Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1657 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

deadedead

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

Puritas changed it: 2,143 times in 284 works
Consistency: 99.5% (2,143 of 2,153)
Reach if approved: ~2,262 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: dead
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,153 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,143 changes in 284 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,143)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… him whilest hee is aliue worser then any wilde beastes, which pray onely vpon deadedead carcases. You see the drift of Sathans malice, in prouoking the Prince to pride …
With rule
… him whilest hee is aliue worser then any wilde beastes, which pray onely vpon deadedead carcases. You see the drift of Sathans malice, in prouoking the Prince to pride …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 39 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yee are the children of the deuill: truſt not vnto your vaine hope and deadedead faith, for it will but deceiue you. Dearely beloued, let vs not be ſo …
With rule
… yee are the children of the deuill: truſt not vnto your vaine hope and deadedead faith, for it will but deceiue you. Dearely beloued, let vs not be ſo …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are guided by his spirite and as the Apostle saith, though the body be deadedead in respect of sinne, yet the spirite is life for righteousnes sake. Also the …
With rule
… are guided by his spirite and as the Apostle saith, though the body be deadedead in respect of sinne, yet the spirite is life for righteousnes sake. Also the …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 106 · Open in the reader
Printed
… day, with the commyng of Christe agayne to iudge both the quicke and the deadedead as is in their créede, or beléeue.
With rule
… day, with the commyng of Christe agayne to iudge both the quicke and the deadedead as is in their créede, or beléeue.
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… we may ſhortly caſt the whole ſumme of oure ſaluation. For art thou not deadedead to God, but lyueſt vprightly before him in holyneſſe and righteouſneſſe? then haſte thou …
With rule
… we may ſhortly caſt the whole ſumme of oure ſaluation. For art thou not deadedead to God, but lyueſt vprightly before him in holyneſſe and righteouſneſſe? then haſte thou …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… hym to be sette at lybertie: Whyle they thus preached to the people, that deadedead images (which at the first, as I thinke, were set vp onely, to represēt …
With rule
… hym to be sette at lybertie: Whyle they thus preached to the people, that deadedead images (which at the first, as I thinke, were set vp onely, to represēt …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon Before Parliament Began · Open in the reader
Printed
… this Psalme sheweth the nature of faith to be, not as it were a deadedead affection or qualitie of the minde, as the Papistes doe dreame, but a singular …
With rule
… this Psalme sheweth the nature of faith to be, not as it were a deadedead affection or qualitie of the minde, as the Papistes doe dreame, but a singular …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… damned. Howbeit it ſeemeth very ſtraunge, that any good can be found in the deadedead and damned. But the power of y^e diuine goodnes is euery where ſo great …
With rule
… damned. Howbeit it ſeemeth very ſtraunge, that any good can be found in the deadedead and damned. But the power of y^e diuine goodnes is euery where ſo great …
Martin Luther · Fourteen Points of Consolation · p. 62 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

9 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.

Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience A02181

Printed
… the deafe, strength to the Lame, health to the Sicke, and life to the DeadeDead; it is manifest, not onlye that there is noe disease of the soule which …
With rule
… the deafe, strength to the Lame, health to the Sicke, and life to the DeadeDead; it is manifest, not onlye that there is noe disease of the soule which …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 54 · Open in the reader

The Jewel of Joy A06898

Printed
… masse is a Sacrifice for the synnes boeth of the lyuyng and of the DeadeDead, he muste eyther graunte that the alone Sacrifice of Christe vpon the crosse is …
With rule
… masse is a Sacrifice for the synnes boeth of the lyuyng and of the DeadeDead, he muste eyther graunte that the alone Sacrifice of Christe vpon the crosse is …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Apostles Creed A08483

Printed
DeadeDead.
With rule
DeadeDead.
Caspar Olevian · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 158 · Open in the reader

Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God A13881

Printed
… well vnderſtand that the calamitie off the former times in which the Churche laye DeadeDead as it were by the ſpace off manye yeres came off no other cauſe …
With rule
… well vnderſtand that the calamitie off the former times in which the Churche laye DeadeDead as it were by the ſpace off manye yeres came off no other cauſe …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aſhes) onleſſe that heauenlie Sonne Ieſus Chriſte had quickned yt being more then halfe DeadeDead / and raiſed yt vp like a Phenix out off the aſhes againe: And excepte …
With rule
… aſhes) onleſſe that heauenlie Sonne Ieſus Chriſte had quickned yt being more then halfe DeadeDead / and raiſed yt vp like a Phenix out off the aſhes againe: And excepte …
Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 4 · Open in the reader

The Practice of Prelates A14151

Printed
… in somuche y^t whē the whore was dead, he could not departe from the DeadeDead Corps, but caused it to be Enbaulmed and to be Caryed wyth hym whether …
With rule
… in somuche y^t whē the whore was dead, he could not departe from the DeadeDead Corps, but caused it to be Enbaulmed and to be Caryed wyth hym whether …
William Tyndale · The Practice of Prelates · Open in the reader

The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A14354

Printed
… a Sacramēt they saye that they make sacrifices to profit the quicke and the DeadeDead, and this do they ī ther masse: But the scripture teacheth / that there is …
With rule
… a Sacramēt they saye that they make sacrifices to profit the quicke and the DeadeDead, and this do they ī ther masse: But the scripture teacheth / that there is …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 29 · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

Printed
DeadeDead men can doe nothing that liuing men should doe: So when we are deadedead …
With rule
DeadeDead men can doe nothing that liuing men should doe: So when we are deadedead …
Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

Printed
… and at reliques, go about to expell deuels. All thinges are there faynedly done. DeadeDead men are without faythe called vpon, and the deuill playeth to gether with idolatrers …
With rule
… and at reliques, go about to expell deuels. All thinges are there faynedly done. DeadeDead men are without faythe called vpon, and the deuill playeth to gether with idolatrers …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader