Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2302 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

friendesfriends

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

Puritas changed it: 1,297 times in 321 works
Consistency: 100% (1,297 of 1,297)
Reach if approved: ~1,363 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: friends
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,297 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,297 changes in 321 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,297)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… into Caeſarea. And Cornelius wayted for them, hauinge gathered togither his kinſemen and ſpeciall friendesfriends. Nehe. 8. 13. And all the people came to eate and to drinke, and to ſende …
With rule
… into Caeſarea. And Cornelius wayted for them, hauinge gathered togither his kinſemen and ſpeciall friendesfriends. Nehe. 8. 13. And all the people came to eate and to drinke, and to ſende …
Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader
Printed
… eſteeme and loue God and his kingdome, then his own life, body, wife, children, friendesfriends and kinred, and all thinges elſe which are in this worlde: ſo that whenſoeuer …
With rule
… eſteeme and loue God and his kingdome, then his own life, body, wife, children, friendesfriends and kinred, and all thinges elſe which are in this worlde: ſo that whenſoeuer …
John Frewen · Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrines · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crowne. But the wordes of Eusebius put all out of doubt. foreign &c. O ye friendesfriends and Priestes of God, which are clothed with the holy long garment, and the …
With rule
… crowne. But the wordes of Eusebius put all out of doubt. foreign &c. O ye friendesfriends and Priestes of God, which are clothed with the holy long garment, and the …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
21 I will beginne with the third ſort of goods. Ritches, honors, fame & friendesfriends be gifts of God, and ſuch a man receiueth much commodity by, not only …
With rule
21 I will beginne with the third ſort of goods. Ritches, honors, fame & friendesfriends be gifts of God, and ſuch a man receiueth much commodity by, not only …
George Gifford · Treatise of True Fortitude · Open in the reader
Printed
… made Fellowes, otherwyse not. If a man (being chyldlesse) do take vnto him some friendesfriends chylde, to make him heyre of all his goodes, he wyll keepe him vpon …
With rule
… made Fellowes, otherwyse not. If a man (being chyldlesse) do take vnto him some friendesfriends chylde, to make him heyre of all his goodes, he wyll keepe him vpon …
Richard Greenham · Two Learned and Godly Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… as sone as the money receyued for these pardons at the charge of their friendesfriends shoulde be put into the Popes cofers. But to returne to Pope Leo: he …
With rule
… as sone as the money receyued for these pardons at the charge of their friendesfriends shoulde be put into the Popes cofers. But to returne to Pope Leo: he …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the throne of immortalitie aboue. How oft is it ſeene amōg men that friendesfriends take a babe from a weake mother, a daughter, a nurſe, and bring it …
With rule
… in the throne of immortalitie aboue. How oft is it ſeene amōg men that friendesfriends take a babe from a weake mother, a daughter, a nurſe, and bring it …
William Hubbock · An Apology of Infants · Open in the reader
Printed
… deuoured and digeſted by hope, we ſee it maketh men neglect liues, goodes, landes, friendesfriends, children and countrey to hazarde all. The merchant that is in expectation of ſome …
With rule
… deuoured and digeſted by hope, we ſee it maketh men neglect liues, goodes, landes, friendesfriends, children and countrey to hazarde all. The merchant that is in expectation of ſome …
John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · 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.