Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1981 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

apteapt

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

Puritas changed it: 371 times in 146 works
Consistency: 99.2% (371 of 374)
Reach if approved: ~393 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: apt
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 374 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (371 changes in 146 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 371)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnderſtand worldlie things (yea, and though it be true, that ſome men are more apteapt to learne than otherſome, yet all men generallie, are indued with facultie and power …
With rule
… vnderſtand worldlie things (yea, and though it be true, that ſome men are more apteapt to learne than otherſome, yet all men generallie, are indued with facultie and power …
Theodore Beza · Two Sermons and The Lords Supper · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… must note, that y^e holy ghost when he requireth of a Minister, to be apteapt to teach, wee must not thinke, that he meaneth him that hath it within …
With rule
… must note, that y^e holy ghost when he requireth of a Minister, to be apteapt to teach, wee must not thinke, that he meaneth him that hath it within …
John Udall · True Remedy Against Famine and Wars · Open in the reader
Printed
… seeing the apostle threatneth the iudgement of God against fornicators and adulterers, the moste apteapt signification of the words foreign, is among al mē. Although that which you would haue …
With rule
… seeing the apostle threatneth the iudgement of God against fornicators and adulterers, the moste apteapt signification of the words foreign, is among al mē. Although that which you would haue …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 408 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The papacy ones confirmed for money, by the trapterouse murtherer Phocas, vowes were thoughte apteapt instrumentes to worke many myracles by, in the vprearynge & further mayntenaunce of that myghtye …
With rule
… The papacy ones confirmed for money, by the trapterouse murtherer Phocas, vowes were thoughte apteapt instrumentes to worke many myracles by, in the vprearynge & further mayntenaunce of that myghtye …
John Bale · Against a Rank Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne strength vnlesse it had ben corrected, and partly remoued, he had neuer bene apteapt nor me…e to haue fedde Christes flocke. And such synnes can neuer be …
With rule
… owne strength vnlesse it had ben corrected, and partly remoued, he had neuer bene apteapt nor me…e to haue fedde Christes flocke. And such synnes can neuer be …
John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
This is a goodly Psalme for the sundry, excellent, and most apteapt similitudes conteyned therein, whereby the holy Ghost painteth out those great maiesties & principalities of …
With rule
This is a goodly Psalme for the sundry, excellent, and most apteapt similitudes conteyned therein, whereby the holy Ghost painteth out those great maiesties & principalities of …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is no apteapt Iewell for the wicked worldelinges & bellied hypocrites, which lyke to E soppes cocke set …
With rule
It is no apteapt Iewell for the wicked worldelinges & bellied hypocrites, which lyke to E soppes cocke set …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God, but are led therevntoo by the imagination of reaſon, and ſeeke for apteapt opinions for their purpoſes, do breede wicked errors, lyke as Samoſatenus, Arius, and Pelagius …
With rule
… of God, but are led therevntoo by the imagination of reaſon, and ſeeke for apteapt opinions for their purpoſes, do breede wicked errors, lyke as Samoſatenus, Arius, and Pelagius …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

The Obedience of a Christian Man A14136

Printed
… with them / but of the scrappes and with the dogges / when diner ys done. ApteApt to teach and as Peter saith .j. Pe. ij. ready all wayes to geve …
With rule
… with them / but of the scrappes and with the dogges / when diner ys done. ApteApt to teach and as Peter saith .j. Pe. ij. ready all wayes to geve …
William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader