Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1820 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rootesroots

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

Puritas changed it: 1,001 times in 467 works
Consistency: 94.9% (1,001 of 1,054)
Reach if approved: ~1,107 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: roots
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,054 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,001 changes in 467 works, 94.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,001)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by imposition of hands; say to a Tree, Pluck thy selfe vp by the rootesroots, and plant thy selfe in the sea, and it shall obey them: yet reprobates …
With rule
… by imposition of hands; say to a Tree, Pluck thy selfe vp by the rootesroots, and plant thy selfe in the sea, and it shall obey them: yet reprobates …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 425 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by the rootesroots, ere the axe of Gods wrath should bee put to our rootesroots, and wee be cut downe and throwen ouer the hedge of the vineyard into …
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… by the rootesroots, ere the axe of Gods wrath should bee put to our rootesroots, and wee be cut downe and throwen ouer the hedge of the vineyard into …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… damnable hereſie of thoſe men, which are twice dead, and plucked vp by the rootesroots, and thoſe are they which are fallen from grace, which were once dead, and …
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… damnable hereſie of thoſe men, which are twice dead, and plucked vp by the rootesroots, and thoſe are they which are fallen from grace, which were once dead, and …
Thomas Helwys · Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to all eternitye? It is writen in Eccleſiaſticus, the lorde wyll roote oute the rootesroots of the proud, all bee it they aſſay to delue and graue them, neuer …
With rule
… to all eternitye? It is writen in Eccleſiaſticus, the lorde wyll roote oute the rootesroots of the proud, all bee it they aſſay to delue and graue them, neuer …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… with Pullets, without pulling, drawing, or waſhing them, together with other fl ſh and rootesroots in like manner: and hauing made theſe boyle together vpon a great fire, brought …
With rule
… with Pullets, without pulling, drawing, or waſhing them, together with other fl ſh and rootesroots in like manner: and hauing made theſe boyle together vpon a great fire, brought …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 313 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not onely to haue sinne as it were shauen, but plucked vp by the rootesroots, and the spots taken away.
With rule
… not onely to haue sinne as it were shauen, but plucked vp by the rootesroots, and the spots taken away.
George Estey · Exposition Upon the Ten Commandments · Open in the reader
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… Gospell they receiue, the more abundantly they thrust forth the thornes of iniquities. The rootesroots of these bryars are surely earthed in their hearts, and do boyle out at …
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… Gospell they receiue, the more abundantly they thrust forth the thornes of iniquities. The rootesroots of these bryars are surely earthed in their hearts, and do boyle out at …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Cedar, the Cedar as strong as the Oake: and these so spread their rootesroots, till they starue the rest by an insensible soaking. When mother earth, the Church …
With rule
… the Cedar, the Cedar as strong as the Oake: and these so spread their rootesroots, till they starue the rest by an insensible soaking. When mother earth, the Church …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 51 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (53)

33 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 29 are listed here. 20 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Description of Spiritual Life and Death A09963

Printed
… often escaped; they delude the workes of God that should draw them to salvation. RootesRoots will make the weeds grow againe, not being taken heed of: The long suffering …
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… often escaped; they delude the workes of God that should draw them to salvation. RootesRoots will make the weeds grow againe, not being taken heed of: The long suffering …
John Preston · Description of Spiritual Life and Death · p. 113 · Open in the reader

Four Godly and Learned Treatises A09965

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… often escaped; they delude the workes of God that should draw them to salvation. RootesRoots will make the weeds grow againe, not being taken heed of. The long suffering …
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… often escaped; they delude the workes of God that should draw them to salvation. RootesRoots will make the weeds grow againe, not being taken heed of. The long suffering …
John Preston · Four Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 164 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… their extremitie and Famine, but ordinarily. M^r. Fitch saith the same, that they eate RootesRoots, Hearbes, Leaues, Dogges, Cats, Rats, and Snakes, they refuse almost nothing.
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… their extremitie and Famine, but ordinarily. M^r. Fitch saith the same, that they eate RootesRoots, Hearbes, Leaues, Dogges, Cats, Rats, and Snakes, they refuse almost nothing.
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 394 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are clothed from the waste to the knees. Their Bread is a kind of RootesRoots, called Inamia; which, when it is well sodden, may be preferred before ours. They …
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… are clothed from the waste to the knees. Their Bread is a kind of RootesRoots, called Inamia; which, when it is well sodden, may be preferred before ours. They …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 541 · Open in the reader
Printed
… partie wronged. They haue their proper peeces of ground, which they husband with their RootesRoots and Mais. When they entertaine a stranger, the Moussacat, or good-man, seemes to …
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… partie wronged. They haue their proper peeces of ground, which they husband with their RootesRoots and Mais. When they entertaine a stranger, the Moussacat, or good-man, seemes to …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 710 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had receiued answere of them among the Rockes, make them of Stone: some of RootesRoots, to the similitude of such as appeare to them when they gather the RootesRoots …
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… had receiued answere of them among the Rockes, make them of Stone: some of RootesRoots, to the similitude of such as appeare to them when they gather the RootesRoots …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 743 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereof they make their bread, thinking, that the Zemes sent them plentie of these RootesRoots. They attribute a Zemes to the particular tuition of euery thing; as sometimes the …
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… whereof they make their bread, thinking, that the Zemes sent them plentie of these RootesRoots. They attribute a Zemes to the particular tuition of euery thing; as sometimes the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 743 · Open in the reader

Three Treatises A10659

Printed
The RootesRoots of Corruption in the Creature. 38
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The RootesRoots of Corruption in the Creature. 38
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · Open in the reader

The Returning Backslider A12190

Printed
… O but raine might come to late in that hot Countrie, where all the RootesRoots and Herbes might bee withered and dried up in three yeares ſpace. Yet all …
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… O but raine might come to late in that hot Countrie, where all the RootesRoots and Herbes might bee withered and dried up in three yeares ſpace. Yet all …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 18 · Open in the reader
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… and never leaves growing till he grow to Heaven: Hee ſhall caſt forth his RootesRoots as Lebanon.
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… and never leaves growing till he grow to Heaven: Hee ſhall caſt forth his RootesRoots as Lebanon.
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 234 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without roote, what will become of it? It will be turned up by the RootesRoots.
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… without roote, what will become of it? It will be turned up by the RootesRoots.
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 237 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
… is, firmely setled and fastned vnto him by faith, as a Tree by the RootesRoots.
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… is, firmely setled and fastned vnto him by faith, as a Tree by the RootesRoots.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 414 · Open in the reader

Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse A15636

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… Diuell doe not come before they be aware, and carry them away by the RootesRoots; as sometime he serueth old Trees in the Forrest) it may so fall out …
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… Diuell doe not come before they be aware, and carry them away by the RootesRoots; as sometime he serueth old Trees in the Forrest) it may so fall out …
George Wither · Exercises Upon the First Psalm in Prose and Verse · p. 90 · Open in the reader

A Guide to Godliness A20762

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… bee bleſſed, and like a Tree planted by the Waters, that ſpreadeth out her RootesRoots by the Riuer, which ſhall not ſee when heate commeth, but her leafe ſhall …
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… bee bleſſed, and like a Tree planted by the Waters, that ſpreadeth out her RootesRoots by the Riuer, which ſhall not ſee when heate commeth, but her leafe ſhall …
John Downame · A Guide to Godliness · p. 93 · Open in the reader

Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms A45442

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… renders foreign shall exalt, and hinder the enemies from them; and so Kimchi in his RootesRoots shall exalt them, and strengthen them. But withall he saith, it may be interpreted …
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… renders foreign shall exalt, and hinder the enemies from them; and so Kimchi in his RootesRoots shall exalt them, and strengthen them. But withall he saith, it may be interpreted …
Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · p. 378 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not depart from me, nor let me alone, &c. But this Kimchi in his RootesRoots seems not to like of. R. Moses, mentioned by Aben Ezra, thus makes the …
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… not depart from me, nor let me alone, &c. But this Kimchi in his RootesRoots seems not to like of. R. Moses, mentioned by Aben Ezra, thus makes the …
Henry Hammond · Paraphrase Upon the Books of the Psalms · p. 459 · Open in the reader

Annotations Upon the New Testament A50050

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RootesRoots. 6. v.
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RootesRoots. 6. v.
Edward Leigh · Annotations Upon the New Testament · p. 36 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Malachi A71123

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… not only A lapide, but Conrad: Kircher (in his greeke Concordance, who in the RootesRoots uſually followes Forſter, but in this Sanct. Pagn. at the Roote foreign) tells us that …
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… not only A lapide, but Conrad: Kircher (in his greeke Concordance, who in the RootesRoots uſually followes Forſter, but in this Sanct. Pagn. at the Roote foreign) tells us that …
Richard Stock · Commentary on Malachi · p. 48 · Open in the reader

The Right Receiving of Christ A81950

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… is that which doth it: faith is that which drawes us up by the RootesRoots out of the hedge, and common of Nature. In a miraculous caſe it is …
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… is that which doth it: faith is that which drawes us up by the RootesRoots out of the hedge, and common of Nature. In a miraculous caſe it is …
Jeremiah Dyke · The Right Receiving of Christ · p. 104 · Open in the reader
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… In a miraculous caſe it is poſſible to plucke up a tree by the RootesRoots. Luk. 17. 6. Yee might ſay unto this Sycamore tree, Be thou plucked up by the …
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… In a miraculous caſe it is poſſible to plucke up a tree by the RootesRoots. Luk. 17. 6. Yee might ſay unto this Sycamore tree, Be thou plucked up by the …
Jeremiah Dyke · The Right Receiving of Christ · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Paul pluckes up his Phariſaiſme, and all his civill legall righteouſneſſe by the very RootesRoots, and that by the ſelfe-denyall of faith. Phil. 3. 4, 8. If any man elſe may …
With rule
… Paul pluckes up his Phariſaiſme, and all his civill legall righteouſneſſe by the very RootesRoots, and that by the ſelfe-denyall of faith. Phil. 3. 4, 8. If any man elſe may …
Jeremiah Dyke · The Right Receiving of Christ · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… had no Roote, Matth. 13. but contrarily when the ſeede falles upon good ground it RootesRoots. And when the Word rootesroots in our hearts, it rootesroots us into Chriſt, for …
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… had no Roote, Matth. 13. but contrarily when the ſeede falles upon good ground it RootesRoots. And when the Word rootesroots in our hearts, it rootesroots us into Chriſt, for …
Jeremiah Dyke · The Right Receiving of Christ · p. 113 · Open in the reader

England Faithfully Watched A88417

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… into Wine, in vigour upon your ſoules, then hath God by mee watered your RootesRoots with Wine; and yet if after ſuch coſtly watering you grow not nor beare …
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… into Wine, in vigour upon your ſoules, then hath God by mee watered your RootesRoots with Wine; and yet if after ſuch coſtly watering you grow not nor beare …
Nicholas Lockyer · England Faithfully Watched · p. 550 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

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Moſt Pleaſant Hearbes, RootesRoots, Fruites in Gardens grow,
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Moſt Pleaſant Hearbes, RootesRoots, Fruites in Gardens grow,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Seedes, Plants, RootesRoots which we would have to grow.
With rule
The Seedes, Plants, RootesRoots which we would have to grow.
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
Within their RootesRoots or Seeds, yet ſpring againe,
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Within their RootesRoots or Seeds, yet ſpring againe,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 159 · Open in the reader
Printed
Like RootesRoots in Earth, good corne in chaffe, or fire
With rule
Like RootesRoots in Earth, good corne in chaffe, or fire
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 167 · Open in the reader
Printed
RootesRoots, Plants, whiles they in Garden-Earth faſt lye,
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RootesRoots, Plants, whiles they in Garden-Earth faſt lye,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 168 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Malachi 2 A93917

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… not only A lapide; but Conrad: Kircher (in his greeke Concordance, who in the RootesRoots uſually followes Forſter, but in this Sanct. Pagn. at the Roote foreign) tells us that …
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… not only A lapide; but Conrad: Kircher (in his greeke Concordance, who in the RootesRoots uſually followes Forſter, but in this Sanct. Pagn. at the Roote foreign) tells us that …
Richard Stock · Commentary on Malachi 2 · p. 48 · Open in the reader