Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2184 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

eagernesseeagerness

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

Puritas changed it: 375 times in 223 works
Consistency: 99.7% (375 of 376)
Reach if approved: ~395 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: eagerness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 376 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (375 changes in 223 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 375)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… gaine any thing if they ſucceed for them: and therefore they vſe not much eagerneſſeeagerness in the purſuite thereof, but deale coldlie and careleſly in the cauſes which they …
With rule
… gaine any thing if they ſucceed for them: and therefore they vſe not much eagerneſſeeagerness in the purſuite thereof, but deale coldlie and careleſly in the cauſes which they …
Robert Cleaver · Three Sermons Upon Mark 9:22-23 · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brewed drinks, haue not their heate hereby allayed, but inflamed: So this vvorldlings hote eagernesseeagerness of riches is not cooled, but fired by his abundance.
With rule
… brewed drinks, haue not their heate hereby allayed, but inflamed: So this vvorldlings hote eagernesseeagerness of riches is not cooled, but fired by his abundance.
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 348 · Open in the reader
Printed
… left in them nothing but the dregs, and remnants of himselfe, as namely, the eagernesseeagerness, and greedy desire of hauing, and the cursed sins of despite and malice: for …
With rule
… left in them nothing but the dregs, and remnants of himselfe, as namely, the eagernesseeagerness, and greedy desire of hauing, and the cursed sins of despite and malice: for …
William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not to turne away our faces from him, Matth. 5. 42. yea with ſuch vehemencie and eagerneſſeeagerness doth hee preſſe this moſt admirable and Heavenly dutie, that rather than a man …
With rule
… not to turne away our faces from him, Matth. 5. 42. yea with ſuch vehemencie and eagerneſſeeagerness doth hee preſſe this moſt admirable and Heavenly dutie, that rather than a man …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 129 · Open in the reader
Printed
… A good cause is neuer betrayed-more, than when it is prosecuted with much eagernesseeagerness, but little sufficiencie. This from the method.
With rule
… A good cause is neuer betrayed-more, than when it is prosecuted with much eagernesseeagerness, but little sufficiencie. This from the method.
Robert Sanderson · Ten Sermons · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… friend; and therefore it is hard to discerne, but its partly seene by the eagernesseeagerness of our lusts, when they are suddaine, strong and strange, so strange sometimes, that …
With rule
… friend; and therefore it is hard to discerne, but its partly seene by the eagernesseeagerness of our lusts, when they are suddaine, strong and strange, so strange sometimes, that …
Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · p. 249 · Open in the reader
Printed
… saith not imbrace, but be giuen: which signifies to pursue and follow it with eagernesseeagerness and earnestnesse, as if it were not enough to inuite strangers, and to receiue …
With rule
… saith not imbrace, but be giuen: which signifies to pursue and follow it with eagernesseeagerness and earnestnesse, as if it were not enough to inuite strangers, and to receiue …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 1056 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And well it might. Men commend boldneſſe in a Souldier, mettle in a horſe, eagerneſſeeagerness in doggs, ſpirit in any thing; and ſhall they themſelues be cōmended for Cowards …
With rule
… And well it might. Men commend boldneſſe in a Souldier, mettle in a horſe, eagerneſſeeagerness in doggs, ſpirit in any thing; and ſhall they themſelues be cōmended for Cowards …
Cornelius Burges · The Fire of the Sanctuary Newly Uncovered · p. 181 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.