Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2094 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

breakesbreaks

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

Puritas changed it: 1,307 times in 589 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,307 of 1,312)
Reach if approved: ~1,379 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: breaks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,312 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,307 changes in 589 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,307)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… akes not: euery day, either ſome veine ſtops, ſome ſinew ſhrinkes, or ſome bone breakesbreaks: either is ſome skinne withered, ſome fleſh bruiſed, or ſome member decayed. Euery day …
With rule
… akes not: euery day, either ſome veine ſtops, ſome ſinew ſhrinkes, or ſome bone breakesbreaks: either is ſome skinne withered, ſome fleſh bruiſed, or ſome member decayed. Euery day …
John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it sets them in too much light: Labour doth not please them, because it breakesbreaks their rest: Ease doth not please them, because it gathers rust: Life doth not …
With rule
… it sets them in too much light: Labour doth not please them, because it breakesbreaks their rest: Ease doth not please them, because it gathers rust: Life doth not …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it breaks the skin and caſe, the body: pride breakesbreaks the wits, witneſſe Nebuchadnezzar; breakesbreaks the heart, and wounds it ſelfe, witneſſe Saul, Achitophol, and breakesbreaks ones ſleepe, ones …
With rule
… it breaks the skin and caſe, the body: pride breakesbreaks the wits, witneſſe Nebuchadnezzar; breakesbreaks the heart, and wounds it ſelfe, witneſſe Saul, Achitophol, and breakesbreaks ones ſleepe, ones …
Robert Harris · Hezekiahs Recovery · p. 33 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with Gods mercie: and in the fulneſſe of time, this ſeede of the woman breakesbreaks the Serpents head.
With rule
… with Gods mercie: and in the fulneſſe of time, this ſeede of the woman breakesbreaks the Serpents head.
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · Open in the reader
Printed
… priſon, firſt … action comes of twenty …ound, another of an hun…red, and ſo breakesbreaks him for …ver: ſo it is with a poore …oule, when the truth of …
With rule
… priſon, firſt … action comes of twenty …ound, another of an hun…red, and ſo breakesbreaks him for …ver: ſo it is with a poore …oule, when the truth of …
Thomas Hooker · Three Sermons · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… earthen veſſels of diſhonour to bee broken. An… doubtleſſe the Lord by his judgements breakesbreaks i… upon his people like th… ſea, and makes a brea… among them as …
With rule
… earthen veſſels of diſhonour to bee broken. An… doubtleſſe the Lord by his judgements breakesbreaks i… upon his people like th… ſea, and makes a brea… among them as …
Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · p. 27 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is but a point of Time, interiected betweene two extremes. A Parentheſis which interpoſed breakesbreaks no ſenſe, when the words meete againe. When Seneca was asked, Quid eſt Mors …
With rule
… is but a point of Time, interiected betweene two extremes. A Parentheſis which interpoſed breakesbreaks no ſenſe, when the words meete againe. When Seneca was asked, Quid eſt Mors …
Henry Montagu · Contemplating Mortality and Immortality · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but having no occasion of any such jest from any words of mine, hee breakesbreaks not a jest upon me, but sheweth himselfe absurd and ridicu…ous. For the …
With rule
… but having no occasion of any such jest from any words of mine, hee breakesbreaks not a jest upon me, but sheweth himselfe absurd and ridicu…ous. For the …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 224 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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.

A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 A45335

Printed
Covetousness how base. p. 22. BreakesBreaks all the Commandements. p. 23. Saints most free from it. p. 24. Cavils for it answered …
With rule
Covetousness how base. p. 22. BreakesBreaks all the Commandements. p. 23. Saints most free from it. p. 24. Cavils for it answered …
Thomas Hall · A Practical and Polemical Commentary Upon 2 Timothy 3-4 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
BreakesBreaks out on this worlds Sea, it bleares the eye
With rule
BreakesBreaks out on this worlds Sea, it bleares the eye
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 100 · Open in the reader