Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2160 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shadoweshadow

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

Puritas changed it: 883 times in 284 works
Consistency: 99.7% (883 of 885)
Reach if approved: ~930 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shadow
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 885 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (883 changes in 284 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 883)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… seemeth you are possessed with Narcissus folly, to fall in loue with your owne shadoweshadow, take heede of his end.
With rule
… seemeth you are possessed with Narcissus folly, to fall in loue with your owne shadoweshadow, take heede of his end.
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeene by S. Iohn in ſpirit) which had been long ecclipſed by the darke ſhadoweshadow of of humane traditions, beganne to withdrawe themſelues from the bondage of that Babylon …
With rule
… ſeene by S. Iohn in ſpirit) which had been long ecclipſed by the darke ſhadoweshadow of of humane traditions, beganne to withdrawe themſelues from the bondage of that Babylon …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… peace is encloſed in certayne limites: leaſt we ſhoulde be deceiued with ſome vaine ſhadoweshadow of peace. For true peace is ioyned w^t an vnſpeakable knot to faith and …
With rule
… peace is encloſed in certayne limites: leaſt we ſhoulde be deceiued with ſome vaine ſhadoweshadow of peace. For true peace is ioyned w^t an vnſpeakable knot to faith and …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader
Printed
… high, through the tender mercie of our God hath visited vs, lying in the shadoweshadow of death, as Zacharie saith. For albeit that all men haue the word, and …
With rule
… high, through the tender mercie of our God hath visited vs, lying in the shadoweshadow of death, as Zacharie saith. For albeit that all men haue the word, and …
Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maye well saye wyth the Psalmograph. If I walcke in the myddes of the shadoweshadow of deathe, I will not be afrayde of any euell, for thou arte wyth …
With rule
… maye well saye wyth the Psalmograph. If I walcke in the myddes of the shadoweshadow of deathe, I will not be afrayde of any euell, for thou arte wyth …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… manifest euidences of witn…sses: what wil these Romish counterfa…cts bring foorth to shadoweshadow their fren…y and to defend their drousy heresy of transubstantiation? For if they …
With rule
… manifest euidences of witn…sses: what wil these Romish counterfa…cts bring foorth to shadoweshadow their fren…y and to defend their drousy heresy of transubstantiation? For if they …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… talke of eche gif…, with repeting the old figure Manna, betokening by both, the shadoweshadow of Manna to be fulfilled. But Manna was more perfectly fulfilled in outward doings …
With rule
… talke of eche gif…, with repeting the old figure Manna, betokening by both, the shadoweshadow of Manna to be fulfilled. But Manna was more perfectly fulfilled in outward doings …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 530 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hilles, when you ſhal loke for lyghte, and lo, ther is nothynge but the ſhadoweshadow of death, and deepe darkeneſſe. Oh Popes and Princes, and glorious Prelates (high coūterfait …
With rule
… hilles, when you ſhal loke for lyghte, and lo, ther is nothynge but the ſhadoweshadow of death, and deepe darkeneſſe. Oh Popes and Princes, and glorious Prelates (high coūterfait …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxlii · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

Printed
Vers. 5. Who serue vnto the Example, and ShadoweShadow, of Heavenlie thinges: as Moses was admonished of GOD, when hee was about to …
With rule
Vers. 5. Who serue vnto the Example, and ShadoweShadow, of Heavenlie thinges: as Moses was admonished of GOD, when hee was about to …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 152 · Open in the reader