Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2359 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

dependedepend

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

Puritas changed it: 361 times in 146 works
Consistency: 99.7% (361 of 362)
Reach if approved: ~380 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: depend
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 362 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (361 changes in 146 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 361)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
With all that dependedepend, vpon the papisticall…yne
With rule
With all that dependedepend, vpon the papisticall…yne
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… conſcience to aſſure them of Godes promiſes / but to obtayne what they aſke muſt dependedepend vpon his mercy / al opinion and through of our own iuſtice layd aſide. And …
With rule
… conſcience to aſſure them of Godes promiſes / but to obtayne what they aſke muſt dependedepend vpon his mercy / al opinion and through of our own iuſtice layd aſide. And …
John Knox · A Godly Letter to the Faithful in London · p. v · Open in the reader
Printed
All creatures dependedepend vpon thee (O Lord) that thou shouldest geue them meat in due time. For …
With rule
All creatures dependedepend vpon thee (O Lord) that thou shouldest geue them meat in due time. For …
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and direct others, to honour and serue him, vppon whom their preeminence doeth wholy dependedepend. But (alas) they do not their duetie in gouerning, they applie not themselues in …
With rule
… and direct others, to honour and serue him, vppon whom their preeminence doeth wholy dependedepend. But (alas) they do not their duetie in gouerning, they applie not themselues in …
Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
This serues to teach vs to dependedepend vppon God, and to rest vppon him in our lawfull labours, for the successe …
With rule
This serues to teach vs to dependedepend vppon God, and to rest vppon him in our lawfull labours, for the successe …
William Perkins · The Reformation of Covetousness · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… will. So in theſe miſerable dayes, we are to leane to God, and to dependedepend on His prouidence, and wee ſhall ſee the vaine enterpriſes of men vaniſh away …
With rule
… will. So in theſe miſerable dayes, we are to leane to God, and to dependedepend on His prouidence, and wee ſhall ſee the vaine enterpriſes of men vaniſh away …
Robert Rollock · The Passion Resurrection and Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aſſured theyr eſtate by ſuch benefits and pleaſures, and bound men the more to dependedepend vpon them, and to fauour their wicked ſuperſtition for the gayne ſake.
With rule
… aſſured theyr eſtate by ſuch benefits and pleaſures, and bound men the more to dependedepend vpon them, and to fauour their wicked ſuperſtition for the gayne ſake.
Walter Travers · Answer to a Supplicatory Epistle for the Pretended Catholics · p. 212 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he doeth alwayes openly detest the dreames of Limbus and Purgatorie, and whatsoeuer may dependedepend vpon them. But let vs see what you can gather out of his wordes.
With rule
… he doeth alwayes openly detest the dreames of Limbus and Purgatorie, and whatsoeuer may dependedepend vpon them. But let vs see what you can gather out of his wordes.
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 237 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

Printed
… tyll thou ſhalt be mollified with the heavenly ſpittell, and ſubdued into a linamente. DependeDepend therefore on the mouth of Chriſt, from whence floweth that which is profitable to …
With rule
… tyll thou ſhalt be mollified with the heavenly ſpittell, and ſubdued into a linamente. DependeDepend therefore on the mouth of Chriſt, from whence floweth that which is profitable to …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 126 · Open in the reader