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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1731 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

faultefault

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

Puritas changed it
1,184 times in 240 works
Consistency
99.8% (1,184 of 1,186)
Reach if approved
~1,246 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fault
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,186 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,184 changes in 240 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,184)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … preſent able Paſtours, and care not, as in ſome Patrones. But in whomeſoever the faultefault is, lamentable is their ſtate, that are yet as sheepe without a shepheard, as …
    With rule
    … preſent able Paſtours, and care not, as in ſome Patrones. But in whomeſoever the faultefault is, lamentable is their ſtate, that are yet as sheepe without a shepheard, as …

    Samuel Hieron · Aarons Bells · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … his power: and as the potter breaketh the vessell, wherin is found an incurable faultefault, so God destroieth the man in whom there is found obstinate wickednes which can …
    With rule
    … his power: and as the potter breaketh the vessell, wherin is found an incurable faultefault, so God destroieth the man in whom there is found obstinate wickednes which can …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … comforted. Likewise the people after the death of Absalon, perceyuing and féeling their owne faultefault, were gréeued with the expulsion, and desired restitution of Dauid their King: so as …
    With rule
    … comforted. Likewise the people after the death of Absalon, perceyuing and féeling their owne faultefault, were gréeued with the expulsion, and desired restitution of Dauid their King: so as …

    Thomas Lever · The Right Way from Danger of Sin and Vengeance · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … y• w…ull, should be slayne. &c. Achab streyghte waye was ashamed of his faultefault, repēted, cutte his clothes, couered his flesshe with garmētes of heere, fasted slept in …
    With rule
    … y• w…ull, should be slayne. &c. Achab streyghte waye was ashamed of his faultefault, repēted, cutte his clothes, couered his flesshe with garmētes of heere, fasted slept in …

    Thomas Becon · A Christmas Banket · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ye Pelagians & Manicheys, hath on this manner, what is this to saye, of one faultefault vnto condemnaciō, but ye fault wherwt Adā offēded? And what is it to say …
    With rule
    … ye Pelagians & Manicheys, hath on this manner, what is this to saye, of one faultefault vnto condemnaciō, but ye fault wherwt Adā offēded? And what is it to say …

    Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … all. Again he forgeueth not the fault, and reserueth the paine, but with the faultefault he also forgeueth the pain due for the fault, that he may be an …
    With rule
    … all. Again he forgeueth not the fault, and reserueth the paine, but with the faultefault he also forgeueth the pain due for the fault, that he may be an …

    Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 274 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … and to make any rent or disuion in the same (whiche is the proper faultefault of schismatikes,) is also damnable. For the whiche cause Saint Paule doeth so diligently …
    With rule
    … and to make any rent or disuion in the same (whiche is the proper faultefault of schismatikes,) is also damnable. For the whiche cause Saint Paule doeth so diligently …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … offered to idols: who afterward, the storme of tyrannie somewhat being caulmed, confessed their faultefault, and did penaunce for the same, by S. Cyprian & other good byshops prescriptiō, that …
    With rule
    … offered to idols: who afterward, the storme of tyrannie somewhat being caulmed, confessed their faultefault, and did penaunce for the same, by S. Cyprian & other good byshops prescriptiō, that …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 137 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.