Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1951 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thousandesthousands

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

Puritas changed it: 445 times in 206 works
Consistency: 98.8% (445 of 450)
Reach if approved: ~473 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: thousands
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 450 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (445 changes in 206 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 445)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… it may growe vnto God knoweth. Thus much wee see, it hath alreadie made thousandesthousands so headstrong euen in grosse and palpable errors, that a man whose capacitie will …
With rule
… it may growe vnto God knoweth. Thus much wee see, it hath alreadie made thousandesthousands so headstrong euen in grosse and palpable errors, that a man whose capacitie will …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 112 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seing the late martirdome of those that suffered? Yet didest thou lord sturre vp thousandesthousands out of their ashes, and what was done of a popysh polycye to suppresse …
With rule
… seing the late martirdome of those that suffered? Yet didest thou lord sturre vp thousandesthousands out of their ashes, and what was done of a popysh polycye to suppresse …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… alſo the ſeuenth from Adam, prophecyed of ſuche, ſaiyng, Behold the Lorde commeth with thouſandesthousands of his Sainctes, to giue iudgment againſt all men:
With rule
… alſo the ſeuenth from Adam, prophecyed of ſuche, ſaiyng, Behold the Lorde commeth with thouſandesthousands of his Sainctes, to giue iudgment againſt all men:
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyth all mā ner of stoar. These haue shepe that bryng forth thousandesthousands & hondred thousandesthousands in theyr pastures and feldes. These haue fatte oxen, y^• are stronge to laboure …
With rule
… wyth all mā ner of stoar. These haue shepe that bryng forth thousandesthousands & hondred thousandesthousands in theyr pastures and feldes. These haue fatte oxen, y^• are stronge to laboure …
Thomas Becon · Davids Harp · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhutting the dores vpon them, ſet fire to them, and burnt of them diuers thouſandesthousands, and ſo brought the reſt by that meanes, vnder the ſubiection of the Emperor …
With rule
… ſhutting the dores vpon them, ſet fire to them, and burnt of them diuers thouſandesthousands, and ſo brought the reſt by that meanes, vnder the ſubiection of the Emperor …
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 380 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ghost witnesseth: continued a faithfull witnesse and teacher of the same doctrine, vnto many thousandesthousands of his posteritie, by the space of 930. yeares, beside his godly sonne Seth, and …
With rule
… Ghost witnesseth: continued a faithfull witnesse and teacher of the same doctrine, vnto many thousandesthousands of his posteritie, by the space of 930. yeares, beside his godly sonne Seth, and …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… noumber in the muſters and taxes when the people were noumbred by hondrethes and thouſandesthousands as was then vſed, and we doo vſe the ſame ſtyll to thys daye …
With rule
… noumber in the muſters and taxes when the people were noumbred by hondrethes and thouſandesthousands as was then vſed, and we doo vſe the ſame ſtyll to thys daye …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… god, and hys dongyshe decrees aboue Gods set ordynaunce, to the vtter dampnacyon of thousandesthousands, for not beleuynge the truth, ii. Thes ii. Saynt Iohan in hys reuelatyon, calleth …
With rule
… god, and hys dongyshe decrees aboue Gods set ordynaunce, to the vtter dampnacyon of thousandesthousands, for not beleuynge the truth, ii. Thes ii. Saynt Iohan in hys reuelatyon, calleth …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Caveat for Parsons Howlet A00714

Printed
… being Gods cause, importing her highnesse saluation, Estate, and Realme, with the safegarde of ThousandesThousands, it is but a shamefull asking of that vvhiche yet is in question betwixt …
With rule
… being Gods cause, importing her highnesse saluation, Estate, and Realme, with the safegarde of ThousandesThousands, it is but a shamefull asking of that vvhiche yet is in question betwixt …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
… tryed, that they may be set ouer you according to your tribes, euen ouer ThousandesThousands, ouer Hundreds, and ouer Fifties, as wee shall see afterward. Hereby it is shewed …
With rule
… tryed, that they may be set ouer you according to your tribes, euen ouer ThousandesThousands, ouer Hundreds, and ouer Fifties, as wee shall see afterward. Hereby it is shewed …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · p. 15 · Open in the reader

A Hundred Sermons on Revelation B11837

Printed
… alludeth in the meane time to that ſaying of Daniel in the 7. chapt. Thouſande ThouſandesThousands ſerued hym, and ten hondreth thouſande aſſiſted him. Of a greate and innumerable armie …
With rule
… alludeth in the meane time to that ſaying of Daniel in the 7. chapt. Thouſande ThouſandesThousands ſerued hym, and ten hondreth thouſande aſſiſted him. Of a greate and innumerable armie …
Henrich Bullinger · A Hundred Sermons on Revelation · p. 176 · Open in the reader