Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2037 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tombetomb

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

Puritas changed it: 695 times in 310 works
Consistency: 99.5% (695 of 698)
Reach if approved: ~733 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tomb
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 698 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (695 changes in 310 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 695)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… be spoken against, that is hypocrites, so resembled: yet better be a paint…d TombeTomb then a filthy Sincke, foule without, and foule within. And may we not thinke …
With rule
… be spoken against, that is hypocrites, so resembled: yet better be a paint…d TombeTomb then a filthy Sincke, foule without, and foule within. And may we not thinke …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… maketh of oyle, and of the Mount of Olyues, to build therein the imaginary TombeTomb of this Antichriſt.
With rule
… maketh of oyle, and of the Mount of Olyues, to build therein the imaginary TombeTomb of this Antichriſt.
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is ſaid that Philoſtrates liued ſeuen yeeres in his tombetomb, that hee might be acquainted with it againſt his bones came to lye in …
With rule
It is ſaid that Philoſtrates liued ſeuen yeeres in his tombetomb, that hee might be acquainted with it againſt his bones came to lye in …
Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
… practise hereof we haue in the example of Ioseph of Arimathea, who made his tombetomb in his life time in the middest of his garden: no doubt for this …
With rule
… practise hereof we haue in the example of Ioseph of Arimathea, who made his tombetomb in his life time in the middest of his garden: no doubt for this …
William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
VVhile in a tombetomb she layes her loued Knight,
With rule
VVhile in a tombetomb she layes her loued Knight,
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader
Printed
… report, that can be drawne from him, is but this. Here lyes a faire TombeTomb, and a foule carcase in it.
With rule
… report, that can be drawne from him, is but this. Here lyes a faire TombeTomb, and a foule carcase in it.
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… branch cut off from the Vine, he can bring forth no fruit, a painted TombeTomb full of rotten bones, a fruitleſſe Fig-tree, with goodly bloſſomes. Very profitable therefore …
With rule
… branch cut off from the Vine, he can bring forth no fruit, a painted TombeTomb full of rotten bones, a fruitleſſe Fig-tree, with goodly bloſſomes. Very profitable therefore …
John Gee · Hold Fast · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a bace village. where dying he commanded this sculpture to be engrauen on his TombeTomb. Ingrata Patria, ne ossa quidem mea habes. Vnthankfull Countrey, thou hast not so much …
With rule
… a bace village. where dying he commanded this sculpture to be engrauen on his TombeTomb. Ingrata Patria, ne ossa quidem mea habes. Vnthankfull Countrey, thou hast not so much …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 38 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

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