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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2044 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

widoweswidows

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

Puritas changed it
1,378 times in 554 works
Consistency
100% (1,378 of 1,378)
Reach if approved
~1,448 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: widows
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,378 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,378 changes in 554 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,378)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … heauen, and cry for vengeaūce before god, the iudge of wyddowes, the father of widoweswidows & orphanes. Pore people be opressed euen by lawes. Veijs qui condunt leges iniquas. Wo …
    With rule
    … heauen, and cry for vengeaūce before god, the iudge of wyddowes, the father of widoweswidows & orphanes. Pore people be opressed euen by lawes. Veijs qui condunt leges iniquas. Wo …

    Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … made for the widoweswidows and poore orphants kept warme in her death bed (The widoweswidows ſtood by her weeping, and ſhewing the coates and garments which Dorcas made whileſt …
    With rule
    … made for the widoweswidows and poore orphants kept warme in her death bed (The widoweswidows ſtood by her weeping, and ſhewing the coates and garments which Dorcas made whileſt …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 246 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … foode and sustenaunce for their soules. This hath raised vp the deade, when the widoweswidows stoode round about, making shewe of the garnements that Dorcas made for them. Therefore …
    With rule
    … foode and sustenaunce for their soules. This hath raised vp the deade, when the widoweswidows stoode round about, making shewe of the garnements that Dorcas made for them. Therefore …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 233 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … And here might occaſiō ſerue to charge out relm wt the ſore hādlīg of widoweswidows & fatherles childrē, bi our wicked lawes of wardes, & our ſore lawes of felonies, wherby …
    With rule
    … And here might occaſiō ſerue to charge out relm wt the ſore hādlīg of widoweswidows & fatherles childrē, bi our wicked lawes of wardes, & our ſore lawes of felonies, wherby …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    XXVIII. To iniure the impotent, the féeble, the poore, the ſtrangers, the fatherleſſe, and widoweswidows: Exod. 22. 21. 22.
    With rule
    XXVIII. To iniure the impotent, the féeble, the poore, the ſtrangers, the fatherleſſe, and widoweswidows: Exod. 22. 21. 22.

    Thomas Granger · The Tree of Good and Evil · p. 41 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … Letanies, and processions, & deuided thē into these seuen orders, Clarkes, Monkes, Nonnes, Boyes, Laymen, WidowesWidows, and maried wyues. He suffered the Image of the blessed virgin Mary to be …
    With rule
    … Letanies, and processions, & deuided thē into these seuen orders, Clarkes, Monkes, Nonnes, Boyes, Laymen, WidowesWidows, and maried wyues. He suffered the Image of the blessed virgin Mary to be …

    John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … force of the ſword, let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widoweswidows, and let their huſbands bee put to death: let their confederate yong men be …
    With rule
    … force of the ſword, let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widoweswidows, and let their huſbands bee put to death: let their confederate yong men be …

    Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 335 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … rauening Wolues: who vnder colour of long Prayers, and more then ordinary holineſſe, deuoure WidowesWidows houſes. Such are our Ieſuites, who deceiue not moe eyes through their diſſembled apparell …
    With rule
    … rauening Wolues: who vnder colour of long Prayers, and more then ordinary holineſſe, deuoure WidowesWidows houſes. Such are our Ieſuites, who deceiue not moe eyes through their diſſembled apparell …

    Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 96 · 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.