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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1816 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

growesgrows

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

Puritas changed it
2,462 times in 802 works
Consistency
99.4% (2,462 of 2,476)
Reach if approved
~2,602 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: grows
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
2,476 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,462 changes in 802 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,462)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lickes up every thing it meets withall, which is of a combuſtible nature, and growesgrows more fierce where it finds ſuch fuell to feed it. Now Sin and Sinners …
    With rule
    … lickes up every thing it meets withall, which is of a combuſtible nature, and growesgrows more fierce where it finds ſuch fuell to feed it. Now Sin and Sinners …

    Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · p. 127 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … according to thy word; this seede is rife, and many whers ranke sowen, yet growesgrows reformation but thinne and rare, because little or no heed is taken of the …
    With rule
    … according to thy word; this seede is rife, and many whers ranke sowen, yet growesgrows reformation but thinne and rare, because little or no heed is taken of the …

    Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 3 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Indeede I will; leaue me: griefs ebbe growesgrows lowe,
    With rule
    Indeede I will; leaue me: griefs ebbe growesgrows lowe,

    Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … as is not fading: no pleaſure ſuch, but that in the very uſing it growesgrows loathſome: no bravery ſo coſtly, but in three dayes wearing it waxes ſtale; ſo …
    With rule
    … as is not fading: no pleaſure ſuch, but that in the very uſing it growesgrows loathſome: no bravery ſo coſtly, but in three dayes wearing it waxes ſtale; ſo …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 78 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the better thou art likely to performe it: for forgetfulneſſe is a thing, that growesgrows ſoone upon us, and nothing ſooner then forgetting of benefits: our Memories, are very …
    With rule
    … the better thou art likely to performe it: for forgetfulneſſe is a thing, that growesgrows ſoone upon us, and nothing ſooner then forgetting of benefits: our Memories, are very …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 184 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … darkeneſſe and ſorrow, Eſay 5, the laſt verſe. yet looke vpward to heauen, there comfort growesgrows; to Chriſt, ther's comfort treaſured; to God, and there the fountaine is as full …
    With rule
    … darkeneſſe and ſorrow, Eſay 5, the laſt verſe. yet looke vpward to heauen, there comfort growesgrows; to Chriſt, ther's comfort treaſured; to God, and there the fountaine is as full …

    Robert Harris · Davids Comfort at Ziklag · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … hypocrite or naturall man, and him that is truely regenerate. The regenerate mans obedience growesgrows chiefly from a loue to God: yea, from such a loue as growesgrows from …
    With rule
    … hypocrite or naturall man, and him that is truely regenerate. The regenerate mans obedience growesgrows chiefly from a loue to God: yea, from such a loue as growesgrows from …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 480 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ordinarily with a cholerick diſtemper, if a Chriſtian be eager of the world, or growesgrows dead in ſervices, it is juſt with God, that theſe men ſhould be deſtitute …
    With rule
    … ordinarily with a cholerick diſtemper, if a Chriſtian be eager of the world, or growesgrows dead in ſervices, it is juſt with God, that theſe men ſhould be deſtitute …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Engrafting Into Christ · p. 20 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

12 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed A13547

  • Printed
    The good heart onely GrowesGrows. 311
    With rule
    The good heart onely GrowesGrows. 311

    Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · Open in the reader

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows Melancholly, weepes, respecteth none;
    With rule
    GrowesGrows Melancholly, weepes, respecteth none;

    George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

Britains Remembrancer A15627

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows disobedient, rude, and over-wilde,
    With rule
    GrowesGrows disobedient, rude, and over-wilde,

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows rich in thy decaying Navigation.
    With rule
    GrowesGrows rich in thy decaying Navigation.

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows cold. And, if these tokens doe not prove
    With rule
    GrowesGrows cold. And, if these tokens doe not prove

    George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows her Nauell which doth seeme,
    With rule
    GrowesGrows her Nauell which doth seeme,

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed A32308

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows ſo concealed from our ſight, like moules,
    With rule
    GrowesGrows ſo concealed from our ſight, like moules,

    Edward Calver · Divine Passions Piously and Pathetically Expressed · p. 120 · Open in the reader

The Gentile Sinner A39252

  • Printed
    … soule before-hand, knowing that the longer it is worne, the more Splendid it GrowesGrows, and the more it is used, the longer it will last; the onely way …
    With rule
    … soule before-hand, knowing that the longer it is worne, the more Splendid it GrowesGrows, and the more it is used, the longer it will last; the onely way …

    Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 106 · Open in the reader

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows not, there muſt ſome other reaſon be:
    With rule
    GrowesGrows not, there muſt ſome other reaſon be:

    William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 32 · Open in the reader

The Clouds in Which Christ Comes A61470

  • Printed
    … Woman, Gen. 3.15. He is the Seed in the Woman, which Sends Her forth, and GrowesGrows up out of Her. The Woman and the World are to Jesus Christ, as …
    With rule
    … Woman, Gen. 3.15. He is the Seed in the Woman, which Sends Her forth, and GrowesGrows up out of Her. The Woman and the World are to Jesus Christ, as …

    Peter Sterry · The Clouds in Which Christ Comes · p. 3 · Open in the reader

A Prophecy Written for the Year 1641 A66774

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows cold. And, if theſe tokens doe not prove
    With rule
    GrowesGrows cold. And, if theſe tokens doe not prove

    George Wither · A Prophecy Written for the Year 1641 · p. 65 · Open in the reader

The Floating Island A94057

  • Printed
    GrowesGrows impudent it turns a foe to Hope.
    With rule
    GrowesGrows impudent it turns a foe to Hope.

    William Strode · The Floating Island · Open in the reader