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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2161 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stiffestiff

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

Puritas changed it
1,109 times in 601 works
Consistency
98.8% (1,109 of 1,122)
Reach if approved
~1,179 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: stiff
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,122 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,109 changes in 601 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,109)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … up armes againſt the Spirit in this kinde. Act. 7.51. there ſaith the text, Yee ſtiffestiff-necked and uncircumciſed in heart and eares, ye doe alwayes reſiſt the holy Ghoſt …
    With rule
    … up armes againſt the Spirit in this kinde. Act. 7.51. there ſaith the text, Yee ſtiffestiff-necked and uncircumciſed in heart and eares, ye doe alwayes reſiſt the holy Ghoſt …

    Thomas Hooker · The Unbelievers Preparing for Christ · p. 92 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … rule here ſpoken of? Yet will he ſtand againſt it for his caſe, as ſtiffestiff as you for yours: yea and alledge for himſelf more colour and ſhow of …
    With rule
    … rule here ſpoken of? Yet will he ſtand againſt it for his caſe, as ſtiffestiff as you for yours: yea and alledge for himſelf more colour and ſhow of …

    Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 154 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … eare receiues your voice, and presently shut againe; as if both the organs were stiffestiff with excretions. Hee hath a blowne cheeke, a drawling tongue, a leaden foote, a …
    With rule
    … eare receiues your voice, and presently shut againe; as if both the organs were stiffestiff with excretions. Hee hath a blowne cheeke, a drawling tongue, a leaden foote, a …

    Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … her giltie, and she was condemned to prison, and to the pillorie, but stoode stiffestiff in it that she was no witch.
    With rule
    … her giltie, and she was condemned to prison, and to the pillorie, but stoode stiffestiff in it that she was no witch.

    George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … man, who is prone to make ſleight account of Gods word, who hath a ſtiffestiff necke, an hard heart, an obſtinate ſpirit. Wherefore to terrifie him the more, the …
    With rule
    … man, who is prone to make ſleight account of Gods word, who hath a ſtiffestiff necke, an hard heart, an obſtinate ſpirit. Wherefore to terrifie him the more, the …

    William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 333 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of him, (according to the particulars of the Treatise following) and (laying aside their stiffestiff-neckednes, of old vpbraided vnto them) truely apply, and they shall beforced to come …
    With rule
    … of him, (according to the particulars of the Treatise following) and (laying aside their stiffestiff-neckednes, of old vpbraided vnto them) truely apply, and they shall beforced to come …

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … respect to man principally, indeed it goes no higher lightly than man, being wonderous stiffestiff to motions that come from heauen: it stands more vpon complements and ciuilities toward …
    With rule
    … respect to man principally, indeed it goes no higher lightly than man, being wonderous stiffestiff to motions that come from heauen: it stands more vpon complements and ciuilities toward …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 71 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … in those truths which concerne the ceremonies and discipline of the Church, and be stiffestiff in the holding and maintaining of them, and yet be ignorant and void of …
    With rule
    … in those truths which concerne the ceremonies and discipline of the Church, and be stiffestiff in the holding and maintaining of them, and yet be ignorant and void of …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 794 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

11 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.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    StiffeStiff-necked, what it meaneth, Exod. 32. 9.
    With rule
    StiffeStiff-necked, what it meaneth, Exod. 32. 9.

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · Open in the reader

The First Fruits of Davids Government Vowed to God A39921

  • Printed
    … corrumpens, aeger & flagrans animus haud levioribus remediis reſtinguendus eſt quàm libidinibus ardeſcit, ſayes Tacitus. StiffeStiff-necked Colts will not be managed with a ſlack rein. Let David come to …
    With rule
    … corrumpens, aeger & flagrans animus haud levioribus remediis reſtinguendus eſt quàm libidinibus ardeſcit, ſayes Tacitus. StiffeStiff-necked Colts will not be managed with a ſlack rein. Let David come to …

    Simon Ford · The First Fruits of Davids Government Vowed to God · p. 10 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

  • Printed
    Strong, Deut. 21. 4. StiffeStiff, or boisterous, Isa. 27. 8. Rugged with hils, clods, stones, or other eminencies, Isa. 40. 4. Glistering, Jer …
    With rule
    Strong, Deut. 21. 4. StiffeStiff, or boisterous, Isa. 27. 8. Rugged with hils, clods, stones, or other eminencies, Isa. 40. 4. Glistering, Jer …

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 542 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    StiffeStiff]
    With rule
    StiffeStiff]

    Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 619 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    … conuicted and bare a fagot the 12. of Septemb. Likewise Margery Kirry, Thomas Norreis, Thomas StiffeStiff, William Kayme, Robert Katrenes, Thomas Smith, Iohn Borsley the younger. Ite… Iohn Waterhouse, against …
    With rule
    … conuicted and bare a fagot the 12. of Septemb. Likewise Margery Kirry, Thomas Norreis, Thomas StiffeStiff, William Kayme, Robert Katrenes, Thomas Smith, Iohn Borsley the younger. Ite… Iohn Waterhouse, against …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1955 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

  • Printed
    StiffeStiff and numme,
    With rule
    StiffeStiff and numme,

    John Donne · Poems · p. 159 · Open in the reader

The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 A77358

  • Printed
    … I have not this Spiritual life; for my heart is Dead, and Cold, and StiffeStiff: and dead men, they are Cold and StiffeStiff, very StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis …
    With rule
    … I have not this Spiritual life; for my heart is Dead, and Cold, and StiffeStiff: and dead men, they are Cold and StiffeStiff, very StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis …

    William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … heart is Dead, and Cold, and StiffeStiff: and dead men, they are Cold and StiffeStiff, very StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis with me; My heart is Cold, and Dead …
    With rule
    … heart is Dead, and Cold, and StiffeStiff: and dead men, they are Cold and StiffeStiff, very StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis with me; My heart is Cold, and Dead …

    William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Dead, and Cold, and StiffeStiff: and dead men, they are Cold and StiffeStiff, very StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis with me; My heart is Cold, and Dead, and StiffeStiff …
    With rule
    … Dead, and Cold, and StiffeStiff: and dead men, they are Cold and StiffeStiff, very StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis with me; My heart is Cold, and Dead, and StiffeStiff …

    William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis with me; My heart is Cold, and Dead, and StiffeStiff, and therfore I fear I am free among the Dead, and not free among …
    With rule
    … StiffeStiff: and truly ſo 'tis with me; My heart is Cold, and Dead, and StiffeStiff, and therfore I fear I am free among the Dead, and not free among …

    William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    It's true, A Dead man is StiffeStiff. But have you found your ſelves in a way of ſin, an evil way …
    With rule
    It's true, A Dead man is StiffeStiff. But have you found your ſelves in a way of ſin, an evil way …

    William Bridge · The Works of William Bridge Volume 3 · p. 15 · Open in the reader