Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1658 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shadowesshadows

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

Puritas changed it: 2,675 times in 937 works
Consistency: 100% (2,675 of 2,675)
Reach if approved: ~2,811 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shadows
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,675 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,675 changes in 937 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,675)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but labour for trauell. After that Solomon had knowne all things, not by their ſhadowesshadows and pictures, namely, by reading bookes, and relation of voice; but ſeene with his …
With rule
… but labour for trauell. After that Solomon had knowne all things, not by their ſhadowesshadows and pictures, namely, by reading bookes, and relation of voice; but ſeene with his …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… your groūd, that is to say, that vowes be heauy burdens and darke misty shadowesshadows, and so abrogate by Christ, thā wyl al the rest fal, whych is buylded …
With rule
… your groūd, that is to say, that vowes be heauy burdens and darke misty shadowesshadows, and so abrogate by Christ, thā wyl al the rest fal, whych is buylded …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · p. xc · Open in the reader
Printed
… are one: they differ in maner of diſpenſation, the one being in types and ſhadowesshadows after a more obſcure maner, and called The old Couenant: the other being more …
With rule
… are one: they differ in maner of diſpenſation, the one being in types and ſhadowesshadows after a more obſcure maner, and called The old Couenant: the other being more …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Papiſt and an Arminian will be ready to catch at ſuch ſhadowesshadows; but ſhadowesshadows are no good couerlets for errors. I will not drench my ſelfe into the …
With rule
… a Papiſt and an Arminian will be ready to catch at ſuch ſhadowesshadows; but ſhadowesshadows are no good couerlets for errors. I will not drench my ſelfe into the …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Mountebanke-opinion of our owne worth. Narcissus-like, wee dote vpon our owne shadowesshadows; and thinke our workes acceptable enough to God. If wee haue prayed, releeued, beleeued …
With rule
… a Mountebanke-opinion of our owne worth. Narcissus-like, wee dote vpon our owne shadowesshadows; and thinke our workes acceptable enough to God. If wee haue prayed, releeued, beleeued …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to conserue his lungs from stinking If it were not for those mists and shadowesshadows, sinne would want both fautors and factors.
With rule
… to conserue his lungs from stinking If it were not for those mists and shadowesshadows, sinne would want both fautors and factors.
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… might not come unto thoſe holy things which were the carnall commandements, being but ſhadowesshadows and ceremonies, yet if he were ſprinkled with thoſe, although he were not purged …
With rule
… might not come unto thoſe holy things which were the carnall commandements, being but ſhadowesshadows and ceremonies, yet if he were ſprinkled with thoſe, although he were not purged …
George Gifford · Treatise Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… legis, saith Iunius: for albeit they could not be ignorant, that these Rites were shadowesshadows of things to come, and that the body was of Christ, in whom, and …
With rule
… legis, saith Iunius: for albeit they could not be ignorant, that these Rites were shadowesshadows of things to come, and that the body was of Christ, in whom, and …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 28 · 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.