Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1793 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gearegear

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

Puritas changed it: 320 times in 113 works
Consistency: 98.7% (320 of 324)
Reach if approved: ~340 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gear
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 324 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (320 changes in 113 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 320)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… mayſter, with lyke exhortations vnto the mayſters & fathers towardes theyr ſeruantes and chyldren. This gearegear is farre from rebelling, frō ſeditions, from riſinges and inſurrections. Yet theſe hell houndes …
With rule
… mayſter, with lyke exhortations vnto the mayſters & fathers towardes theyr ſeruantes and chyldren. This gearegear is farre from rebelling, frō ſeditions, from riſinges and inſurrections. Yet theſe hell houndes …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · p. lxxxxiii · Open in the reader
Printed
Now father I praye you helpe me to buckle on this gearegear a little better. For you knowe the depenes of Sathan / beynge an olde souldyar …
With rule
Now father I praye you helpe me to buckle on this gearegear a little better. For you knowe the depenes of Sathan / beynge an olde souldyar …
Nicholas Ridley · Conferences Between Two Fathers and Martyrs · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thus all things made readie, the bishop in all his masking gearegear commeth foorth like a coniuring iugler, and hauing made holy water with salt, and …
With rule
Thus all things made readie, the bishop in all his masking gearegear commeth foorth like a coniuring iugler, and hauing made holy water with salt, and …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader
Printed
… of his soule, and the soule of Iohn his father. Is not this good gearegear (thinke you) and sound Catholike doctrine, that men should play Christs part, and by …
With rule
… of his soule, and the soule of Iohn his father. Is not this good gearegear (thinke you) and sound Catholike doctrine, that men should play Christs part, and by …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our aduersaries must be called vpon, and asked howe they can away with this gearegear, whether this light of trueth be not ouer vehement for their bleared eyes? owle …
With rule
… our aduersaries must be called vpon, and asked howe they can away with this gearegear, whether this light of trueth be not ouer vehement for their bleared eyes? owle …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
But soche dyrtye gearegear
With rule
But soche dyrtye gearegear
John Bale · Answer to a Papistical Exhortation · Open in the reader
Printed
… corrupted hearts, nor olde chests ſtuffed with ruſty iron, thread bare rags, and refuſe gearegear; but rich cabinets, at whoſe opening the Reader might finde ſtore, new and old …
With rule
… corrupted hearts, nor olde chests ſtuffed with ruſty iron, thread bare rags, and refuſe gearegear; but rich cabinets, at whoſe opening the Reader might finde ſtore, new and old …
Paul Baynes · The Mirror or Miracle of Gods Love Unto the World of His Elect · Open in the reader
Printed
All pryncelyke gearegear
With rule
All pryncelyke gearegear
Thomas Becon · A New Dialogue Between the Angel of God and the Shepherds in the Field · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Confutation of the Errors of the Brownists A92173

Printed
… or Preacher, who being thus wrupt and raviſhed with this Harmonie, goes to his GeareGear in forme above ſaid, where his mouth diſtills, and his lipps drop downe old …
With rule
… or Preacher, who being thus wrupt and raviſhed with this Harmonie, goes to his GeareGear in forme above ſaid, where his mouth diſtills, and his lipps drop downe old …
William Rathband · Confutation of the Errors of the Brownists · p. 70 · Open in the reader