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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2491 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

veinevein

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

Puritas changed it
499 times in 297 works
Consistency
94.8% (499 of 526)
Reach if approved
~553 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: vein
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
526 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (499 changes in 297 works, 94.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 499)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … man is taken with a dangerous bleeding at the noſe, the Chirurgeon opens another veinevein, he lets him bloud there to divert, and turne the bloud another way: ſo …
    With rule
    … man is taken with a dangerous bleeding at the noſe, the Chirurgeon opens another veinevein, he lets him bloud there to divert, and turne the bloud another way: ſo …

    Henry Ramsden · A Gleaning in Gods Harvest · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … of Christ, and find out wonders in Gods Law. He pierceth into the inward veinevein of the word, and (as it were) lets it bloud, and causeth to spring …
    With rule
    … of Christ, and find out wonders in Gods Law. He pierceth into the inward veinevein of the word, and (as it were) lets it bloud, and causeth to spring …

    Francis Rous · The Heavenly Academy · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … I haue, and yet with no great profit to other. To omit therefore this veinevein, which to me ſeemeth but vaine; touching the former queſtion of the will of …
    With rule
    … I haue, and yet with no great profit to other. To omit therefore this veinevein, which to me ſeemeth but vaine; touching the former queſtion of the will of …

    Thomas Stoughton · The Christians Sacrifice Better than all the Legal Sacrifices of Jews · p. 184 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … yearn not, our heart faints not, our head akes not: euery day, either ſome veinevein ſtops, ſome ſinew ſhrinkes, or ſome bone breakes: either is ſome skinne withered, ſome …
    With rule
    … yearn not, our heart faints not, our head akes not: euery day, either ſome veinevein ſtops, ſome ſinew ſhrinkes, or ſome bone breakes: either is ſome skinne withered, ſome …

    John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … masked and disguised companion (who being vizoured cannot blush) he hath runne a strange veinevein of immodest and impudent rayling in the whole course of his processe, in which …
    With rule
    … masked and disguised companion (who being vizoured cannot blush) he hath runne a strange veinevein of immodest and impudent rayling in the whole course of his processe, in which …

    Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 153 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … looke vpon the money so gotten, but it should make them to open a veinevein and bleede: for may they no… say of such mony; Is not this Ac …
    With rule
    … looke vpon the money so gotten, but it should make them to open a veinevein and bleede: for may they no… say of such mony; Is not this Ac …

    Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … help and counſell for the obtaining of comfort, hee would fall into ſuch a veinevein of weeping, that his example drew teares from the party that came unto him …
    With rule
    … help and counſell for the obtaining of comfort, hee would fall into ſuch a veinevein of weeping, that his example drew teares from the party that came unto him …

    Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … p. 74. 5. for of sence, offence. p. 92. 3. for conforting, comforting. p. 80. pe…ult. for vaine, veinevein. p. 82. 1. for finn…. sinne. p. 105. 1. for print, present. p. …ad. 10. thorgh but once. p …
    With rule
    … p. 74. 5. for of sence, offence. p. 92. 3. for conforting, comforting. p. 80. pe…ult. for vaine, veinevein. p. 82. 1. for finn…. sinne. p. 105. 1. for print, present. p. …ad. 10. thorgh but once. p …

    William Perkins · Cases of Conscience Part 1 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (27)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Ecclesiastes A02031

  • Printed
    VeineVein, portall veinevein. 325. m
    With rule
    VeineVein, portall veinevein. 325. m

    Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · Open in the reader

Lectures Upon John 4 A03342

  • Printed
    … you what I find) I find such variety of choice matter running throughout euery VeineVein of each discourse herein handled, and carried along with such strength of sound and …
    With rule
    … you what I find) I find such variety of choice matter running throughout euery VeineVein of each discourse herein handled, and carried along with such strength of sound and …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … Plaines, and Champaines. Sometimes they finde it straggling, in peeces, not holding any continuing VeineVein: sometimes it is fixed, and spreadeth it selfe in depth and length like to …
    With rule
    … Plaines, and Champaines. Sometimes they finde it straggling, in peeces, not holding any continuing VeineVein: sometimes it is fixed, and spreadeth it selfe in depth and length like to …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 607 · Open in the reader

Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God A16338

  • Printed
    … Royall Seate of Blessednesse, is empty of these treasures, there grow no Minerals; the VeineVein of siluer and gold is not to be found there. The Sonne of God …
    With rule
    … Royall Seate of Blessednesse, is empty of these treasures, there grow no Minerals; the VeineVein of siluer and gold is not to be found there. The Sonne of God …

    Robert Bolton · Directions for a Comfortable Walking with God · p. 291 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

  • Printed
    … tyes the Child unto the wombe of the Mother, in which there is a VeineVein cald Vena Ʋmbilicalis, and 2. Arteries: the Navel veinevein conveyes nouriſhment unto the Child, not …
    With rule
    … tyes the Child unto the wombe of the Mother, in which there is a VeineVein cald Vena Ʋmbilicalis, and 2. Arteries: the Navel veinevein conveyes nouriſhment unto the Child, not …

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Child in the womb, the Navel faſtens it to the Mother, and by the VeineVein and Arteries in the Navell, it fetches in nouriſhment and ſpirits.
    With rule
    … Child in the womb, the Navel faſtens it to the Mother, and by the VeineVein and Arteries in the Navell, it fetches in nouriſhment and ſpirits.

    William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 87 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

  • Printed
    Being ſtill with you, the Muſcle, Sinew, and VeineVein,
    With rule
    Being ſtill with you, the Muſcle, Sinew, and VeineVein,

    John Donne · Poems · p. 215 · Open in the reader

Five Lessons for a Christian to Learn B20532

  • Printed
    … blind corner tolerated them. Nay, looke upon theſe that have lately fallen into this VeineVein, and were Preachers of Gods whole truth before; was not their firſt fruits better …
    With rule
    … blind corner tolerated them. Nay, looke upon theſe that have lately fallen into this VeineVein, and were Preachers of Gods whole truth before; was not their firſt fruits better …

    John Collinges · Five Lessons for a Christian to Learn · p. 61 · Open in the reader