Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2119 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pretendepretend

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

Puritas changed it: 505 times in 193 works
Consistency: 99.8% (505 of 506)
Reach if approved: ~532 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pretend
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 506 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (505 changes in 193 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 505)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in the outwarde obedience with full consent of the hart. For that they blasphemously… pretendepretend / without gods auctoryte. As the Pope for Gods vycar or forgeuer of synnes / Mahomete …
With rule
… in the outwarde obedience with full consent of the hart. For that they blasphemously… pretendepretend / without gods auctoryte. As the Pope for Gods vycar or forgeuer of synnes / Mahomete …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this life. I pray conceave not my meaning, againſt my expreſſe wordes. Againe you pretendepretend to haue much againſt me where I ſay, The feeling of the ſorrowes of …
With rule
… this life. I pray conceave not my meaning, againſt my expreſſe wordes. Againe you pretendepretend to haue much againſt me where I ſay, The feeling of the ſorrowes of …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to cause England to be sore plaged, especially bicause of suche men, as did pretendepretend a loue vnto Christes gospell to gette abbay Landes, and churche goodes into their …
With rule
… to cause England to be sore plaged, especially bicause of suche men, as did pretendepretend a loue vnto Christes gospell to gette abbay Landes, and churche goodes into their …
Thomas Lever · The Right Way from Danger of Sin and Vengeance · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhal remain vncleane, if the word of God be not in it, although it pretendepretend a great ſhewe of a godly life, as Paule witneſſeth. But this purenes, wherof …
With rule
… ſhal remain vncleane, if the word of God be not in it, although it pretendepretend a great ſhewe of a godly life, as Paule witneſſeth. But this purenes, wherof …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 195 · Open in the reader
Printed
Moreouer they pretendepretend that the Autority of the church, is to be preferred before the word of …
With rule
Moreouer they pretendepretend that the Autority of the church, is to be preferred before the word of …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · Open in the reader
Printed
… euery and y^e very worſte in that part of their ſpeache are wonte to pretendepretend ſome ſhewe of honeſtie. For that whiche concerneth the matter it ſelfe wée will …
With rule
… euery and y^e very worſte in that part of their ſpeache are wonte to pretendepretend ſome ſhewe of honeſtie. For that whiche concerneth the matter it ſelfe wée will …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not only because the one is contrary to the other, but also because they pretendepretend to haue their doings figured and prophecyed in the Gospel, whereas there is but …
With rule
… not only because the one is contrary to the other, but also because they pretendepretend to haue their doings figured and prophecyed in the Gospel, whereas there is but …
William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in thy baptiſme and profeſsion: and laſt of all in that thou caneſt not pretendepretend ignorance in ſuch knowledge▪ and ſhyninge brightneſſe, nor yet eſcape Gods vengeance, which he …
With rule
… in thy baptiſme and profeſsion: and laſt of all in that thou caneſt not pretendepretend ignorance in ſuch knowledge▪ and ſhyninge brightneſſe, nor yet eſcape Gods vengeance, which he …
Christopher Goodman · How Superior Powers Ought to be Obeyed of their Subjects · p. 169 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.