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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2129 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

worldesworlds

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

Puritas changed it
626 times in 232 works
Consistency
97.9% (626 of 639)
Reach if approved
~671 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: world's
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
639 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (626 changes in 232 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 626)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Nothing hath he purposed to ye world, but he hath decréed it afore ye worldesworlds constitution. For his purpose, minde, and pleasure, is as he is, euerlasting. And as …
    With rule
    … Nothing hath he purposed to ye world, but he hath decréed it afore ye worldesworlds constitution. For his purpose, minde, and pleasure, is as he is, euerlasting. And as …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … indeed it is neceſſarie. That cōiecture of mine of the 4th part of the worldesworlds not going to Hell at once, I never eſteemed it worth the ſtanding on …
    With rule
    … indeed it is neceſſarie. That cōiecture of mine of the 4th part of the worldesworlds not going to Hell at once, I never eſteemed it worth the ſtanding on …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 189 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Lorde Ieſu Chriſt, Gods onely ſonne, which was gotten of the father before al worldesworlds God of God, light of lyght, very true God of the very true God …
    With rule
    … Lorde Ieſu Chriſt, Gods onely ſonne, which was gotten of the father before al worldesworlds God of God, light of lyght, very true God of the very true God …

    Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … neede, and that we helpe them. Whereof Iohn ſpeaketh thus 1. Iohn 3: VVhoſoeuer hath this worldesworlds good, and ſeeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compaſſion from him …
    With rule
    … neede, and that we helpe them. Whereof Iohn ſpeaketh thus 1. Iohn 3: VVhoſoeuer hath this worldesworlds good, and ſeeth his brother haue neede, and shutteth vp his compaſſion from him …

    Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 181 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … generall resurreccion, our bodies and soules beyng knytte together, liue wyth hym in glorye worldesworlds wythoute ende, as hys lawefull heyres, thorow Iesus Chryste our Lorde. And as touchynge …
    With rule
    … generall resurreccion, our bodies and soules beyng knytte together, liue wyth hym in glorye worldesworlds wythoute ende, as hys lawefull heyres, thorow Iesus Chryste our Lorde. And as touchynge …

    Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … our Immanuel to be alwayes with … people, to leade them into all trueth vnto … worldesworlds ende, is also verie God, one in s…stance and nature with God the …
    With rule
    … our Immanuel to be alwayes with … people, to leade them into all trueth vnto … worldesworlds ende, is also verie God, one in s…stance and nature with God the …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … comes, they are made odde and vnequall againe; for then, the least in the worldesworlds estimation, shall sit downe with the blessed Kinges and Patriarches in Heauen, when Kinges …
    With rule
    … comes, they are made odde and vnequall againe; for then, the least in the worldesworlds estimation, shall sit downe with the blessed Kinges and Patriarches in Heauen, when Kinges …

    Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … shal also so cōtinue / to whome they leave and incommend this Leitourgie, vnto the worldesworlds end. What a strā ge estate is this / that alwaies thus standeth / at a …
    With rule
    … shal also so cōtinue / to whome they leave and incommend this Leitourgie, vnto the worldesworlds end. What a strā ge estate is this / that alwaies thus standeth / at a …

    John Greenwood · Answer to Giffords Defense of Read Prayers · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises A07988

  • Printed
    … the particular admonitions to the ſeuen Churches: Now followeth the general Diſcourſe to the WorldesWorlds end.
    With rule
    … the particular admonitions to the ſeuen Churches: Now followeth the general Diſcourſe to the WorldesWorlds end.

    John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 98 · Open in the reader

Christian Observations and Resolutions A13075

  • Printed
    … so vexe the godly, it might possibly insnare them to byde in it. The WorldesWorlds fowning and flatterie is more dangerous, than her frowning; and her open hostilitie, is …
    With rule
    … so vexe the godly, it might possibly insnare them to byde in it. The WorldesWorlds fowning and flatterie is more dangerous, than her frowning; and her open hostilitie, is …

    William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 116 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

  • Printed
    Riches, wealth, euen all thinges pertaining to this life. 1 Iohn 3, 17. Whosoeuer hath this WorldesWorlds good.
    With rule
    Riches, wealth, euen all thinges pertaining to this life. 1 Iohn 3, 17. Whosoeuer hath this WorldesWorlds good.

    Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 550 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse A17001

  • Printed
    Of the WorldesWorlds end.
    With rule
    Of the WorldesWorlds end.

    Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 137 · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

  • Printed
    … hys Godhead, where he sayed that he was God blessed to the ende of WorldesWorlds? And to make appeare, howe well he agreeth in thys poynte wyth hymselfe, in …
    With rule
    … hys Godhead, where he sayed that he was God blessed to the ende of WorldesWorlds? And to make appeare, howe well he agreeth in thys poynte wyth hymselfe, in …

    John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

  • Printed
    1. That from the WorldesWorlds beginning, to the ende thereof, Salvation of Sinners is by way of CHRIST'S Redemption …
    With rule
    1. That from the WorldesWorlds beginning, to the ende thereof, Salvation of Sinners is by way of CHRIST'S Redemption …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Vers. 3. Through Fayth wee vnderstand that the WorldesWorlds were framed by the Word of GOD: So that thinges which are seene, were …
    With rule
    Vers. 3. Through Fayth wee vnderstand that the WorldesWorlds were framed by the Word of GOD: So that thinges which are seene, were …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 250 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Evidence of thinges not seene; Because wee can haue no other Evidence of the WorldesWorlds Creation, but by looking therevpon in the Word, as it were in doing before …
    With rule
    … Evidence of thinges not seene; Because wee can haue no other Evidence of the WorldesWorlds Creation, but by looking therevpon in the Word, as it were in doing before …

    David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 250 · Open in the reader