Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2387 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rainesrains

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

Puritas changed it: 505 times in 300 works
Consistency: 94.2% (505 of 536)
Reach if approved: ~563 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: reins
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 536 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (505 changes in 300 works, 94.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 505)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and maisters shew such examples of loose libertie in them selues, and throwe the rainesrains of licentiousnesse into the neckes of others. They remember not the honourable calling whiche …
With rule
… and maisters shew such examples of loose libertie in them selues, and throwe the rainesrains of licentiousnesse into the neckes of others. They remember not the honourable calling whiche …
Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… others in reſt and ſecurity. I ſpeake not yet of them, who looſe the rainesrains to all ſortes of pleaſures, and giue themſelues ouer to their vnmeaſured luſts: but …
With rule
… others in reſt and ſecurity. I ſpeake not yet of them, who looſe the rainesrains to all ſortes of pleaſures, and giue themſelues ouer to their vnmeaſured luſts: but …
Theodore Beza · Sermons on Three Chapters of Song of Songs · p. 311 · Open in the reader
Printed
… me; for what can God doe more than he hath done for thee? God rainesrains vpon thee his holy deawes, and is not wanting in his purging and pruning …
With rule
… me; for what can God doe more than he hath done for thee? God rainesrains vpon thee his holy deawes, and is not wanting in his purging and pruning …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
But these remorseles wretches, so spiritually sicke (not of the stone in the rainesrains, but) in the heart, at least regarde not to offend God, whiles God forbeares …
With rule
But these remorseles wretches, so spiritually sicke (not of the stone in the rainesrains, but) in the heart, at least regarde not to offend God, whiles God forbeares …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proudlye aduanceth himſelfe into Gods office, who alone ſearcheth the heart, and trieth the rainesrains of the children of men. What ſhall we ſay then of thoſe which condemne …
With rule
… proudlye aduanceth himſelfe into Gods office, who alone ſearcheth the heart, and trieth the rainesrains of the children of men. What ſhall we ſay then of thoſe which condemne …
George Gifford · Short Treatise Against the Donatists of England · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I shall not s…ide: prooue me, O Lord, and trie me, examine my rainesrains and my heart.
With rule
… I shall not s…ide: prooue me, O Lord, and trie me, examine my rainesrains and my heart.
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 402 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to them as Leſ-majestie againſt himſelfe: but if they ſhould let looſe their rainesrains to diſorder, they ſhould turne their glory into ſhame, and his bounty into puniſhment …
With rule
… to them as Leſ-majestie againſt himſelfe: but if they ſhould let looſe their rainesrains to diſorder, they ſhould turne their glory into ſhame, and his bounty into puniſhment …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rude age of yong perſons hath néede to be reſtrained and bridled with ſuch rainesrains, as it were with a Snaffle, and that euery man ought to chaſtiſe his …
With rule
… rude age of yong perſons hath néede to be reſtrained and bridled with ſuch rainesrains, as it were with a Snaffle, and that euery man ought to chaſtiſe his …
Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 85 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (31)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Display of Popish Practices A09918

Printed
… this or that mean. So therfore let vs cōclude, as wel proſperity as aduerſitie, RainesRains, Windes, Hayles, Froſt, faireneſſe, abundāce, famine, warre, & peace be the workes of God: & the …
With rule
… this or that mean. So therfore let vs cōclude, as wel proſperity as aduerſitie, RainesRains, Windes, Hayles, Froſt, faireneſſe, abundāce, famine, warre, & peace be the workes of God: & the …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 168 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… no hills neere the bankes of Niger, but wooddy places diuers, receptacles of Elephants. RainesRains do neither good nor harme: only Niger Ministers them plenty, as Nilus in Egypt …
With rule
… no hills neere the bankes of Niger, but wooddy places diuers, receptacles of Elephants. RainesRains do neither good nor harme: only Niger Ministers them plenty, as Nilus in Egypt …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 537 · Open in the reader
Printed
… other Lakes in the Mountaines, which seeme to arise rather from Springs then from RainesRains or Snowes, and some of them yeeld Riuers. At the end of the Vallie …
With rule
… other Lakes in the Mountaines, which seeme to arise rather from Springs then from RainesRains or Snowes, and some of them yeeld Riuers. At the end of the Vallie …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 722 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 35-37 A35537

Printed
God by extraordinary Snowes and RainesRains ſtops men from their work. But what, Is it that they ſhould be idle …
With rule
God by extraordinary Snowes and RainesRains ſtops men from their work. But what, Is it that they ſhould be idle …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 35-37 · p. 479 · Open in the reader
Printed
… labour, and ſhut up their hands from working, are his ſpecial work. Great Snowes & RainesRains declare to all men the great power of God, who doth not only aſtoniſh …
With rule
… labour, and ſhut up their hands from working, are his ſpecial work. Great Snowes & RainesRains declare to all men the great power of God, who doth not only aſtoniſh …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 35-37 · p. 479 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms A63066

Printed
… diſſected, quartered, and as it were, cleft through the back-bone: He ſearcheth the RainesRains, thoſe ſeats of Luſt and moſt abſtruſe parts of the body, ſo wrapt up …
With rule
… diſſected, quartered, and as it were, cleft through the back-bone: He ſearcheth the RainesRains, thoſe ſeats of Luſt and moſt abſtruſe parts of the body, ſo wrapt up …
John Trapp · Commentary on Ezra Nehemiah Ester Job and Psalms · p. 243 · Open in the reader

The Fast Friend A91943

Printed
Let us then be wary how we let looſe the RainesRains to our Affections, which like wilde and unruly horſes are ready to draw the …
With rule
Let us then be wary how we let looſe the RainesRains to our Affections, which like wilde and unruly horſes are ready to draw the …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 265 · Open in the reader

A Voyage to East India A95658

Printed
… that we call plaſter of Paris) keep them dry in the times of the RainesRains.
With rule
… that we call plaſter of Paris) keep them dry in the times of the RainesRains.
Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 188 · Open in the reader
Printed
… villages are made with earthen walls, mingled with ſtraw, ſet up immediatly after their RainesRains, and having a long ſeaſon after to dry them throughly, ſtand firm, and ſo …
With rule
… villages are made with earthen walls, mingled with ſtraw, ſet up immediatly after their RainesRains, and having a long ſeaſon after to dry them throughly, ſtand firm, and ſo …
Edward Terry · A Voyage to East India · p. 191 · Open in the reader