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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1709 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

layeslays

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

Puritas changed it
4,274 times in 1,411 works
Consistency
100% (4,274 of 4,274)
Reach if approved
~4,491 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lays
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
4,274 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,274 changes in 1,411 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,274)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and thinkes that destruction comes on the citie for his sake. The vngodly Protestant layeslays the fault on the profane Gallant, that the daies are euill, and sayes that …
    With rule
    … and thinkes that destruction comes on the citie for his sake. The vngodly Protestant layeslays the fault on the profane Gallant, that the daies are euill, and sayes that …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … him and his houſe. As a wicked mans deliverance and the granting his requeſt layeslays a foundation, and is a reſervation of him to a worſe Judgement: So, the …
    With rule
    … him and his houſe. As a wicked mans deliverance and the granting his requeſt layeslays a foundation, and is a reſervation of him to a worſe Judgement: So, the …

    Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 190 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … and scornes to lose it, except strength it selfe, the vnresistable grace of Christ layeslays battery to it. But this Theme is scarce cold, since I last handled it …
    With rule
    … and scornes to lose it, except strength it selfe, the vnresistable grace of Christ layeslays battery to it. But this Theme is scarce cold, since I last handled it …

    Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … the while the childe feels the rod, or the ſtick, hee cries out, hee layeslays on tongue, hee doth with all eagerneſſe, and earneſtneſſe intreat for pardon, or no …
    With rule
    … the while the childe feels the rod, or the ſtick, hee cries out, hee layeslays on tongue, hee doth with all eagerneſſe, and earneſtneſſe intreat for pardon, or no …

    Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 103 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … execution againſt ſinne, but onely a moderation, and ſome connivance at ſinne, though he layeslays ſome kinde of puniſhment upon it, and ſnubs his corruptions, yet he will not …
    With rule
    … execution againſt ſinne, but onely a moderation, and ſome connivance at ſinne, though he layeslays ſome kinde of puniſhment upon it, and ſnubs his corruptions, yet he will not …

    Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 244 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … all, faith goes out to the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and layeslays hold upon him, layeslays all the weight upon him, drawes vertue from him, as in all the former …
    With rule
    … all, faith goes out to the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and layeslays hold upon him, layeslays all the weight upon him, drawes vertue from him, as in all the former …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 311 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … on a tree, and the tree never lay hold on him againe; but he layeslays hold on Chriſt ſo by faith, that by the ſame act of faith he …
    With rule
    … on a tree, and the tree never lay hold on him againe; but he layeslays hold on Chriſt ſo by faith, that by the ſame act of faith he …

    Benjamin King · The Marriage of the Lamb · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … first man at Church, on a Sabboth morning, and the first man out. He layeslays the foundation of an Almes-house, and so leaues it. He shootes vp, like …
    With rule
    … first man at Church, on a Sabboth morning, and the first man out. He layeslays the foundation of an Almes-house, and so leaues it. He shootes vp, like …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 70 · 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.