Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2317 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pursuitepursuit

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

Puritas changed it: 395 times in 229 works
Consistency: 99.2% (395 of 398)
Reach if approved: ~418 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pursuit
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 398 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (395 changes in 229 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 395)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… drunke, armed with a ſword ſtroke this croſſe: and it poured out blood: and purſuitepursuit was made after the man: and hee was executed.
With rule
… drunke, armed with a ſword ſtroke this croſſe: and it poured out blood: and purſuitepursuit was made after the man: and hee was executed.
Hugh Broughton · A Revelation of the Holy Apocalypse · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Either by fraude, or force, by bargaining or ſycophancie, and falſe calumniations, by extreame purſuitepursuit of actions, or aduantages, or by any other meanes, is like a ſweeping raine …
With rule
… Either by fraude, or force, by bargaining or ſycophancie, and falſe calumniations, by extreame purſuitepursuit of actions, or aduantages, or by any other meanes, is like a ſweeping raine …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 473 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon your selues, chide and quicken your selues to a more ready and earnest pursuitepursuit of things spirituall, so desireable, so durable, &c.
With rule
… vpon your selues, chide and quicken your selues to a more ready and earnest pursuitepursuit of things spirituall, so desireable, so durable, &c.
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
… enemie, at his leaſure in good order, gaue order to his ſouldiers in the purſuitepursuit, that they ſhould beware of ambuſhment, and that they ſhould not follow too hard …
With rule
… enemie, at his leaſure in good order, gaue order to his ſouldiers in the purſuitepursuit, that they ſhould beware of ambuſhment, and that they ſhould not follow too hard …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 225 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or not to remēber her, to whō I owe my ſelfe; after a long purſuitepursuit in a painfull chace, I now returne you ſuch a pray, as you were …
With rule
… or not to remēber her, to whō I owe my ſelfe; after a long purſuitepursuit in a painfull chace, I now returne you ſuch a pray, as you were …
Gabriel Powel · The Mystery of Redemption · Open in the reader
Printed
… and except Gods grace be a law within thee, ſuſpect that in a ſtrong purſuitepursuit of luſt, thou who art as Iudge to aduiſe thy ſelfe, wilt hardly be …
With rule
… and except Gods grace be a law within thee, ſuſpect that in a ſtrong purſuitepursuit of luſt, thou who art as Iudge to aduiſe thy ſelfe, wilt hardly be …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 752 · Open in the reader
Printed
… accuſation of his conſcience, being now awaked, which before was aſleepe, and to the purſuitepursuit of Satan, he being now out of his hands: for as Pharaoh more hatefully …
With rule
… accuſation of his conſcience, being now awaked, which before was aſleepe, and to the purſuitepursuit of Satan, he being now out of his hands: for as Pharaoh more hatefully …
Richard Stock · The Doctrine and Use of Repentance · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
Like Iriſh hubbubs in purſuitepursuit of ill.
With rule
Like Iriſh hubbubs in purſuitepursuit of ill.
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 79 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.