Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1806 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

swordesword

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

Puritas changed it: 1,223 times in 299 works
Consistency: 95.7% (1,223 of 1,277)
Reach if approved: ~1,342 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sword
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,277 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,223 changes in 299 works, 95.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,223)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

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… can feare deſtruction. Therfore you haue doone wel in the Lord, drawing out that ſwordesword of the worde of God, to make a ſeparation betweene thought and thought, betweene …
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… can feare deſtruction. Therfore you haue doone wel in the Lord, drawing out that ſwordesword of the worde of God, to make a ſeparation betweene thought and thought, betweene …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
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But (beloued in the Lorde) the swordesword of anguishe and of dolour hath nowe pearced the tender hearte of Christes mother …
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But (beloued in the Lorde) the swordesword of anguishe and of dolour hath nowe pearced the tender hearte of Christes mother …
John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
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… kind is combate when the Iudge will haue a matter tried out by the swordesword, beetweene two or three, this hath:
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… kind is combate when the Iudge will haue a matter tried out by the swordesword, beetweene two or three, this hath:
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
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… grieous and terrible, then if he had sayde: let him be strooken with a swordesword, let him be consumed with the flames of fire, let him bee deuoured of …
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… grieous and terrible, then if he had sayde: let him be strooken with a swordesword, let him be consumed with the flames of fire, let him bee deuoured of …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader
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… in place of torment with the rest. For if such do passe the firie swordesword, before they entre into the ioyes of heauen, yet they shall euen there be …
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… in place of torment with the rest. For if such do passe the firie swordesword, before they entre into the ioyes of heauen, yet they shall euen there be …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 129 · Open in the reader
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… Sauiour CHRIST hath pronounced, that whosoeuer striketh with the sword shall perish with the swordesword.
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… Sauiour CHRIST hath pronounced, that whosoeuer striketh with the sword shall perish with the swordesword.
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 578 · Open in the reader
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Nor yet the Israelytes, with terrour of the swordesword,
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Nor yet the Israelytes, with terrour of the swordesword,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
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… the land, and what was their reaſon, leaſt (ſaied they) the Hebrewes make them ſwordesword & ſpeares. if they tooke away their weapons from them, it was an eaſie thing …
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… the land, and what was their reaſon, leaſt (ſaied they) the Hebrewes make them ſwordesword & ſpeares. if they tooke away their weapons from them, it was an eaſie thing …
Samuel Hieron · The Dignity of the Scripture · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (54)

38 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 28 are listed here. 16 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

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… fire not conſuming his bodie, one of the Tormentors thruſt him in with a SwordeSword. Whereafter, ſo great a quantitie of bloud iſſued out of his bodie, that the …
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… fire not conſuming his bodie, one of the Tormentors thruſt him in with a SwordeSword. Whereafter, ſo great a quantitie of bloud iſſued out of his bodie, that the …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 11 · Open in the reader

The Nobles A03850

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… coulde hurt none: they once armed wyth power, office, and honoure, as a Caruynge SwordeSword: learne not onelye of theyr owne nature to ſtynge, but alſo with the edge …
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… coulde hurt none: they once armed wyth power, office, and honoure, as a Caruynge SwordeSword: learne not onelye of theyr owne nature to ſtynge, but alſo with the edge …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader

Commentary on Peter and Jude A06502

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… ſtill wāteth Faithe, therfore hath God ordeined and appointed the Magiſtrate to beare the SwordeSword: thereby to curbe and reſtraine the wicked, compellyng them (euen maugre their willes) to …
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… ſtill wāteth Faithe, therfore hath God ordeined and appointed the Magiſtrate to beare the SwordeSword: thereby to curbe and reſtraine the wicked, compellyng them (euen maugre their willes) to …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 56 · Open in the reader
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… Chriſtians whiche adminiſter that function, not onely maie, but alſo ought to vſe the SwordeSword: namely, thereby to releeue their neighbours, in repellyng and puniſhyng malefactours, and in defendyng …
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… Chriſtians whiche adminiſter that function, not onely maie, but alſo ought to vſe the SwordeSword: namely, thereby to releeue their neighbours, in repellyng and puniſhyng malefactours, and in defendyng …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
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… not Chriſtians, haue neede to bee vnder an other power and rule, namelie the SwordeSword: becauſe thei can not abide to be obedient vnto the Worde of God. But …
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… not Chriſtians, haue neede to bee vnder an other power and rule, namelie the SwordeSword: becauſe thei can not abide to be obedient vnto the Worde of God. But …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
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… Childe is thine, and ſhe ſaieth, it is hers: Bryng mee therefore hither a SwordeSword, and diuide the Infant in twaine, and giue the one halfe to the one …
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… Childe is thine, and ſhe ſaieth, it is hers: Bryng mee therefore hither a SwordeSword, and diuide the Infant in twaine, and giue the one halfe to the one …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 75 · Open in the reader
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… right hande, or to the lefte: where the Aſſe ſeeyng the Angell, with his SwordeSword ſtill drawen, thruſte her ſelf vnto the wall, and daſſhed Balaams foote againſt it …
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… right hande, or to the lefte: where the Aſſe ſeeyng the Angell, with his SwordeSword ſtill drawen, thruſte her ſelf vnto the wall, and daſſhed Balaams foote againſt it …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 148 · Open in the reader

The Acts of Christ and Antichrist A06652

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Antichrist saieth: If any will not beleue: Fire, Fagotte, SwordeSword, and Halter shall make hym to beleue.
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Antichrist saieth: If any will not beleue: Fire, Fagotte, SwordeSword, and Halter shall make hym to beleue.
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader

Display of Popish Practices A09918

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… ſent before of the Lorde into Egipt. The ſame calleth his aduerſaries, the Hand & SwordeSword of the Lorde. The Lord himſelfe calleth Nabuchadnezer his ſeruant. But is this with …
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… ſent before of the Lorde into Egipt. The ſame calleth his aduerſaries, the Hand & SwordeSword of the Lorde. The Lord himſelfe calleth Nabuchadnezer his ſeruant. But is this with …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 161 · Open in the reader

Twenty-Five Lectures Upon the Lords Last Sermon and Conference A11006

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… ſoule. I ſay more: In ſuffering all extreamities for the Lord, the Fire, the SwordeSword, and it were a thouſande deathes, hee will haue a greater joye and pleaſure …
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… ſoule. I ſay more: In ſuffering all extreamities for the Lord, the Fire, the SwordeSword, and it were a thouſande deathes, hee will haue a greater joye and pleaſure …
Robert Rollock · Twenty-Five Lectures Upon the Lords Last Sermon and Conference · p. 35 · Open in the reader

The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ A11012

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… of the trueth perſecute the Sainctes of GOD, and His Trueth, with Fire and SwordeSword, as they pleaſe; They ſhall gette no vantage, and they ſhall not gette this …
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… of the trueth perſecute the Sainctes of GOD, and His Trueth, with Fire and SwordeSword, as they pleaſe; They ſhall gette no vantage, and they ſhall not gette this …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 211 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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SwordeSword being borne before a Prince, what it ſignifieth. 431
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SwordeSword being borne before a Prince, what it ſignifieth. 431
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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… those Foure great plagues, spoken of. Leuit. 26. & heere againe distinctly mentioned; to wit, the SwordeSword, Famine, Pestilence, and wilde Beasts. Rom. 6, 8. Power was giuen to them ouer the Fourth …
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… those Foure great plagues, spoken of. Leuit. 26. & heere againe distinctly mentioned; to wit, the SwordeSword, Famine, Pestilence, and wilde Beasts. Rom. 6, 8. Power was giuen to them ouer the Fourth …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 52 · Open in the reader
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… the impenitent. Reuel. 2, 12. Which hath a sharpe Sword with two edges. Reuel. 1, 16. With the SwordeSword of my mouth. This signifies the same thing with sharpe SwordeSword, vnlesse happily, some …
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… the impenitent. Reuel. 2, 12. Which hath a sharpe Sword with two edges. Reuel. 1, 16. With the SwordeSword of my mouth. This signifies the same thing with sharpe SwordeSword, vnlesse happily, some …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 145 · Open in the reader
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… Reuel. 1, 16. With the SwordeSword of my mouth. This signifies the same thing with sharpe SwordeSword, vnlesse happily, some greeuous Iudgement of Warre be meant, which being pronounced by the …
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… Reuel. 1, 16. With the SwordeSword of my mouth. This signifies the same thing with sharpe SwordeSword, vnlesse happily, some greeuous Iudgement of Warre be meant, which being pronounced by the …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 145 · Open in the reader
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… of Warre be meant, which being pronounced by the word, is therefore called the SwordeSword of his mouth.
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… of Warre be meant, which being pronounced by the word, is therefore called the SwordeSword of his mouth.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 145 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

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… the excellencie of it is in the ſcriptures called a light, a fire, a SwordeSword, a Maule which breaketh ſtones, a Buckler, and by many other names like vnto …
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… the excellencie of it is in the ſcriptures called a light, a fire, a SwordeSword, a Maule which breaketh ſtones, a Buckler, and by many other names like vnto …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 20 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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SwordeSword.
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SwordeSword.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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Of Gods SwordeSword, and that the same is not material.
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Of Gods SwordeSword, and that the same is not material.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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How it is meant that God draweth his SwordeSword, and wil sharpen the edge thereof.
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How it is meant that God draweth his SwordeSword, and wil sharpen the edge thereof.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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Of the spirituall SwordeSword, and wherein the vse of the same consisteth.
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Of the spirituall SwordeSword, and wherein the vse of the same consisteth.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

A Preparative to Contention A18015

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… hand an Inſtrument to build for and with, Iſrael: & in the other hand a SwordeSword to fight againſt the foes of Iſrael: beeing right well aſſured, that the wiſedome …
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… hand an Inſtrument to build for and with, Iſrael: & in the other hand a SwordeSword to fight againſt the foes of Iſrael: beeing right well aſſured, that the wiſedome …
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · Open in the reader
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SwordeSword of the miniſter is the word of God, ca. 4.2
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SwordeSword of the miniſter is the word of God, ca. 4.2
John Carpenter · A Preparative to Contention · Open in the reader

King Solomons Solace A18017

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… Alley of Arnon, there wherein, David (when hee ſaw the Angell with his drawne SwordeSword) was commaunded to reare his altar. Neuertheleſſe, to ſignifie, that both this perſon and …
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… Alley of Arnon, there wherein, David (when hee ſaw the Angell with his drawne SwordeSword) was commaunded to reare his altar. Neuertheleſſe, to ſignifie, that both this perſon and …
John Carpenter · King Solomons Solace · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

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… heart by persecution, spake holy Simion to Mary Christes mother when he sayde: the SwordeSword, that is, the Crosse of persecution shall pearse thy Soule, that the thoughtes of …
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… heart by persecution, spake holy Simion to Mary Christes mother when he sayde: the SwordeSword, that is, the Crosse of persecution shall pearse thy Soule, that the thoughtes of …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1848 · Open in the reader
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SwordeSword of the Pope, double. 499.
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SwordeSword of the Pope, double. 499.
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

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… the Prophetes, Ieremie the .15. Chapt. and Ezechiel in the .14. Chapter. For they be theſe, SwordeSword, Famine, Death or Peſtilence, and beaſtes: ſo are they recited in the Lawe alſo …
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… the Prophetes, Ieremie the .15. Chapt. and Ezechiel in the .14. Chapter. For they be theſe, SwordeSword, Famine, Death or Peſtilence, and beaſtes: ſo are they recited in the Lawe alſo …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 191 · Open in the reader

The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God B11843

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… Empires, to wit, of Trapezunce, Conſtantinople, and Egypt: and ſo continuallye the Rodde or SwordeSword which God hath prepared againſte the Chriſtians is fortified and increaſed.
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… Empires, to wit, of Trapezunce, Conſtantinople, and Egypt: and ſo continuallye the Rodde or SwordeSword which God hath prepared againſte the Chriſtians is fortified and increaſed.
Henrich Bullinger · The Tragedies of Tyrants Exercised Upon the Church of God · Open in the reader