Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2454 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

harmesharms

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

Puritas changed it: 463 times in 256 works
Consistency: 97.2% (463 of 476)
Reach if approved: ~500 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: harms
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 476 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (463 changes in 256 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 463)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
And force men loue, and need their greatest harmesharms?
With rule
And force men loue, and need their greatest harmesharms?
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
… reſiſt him, put him to flight, and ouercome him, and be armed againſt al harmesharms: and that is the power of faith: Whome reſist (ſaith he) ſtedfaſt in the …
With rule
… reſiſt him, put him to flight, and ouercome him, and be armed againſt al harmesharms: and that is the power of faith: Whome reſist (ſaith he) ſtedfaſt in the …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… confidence of this thy promiſe & mercy, giue mee reſolution againſt all feares, and deſperate harmesharms of my ſoule: not to beleeue thy promiſe, who art truth it ſelfe, not …
With rule
… confidence of this thy promiſe & mercy, giue mee reſolution againſt all feares, and deſperate harmesharms of my ſoule: not to beleeue thy promiſe, who art truth it ſelfe, not …
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the world. Secondly, he is the head of his Church to ſaue it from harmesharms, and to wring out the dregs of his wrath vpon their heads that harme …
With rule
… the world. Secondly, he is the head of his Church to ſaue it from harmesharms, and to wring out the dregs of his wrath vpon their heads that harme …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… England, whiche haue not quietlye suffered a confortable reformacion of their greatest griefes and harmesharms, to procede from god to thē by his ordinaūce, but vnpacientlye grudginge haue offēded …
With rule
… England, whiche haue not quietlye suffered a confortable reformacion of their greatest griefes and harmesharms, to procede from god to thē by his ordinaūce, but vnpacientlye grudginge haue offēded …
Thomas Lever · A Fruitful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
Two other particular harmesharms beſides thoſe which already haue bene named, are herein ſpecified. To cōclude (ô my …
With rule
Two other particular harmesharms beſides thoſe which already haue bene named, are herein ſpecified. To cōclude (ô my …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 203 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for all young Students to keepe themselves from Play-houses by these two Youngsters harmesharms:) hereupon I resolved (out of a desire of the publike good) to oppugne these …
With rule
… for all young Students to keepe themselves from Play-houses by these two Youngsters harmesharms:) hereupon I resolved (out of a desire of the publike good) to oppugne these …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · Open in the reader
Printed
Through darts and foes we rush an our owne harmesharms
With rule
Through darts and foes we rush an our owne harmesharms
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 264 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 10 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The History of a Noble Squire A05554

Printed
Of nobill men, abill to wraik thair HarmesHarms:
With rule
Of nobill men, abill to wraik thair HarmesHarms:
David Lindsay · The History of a Noble Squire · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
Some HarmesHarms prevention may be got.
With rule
Some HarmesHarms prevention may be got.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 56 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 A85668

Printed
HarmesHarms, rejoycing at the harmesharms of others, 426. they make wary, Pag 560
With rule
HarmesHarms, rejoycing at the harmesharms of others, 426. they make wary, Pag 560
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 20-29 · Open in the reader