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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1826 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beastebeast

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

Puritas changed it
468 times in 101 works
Consistency
93.0% (468 of 503)
Reach if approved
~529 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: beast
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
503 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (468 changes in 101 works, 93.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 468)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … And he caused the earth, and them which dwell therein. 8. To worship the firste beastebeast, vvhose deadly vvounde vvas healed. 9. And he dyd great wonders. 10. So that he made …
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    … And he caused the earth, and them which dwell therein. 8. To worship the firste beastebeast, vvhose deadly vvounde vvas healed. 9. And he dyd great wonders. 10. So that he made …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    Neuertheleſſe as weake a beaſtebeast as it is, yet hath it thys condicion, that wyth all diligēce it bydeth …
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    Neuertheleſſe as weake a beaſtebeast as it is, yet hath it thys condicion, that wyth all diligēce it bydeth …

    Martin Luther · Exposition of Psalm 22 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hym to drinke: but thei haue bread of the fineste and wyne of the beastebeast to eate and drincke. Christe offered hys owne blessed bodye a swete smellynge sacrifice …
    With rule
    … hym to drinke: but thei haue bread of the fineste and wyne of the beastebeast to eate and drincke. Christe offered hys owne blessed bodye a swete smellynge sacrifice …

    Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … deuill, that to their conceit th…y may seeme to be like these bruit beastebeast, though indeede they remaine true … still. For it i… a worke surmounting the deuills …
    With rule
    … deuill, that to their conceit th…y may seeme to be like these bruit beastebeast, though indeede they remaine true … still. For it i… a worke surmounting the deuills …

    William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … drū kennes hath made him like a beast, euerye man abhorreth him like a beastebeast as they did Nebuchadnezer: the spirit flyeth from him least he should greeue it …
    With rule
    … drū kennes hath made him like a beast, euerye man abhorreth him like a beastebeast as they did Nebuchadnezer: the spirit flyeth from him least he should greeue it …

    Henry Smith · The First Sermon of Noahs Drunkenness · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the constaūtnes and confession of true faithe / did not worshipp the Image of the beastebeast / nor receyued ony markes of …. The blessed Apostle Paule doth proue that we do …
    With rule
    … the constaūtnes and confession of true faithe / did not worshipp the Image of the beastebeast / nor receyued ony markes of …. The blessed Apostle Paule doth proue that we do …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … beare his image amongst men, they abase themselues and become slaues to this prond beastebeast of abomination. Christ had conuersation vvith the poore, the pope looketh at leisure vpon …
    With rule
    … beare his image amongst men, they abase themselues and become slaues to this prond beastebeast of abomination. Christ had conuersation vvith the poore, the pope looketh at leisure vpon …

    John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … haue anie to hire them nor to send them to hurte eyther man or beastebeast, but I seé mine owne follie, and that onlie God giueth the power vnto …
    With rule
    … haue anie to hire them nor to send them to hurte eyther man or beastebeast, but I seé mine owne follie, and that onlie God giueth the power vnto …

    George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (35)

25 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 are listed here. 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 A02825

  • Printed
    … of those sygnes which he had power to do in the syght of the BeasteBeast. 13. sayenge to thē that dwelte on the earthe / that they shulde ma…e an …
    With rule
    … of those sygnes which he had power to do in the syght of the BeasteBeast. 13. sayenge to thē that dwelte on the earthe / that they shulde ma…e an …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … that dwelte on the earthe / that they shulde ma…e an Image. 14. vnto the BeasteBeast / which had the wounde of a swerde and dyd lyue.
    With rule
    … that dwelte on the earthe / that they shulde ma…e an Image. 14. vnto the BeasteBeast / which had the wounde of a swerde and dyd lyue.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ryght handes / or in their fore heades. Whā this newe raysed Image of the BeasteBeast / or sworne power to Antichrist / ys ones raysed vp or admitted by their autoryte …
    With rule
    … ryght handes / or in their fore heades. Whā this newe raysed Image of the BeasteBeast / or sworne power to Antichrist / ys ones raysed vp or admitted by their autoryte …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    1 Here is wisdome. 2. lete him that hath wytte. 3. counte the nombre of the BeasteBeast. 4. For it is the nōbre of Manne. 5. And his nombre is / sex h…ndred …
    With rule
    1 Here is wisdome. 2. lete him that hath wytte. 3. counte the nombre of the BeasteBeast. 4. For it is the nōbre of Manne. 5. And his nombre is / sex h…ndred …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … a noysom & a sore votche vpon the men which had the marke of the BeasteBeast. 7. and vpon them that worsypped hys Image.
    With rule
    … a noysom & a sore votche vpon the men which had the marke of the BeasteBeast. 7. and vpon them that worsypped hys Image.

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · p. 114 · Open in the reader

The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises A07988

  • Printed
    … not come to the gouernement while after his dayes. Fiftlie, (ſaieth the text) this BeaſteBeast that Sainct Iohn did ſee, was, and is not, and ſhall riſe of lowe …
    With rule
    … not come to the gouernement while after his dayes. Fiftlie, (ſaieth the text) this BeaſteBeast that Sainct Iohn did ſee, was, and is not, and ſhall riſe of lowe …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … but one yeare, three monethes, and nine daies, and then he died. Againe, the BeaſteBeast (ſaith that ſame text) Was, and is not, and yet is, that is to …
    With rule
    … but one yeare, three monethes, and nine daies, and then he died. Againe, the BeaſteBeast (ſaith that ſame text) Was, and is not, and yet is, that is to …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 36 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the ſelfe ſame properties of the falſe Antichriſtian Prophete (cap. 19.) For this two-horned BeaſteBeast is ſaide to worke greate miracles, before the firſt tenne-horned BeaſteBeast, and to …
    With rule
    … the ſelfe ſame properties of the falſe Antichriſtian Prophete (cap. 19.) For this two-horned BeaſteBeast is ſaide to worke greate miracles, before the firſt tenne-horned BeaſteBeast, and to …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … two-horned BeaſteBeast is ſaide to worke greate miracles, before the firſt tenne-horned BeaſteBeast, and to deceiue them that dwelt vpon the earth, whome hee cauſed to worſhippe …
    With rule
    … two-horned BeaſteBeast is ſaide to worke greate miracles, before the firſt tenne-horned BeaſteBeast, and to deceiue them that dwelt vpon the earth, whome hee cauſed to worſhippe …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 40 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Chriſts croſſe, & ſo juſtly may the croſſe be called the mark of the firſt BeaſteBeast and Romane Emperour. The laſt cauſe, why the croſſe is called the mark of …
    With rule
    … Chriſts croſſe, & ſo juſtly may the croſſe be called the mark of the firſt BeaſteBeast and Romane Emperour. The laſt cauſe, why the croſſe is called the mark of …

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 54 · Open in the reader

Display of Popish Practices A09918

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    There is no BeaſteBeast ſo ſauage, (muche leſſe is Manne) whi… the woulde bryng foorthe hys iſſue to …
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    There is no BeaſteBeast ſo ſauage, (muche leſſe is Manne) whi… the woulde bryng foorthe hys iſſue to …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 33 · Open in the reader

The Anatomy of Abuses A13086

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    … of him, that trauayleth abroade: and hee that knoweth nothing, is lyke a brute BeasteBeast, but hee that knoweth all thinges (whiche thinge none doeth but God alone) hee …
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    … of him, that trauayleth abroade: and hee that knoweth nothing, is lyke a brute BeasteBeast, but hee that knoweth all thinges (whiche thinge none doeth but God alone) hee …

    Philip Stubbes · The Anatomy of Abuses · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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    … ashamed maye they be that are vnnaturall, and maye learne kindenes of a bruite BeasteBeast. For suche menne beynge ouercome with kindnes by Beastes, are worsse then Beastes, & more …
    With rule
    … ashamed maye they be that are vnnaturall, and maye learne kindenes of a bruite BeasteBeast. For suche menne beynge ouercome with kindnes by Beastes, are worsse then Beastes, & more …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … bodye, men in nature, and wilt thou become of a manne in bodye, a BeasteBeast in nature?
    With rule
    … bodye, men in nature, and wilt thou become of a manne in bodye, a BeasteBeast in nature?

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ymages oute of the crosse rowe, beginninge euerye letter with the name of some BeasteBeast, and so go thorowe the whole, makyng in euerye beastebeast fyue seuerall places, where …
    With rule
    … ymages oute of the crosse rowe, beginninge euerye letter with the name of some BeasteBeast, and so go thorowe the whole, makyng in euerye beastebeast fyue seuerall places, where …

    Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

  • Printed
    The BeaſteBeast Behemoth. 798. b 49.
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    The BeaſteBeast Behemoth. 798. b 49.

    John Calvin · Sermons on Job · Open in the reader

The Key of the Revelation A89026

  • Printed
    … his Preiſthood for a new as it were head and King of the Romane BeaſteBeast, as in chap. 17. we ſhall …eare. But it that Moon ſhonne with ſome light …
    With rule
    … his Preiſthood for a new as it were head and King of the Romane BeaſteBeast, as in chap. 17. we ſhall …eare. But it that Moon ſhonne with ſome light …

    Joseph Mede · The Key of the Revelation · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … it ſhall come to paſ…e, when that Angel ſhall ſound that the Romane BeaſteBeast being deſtroyed, the times of the laſt head being come to an end, the …
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    … it ſhall come to paſ…e, when that Angel ſhall ſound that the Romane BeaſteBeast being deſtroyed, the times of the laſt head being come to an end, the …

    Joseph Mede · The Key of the Revelation · p. 120 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

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    … gether the deuil, Gog and Magog, the Saracenes, Turkes, briefely all nations deceaued, the BeaſteBeast, and falſe Prophet, and all the Antichriſtians. We ſee therefore, that the iudgement of …
    With rule
    … gether the deuil, Gog and Magog, the Saracenes, Turkes, briefely all nations deceaued, the BeaſteBeast, and falſe Prophet, and all the Antichriſtians. We ſee therefore, that the iudgement of …

    Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 619 · Open in the reader