Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #21824 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

goategoat

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

Puritas changed it: 320 times in 168 works
Consistency: 100% (320 of 320)
Reach if approved: ~336 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: goat
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 320 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (320 changes in 168 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 320)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… quiuer, nor troubled at the ſhrill ſound of the trumpet. The third is the goategoat, who being the ringleader of the flocke, not onely walketh before the ſame, with …
With rule
… quiuer, nor troubled at the ſhrill ſound of the trumpet. The third is the goategoat, who being the ringleader of the flocke, not onely walketh before the ſame, with …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 304 · Open in the reader
Printed
… worthy of, were destitute, afflicted, & tormēted, wandring vp and downe in sheepe skinnes and goategoat skinnes, Heb. 11. 37. Answer. Christs promise in this place, and all other made of temporall …
With rule
… worthy of, were destitute, afflicted, & tormēted, wandring vp and downe in sheepe skinnes and goategoat skinnes, Heb. 11. 37. Answer. Christs promise in this place, and all other made of temporall …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 398 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and perfume itselfe commended by you, hath a rammish smell, and stinketh like a goategoat: as a good Apothecarie, and of verie quicke sent, Quintilian, I meane, acknowledgeth and …
With rule
… and perfume itselfe commended by you, hath a rammish smell, and stinketh like a goategoat: as a good Apothecarie, and of verie quicke sent, Quintilian, I meane, acknowledgeth and …
John Rainolds · The Overthrow of Stage Plays · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
In a GoateGoat, a stinking creature, see the image of a reprobate, who shall bee set on …
With rule
In a GoateGoat, a stinking creature, see the image of a reprobate, who shall bee set on …
Thomas Taylor · A Man in Christ · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue teeth; and being as blinde as a mole, despise not those that are goategoat-eyed: Hieron. Magno. Such counsell had bene good for this Romish Rabbin, not to …
With rule
… haue teeth; and being as blinde as a mole, despise not those that are goategoat-eyed: Hieron. Magno. Such counsell had bene good for this Romish Rabbin, not to …
Andrew Willet · An Antilogy · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wife of thy youth. 1… Let her be as the louing hinde, and pleaſaunt wilde goategoat: let her brestes ſatisfie thee at all times, and wander in her loue continuallie …
With rule
… wife of thy youth. 1… Let her be as the louing hinde, and pleaſaunt wilde goategoat: let her brestes ſatisfie thee at all times, and wander in her loue continuallie …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… the blood can breake the Adamant; so nothing, but the blood of our scape-goategoat Christ Iesus, is able to breake our Adamantine hearts. Accept therefore, O God, my …
With rule
… the blood can breake the Adamant; so nothing, but the blood of our scape-goategoat Christ Iesus, is able to breake our Adamantine hearts. Accept therefore, O God, my …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 150 · p. 70 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he was brought vp among munkes, that is (not to ſay any more) among goategoat buckes, at length being a yoong man, hée was choſen into the order of …
With rule
… he was brought vp among munkes, that is (not to ſay any more) among goategoat buckes, at length being a yoong man, hée was choſen into the order of …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 41 · 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.