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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1692 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

comfortecomfort

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

Puritas changed it
1,386 times in 307 works
Consistency
99.0% (1,386 of 1,399)
Reach if approved
~1,470 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: comfort
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,399 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,386 changes in 307 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,386)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … it is temporall onely, and is cured and taken away with blenks of heuenly comfortecomfort. Againe, the perversed Conscience that is opponit vnto this, is not mooued with remorse …
    With rule
    … it is temporall onely, and is cured and taken away with blenks of heuenly comfortecomfort. Againe, the perversed Conscience that is opponit vnto this, is not mooued with remorse …

    Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    The God of all comfortecomfort & conſolation for Chriſt Ieſus / his ſonnes ſake / graūt that this ſimple & plaine admonition / yea …
    With rule
    The God of all comfortecomfort & conſolation for Chriſt Ieſus / his ſonnes ſake / graūt that this ſimple & plaine admonition / yea …

    John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … flock, who bitterly wept for his enuious banishment: Weepe not but be of good comfortecomfort saide he, for this little cloude wil sodainely vanish. A little cloude he called …
    With rule
    … flock, who bitterly wept for his enuious banishment: Weepe not but be of good comfortecomfort saide he, for this little cloude wil sodainely vanish. A little cloude he called …

    John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the Kyngdome of God, whiche is neither meate nor drynke, but righteousnesse, peace, and comfortecomfort in the holy Ghoste, by the whiche wee now tastyng of thy heauenly ioyes …
    With rule
    … the Kyngdome of God, whiche is neither meate nor drynke, but righteousnesse, peace, and comfortecomfort in the holy Ghoste, by the whiche wee now tastyng of thy heauenly ioyes …

    Thomas Lever · Meditation Upon the Lords Prayer 2 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    As for the third parte of considerations and comfortecomfort were to small purpose, except you did first prooue the cause of your suffering …
    With rule
    As for the third parte of considerations and comfortecomfort were to small purpose, except you did first prooue the cause of your suffering …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 58 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … this benefite, yet Peter him selfe might not be excluded. But what a miserable comfortecomfort was this for Peter, if after his maister had shewed him in what daunger …
    With rule
    … this benefite, yet Peter him selfe might not be excluded. But what a miserable comfortecomfort was this for Peter, if after his maister had shewed him in what daunger …

    William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … ād hath made no Lawes, but ſuch as are for your preſeruation, and ſinguler comfortecomfort: then without all controuerſie there maye be nothinge lawfull for you by anie commandment …
    With rule
    … ād hath made no Lawes, but ſuch as are for your preſeruation, and ſinguler comfortecomfort: then without all controuerſie there maye be nothinge lawfull for you by anie commandment …

    Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 160 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and is not without a great proffite to the holy Churche, and a singulare comfortecomfort to euery mem…re thereof, albeit that God most iustlie auengeth, and … hereby the …
    With rule
    … and is not without a great proffite to the holy Churche, and a singulare comfortecomfort to euery mem…re thereof, albeit that God most iustlie auengeth, and … hereby the …

    George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation A02872

  • Printed
    … Psalmes. Reléeue vs with your lippe labour though all be but dunge and earth. ComforteComfort vs with Placebo. Helpe vs with Requiem eternam. Powre out your Trentall masses, spew …
    With rule
    … Psalmes. Reléeue vs with your lippe labour though all be but dunge and earth. ComforteComfort vs with Placebo. Helpe vs with Requiem eternam. Powre out your Trentall masses, spew …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 91 · Open in the reader

A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London A04917

  • Printed
    ComforteComfort to the afflicted. fo. xiiij.
    With rule
    ComforteComfort to the afflicted. fo. xiiij.

    John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader

The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger A06772

  • Printed
    … Prophetes wyfe. Her husband is dead, which lefte her both pore and in dette. ComforteComfort hathe she none, but only the cōpany of her .ii. sōnes which also the …
    With rule
    … Prophetes wyfe. Her husband is dead, which lefte her both pore and in dette. ComforteComfort hathe she none, but only the cōpany of her .ii. sōnes which also the …

    Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader

The Governance of Virtue A06832

  • Printed
    ComforteComfort the soule of thy seruaunt, vnto thee O lord, do I lift vp my …
    With rule
    ComforteComfort the soule of thy seruaunt, vnto thee O lord, do I lift vp my …

    Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader

Sermons in One Volume A12406

  • Printed
    … Knowledge commeth by hearing, Matthew the fifteenth and tenth verſe, there is another fruite: ComforteComfort commeth by hearing, Pſalme one hundred and nineteene, there is another fruite: the ſenſe …
    With rule
    … Knowledge commeth by hearing, Matthew the fifteenth and tenth verſe, there is another fruite: ComforteComfort commeth by hearing, Pſalme one hundred and nineteene, there is another fruite: the ſenſe …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 636 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

  • Printed
    ComforteComfort for afflicted conſciences. 1110
    With rule
    ComforteComfort for afflicted conſciences. 1110

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Twenty-Seven Lectures Upon Hebrews A20304

  • Printed
    … the sinne against the spirite of God, that the spirite cryeth in their behalfe: ComforteComfort ye, comfort ye my people (sayth your God) speake comfortably to Hierusalem, and crye …
    With rule
    … the sinne against the spirite of God, that the spirite cryeth in their behalfe: ComforteComfort ye, comfort ye my people (sayth your God) speake comfortably to Hierusalem, and crye …

    Edward Dering · Twenty-Seven Lectures Upon Hebrews · p. 508 · Open in the reader

An Humble Supplication Unto God for Restoring His Holy Word A68446

  • Printed
    … good Lorde and mercifull God to thycongregacion / that thowe haiſte euere promiſed to be. ComforteComfort hire / as the louyng mothere cheri…hethe hire tender babes. As a naturall mother …
    With rule
    … good Lorde and mercifull God to thycongregacion / that thowe haiſte euere promiſed to be. ComforteComfort hire / as the louyng mothere cheri…hethe hire tender babes. As a naturall mother …

    Thomas Becon · An Humble Supplication Unto God for Restoring His Holy Word · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … that ſone ſo ſhall we reioyſe & be gladde all the dayes of oure lyffe. ComforteComfort vs agen nowe after the tyme that thow haſte plaged vs / and for the …
    With rule
    … that ſone ſo ſhall we reioyſe & be gladde all the dayes of oure lyffe. ComforteComfort vs agen nowe after the tyme that thow haſte plaged vs / and for the …

    Thomas Becon · An Humble Supplication Unto God for Restoring His Holy Word · Open in the reader