Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1881 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

soldesold

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

Puritas changed it: 753 times in 339 works
Consistency: 99.7% (753 of 755)
Reach if approved: ~793 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sold
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 755 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (753 changes in 339 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 753)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
When ſighes ſhall aſſaut mē, to ſee them ſelues ſoldesold:
With rule
When ſighes ſhall aſſaut mē, to ſee them ſelues ſoldesold:
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be established. Neyther are they that beleeue not, gathered within the pale and soldesold of the Church; but wander like straggling goates, and wilde beasts on the mountaines …
With rule
… not be established. Neyther are they that beleeue not, gathered within the pale and soldesold of the Church; but wander like straggling goates, and wilde beasts on the mountaines …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
Now byshopryckes are soldesold, & the holy ghost for gold
With rule
Now byshopryckes are soldesold, & the holy ghost for gold
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… he would neuer paiſe thread with golde. For then was an ounce of ſilke, ſoldesold for like weyght of golde. Alexander Seucrus alſo, ſeeld ware ſylke, veluet neuer. So …
With rule
… he would neuer paiſe thread with golde. For then was an ounce of ſilke, ſoldesold for like weyght of golde. Alexander Seucrus alſo, ſeeld ware ſylke, veluet neuer. So …
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ioseph said to his bretheren, be you not moued with sorow, y^• ye haue soldesold me, for the Lord hath sent me for conseruation of a great multitude, it …
With rule
… Ioseph said to his bretheren, be you not moued with sorow, y^• ye haue soldesold me, for the Lord hath sent me for conseruation of a great multitude, it …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 290 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they haue caſt lots for my people, & haue giuen a boy for a harlot, & ſoldesold a girle for vvine that they might drinke.
With rule
… they haue caſt lots for my people, & haue giuen a boy for a harlot, & ſoldesold a girle for vvine that they might drinke.
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Greece: not the thirtie siluerlings of the traytour Iudas for the which he soldesold Christ: not the woundes of his pearced bodie: not the print of the nailes …
With rule
… of Greece: not the thirtie siluerlings of the traytour Iudas for the which he soldesold Christ: not the woundes of his pearced bodie: not the print of the nailes …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the materiall cuppe, but of the godlie vse of them, when they are soldesold to redeeme captiues, aunswering the obiection of such thinges, that be once dedicated to …
With rule
… of the materiall cuppe, but of the godlie vse of them, when they are soldesold to redeeme captiues, aunswering the obiection of such thinges, that be once dedicated to …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 285 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Garden of Wisdom A13399

Printed
SoldeSold in Lomberdstrete at the signe of the Lamb by Iohn̄ Haruye.
With rule
SoldeSold in Lomberdstrete at the signe of the Lamb by Iohn̄ Haruye.
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader