Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2324 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tailetail

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

Puritas changed it: 1,018 times in 379 works
Consistency: 91.8% (1,018 of 1,108)
Reach if approved: ~1,164 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tail
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,108 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,018 changes in 379 works, 91.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,018)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Biſhoppes hee calleth, Antichriſtian, proude Prelats, the tailetail of the beaſt. Their ſtile, Iohn by the permiſſion of God, and power of …
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Biſhoppes hee calleth, Antichriſtian, proude Prelats, the tailetail of the beaſt. Their ſtile, Iohn by the permiſſion of God, and power of …
Richard Bernard · Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace · p. 71 · Open in the reader
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… hel. S. Paul compares death to a scorpion, who carieth a sting in his tailetail, which is sinne. Now then whē impenitent & prophane persons die, then comes this scorpion …
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… hel. S. Paul compares death to a scorpion, who carieth a sting in his tailetail, which is sinne. Now then whē impenitent & prophane persons die, then comes this scorpion …
William Perkins · The Nature and Practice of Repentance · p. 46 · Open in the reader
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… Merlin. He dreames of a cruell Dragon, whose head must bee in England, and tailetail in Ireland; of a headlesse crosse, of a popish curse. And Our Lord lights …
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… Merlin. He dreames of a cruell Dragon, whose head must bee in England, and tailetail in Ireland; of a headlesse crosse, of a popish curse. And Our Lord lights …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could follow this councel, but he leaueth out al y^e rest, & taketh but the tailetail: We haue been so taught.
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… could follow this councel, but he leaueth out al y^e rest, & taketh but the tailetail: We haue been so taught.
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 179 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man to offer a lame or maimed beast, though it wanted but a tailetail, which was a small thing, yet for that defect the Lord refused it. There …
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… a man to offer a lame or maimed beast, though it wanted but a tailetail, which was a small thing, yet for that defect the Lord refused it. There …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 806 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to sacrifice to God, not onely the beginning of a good vvorke, but the tailetail or end? Leuit. 3.9.11. Wee haue a saying, that the end makes all, as (contrarily …
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… to sacrifice to God, not onely the beginning of a good vvorke, but the tailetail or end? Leuit. 3.9.11. Wee haue a saying, that the end makes all, as (contrarily …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
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… what cauſe wee haue to take heede of ſinne, which draweth after it a tailetail of ſo many miſeries; we feele no hurt by it, but who would carry …
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… what cauſe wee haue to take heede of ſinne, which draweth after it a tailetail of ſo many miſeries; we feele no hurt by it, but who would carry …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they were bringing the Bride to bedde: and wherefore they lift vp the Priests tailetail behind him, as though they would looke into his arse, to minister a glister …
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… they were bringing the Bride to bedde: and wherefore they lift vp the Priests tailetail behind him, as though they would looke into his arse, to minister a glister …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 212 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (90)

63 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 36 are listed here. 27 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Law A00741

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As if Tenant in TaileTail haue iſſue two daughters, and the eldeſt entreth into the whole, and thereof maketh …
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As if Tenant in TaileTail haue iſſue two daughters, and the eldeſt entreth into the whole, and thereof maketh …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 118 · Open in the reader
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Diſcontinuance, when he that hath an eſtate TaileTail, or Fee-ſimple in anothers right, As the husband in right of his wife …
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Diſcontinuance, when he that hath an eſtate TaileTail, or Fee-ſimple in anothers right, As the husband in right of his wife …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a rent or aduowſon in groſſe by Tenant in TaileTail. But if Tenant in TaileTail of a rent or aduowſon in groſſe grant it in fee, with warrantie; this …
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… a rent or aduowſon in groſſe by Tenant in TaileTail. But if Tenant in TaileTail of a rent or aduowſon in groſſe grant it in fee, with warrantie; this …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 193 · Open in the reader
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… named: As the Statute of Weſtm̄ 2. which altereth fee-ſimple Conditionall, into an eſtate TaileTail, that Tenant in TaileTail ſhall haue no power to alien, doth binde him: for …
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… named: As the Statute of Weſtm̄ 2. which altereth fee-ſimple Conditionall, into an eſtate TaileTail, that Tenant in TaileTail ſhall haue no power to alien, doth binde him: for …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 234 · Open in the reader
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… King without any liuery of Seiſin. And therefore his letters pattents being Tenant in TaileTail make no diſcontinuance. And being matters of record, which being no lyuerie, they take …
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… King without any liuery of Seiſin. And therefore his letters pattents being Tenant in TaileTail make no diſcontinuance. And being matters of record, which being no lyuerie, they take …
Henry Finch · Law · p. 239 · Open in the reader

A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation A09237

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… as in Deut. 28. 13. 44. Eſai. 9. 15, but then the Head is of one ſort, and the TaileTail vnderſtood of another, and not both attributed to the ſame things, as is here …
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… as in Deut. 28. 13. 44. Eſai. 9. 15, but then the Head is of one ſort, and the TaileTail vnderſtood of another, and not both attributed to the ſame things, as is here …
Richard Bernard · A Key of Knowledge to Open Revelation · p. 179 · Open in the reader

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

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… Honourable throughout the World; and made vs the very Obloquie, Hissing, Scorne, Reproach, and TaileTail of all the Nations; whereas wee were the Head, and chiefe of People heretofore …
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… Honourable throughout the World; and made vs the very Obloquie, Hissing, Scorne, Reproach, and TaileTail of all the Nations; whereas wee were the Head, and chiefe of People heretofore …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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… of Barbary a Lyons skinne, which from the …noute to the top of the TaileTail contained one and twenty foote in length. Strange it is that a Lionesse by …
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… of Barbary a Lyons skinne, which from the …noute to the top of the TaileTail contained one and twenty foote in length. Strange it is that a Lionesse by …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 464 · Open in the reader
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But to returne to the King of beastes. His TaileTail seemeth to be his Scepter, whereby he expresseth his passion. He shrinkes not at …
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But to returne to the King of beastes. His TaileTail seemeth to be his Scepter, whereby he expresseth his passion. He shrinkes not at …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 465 · Open in the reader
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… so swift, all ouer-laide with partie coloured Laces, and guards, from head to TaileTail. They liue in great heards, as I was told by my friend Andrew Battle …
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… so swift, all ouer-laide with partie coloured Laces, and guards, from head to TaileTail. They liue in great heards, as I was told by my friend Andrew Battle …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 466 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giuen it a little horne or claw within two or three foote of the TaileTail) waiting for their prey, which hauing taken, it deuoureth hornes, hoofes, and all, although …
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… giuen it a little horne or claw within two or three foote of the TaileTail) waiting for their prey, which hauing taken, it deuoureth hornes, hoofes, and all, although …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 466 · Open in the reader
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… is of like fearefulnes and changeablenes. An other Serpent hath a rundle on his TaileTail like a Bell, which also ringeth as it goeth. But if any desire to …
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… is of like fearefulnes and changeablenes. An other Serpent hath a rundle on his TaileTail like a Bell, which also ringeth as it goeth. But if any desire to …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 466 · Open in the reader

A Christian Dictionary A15520

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TaileTail. sig:
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TaileTail. sig:
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 147 · Open in the reader
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… by Ambition, Vaine-glory, Couetousnesse, or by feare of persecution, whereby (as by a TaileTail) the Starres or Pastors of the Church, were stricken and pulled downe from their …
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… by Ambition, Vaine-glory, Couetousnesse, or by feare of persecution, whereby (as by a TaileTail) the Starres or Pastors of the Church, were stricken and pulled downe from their …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 147 · Open in the reader
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… downe from their brightnesse of Doctrine and life, into errors & prophanenesse. Reuel. 12. 4. And his TaileTail drew down the third part of the Stars of heauen, for the fulfilling heerof …
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… downe from their brightnesse of Doctrine and life, into errors & prophanenesse. Reuel. 12. 4. And his TaileTail drew down the third part of the Stars of heauen, for the fulfilling heerof …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 147 · Open in the reader

The Art of Rhetoric A15530

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… thinges shalbe made, that is to saye, in the Heade, the Bealye, in the TaileTail, in the former parte of the legges, and also in the hinder part. So …
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… thinges shalbe made, that is to saye, in the Heade, the Bealye, in the TaileTail, in the former parte of the legges, and also in the hinder part. So …
Thomas Wilson · The Art of Rhetoric · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

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TaileTail put for falſe Prophets 9. 15
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TaileTail put for falſe Prophets 9. 15
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader
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TaileTail put for the meaner ſort 19. 15
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TaileTail put for the meaner ſort 19. 15
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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TaileTail.
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TaileTail.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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The meaning of these wordes, I wil make you the head & not the TaileTail.
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The meaning of these wordes, I wil make you the head & not the TaileTail.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Westminster Annotations A36467

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… tailetail] Some curiously note, that he was bidden to take the serpent by the TaileTail, not by the head: because that part was reserved to be bruised by Moses …
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… tailetail] Some curiously note, that he was bidden to take the serpent by the TaileTail, not by the head: because that part was reserved to be bruised by Moses …
John Downame · Westminster Annotations · Open in the reader

The Orphans Legacy A42922

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… if a Rent be granted out of Land to one in Fee-Simple, Fee-TaileTail, for Life or Years, and it be not paid to him in his life …
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… if a Rent be granted out of Land to one in Fee-Simple, Fee-TaileTail, for Life or Years, and it be not paid to him in his life …
John Godolphin · The Orphans Legacy · p. 79 · Open in the reader
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Diſtreſs, or power of diſtraining Deviſed, how it makes an Eſtate TaileTail.—p. 250. §. 13.
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Diſtreſs, or power of diſtraining Deviſed, how it makes an Eſtate TaileTail.—p. 250. §. 13.
John Godolphin · The Orphans Legacy · Open in the reader
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… in Deviſes.—p, 299. §. 50. How it ſhall be taken for [And] to Create an Eſtate TaileTail by Deviſe.—p, 250. §. 10.
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… in Deviſes.—p, 299. §. 50. How it ſhall be taken for [And] to Create an Eſtate TaileTail by Deviſe.—p, 250. §. 10.
John Godolphin · The Orphans Legacy · Open in the reader

Canterburys Doom A56144

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… compiled: Ex Cauda Draconem you may take a ſcanding of this Dragon by his TaileTail, who endeavoured to poyſon his Majeſty as much as in him lay, with Romiſh …
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… compiled: Ex Cauda Draconem you may take a ſcanding of this Dragon by his TaileTail, who endeavoured to poyſon his Majeſty as much as in him lay, with Romiſh …
William Prynne · Canterburys Doom · p. 70 · Open in the reader

A Country Messenger A66761

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… nothing now left of that Beaſt (in compariſon of what he was) but the TaileTail. And (as Serpents uſually do when a mortall wound is received) the tailetail wriggles …
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… nothing now left of that Beaſt (in compariſon of what he was) but the TaileTail. And (as Serpents uſually do when a mortall wound is received) the tailetail wriggles …
George Wither · A Country Messenger · p. 15 · Open in the reader

Satan at Noon A84758

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… him, and a great red Dragon, with red Eyes, and Teeth, and a long TaileTail, pag. 73. of his books, for three weeks together.
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… him, and a great red Dragon, with red Eyes, and Teeth, and a long TaileTail, pag. 73. of his books, for three weeks together.
Christopher Fowler · Satan at Noon · p. 155 · Open in the reader

Jurisdictions A87798

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Fitzherbert, 8. b. Where a man giveth all his Land in TaileTail, there is a Signiorie Ingroſſe, and he ſhall have no Court; but if he …
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Fitzherbert, 8. b. Where a man giveth all his Land in TaileTail, there is a Signiorie Ingroſſe, and he ſhall have no Court; but if he …
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 7 · Open in the reader
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… Tenant, the Signiory is granted to A. in TaileTail, the Remainder to B. in TaileTail, the Tenant Alien in Mortmaine, the firſt Tenant in TaileTail cannot enter within the …
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… Tenant, the Signiory is granted to A. in TaileTail, the Remainder to B. in TaileTail, the Tenant Alien in Mortmaine, the firſt Tenant in TaileTail cannot enter within the …
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 77 · Open in the reader
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TaileTail of Copy-hold.
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TaileTail of Copy-hold.
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 173 · Open in the reader
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… their Heires, they have tailetail and Fee expectant, 45 Ed. 3. fol. 20. and 32 Ed. 1. there Fitzh. TaileTail 25. it is adjudged tailetail.
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… their Heires, they have tailetail and Fee expectant, 45 Ed. 3. fol. 20. and 32 Ed. 1. there Fitzh. TaileTail 25. it is adjudged tailetail.
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 301 · Open in the reader
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… given with his Daughter to one in Frank-marriage, and is good, 26 Ed. 3. tit. 27. TaileTail.
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… given with his Daughter to one in Frank-marriage, and is good, 26 Ed. 3. tit. 27. TaileTail.
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · p. 311 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King A96886

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… ſhort, for the TAYLE could not ſting His People. Of the ſting in the TaileTail and poyſon in the mouth, the Lord made a preſervative, a ſoveraigne medicine, and …
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… ſhort, for the TAYLE could not ſting His People. Of the ſting in the TaileTail and poyſon in the mouth, the Lord made a preſervative, a ſoveraigne medicine, and …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King · p. 48 · Open in the reader
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… principall now, the King and Prince, we will put all together, the Head, the TaileTail, the bulky-Body, with the King over them. What is the marvellous worke now …
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… principall now, the King and Prince, we will put all together, the Head, the TaileTail, the bulky-Body, with the King over them. What is the marvellous worke now …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Churchs Thank-Offering to God Her King · p. 50 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Apostles Creed B27417

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… effect, they become foreign, subtle Merchants, that know how to make use of the Foxes TaileTail when the Lions skinne can do no good; and againe to roare as Lions …
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… effect, they become foreign, subtle Merchants, that know how to make use of the Foxes TaileTail when the Lions skinne can do no good; and againe to roare as Lions …
William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 67 · Open in the reader
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… Chobber Chobberim, an old Adder, he will not be charmed, then he claps his TaileTail to one eare, and the other to the earth, and charme the Charmer never …
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… Chobber Chobberim, an old Adder, he will not be charmed, then he claps his TaileTail to one eare, and the other to the earth, and charme the Charmer never …
William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 68 · Open in the reader