Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2475 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

precisenessepreciseness

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

Puritas changed it: 337 times in 185 works
Consistency: 96.2% (337 of 350)
Reach if approved: ~368 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: preciseness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 350 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (337 changes in 185 works, 96.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 337)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Fasts, and Christian private assemblies in all places; declamations against purity, Puritans, piety and precisenessepreciseness, making and countenancing ungodly, unworthy scandalous Ministers; stirring men up to prophane the Lords …
With rule
… Fasts, and Christian private assemblies in all places; declamations against purity, Puritans, piety and precisenessepreciseness, making and countenancing ungodly, unworthy scandalous Ministers; stirring men up to prophane the Lords …
William Prynne · A Looking Glass for All Lordly Prelates · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the unworthy polluted, as they supposed. Yea so farre went they in this their precisenessepreciseness, as they say, that their first wise men taught not this name to their …
With rule
… the unworthy polluted, as they supposed. Yea so farre went they in this their precisenessepreciseness, as they say, that their first wise men taught not this name to their …
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… into shame, and all our religion into hypocrisie; and all our godly indeavours into precisenessepreciseness and faction. We had neede try our wayes by the Rule, that we may …
With rule
… into shame, and all our religion into hypocrisie; and all our godly indeavours into precisenessepreciseness and faction. We had neede try our wayes by the Rule, that we may …
Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Satan. He now begins upon all occasions to disclaime all things that tend to precisenessepreciseness, and in his deportment drawes nearer to good fellowship: he remits and interrupts his …
With rule
… Satan. He now begins upon all occasions to disclaime all things that tend to precisenessepreciseness, and in his deportment drawes nearer to good fellowship: he remits and interrupts his …
Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aske, why theſe letters, foreign. b. r. a. foreign. a. are twice put, ſeeing in this preciſeneſſepreciseness, no ſuch ſuperfluitie ſhould haue needed.
With rule
… aske, why theſe letters, foreign. b. r. a. foreign. a. are twice put, ſeeing in this preciſeneſſepreciseness, no ſuch ſuperfluitie ſhould haue needed.
Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Putiphars wife, he would not be with her alone, Gen. 39. 10. This is a strange precisenessepreciseness (will some say.) Well, let him that is sure he hath more strength then …
With rule
… Putiphars wife, he would not be with her alone, Gen. 39. 10. This is a strange precisenessepreciseness (will some say.) Well, let him that is sure he hath more strength then …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the capital ſinne; as taking liberty to profane the Sabboth; going to ſtageplaies, ſcoffing preciſeneſſepreciseness, pettie oathes, abuſe of the creatures, & uſury; theſe be Nationall ſins, and ſet ope …
With rule
… the capital ſinne; as taking liberty to profane the Sabboth; going to ſtageplaies, ſcoffing preciſeneſſepreciseness, pettie oathes, abuſe of the creatures, & uſury; theſe be Nationall ſins, and ſet ope …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 266 · Open in the reader
Printed
… persons to loue and embrace true religion. In these carelesse dayes Religion is counted precisenessepreciseness, and the profession thereof made a matter of reproch. But this ought not to …
With rule
… persons to loue and embrace true religion. In these carelesse dayes Religion is counted precisenessepreciseness, and the profession thereof made a matter of reproch. But this ought not to …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 27 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Healths Sickness A10184

Printed
… Grauitie, Staiednesse, Ciuilitie, and Modestie:) vnder the Approbrious, and Ignominious, tearines of Puritanisme, and PrecisenessePreciseness, or of Stoicall, and Factious singulatitie. He that Will not runne into the same …
With rule
… Grauitie, Staiednesse, Ciuilitie, and Modestie:) vnder the Approbrious, and Ignominious, tearines of Puritanisme, and PrecisenessePreciseness, or of Stoicall, and Factious singulatitie. He that Will not runne into the same …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by preiudicating, censuring, prosecuting, and reuiling them, vnder the names of Puritanisme, Singularitie, and PrecisenessePreciseness, in a censorious, peremptory, rash, and vnaduised manner, without any due examination of the …
With rule
… by preiudicating, censuring, prosecuting, and reuiling them, vnder the names of Puritanisme, Singularitie, and PrecisenessePreciseness, in a censorious, peremptory, rash, and vnaduised manner, without any due examination of the …
William Prynne · Healths Sickness · p. 66 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

Printed
… because a most lascivious Poet, (who was as farre from Puritanisme or over-strict PrecisenessePreciseness, as he was from Christianity) hath registred it to Posterity, as an experimentall truth …
With rule
… because a most lascivious Poet, (who was as farre from Puritanisme or over-strict PrecisenessePreciseness, as he was from Christianity) hath registred it to Posterity, as an experimentall truth …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 362 · Open in the reader

A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 A17385

Printed
6. PrecisenessePreciseness, circumspection, or exactnesse of conversation; when a man sheweth respect to all Gods Commandements …
With rule
6. PrecisenessePreciseness, circumspection, or exactnesse of conversation; when a man sheweth respect to all Gods Commandements …
Nicholas Byfield · A Commentary on 1 Peter 1-3 · p. 594 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
PreciſeneſſePreciseness not to bee obiected againſt Profeſſors. 93
With rule
PreciſeneſſePreciseness not to bee obiected againſt Profeſſors. 93
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · Open in the reader

The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide A68954

Printed
… theſe Times to the men of this World; After the way, which you call PreciſeneſſePreciseness, Singularitie, and Faction, doe wee truly ſerve the living God, and ſave our ſoules.
With rule
… theſe Times to the men of this World; After the way, which you call PreciſeneſſePreciseness, Singularitie, and Faction, doe wee truly ſerve the living God, and ſave our ſoules.
Robert Bolton · The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide · p. 238 · Open in the reader