Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2261 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stinkestink

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

Puritas changed it: 662 times in 359 works
Consistency: 99.4% (662 of 666)
Reach if approved: ~700 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stink
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 666 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (662 changes in 359 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 662)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… there shalbe feawe wyse men in Israel, and the wisdome of the Scribes shall stinkestink, and the Scholes of Diuinitie shalbe become Brothelhouses: which accordeth with this saying of …
With rule
… there shalbe feawe wyse men in Israel, and the wisdome of the Scribes shall stinkestink, and the Scholes of Diuinitie shalbe become Brothelhouses: which accordeth with this saying of …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 572 · Open in the reader
Printed
… God shall giue grace. Considering we lie by nature dead in our sinns, and stinkestink in them as loathsome carrion, first we must beginne to stirre our selues as …
With rule
… God shall giue grace. Considering we lie by nature dead in our sinns, and stinkestink in them as loathsome carrion, first we must beginne to stirre our selues as …
William Perkins · The True Manner of Knowing Christ Crucified · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee could offer vp to God in their behalfes, when as in trueth, they stinkestink in the very nostrells of God, and all good men. Since therefore God hath …
With rule
… wee could offer vp to God in their behalfes, when as in trueth, they stinkestink in the very nostrells of God, and all good men. Since therefore God hath …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 12 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. They goe out with a ſtinkestink; they leave behinde them amara & foeda veſtigia, as Saint Bernard ſpeaketh, a bitter fume …
With rule
3. They goe out with a ſtinkestink; they leave behinde them amara & foeda veſtigia, as Saint Bernard ſpeaketh, a bitter fume …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
His rotten memory, will ever stinkestink,
With rule
His rotten memory, will ever stinkestink,
Thomas Fuller · Davids Heinous Sin, Hearty Repentance, Heavy Punishment · Open in the reader
Printed
… my ſores runne ſo long, without ſeeking for helpe: For now, Verſe 5 My wounds ſtinkestink and are corrupt; in as ill a caſe as Lazarus body was, when it …
With rule
… my ſores runne ſo long, without ſeeking for helpe: For now, Verſe 5 My wounds ſtinkestink and are corrupt; in as ill a caſe as Lazarus body was, when it …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of going into the wilderneſſe to ſacrifice to the Lord their God, they did ſtinkestink, and were abominable in the eyes of Pharaoh and the Egyptians: indeed the Egyptians …
With rule
… of going into the wilderneſſe to ſacrifice to the Lord their God, they did ſtinkestink, and were abominable in the eyes of Pharaoh and the Egyptians: indeed the Egyptians …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 118 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoule which maketh it rot in filthie qualities, as odious before God, as the ſtinkestink and filthie ſauour of a dead corps is in the noſtrils of man. Yea …
With rule
… ſoule which maketh it rot in filthie qualities, as odious before God, as the ſtinkestink and filthie ſauour of a dead corps is in the noſtrils of man. Yea …
Paul Baynes · Two Treatises, The Lords Prayer, The Six Principles · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Britains Remembrancer A15627

Printed
It was no n…ysome Ayre, no …ewre, or StinkeStink,
With rule
It was no n…ysome Ayre, no …ewre, or StinkeStink,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader

The Balm of Gilead Prepared for the Sick A16535

Printed
… abhorre it. What is a man given to his belly, but a belly-god? StinkeStink must hee, whose God is his belly. Fye on the follie of that foole …
With rule
… abhorre it. What is a man given to his belly, but a belly-god? StinkeStink must hee, whose God is his belly. Fye on the follie of that foole …
Zacharie Boyd · The Balm of Gilead Prepared for the Sick · p. 77 · Open in the reader