Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2522 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

becombecome

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

Puritas changed it: 352 times in 216 works
Consistency: 100% (352 of 352)
Reach if approved: ~370 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: become
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 352 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (352 changes in 216 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 352)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… loude voyce, ſaying, It is fallen it is fallē, Babylon that great citie, & is becombecome the habitation of deuils and the hold of all foul ſpirits, and a cage …
With rule
… loude voyce, ſaying, It is fallen it is fallē, Babylon that great citie, & is becombecome the habitation of deuils and the hold of all foul ſpirits, and a cage …
John Napier · The Whole Revelation of John in Two Treatises · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
Blessings temporal how they becombecome ours. 287. e
With rule
Blessings temporal how they becombecome ours. 287. e
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Retrait from stage-playes, p. 104. which informes us: That the notablest liar is becombecome… the best Poet: …nd that he who can make the most notorious lye, and …
With rule
… of Retrait from stage-playes, p. 104. which informes us: That the notablest liar is becombecome… the best Poet: …nd that he who can make the most notorious lye, and …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 837 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Holy-Ghoſt; no man can haue the pardon of his ſins, but he muſt becombecome a new creature in Ieſus Chriſt. And this appereth plainely by the Apoſtle S …
With rule
… Holy-Ghoſt; no man can haue the pardon of his ſins, but he muſt becombecome a new creature in Ieſus Chriſt. And this appereth plainely by the Apoſtle S …
Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 326 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man. 3. Therefore whileſt the man liveth, ſhe ſhall be called an adultreſſe, if ſhe becombecome another mans but if her husband be dead, ſhe is free from the law …
With rule
… man. 3. Therefore whileſt the man liveth, ſhe ſhall be called an adultreſſe, if ſhe becombecome another mans but if her husband be dead, ſhe is free from the law …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… him a substance of Qualities? Or can we fixe qualities, and make them to becombecome substances at our pleasures? that seeing our capacities, cannot reach so high, as God …
With rule
… him a substance of Qualities? Or can we fixe qualities, and make them to becombecome substances at our pleasures? that seeing our capacities, cannot reach so high, as God …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 25 · Open in the reader
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… is contained in the 3. Section. He deſcribeth particularlie in the 4. Sections folowing. How we becombecome thus preſerued frō ſin, to walke in al loue, which is our baptiſing in …
With rule
… is contained in the 3. Section. He deſcribeth particularlie in the 4. Sections folowing. How we becombecome thus preſerued frō ſin, to walke in al loue, which is our baptiſing in …
John Knewstubs · Confutation of Monstrous and Horrible Heresies · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prelates (in geuyng theyr ayde and councel therunto) doo seke. They care not what becombecome of this whole noble nacion, nor what villany bee use… therin (as the Spaneyardes …
With rule
… prelates (in geuyng theyr ayde and councel therunto) doo seke. They care not what becombecome of this whole noble nacion, nor what villany bee use… therin (as the Spaneyardes …
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.