Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2306 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

impugneimpugn

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

Puritas changed it: 542 times in 286 works
Consistency: 99.6% (542 of 544)
Reach if approved: ~572 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: impugn
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 544 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (542 changes in 286 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 542)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnder hym, may ouercome ther inuisible enemies the Amalechites, which are dyuels that do impugneimpugn and fyghte agaynst them, that wyll lyue godly in Christ.
With rule
… vnder hym, may ouercome ther inuisible enemies the Amalechites, which are dyuels that do impugneimpugn and fyghte agaynst them, that wyll lyue godly in Christ.
Thomas Becon · An Invective Against Swearing · p. lxxvii · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, but rather doth question it, doubt of it; yea, to his power, doth impugneimpugn and resist it.
With rule
… man, but rather doth question it, doubt of it; yea, to his power, doth impugneimpugn and resist it.
Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… substance of bread is abolisht before the substance of Christs body succeed. Vasques thus impugneimpugn… your assertion, if Christs body bee … produced de novo but onely united and applied …
With rule
… substance of bread is abolisht before the substance of Christs body succeed. Vasques thus impugneimpugn… your assertion, if Christs body bee … produced de novo but onely united and applied …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in shew, to honour and commend, but in my conceit, to dishonor, dispraise, and impugneimpugn, the maiestie of my moste dread Soueraigne Ladie the Queene: And I am inuited …
With rule
… in shew, to honour and commend, but in my conceit, to dishonor, dispraise, and impugneimpugn, the maiestie of my moste dread Soueraigne Ladie the Queene: And I am inuited …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
For first, doe not all those Authors and all these authorities impugneimpugn and condemne Tables and Dice as well as bare bones? How is it then …
With rule
For first, doe not all those Authors and all these authorities impugneimpugn and condemne Tables and Dice as well as bare bones? How is it then …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
How byss. impugneimpugn the pope. 11
With rule
How byss. impugneimpugn the pope. 11
John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader
Printed
… led by great reason to obserue them, and ye by no necessitie bound to impugneimpugn them. It is no part of my secret meaning to draw you hereby into …
With rule
… led by great reason to obserue them, and ye by no necessitie bound to impugneimpugn them. It is no part of my secret meaning to draw you hereby into …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… common welth by adulterie, thest or murther committed, but also suche vices as openly impugneimpugn the glorie of God: as idolatrie, blasphemie, and manifest heresie, taught and obstinatly mainteined …
With rule
… common welth by adulterie, thest or murther committed, but also suche vices as openly impugneimpugn the glorie of God: as idolatrie, blasphemie, and manifest heresie, taught and obstinatly mainteined …
John Knox · The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 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.

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

Printed
… of his own groundless supposition, that we doe from this and such like texts ImpugneImpugn, Superiority among Church men, as he terms it, whereas wee allow (as he cannot …
With rule
… of his own groundless supposition, that we doe from this and such like texts ImpugneImpugn, Superiority among Church men, as he terms it, whereas wee allow (as he cannot …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 83 · Open in the reader