Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2017 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

heareshears

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

Puritas changed it: 2,018 times in 744 works
Consistency: 99.6% (2,018 of 2,025)
Reach if approved: ~2,128 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hears
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,025 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,018 changes in 744 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,018)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… breede quarrels; as if he were hired by some Surgeon. He neyther sees, nor heareshears of a discord, but hee must make one; but euer couertly, cowardly, out of …
With rule
… breede quarrels; as if he were hired by some Surgeon. He neyther sees, nor heareshears of a discord, but hee must make one; but euer couertly, cowardly, out of …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or at the leaſt ſhould know, that (if we pray in faith) God alwayes heareshears vs: if not to be preſerued from the tentation, yet to be vpheld and …
With rule
… or at the leaſt ſhould know, that (if we pray in faith) God alwayes heareshears vs: if not to be preſerued from the tentation, yet to be vpheld and …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 296 · Open in the reader
Printed
… must receive nothing in Religion upon the credit of any man, but whatsoever he heareshears any man teach, whatsoever he reades in any catechisme or other good book, he …
With rule
… must receive nothing in Religion upon the credit of any man, but whatsoever he heareshears any man teach, whatsoever he reades in any catechisme or other good book, he …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 790 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dread from his mind, and still he thinkes God is against him, and he heareshears some behind him saying, Thou must come to Judgement and be plagued: Now the …
With rule
… dread from his mind, and still he thinkes God is against him, and he heareshears some behind him saying, Thou must come to Judgement and be plagued: Now the …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 139 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sees the malicious Iesuite calling vp a Parliament of Deuils, to plot treasons. He heareshears their damnable consultations: and obserues them, whiles they apparrell bloud-red murther, and blacke …
With rule
… sees the malicious Iesuite calling vp a Parliament of Deuils, to plot treasons. He heareshears their damnable consultations: and obserues them, whiles they apparrell bloud-red murther, and blacke …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is confirmed by all those places of Scripture, which pronounce the man blessed who heareshears the word of God, and keepes it: for the blessednesse of man consists in …
With rule
… is confirmed by all those places of Scripture, which pronounce the man blessed who heareshears the word of God, and keepes it: for the blessednesse of man consists in …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… places with his presence, hee fills this with his gracious presence. Heere hee both heareshears vs, and is heard of vs: Audit orantes, docet audientes; hee heareshears our prayers …
With rule
… places with his presence, hee fills this with his gracious presence. Heere hee both heareshears vs, and is heard of vs: Audit orantes, docet audientes; hee heareshears our prayers …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the seekers voyce, goe further from him. These are Wolues, not sheepe. The sheepe heareshears his voice, and comes: the Wolfe heareshears it, and flies. The nearer saluation comes …
With rule
… the seekers voyce, goe further from him. These are Wolues, not sheepe. The sheepe heareshears his voice, and comes: the Wolfe heareshears it, and flies. The nearer saluation comes …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 302 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor A28624

Printed
… feaſt without an appetite: a Paradiſe without a Tree of Life. She makes inquiſition; HearesHears not of him; Runs to Ordinances, and would be glad to have the leaſt …
With rule
… feaſt without an appetite: a Paradiſe without a Tree of Life. She makes inquiſition; HearesHears not of him; Runs to Ordinances, and would be glad to have the leaſt …
Samuel Bolton · A Tossed Ship Making to Safe Harbor · p. 287 · Open in the reader

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

Printed
HearesHears and grants all mens ſuites without delay,
With rule
HearesHears and grants all mens ſuites without delay,
William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 113 · Open in the reader