Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2110 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lightelight

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

Puritas changed it: 391 times in 127 works
Consistency: 98.9% (391 of 395)
Reach if approved: ~415 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: light
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 395 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (391 changes in 127 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 391)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… more graciouslye then we can think. Let vs thāk god then for y^e gracious lightelight of his worde sent vnto vs, and pray for our graciouse kyng & his councel …
With rule
… more graciouslye then we can think. Let vs thāk god then for y^e gracious lightelight of his worde sent vnto vs, and pray for our graciouse kyng & his councel …
Hugh Latimer · Sermon 9 October 1550 · Open in the reader
Printed
70 Christe laied lightelight burdeines, and swete yokes vpon his Disciples neckes.
With rule
70 Christe laied lightelight burdeines, and swete yokes vpon his Disciples neckes.
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… croſſe being conuerted had this new obediēce repentyng and lamentynge his ſinne. A great lightelight of Faythe did ſhine to vs in this abiect perſon, the Lorde declaringe by …
With rule
… croſſe being conuerted had this new obediēce repentyng and lamentynge his ſinne. A great lightelight of Faythe did ſhine to vs in this abiect perſon, the Lorde declaringe by …
Philipp Melanchthon · The Justification of Man by Faith Only · Open in the reader
Printed
… and though they do most euidently perceyue how they are called from darknesse to lightelight, from loue of iniquitie, to the hatred of the same, from obedience somtime giuen …
With rule
… and though they do most euidently perceyue how they are called from darknesse to lightelight, from loue of iniquitie, to the hatred of the same, from obedience somtime giuen …
Theodore Beza · The Treasure of Truth Touching Salvation and the Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… that of wrong he can make righte, of falsehood truth, of iniustice, iustice, of lightelight, darkenesse, of darknes light, and when his holinesse is pleased he can make the …
With rule
… that of wrong he can make righte, of falsehood truth, of iniustice, iustice, of lightelight, darkenesse, of darknes light, and when his holinesse is pleased he can make the …
Philip Stubbes · The Theater of the Popes Monarchy · Open in the reader
Printed
… Homely to the people of Antioche where he sayeth, that those men are bothe lightelight and malaperte and frowarde whiche vse to stande present by, at the ministryng of …
With rule
… Homely to the people of Antioche where he sayeth, that those men are bothe lightelight and malaperte and frowarde whiche vse to stande present by, at the ministryng of …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… weake and moſte tē der age thou haſte cauſed to ſhyne forth the cleare lightelight of thys Goſpell, which hathe bet downe the Idolles and Idolatrous aulters, through oute …
With rule
… weake and moſte tē der age thou haſte cauſed to ſhyne forth the cleare lightelight of thys Goſpell, which hathe bet downe the Idolles and Idolatrous aulters, through oute …
Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader
Printed
… world, he that followeth me ſhall not walke in darkneſſe, but ſhall haue the lightelight of life: This is the lyght, that is the lyfe of men, this is …
With rule
… world, he that followeth me ſhall not walke in darkneſſe, but ſhall haue the lightelight of life: This is the lyght, that is the lyfe of men, this is …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

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

Amendment of Life A14172

Printed
… to agrée togither, for Heauen and Earth to méete in their naturall motions, for LighteLight and Darkenesse to be matched as yokefellowes: so vnpossible is it, to lincke the …
With rule
… to agrée togither, for Heauen and Earth to méete in their naturall motions, for LighteLight and Darkenesse to be matched as yokefellowes: so vnpossible is it, to lincke the …
John Udall · Amendment of Life · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

Printed
… Lambe, a Shepehearde, a Vine, a doore, a waye, a Ladder, the Day, the LighteLight, the Sunne, the Water, the bread, a Spring, and a Rocke, which if at …
With rule
… Lambe, a Shepehearde, a Vine, a doore, a waye, a Ladder, the Day, the LighteLight, the Sunne, the Water, the bread, a Spring, and a Rocke, which if at …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 989 · Open in the reader