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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2203 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oakeoak

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

Puritas changed it
498 times in 275 works
Consistency
99.8% (498 of 499)
Reach if approved
~524 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: oak
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
499 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (498 changes in 275 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 498)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Christ, but they indeed serve onely their owne turnes; as Ivie, which claspes an OakeOak very close, but only to sucke out sap for its owne leaves and berries …
    With rule
    … Christ, but they indeed serve onely their owne turnes; as Ivie, which claspes an OakeOak very close, but only to sucke out sap for its owne leaves and berries …

    Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 76 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … power included in an Acorne, is able to raise out of it a mightie OakeOak, because wee see it; and we may as easily belieue, that this Spirit which …
    With rule
    … power included in an Acorne, is able to raise out of it a mightie OakeOak, because wee see it; and we may as easily belieue, that this Spirit which …

    Francis Rous · Meditations · p. 246 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … more is, read wee not Ioſhua 24. that hee hauing pitched a ſtone vnder an OakeOak, told the people that that ſhould be a witneſſe againſt them, if they at …
    With rule
    … more is, read wee not Ioſhua 24. that hee hauing pitched a ſtone vnder an OakeOak, told the people that that ſhould be a witneſſe againſt them, if they at …

    Thomas Sparke · Brotherly Persuasion to Unity and Uniformity · p. 33 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … he never wanteth inſtruments or meanes: he hath a ſword for Saul, and an oakeoak for Abſalom, and a roape for Achitophel, and a gibbet for Haman, and a …
    With rule
    … he never wanteth inſtruments or meanes: he hath a ſword for Saul, and an oakeoak for Abſalom, and a roape for Achitophel, and a gibbet for Haman, and a …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 416 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … like beasts they might perish to nothing. Here they enuie the storke, stagge, rauen, oakeoak for long life, and chide nature for their owne shortnesse. But at this day …
    With rule
    … like beasts they might perish to nothing. Here they enuie the storke, stagge, rauen, oakeoak for long life, and chide nature for their owne shortnesse. But at this day …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 47 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … wither away: I have oſerved ſometimes, you ſhall have drie leaves ſtay upon an oakeoak tree, till new ones come againe: ſo theſe haughtie hearted hypocrites, they will take …
    With rule
    … wither away: I have oſerved ſometimes, you ſhall have drie leaves ſtay upon an oakeoak tree, till new ones come againe: ſo theſe haughtie hearted hypocrites, they will take …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in his hands after it was ſtriken off, two miles: How Saint Bernac turned oakeoak leaues into loaues, ſtones into fiſhes, and water into wine: how a Biſhop called …
    With rule
    … in his hands after it was ſtriken off, two miles: How Saint Bernac turned oakeoak leaues into loaues, ſtones into fiſhes, and water into wine: how a Biſhop called …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 308 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … of weedes which grewe higher then our heads. There is much good Timber both OakeOak, Wallnut-tree, Firre, Beech, and exceeding great Chessnut-trees. The Country in respect of …
    With rule
    … of weedes which grewe higher then our heads. There is much good Timber both OakeOak, Wallnut-tree, Firre, Beech, and exceeding great Chessnut-trees. The Country in respect of …

    William Bradford · Journal of the Beginning of the English Plantation at Plymouth · p. 44 · 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.