, I say not now into the Popes person, but even into his chairechair, when beeing entered in the Conclave, for the election of a new Pope, they …
    With rule
    … the Cardinals, I say not now into the Popes person, but even into his chairechair, when beeing entered in the Conclave, for the election of a new Pope, they …

    George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 133 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … maieſty of a King? Where were the Scribes and Phariſes that ſit in Moſes chairechair, whoſe Diſciples they boaſted themſelues to be? How could they be better imployed, then …
    With rule
    … maieſty of a King? Where were the Scribes and Phariſes that ſit in Moſes chairechair, whoſe Diſciples they boaſted themſelues to be? How could they be better imployed, then …

    Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … vocation of God, or men; Open your eyes, yee rathe ripe Inuaders of Gods ChaireChair: and ſee your Sauior in his younger yeeres, not ſitting in the eminent pulpits …
    With rule
    … vocation of God, or men; Open your eyes, yee rathe ripe Inuaders of Gods ChaireChair: and ſee your Sauior in his younger yeeres, not ſitting in the eminent pulpits …

    Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 346 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … do ill without controlment. And such is their affiaunce in the holines of their chairechair, that the presumption thereof hath caused them thus to decree: Distict. 40. Non vos in …
    With rule
    … do ill without controlment. And such is their affiaunce in the holines of their chairechair, that the presumption thereof hath caused them thus to decree: Distict. 40. Non vos in …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 184 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of the vngodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sate in the chairechair of the Scorner. Walking is bad enough, but it is worse to stand then …
    With rule
    … of the vngodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sate in the chairechair of the Scorner. Walking is bad enough, but it is worse to stand then …

    Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 64 · 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.