Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2316 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

puffepuff

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

Puritas changed it: 715 times in 418 works
Consistency: 99.0% (715 of 722)
Reach if approved: ~759 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: puff
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 722 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (715 changes in 418 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 715)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and their hope be as the giuing vp of the Ghoſt, or as a puffepuff that ſuddenly vaniſheth, Iob 11.19, 20. And why ſhould Salomon tell the Schollers of wiſedome, that …
With rule
… and their hope be as the giuing vp of the Ghoſt, or as a puffepuff that ſuddenly vaniſheth, Iob 11.19, 20. And why ſhould Salomon tell the Schollers of wiſedome, that …
Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or Authoritie. What is all this but wynd, which cannot fill vs, nor scarsly puffepuff vs vp? I shall be saluted as I goe abroade, I shall sit highest …
With rule
… or Authoritie. What is all this but wynd, which cannot fill vs, nor scarsly puffepuff vs vp? I shall be saluted as I goe abroade, I shall sit highest …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 339 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one of these flowers, but they will goe beyond vs. Why then should we puffepuff vp our selues in regard of our apparel, whē as the least hearbe in …
With rule
… one of these flowers, but they will goe beyond vs. Why then should we puffepuff vp our selues in regard of our apparel, whē as the least hearbe in …
William Perkins · The Reformation of Covetousness · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… els, or him ſelfe to bee good againe. Why thē do we preſume? A puffepuff of pride bloweth out the candle that was lightened of another at the firſt …
With rule
… els, or him ſelfe to bee good againe. Why thē do we preſume? A puffepuff of pride bloweth out the candle that was lightened of another at the firſt …
John Prime · The Sacraments Generally and of Baptism and the Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… will neuer be equally poysed. Hee is a light vessell, and euery great mans puffepuff is ready to ouerturne him. Whiles CHRIST stands on the battlements of heauen, and …
With rule
… will neuer be equally poysed. Hee is a light vessell, and euery great mans puffepuff is ready to ouerturne him. Whiles CHRIST stands on the battlements of heauen, and …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shortest continuance: a puffepuff of Winde rayseth the Chaffe from the earth, and a puffepuff scatters it away: the Wicked are soone raised, and with like speede depressed: How …
With rule
… shortest continuance: a puffepuff of Winde rayseth the Chaffe from the earth, and a puffepuff scatters it away: the Wicked are soone raised, and with like speede depressed: How …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
Doct. Ambitious men are ready to puffepuff vp, and to flatter one another· They will giue titles to others, that ſuch …
With rule
Doct. Ambitious men are ready to puffepuff vp, and to flatter one another· They will giue titles to others, that ſuch …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the loſſe of them. There is a kind of venom in worldly things, to puffepuff up, and ſwell the heart of a man. By thy wiſdome, and by thine …
With rule
… the loſſe of them. There is a kind of venom in worldly things, to puffepuff up, and ſwell the heart of a man. By thy wiſdome, and by thine …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 335 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Seven Vials A17307

Printed
… disrepute this glittering Throne? Who doth not discerne it now to be a very PuffePuff, or Mushrome, growing from the fatt warme soyle of the earth (the place whence …
With rule
… disrepute this glittering Throne? Who doth not discerne it now to be a very PuffePuff, or Mushrome, growing from the fatt warme soyle of the earth (the place whence …
Henry Burton · The Seven Vials · p. 79 · Open in the reader