Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #17607 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

selfesameselfsame

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 541 times in 168 works
Consistency: 100% (541 of 541)
Reach if approved: ~568 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: selfsame
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 541 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (541 changes in 168 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 541)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… haue ſucceded in the place of the Iewes, and are made pertakers of the ſelfeſameselfsame priuiledges with them: yet notwithſtanding the Iewes were before vs: & abode the long tyme …
With rule
… haue ſucceded in the place of the Iewes, and are made pertakers of the ſelfeſameselfsame priuiledges with them: yet notwithſtanding the Iewes were before vs: & abode the long tyme …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… answeres may be fitted to this question and doubt, to satisfie it. First, the selfesameselfsame Iewes may be hated & loued of God at sundry times; hated, whiles they continue …
With rule
… answeres may be fitted to this question and doubt, to satisfie it. First, the selfesameselfsame Iewes may be hated & loued of God at sundry times; hated, whiles they continue …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 980 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Rome) and hath no arguments of Scripture, Fathers, Councells, nor reason, but the selfesameselfsame, that the Papists use. and in the 5 cap. we have these words. If so …
With rule
… of Rome) and hath no arguments of Scripture, Fathers, Councells, nor reason, but the selfesameselfsame, that the Papists use. and in the 5 cap. we have these words. If so …
David Calderwood · An Answer to Forbes Peaceable Warning · Open in the reader
Printed
… as Baptiſme doth change a man according to grace, yet notwithſtanding he remaines the ſelfeſameselfsame man according to viſible meaſure as he did before, but inuiſibly by grace is …
With rule
… as Baptiſme doth change a man according to grace, yet notwithſtanding he remaines the ſelfeſameselfsame man according to viſible meaſure as he did before, but inuiſibly by grace is …
John Harding · A Recantation · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paſſe by them. In a vvord all pretious ſtones procede from one and the ſelfeſameselfsame matter vvhich is the earth, & yet ſee vvhat great difference there it betvveene the …
With rule
… paſſe by them. In a vvord all pretious ſtones procede from one and the ſelfeſameselfsame matter vvhich is the earth, & yet ſee vvhat great difference there it betvveene the …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Lord Ieſus Chriſt, & afterwards by the Apoſtls. And yet at this day the ſelfeſameselfsame fault is ſtill committed by them, in the Sacramentes ordained by Ieſus Chriſt, & in …
With rule
… our Lord Ieſus Chriſt, & afterwards by the Apoſtls. And yet at this day the ſelfeſameselfsame fault is ſtill committed by them, in the Sacramentes ordained by Ieſus Chriſt, & in …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 432 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and of the holy Ghost, Rom. 15 13. 1 Cor. 2. 5. it is wrought in vs by the selfesameselfsame almighty power of God, which raised vp Iesus Christ from the dead, and set …
With rule
… and of the holy Ghost, Rom. 15 13. 1 Cor. 2. 5. it is wrought in vs by the selfesameselfsame almighty power of God, which raised vp Iesus Christ from the dead, and set …
William Prynne · The Perpetuity of a Regenerate Mans Estate · p. 321 · Open in the reader
Printed
But it may be asked, how this ſelfeſameselfsame ſpeech is ſpoken both by Cain a reprobate, and Dauid an elect child of …
With rule
But it may be asked, how this ſelfeſameselfsame ſpeech is ſpoken both by Cain a reprobate, and Dauid an elect child of …
Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 16 · 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.