Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2188 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

glossegloss

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

Puritas changed it: 2,278 times in 716 works
Consistency: 100% (2,278 of 2,278)
Reach if approved: ~2,395 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gloss
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,279 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,278 changes in 716 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,278)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… nor forbidden, are lawfull. Is this ſound arguing? The third confirmation is from a GloſſeGloss. Here I remember an olde ſaying [A curſed gloſſegloss corrupt's the Text.] Now lett …
With rule
… nor forbidden, are lawfull. Is this ſound arguing? The third confirmation is from a GloſſeGloss. Here I remember an olde ſaying [A curſed gloſſegloss corrupt's the Text.] Now lett …
James Balmford · Reply to Answers of Mr Gataker · p. 67 · Open in the reader
Printed
… papa. 40. diſt. he holdeth that the pope may be accuſed: and out of that gloſſegloss there was a great foundation laid against Eugenius the fourth, in the councell of …
With rule
… papa. 40. diſt. he holdeth that the pope may be accuſed: and out of that gloſſegloss there was a great foundation laid against Eugenius the fourth, in the councell of …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 309 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinke, be an expoſition of thoſe former words; For to ſay nothing that the GloſſeGloss is harder then the Text; words which are adioyned by way of conſtruction, are …
With rule
… thinke, be an expoſition of thoſe former words; For to ſay nothing that the GloſſeGloss is harder then the Text; words which are adioyned by way of conſtruction, are …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 223 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Matthew, and other places where there is mention made of the Sacrament, the ordinarie GloſſeGloss doth note with capital letters in the Margent: Here is the Inſtitution of the …
With rule
… Matthew, and other places where there is mention made of the Sacrament, the ordinarie GloſſeGloss doth note with capital letters in the Margent: Here is the Inſtitution of the …
Humphrey Lynde · The Safe Way Leading All Christians · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to make a further discourse therof. VVhich althogh it be not don with that glossegloss & polishing of words that many times ill matters are colored & pounced vvith all, yet …
With rule
… to make a further discourse therof. VVhich althogh it be not don with that glossegloss & polishing of words that many times ill matters are colored & pounced vvith all, yet …
John Field · A Caveat for Parsons Howlet · Open in the reader
Printed
… your Proposition, (Philomathes) yet it implyeth a deceit, which you bewray, by your owne GlosseGloss: That is, (say you) that the true, and Orthodox Worship, and Worshippers, haue al …
With rule
… your Proposition, (Philomathes) yet it implyeth a deceit, which you bewray, by your owne GlosseGloss: That is, (say you) that the true, and Orthodox Worship, and Worshippers, haue al …
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… full▪ &c. He giues it by way of Comment; but it is a false glossegloss, I trust, and carryes no more trueth with it, then other the fictions of …
With rule
… full▪ &c. He giues it by way of Comment; but it is a false glossegloss, I trust, and carryes no more trueth with it, then other the fictions of …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Ieremy. So long as we haue to deale with men, we set a glossegloss vpon the matter, but when wee knowe that wee haue to deale with God …
With rule
… of Ieremy. So long as we haue to deale with men, we set a glossegloss vpon the matter, but when wee knowe that wee haue to deale with God …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 638 · 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.