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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2462 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

lampeslamps

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

Puritas changed it
679 times in 297 works
Consistency
99.8% (679 of 680)
Reach if approved
~717 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: lamps
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
682 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (679 changes in 297 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 679)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … God in us, which wee have received by impoſition of hands, and even like lampeslamps to ſpend our ſelves to give light to our flockes; yet methinkes the excellency …
    With rule
    … God in us, which wee have received by impoſition of hands, and even like lampeslamps to ſpend our ſelves to give light to our flockes; yet methinkes the excellency …

    Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … safety, as the Romans did in the recouery of Germanicus; when they ran with lampeslamps and sacrifices to the Capitoll, and there sung with shouts and acclamations; Salua Roma …
    With rule
    … safety, as the Romans did in the recouery of Germanicus; when they ran with lampeslamps and sacrifices to the Capitoll, and there sung with shouts and acclamations; Salua Roma …

    Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 66 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … flocke in good and godly example also, in life & doctrine, so shining as bright lampeslamps and starres in Christs right hand or familie, saying and doing according to the …
    With rule
    … flocke in good and godly example also, in life & doctrine, so shining as bright lampeslamps and starres in Christs right hand or familie, saying and doing according to the …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 211 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … workes. For it appeareth that they had oyle in their lampeslamps, and that their lampeslamps were lighted, although by long tarrying of the Bridegroome, they were afterwards quenched. Our …
    With rule
    … workes. For it appeareth that they had oyle in their lampeslamps, and that their lampeslamps were lighted, although by long tarrying of the Bridegroome, they were afterwards quenched. Our …

    John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 50 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … come. It wil be to late then to ſeek Oyle for their LampesLamps. Their LampesLamps ſhall then be burning, that ſhall bee admitted to enter in with the Bridegrome …
    With rule
    … come. It wil be to late then to ſeek Oyle for their LampesLamps. Their LampesLamps ſhall then be burning, that ſhall bee admitted to enter in with the Bridegrome …

    John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in deede like to those fiue foolish Virgins, vvhich had LampesLamps, but in theyr LampesLamps no Oyle, and not vnlike to the Figge tree vvithout fruite, vvhich Christ cursed …
    With rule
    … in deede like to those fiue foolish Virgins, vvhich had LampesLamps, but in theyr LampesLamps no Oyle, and not vnlike to the Figge tree vvithout fruite, vvhich Christ cursed …

    Thomas Becon · The Demands of Holy Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … wherefore prayers, ceremonies, yearely Dyrges and obits, which are bestowed vpon the dead; also lampeslamps, tapers, and such other things profit nothing.
    With rule
    … wherefore prayers, ceremonies, yearely Dyrges and obits, which are bestowed vpon the dead; also lampeslamps, tapers, and such other things profit nothing.

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 168 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … Temple of Salomon had a golden inſide, and there was the Incenſe and the LampesLamps, &c. Thy heart is the Temple of a Greater then Salomon, euen of the …
    With rule
    … Temple of Salomon had a golden inſide, and there was the Incenſe and the LampesLamps, &c. Thy heart is the Temple of a Greater then Salomon, euen of the …

    Elnathan Parr · Exposition of Romans 8-11 · p. 46 · 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.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

  • Printed
    LAmpesLamps to ascend] that is, to burne, as the Chaldee translateth: so in Exod. 25. 37. and …
    With rule
    LAmpesLamps to ascend] that is, to burne, as the Chaldee translateth: so in Exod. 25. 37. and …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 51 · Open in the reader