Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2137 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blockeblock

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

Puritas changed it: 960 times in 459 works
Consistency: 100% (960 of 960)
Reach if approved: ~1,009 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: block
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 960 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (960 changes in 459 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 960)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… openly knowne to abhor the Romish Idolatrie, refusing to bowe the knee to their blockeblock-almightie (as some then called them) and to honor a peece of a Cake …
With rule
… openly knowne to abhor the Romish Idolatrie, refusing to bowe the knee to their blockeblock-almightie (as some then called them) and to honor a peece of a Cake …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… saying, Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumbling blockeblock, even for a recompence vnto them, let their eies bee darkned, that they doe …
With rule
… saying, Let their table be made a snare, and a net, and a stumbling blockeblock, even for a recompence vnto them, let their eies bee darkned, that they doe …
Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… honored? Are there yet fooliſh frogs, begging of the Romiſh Capitoline Iupiter either a blockeblock to cruſh them, or a Storcke to deuoure them? Though by Gods appointment the …
With rule
… honored? Are there yet fooliſh frogs, begging of the Romiſh Capitoline Iupiter either a blockeblock to cruſh them, or a Storcke to deuoure them? Though by Gods appointment the …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · Open in the reader
Printed
Wee have been the larger upon this, because it is a maine stumbling blockeblock to manie, having in readines particular treatises against the rest of the particulars, which …
With rule
Wee have been the larger upon this, because it is a maine stumbling blockeblock to manie, having in readines particular treatises against the rest of the particulars, which …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 105 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the fabulous Legend of the seuen Sleepers. Policy may vse him as a blockeblock, cannot as an engine. Hee is not dangerous in a commonwealth; for if you …
With rule
… to the fabulous Legend of the seuen Sleepers. Policy may vse him as a blockeblock, cannot as an engine. Hee is not dangerous in a commonwealth; for if you …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wholy vnto the grace of God. And this sense doth not make Paule a blockeblock, nor enforced by violence, but a willing, prompt, & painefull labourer. But if you meane …
With rule
… wholy vnto the grace of God. And this sense doth not make Paule a blockeblock, nor enforced by violence, but a willing, prompt, & painefull labourer. But if you meane …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 302 · Open in the reader
Printed
… extreme vanitie and miſery. Who is (I ſay) ſuch a dullard, yea ſuch a blockeblock, that he will denie this, or call it into queſtion? aſke a foole, and …
With rule
… extreme vanitie and miſery. Who is (I ſay) ſuch a dullard, yea ſuch a blockeblock, that he will denie this, or call it into queſtion? aſke a foole, and …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader
Printed
… is but this, he is but that: ſo you make this But, a ſtumbling blockeblock, or rather a brazen wall to ſeparate you from Gods Kingdome. The Lord turne …
With rule
… is but this, he is but that: ſo you make this But, a ſtumbling blockeblock, or rather a brazen wall to ſeparate you from Gods Kingdome. The Lord turne …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 48 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.