Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #21677 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

foilefoil

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

Puritas changed it: 400 times in 223 works
Consistency: 99.0% (400 of 404)
Reach if approved: ~424 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: foil
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 404 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (400 changes in 223 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 400)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a beare like a kid? rescue a lambe with the death of a lyon? foilefoil a mighty gyant, that had dared the whole army of God? Did he like …
With rule
… a beare like a kid? rescue a lambe with the death of a lyon? foilefoil a mighty gyant, that had dared the whole army of God? Did he like …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… us, and regard us in them, that though they File us, they may not foilefoil us: though shake us for our fruite, yet not to our fall, but have …
With rule
… us, and regard us in them, that though they File us, they may not foilefoil us: though shake us for our fruite, yet not to our fall, but have …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Satans tentations, though they haue got thee on the hip, & giuen thee the foilefoil. Set ſpeedily vpon the repairing of grace, and making vp thoſe breaches which ſinne …
With rule
… or Satans tentations, though they haue got thee on the hip, & giuen thee the foilefoil. Set ſpeedily vpon the repairing of grace, and making vp thoſe breaches which ſinne …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 306 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in this very point: ſo as you might well have learned by your Archbiſhops foilefoil, to have laid your hand vpon your mouth.
With rule
… in this very point: ſo as you might well have learned by your Archbiſhops foilefoil, to have laid your hand vpon your mouth.
Francis Johnson · Answer to Mr Jacobs Defense of the Churches and Ministry of England · p. 125 · Open in the reader
Printed
… notable prerogatiue, To preuaile with the Lord; but yet he must preuaile with his foilefoil (Verse 31) and at the same time, and euer after drawe one of his legges …
With rule
… notable prerogatiue, To preuaile with the Lord; but yet he must preuaile with his foilefoil (Verse 31) and at the same time, and euer after drawe one of his legges …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 323 · Open in the reader
Printed
Another answer to the former objectio… may be this, thoug… God suffer Satan t… foilefoil his children, ye… in the end they over…come and becom… conquerors, as in …
With rule
Another answer to the former objectio… may be this, thoug… God suffer Satan t… foilefoil his children, ye… in the end they over…come and becom… conquerors, as in …
John Preston · The Saints Submission and Satans Overthrow · p. 259 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take pitty (saith David) but there was none. This unfaithfulnesse of man, is a foilefoil to set out Gods truth, who is never neerer then when trouble is neerest …
With rule
… take pitty (saith David) but there was none. This unfaithfulnesse of man, is a foilefoil to set out Gods truth, who is never neerer then when trouble is neerest …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 395 · Open in the reader
Printed
… effeminate but masculine; strong, stout, and potent to destroy sinne and death, and to foilefoil all the enemies of mans salvation. Christ indeed must be the seed of the …
With rule
… effeminate but masculine; strong, stout, and potent to destroy sinne and death, and to foilefoil all the enemies of mans salvation. Christ indeed must be the seed of the …
Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 217 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense A13248

Printed
… being made as beforeſaid, and ſet it on the end of your Staffe or FoileFoil likewiſe, and then take leather and draw hard vpon it, and binde it with …
With rule
… being made as beforeſaid, and ſet it on the end of your Staffe or FoileFoil likewiſe, and then take leather and draw hard vpon it, and binde it with …
Joseph Swetnam · The Noble and Worthy Science of Defense · p. 184 · Open in the reader