Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stewesstews

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

Puritas changed it: 705 times in 305 works
Consistency: 99.8% (705 of 706)
Reach if approved: ~742 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stews
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 706 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (705 changes in 305 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 705)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… could they finde out the Apostles not so frequently fasting, as themselues? but the stewesstews in their owne eyes, fraught with adulteries, the carrion of their owne spirits rotting …
With rule
… could they finde out the Apostles not so frequently fasting, as themselues? but the stewesstews in their owne eyes, fraught with adulteries, the carrion of their owne spirits rotting …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at for reſolution? It were a pretie thing, to heare the Harlots in the ſtewesstews, euen in good earneſt to boaſt and glory of their chaſtitie. Who is more …
With rule
… at for reſolution? It were a pretie thing, to heare the Harlots in the ſtewesstews, euen in good earneſt to boaſt and glory of their chaſtitie. Who is more …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hure of it / she sett the lesse by them / and all because of the stewesstews. And it is a comon sayenge / ware ther no receyuer ther shuld be no …
With rule
… hure of it / she sett the lesse by them / and all because of the stewesstews. And it is a comon sayenge / ware ther no receyuer ther shuld be no …
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader
Printed
Which from the StewesStews to him is ſent?
With rule
Which from the StewesStews to him is ſent?
Samuel Hieron · An Answer to a Popish Rhyme · Open in the reader
Printed
… keepe openly many Concubines and Harlots, or defile other mens wiues, or haunt the StewesStews? And thus the Pope exalteth himſelfe aboue all that is called God, yea aboue …
With rule
… keepe openly many Concubines and Harlots, or defile other mens wiues, or haunt the StewesStews? And thus the Pope exalteth himſelfe aboue all that is called God, yea aboue …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… church, they are no more to be accounted of, then the lawes mainteining the StewesStews.
With rule
… church, they are no more to be accounted of, then the lawes mainteining the StewesStews.
Martin Marprelate · Theses · Open in the reader
Printed
… as the temple, through the abhominable Idolatries practiſed in it was become an vncleane ſtewesstews of ſpirituall whoredome, above many of the Idol-places, being alſo more famous for …
With rule
… as the temple, through the abhominable Idolatries practiſed in it was become an vncleane ſtewesstews of ſpirituall whoredome, above many of the Idol-places, being alſo more famous for …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 221 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this buſineſſe I leaue for him to doe, hee dwelleth nearer the place where ſtewesstews be, then I. It is a meruaile how his pure pietie could admit ſo …
With rule
… this buſineſſe I leaue for him to doe, hee dwelleth nearer the place where ſtewesstews be, then I. It is a meruaile how his pure pietie could admit ſo …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 97 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.