Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1802 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wontewont

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

Puritas changed it: 366 times in 129 works
Consistency: 100% (366 of 366)
Reach if approved: ~385 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wont
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 366 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (366 changes in 129 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 366)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… riotous festes vsed in the Church yeardes of the carnall and vnskillfull people are wontewont to be beleued not onely to be the honour of the martyrs, but also …
With rule
… riotous festes vsed in the Church yeardes of the carnall and vnskillfull people are wontewont to be beleued not onely to be the honour of the martyrs, but also …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rome, and manye nobles to attend on him: which kinde of confirmation they were wontewont all to attende vppon, vntill Hadrian the thirde told the Romaines, that they oughte …
With rule
… Rome, and manye nobles to attend on him: which kinde of confirmation they were wontewont all to attende vppon, vntill Hadrian the thirde told the Romaines, that they oughte …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… I now speke for my selfe and my couente, as the beggynge Friers wer wontewont to do, I haue enough, I thyncke God, and I neade not to begge …
With rule
… I now speke for my selfe and my couente, as the beggynge Friers wer wontewont to do, I haue enough, I thyncke God, and I neade not to begge …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs and hearde in our dayely speache. If the wrath & vengeaunce of God be wontewont to faull vpon the chyldren of vnbeleue for these thynges aforesayd, as S. Paule …
With rule
… vs and hearde in our dayely speache. If the wrath & vengeaunce of God be wontewont to faull vpon the chyldren of vnbeleue for these thynges aforesayd, as S. Paule …
Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. xxxvii · Open in the reader
Printed
… tytle of Reformation. And I beare reporte, that in Italy the Cardinal Contarenus was wontewont too ſay, theſe Lutheranes had doone iniury vntoo the ſtates of Rome, when they …
With rule
… tytle of Reformation. And I beare reporte, that in Italy the Cardinal Contarenus was wontewont too ſay, theſe Lutheranes had doone iniury vntoo the ſtates of Rome, when they …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
IN this petition we desyre of god that as he is wontewont in heauen, so in erth he wovouchsaue to order and dispose all thinges, as …
With rule
IN this petition we desyre of god that as he is wontewont in heauen, so in erth he wovouchsaue to order and dispose all thinges, as …
Richard Taverner · A Catechism · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us by parle then by the sword: Yet Henrie the IV, of France was wontewont to say, he feared but two men in the World, and that was for …
With rule
… us by parle then by the sword: Yet Henrie the IV, of France was wontewont to say, he feared but two men in the World, and that was for …
William Twisse · Discovery of Jacksons Vanity · p. 310 · Open in the reader
Printed
… called Scopas, for a certaine summe of money a Ballade, suche as was then wontewont to be made for Conquerours: he was denied a piece of his rewarde, because …
With rule
… called Scopas, for a certaine summe of money a Ballade, suche as was then wontewont to be made for Conquerours: he was denied a piece of his rewarde, because …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · 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.