Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1877 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

obeyeobey

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

Puritas changed it: 481 times in 141 works
Consistency: 99.5% (481 of 483)
Reach if approved: ~507 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: obey
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 483 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (481 changes in 141 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 481)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Q. The ſubiecte is to obeyeobey the Prince and the childe his father: Is this obedience to be ſhewed in …
With rule
Q. The ſubiecte is to obeyeobey the Prince and the childe his father: Is this obedience to be ſhewed in …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… ther mother in the Machabees. For muche better is it in suche case to obeyeobey God than man / as witnesseth Peter & the other apostles.
With rule
… ther mother in the Machabees. For muche better is it in suche case to obeyeobey God than man / as witnesseth Peter & the other apostles.
Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · Open in the reader
Printed
… Eu… perours for the moſte part empairers of chriſt. Ought then the people to obeyeobey them? ought the godly lords, ſweare to theſe lawes of their rauynge Prince againſt …
With rule
… Eu… perours for the moſte part empairers of chriſt. Ought then the people to obeyeobey them? ought the godly lords, ſweare to theſe lawes of their rauynge Prince againſt …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… and eſtimation, and therein beeyng inferiours and vnderlinges, they are bounde to waite and obeyeobey. Therefore, ſeeyng that God hath called them to that eſtate, thei ought ſo to …
With rule
… and eſtimation, and therein beeyng inferiours and vnderlinges, they are bounde to waite and obeyeobey. Therefore, ſeeyng that God hath called them to that eſtate, thei ought ſo to …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… s, long life, & all that good is vnto thē that honour, reuerence, and hūbly obeyeobey their fathers & mothers, so haste thou threatned vnt o dysobedyēt chyldren, ignominie, euyll fame …
With rule
… s, long life, & all that good is vnto thē that honour, reuerence, and hūbly obeyeobey their fathers & mothers, so haste thou threatned vnt o dysobedyēt chyldren, ignominie, euyll fame …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. xlii · Open in the reader
Printed
… of regiment might eaſely be brought in: but contrarywiſe, if herein they refuſed to obeyeobey his decrees (as there was no other likelihood, conſidering how al ſortes of people …
With rule
… of regiment might eaſely be brought in: but contrarywiſe, if herein they refuſed to obeyeobey his decrees (as there was no other likelihood, conſidering how al ſortes of people …
Phillips Marnix · An Exhortation Concerning the Estate of Christendom · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… there is wherein we ſtretch our conſciences to the vttermoſt to conforme and to obeyeobey in diverſe matters, which our beſt Writers finde faulte withall. One of theſe ſpeaking …
With rule
… there is wherein we ſtretch our conſciences to the vttermoſt to conforme and to obeyeobey in diverſe matters, which our beſt Writers finde faulte withall. One of theſe ſpeaking …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of great fiſhes, an hundreth, fift…e and three. Hee is verie readie to obeyeobey. Before, vvhen firſt hee vnderſtoode that it vvas the LORDE, hee vvas carried vvith …
With rule
… of great fiſhes, an hundreth, fift…e and three. Hee is verie readie to obeyeobey. Before, vvhen firſt hee vnderſtoode that it vvas the LORDE, hee vvas carried vvith …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 492 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin A02947

Printed
… goſpell, do as thowgh ye owght him no ſeruice, nor were non of hys. ObeyeObey it not, but ſaye that ye knowe a moche better waye Ye haue a …
With rule
… goſpell, do as thowgh ye owght him no ſeruice, nor were non of hys. ObeyeObey it not, but ſaye that ye knowe a moche better waye Ye haue a …
John Bale · A Disclosing or Opening of the Man of Sin · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

Printed
… without any addicion of coniunccions, suche as knitte woordes and sentences together. As thus. ObeyeObey the Kyng, feare his lawes, kepe thy vocacion, doo right, seke rest, like well …
With rule
… without any addicion of coniunccions, suche as knitte woordes and sentences together. As thus. ObeyeObey the Kyng, feare his lawes, kepe thy vocacion, doo right, seke rest, like well …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader