Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2045 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wishewish

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

Puritas changed it: 727 times in 209 works
Consistency: 99.5% (727 of 730)
Reach if approved: ~767 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wish
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 730 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (727 changes in 209 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 727)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… lingred the time, and feare I may be spoiled before I get remedy. Some wishewish me to beate and claw the witch vntill I fetch bloud on her, and …
With rule
… lingred the time, and feare I may be spoiled before I get remedy. Some wishewish me to beate and claw the witch vntill I fetch bloud on her, and …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… to haue thy body als bewtiful, and of seemlie proportion as thy heart would wishewish? And that thou were equall in strength, speed, and agilitie with any other man …
With rule
… to haue thy body als bewtiful, and of seemlie proportion as thy heart would wishewish? And that thou were equall in strength, speed, and agilitie with any other man …
Alexander Hume · The Felicity of the Life to Come · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when neither body not spirite hath trouble) from our heart, and without dissimulation can wishewish these thinges? verily none. With our mouth wee may speake the wordes, but the …
With rule
… when neither body not spirite hath trouble) from our heart, and without dissimulation can wishewish these thinges? verily none. With our mouth wee may speake the wordes, but the …
John Knox · A Fort for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
Printed
… doe not the like vnto thē, but contrariwiſe bleſſe them, praie for them, and wiſhewish well vnto them. And this is a moſte excellent point and office of Loue …
With rule
… doe not the like vnto thē, but contrariwiſe bleſſe them, praie for them, and wiſhewish well vnto them. And this is a moſte excellent point and office of Loue …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… come sodenly. And who knoweth the aduersitie that maye come of them both? Againe wishewish the kyng no euyll in thy thought, and speake no hurt of the ryche …
With rule
… come sodenly. And who knoweth the aduersitie that maye come of them both? Againe wishewish the kyng no euyll in thy thought, and speake no hurt of the ryche …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… enemies, the slesh, the world, y^• diui… hell, syn, death and desperatiō. Yea… I wishewish y^• al the faithful in the tim… of ther sicknes might haue this tr …
With rule
… enemies, the slesh, the world, y^• diui… hell, syn, death and desperatiō. Yea… I wishewish y^• al the faithful in the tim… of ther sicknes might haue this tr …
Thomas Becon · The Solace of the Soul Against the Bitter Storms of Sickness and Death · Open in the reader
Printed
… we liued to this preſent day in the Churche of God, that (whiche I wiſhewish be ſpoken without all ſhewe of boaſtyng) no man hath yet bene founde, whiche …
With rule
… we liued to this preſent day in the Churche of God, that (whiche I wiſhewish be ſpoken without all ſhewe of boaſtyng) no man hath yet bene founde, whiche …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Bishoppes, with their Chauncellours, Archedeacons, Commissaries, Officialles, in whome if any defecte bee, we wishewish it may be reformed according to the worde of God.
With rule
… Bishoppes, with their Chauncellours, Archedeacons, Commissaries, Officialles, in whome if any defecte bee, we wishewish it may be reformed according to the worde of God.
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Principles of Christian Religion A07128

Printed
WisheWish the king no euill in thy thought, and speake no hurt of the rich …
With rule
WisheWish the king no euill in thy thought, and speake no hurt of the rich …
Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
I WisheWish you grace in God and loue of the truth, without the which truely stablished …
With rule
I WisheWish you grace in God and loue of the truth, without the which truely stablished …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1728 · Open in the reader