Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2320 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shiftesshifts

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

Puritas changed it: 395 times in 143 works
Consistency: 99.2% (395 of 398)
Reach if approved: ~418 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shifts
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 143 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 395)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… become bargainers, brokers, vsurers and simonistes: and he that could deuise the most crafty shiftesshifts, was counted wysest & most esteemed. Some hauing then a graunt to take for himselfe …
With rule
… become bargainers, brokers, vsurers and simonistes: and he that could deuise the most crafty shiftesshifts, was counted wysest & most esteemed. Some hauing then a graunt to take for himselfe …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… let euerye man iudge. But much I wonder, that … that can espie so narrowe shiftesshifts … to hyde … selues from the presence of God, behinde a bushe with … their father …
With rule
… let euerye man iudge. But much I wonder, that … that can espie so narrowe shiftesshifts … to hyde … selues from the presence of God, behinde a bushe with … their father …
John Knox · An Admonition to the Faithful in London · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſignificatiue, one ſuch as is the ſigne of the Croſſe. Alas to what poore ſhiftesshifts are theſe men driuen! For we haue heard out of the ſchoole men already …
With rule
… ſignificatiue, one ſuch as is the ſigne of the Croſſe. Alas to what poore ſhiftesshifts are theſe men driuen! For we haue heard out of the ſchoole men already …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their maintenance and ſupportation of intolerable Ignorance and Idolatry. I know they haue ſhiftesshifts, and diſtinctions curiouſly wrought: but ſpiders webs cannot holde out winde or weather. The …
With rule
… of their maintenance and ſupportation of intolerable Ignorance and Idolatry. I know they haue ſhiftesshifts, and diſtinctions curiouſly wrought: but ſpiders webs cannot holde out winde or weather. The …
John Prime · Exposition of Galatians · p. 155 · Open in the reader
Printed
… this point, what is clearer then that in the goſpell, to teſtifie that no ſhiftesshifts nor excuſes wil'ſerue, to hold men in their ſinne? That when certaine were bidde …
With rule
… this point, what is clearer then that in the goſpell, to teſtifie that no ſhiftesshifts nor excuſes wil'ſerue, to hold men in their ſinne? That when certaine were bidde …
Richard Rogers · Samuels Encounter with Saul · p. 208 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our creator and us, but no whit doth slacke or loosen it. Such poore shiftesshifts, and doubts are they driven un to, as a silly hare close followed, and …
With rule
… our creator and us, but no whit doth slacke or loosen it. Such poore shiftesshifts, and doubts are they driven un to, as a silly hare close followed, and …
Thomas Taylor · The Rule of the Law Under the Gospel · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
It is straunge to see, vnto how narrow shiftesshifts, you are driuen, to make vp a number of argumentes. Haue you nothing but …
With rule
It is straunge to see, vnto how narrow shiftesshifts, you are driuen, to make vp a number of argumentes. Haue you nothing but …
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… They haue no ſkil in good ſciences, and yet becauſe they can with ſubtill ſhiftesshifts and very couſening tricks ouer reach other, they glory much, and take themſelues to …
With rule
… They haue no ſkil in good ſciences, and yet becauſe they can with ſubtill ſhiftesshifts and very couſening tricks ouer reach other, they glory much, and take themſelues to …
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 55 · Open in the reader

Read-only. Sign in as a reviewer to approve or dismiss candidates.

Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

2 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.

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

Printed
ShiftesShifts.
With rule
ShiftesShifts.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
Printed
It is no seeking for ShiftesShifts when God doth smite vs.
With rule
It is no seeking for ShiftesShifts when God doth smite vs.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader