Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1895 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

chaffechaff

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

Puritas changed it: 2,444 times in 937 works
Consistency: 100% (2,444 of 2,444)
Reach if approved: ~2,568 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: chaff
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,444 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,444 changes in 937 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,444)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eare, cruſh it and beat it never ſo much, it will yeeld nothing but chaffechaff and duſt: a perfect embleme of a greedy griper, a ſordid churle; hammer him …
With rule
… eare, cruſh it and beat it never ſo much, it will yeeld nothing but chaffechaff and duſt: a perfect embleme of a greedy griper, a ſordid churle; hammer him …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 440 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the faithfulnesse of those, that with honest harts embrace it; and scatter hypocrites like chaffechaff, by reason of their insolid leuity. Simeon so prophecied to Mary the Virgin of …
With rule
… the faithfulnesse of those, that with honest harts embrace it; and scatter hypocrites like chaffechaff, by reason of their insolid leuity. Simeon so prophecied to Mary the Virgin of …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mat. 3. since Christ vouchsafed to come with his fanne to purge it of the chaffechaff, it now shewes it selfe with greater eminence, and is clearer both in shew …
With rule
… Mat. 3. since Christ vouchsafed to come with his fanne to purge it of the chaffechaff, it now shewes it selfe with greater eminence, and is clearer both in shew …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who is so simple, as to seeke his corne among a great heap of chaffechaff, and that far off; who may haue it at home, winnowed and clensed to …
With rule
… who is so simple, as to seeke his corne among a great heap of chaffechaff, and that far off; who may haue it at home, winnowed and clensed to …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he that hath my worde let hym ſpeake my worde truly. What mingleſt thou chaffechaff wyth the …heate? Are not my wordes lyke fyre, ſayeth the Lorde, and lyke …
With rule
… he that hath my worde let hym ſpeake my worde truly. What mingleſt thou chaffechaff wyth the …heate? Are not my wordes lyke fyre, ſayeth the Lorde, and lyke …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader
Printed
… Gods power. Whatſoeuer ſtandeth before it, and is oppoſed againſt it, is but as chaffechaff before a ſtrong winde, or bulruſhes before a ſwift current, or ſtubble before a …
With rule
… Gods power. Whatſoeuer ſtandeth before it, and is oppoſed againſt it, is but as chaffechaff before a ſtrong winde, or bulruſhes before a ſwift current, or ſtubble before a …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet is that truth in the Scripture yt self and here so mingled with chaffechaff / that it were not only vnprofitable and a hinderance of the true vse of …
With rule
… yet is that truth in the Scripture yt self and here so mingled with chaffechaff / that it were not only vnprofitable and a hinderance of the true vse of …
John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… because it is mingled with a better thing, but, if it be mixed with chaffechaff, or if it be smuch'd, or corrupted, it hath lost it's purenesse. So siluer …
With rule
… because it is mingled with a better thing, but, if it be mixed with chaffechaff, or if it be smuch'd, or corrupted, it hath lost it's purenesse. So siluer …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 251 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.