Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2530 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

brainesbrains

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

Puritas changed it: 1,234 times in 650 works
Consistency: 100% (1,234 of 1,234)
Reach if approved: ~1,297 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: brains
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,234 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,234 changes in 650 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,234)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… how doe wee carke and care, labour, and caſt about, and euen breake our brainesbrains with ſtudy, and plotting how to compaſſe, and purchaſe Farmes, Houſes, Lordſhips, Offices, and …
With rule
… how doe wee carke and care, labour, and caſt about, and euen breake our brainesbrains with ſtudy, and plotting how to compaſſe, and purchaſe Farmes, Houſes, Lordſhips, Offices, and …
Thomas Granger · The Bread of Life · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… lust, though hee surres himselfe warme with poore mens hearts, though hee forbids his brainesbrains (as on couenant) one sober houre in the yeaae to thinke of heauen, though …
With rule
… lust, though hee surres himselfe warme with poore mens hearts, though hee forbids his brainesbrains (as on couenant) one sober houre in the yeaae to thinke of heauen, though …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in will-worſhip: but theſe be meere vaine traditions, ſowne by Sathan in the brainesbrains and minds of men. Therefore auoyd them.
With rule
… in will-worſhip: but theſe be meere vaine traditions, ſowne by Sathan in the brainesbrains and minds of men. Therefore auoyd them.
Henry Holland · The Christian Exercise of Fasting · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Aethiopian, elſe blacke all ouer. Their tongues can talke of good things, & their brainesbrains ſwim with knowledge, but they either want feet to carry them on in Gods …
With rule
… the Aethiopian, elſe blacke all ouer. Their tongues can talke of good things, & their brainesbrains ſwim with knowledge, but they either want feet to carry them on in Gods …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · p. 446 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tacke together a cento of relations, like Sibylles leaues, as much distracted, as the brainesbrains of the Penner: and if you shall intreate in good earnest your Midas Reader …
With rule
… tacke together a cento of relations, like Sibylles leaues, as much distracted, as the brainesbrains of the Penner: and if you shall intreate in good earnest your Midas Reader …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne cost: yet he hath vow'd, not to be sober til his Doomesdaye. His brainesbrains, and his gowne are lin'd with foxe; hee is euer afoxing. It may be …
With rule
… owne cost: yet he hath vow'd, not to be sober til his Doomesdaye. His brainesbrains, and his gowne are lin'd with foxe; hee is euer afoxing. It may be …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… without beating every bargaine they make over a Wine-pot, and concluding it with brainesbrains equally distempered on either side. In these therefore and divers other respects, I supposed …
With rule
… without beating every bargaine they make over a Wine-pot, and concluding it with brainesbrains equally distempered on either side. In these therefore and divers other respects, I supposed …
Thomas Gataker · The Decrease of Lazarus · Open in the reader
Printed
… which you may read from Chapter 21. to this place; I have beaten out the brainesbrains of that beggerly Brat of Ebion, which affirmed that our Lord was begotten by …
With rule
… which you may read from Chapter 21. to this place; I have beaten out the brainesbrains of that beggerly Brat of Ebion, which affirmed that our Lord was begotten by …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 14 · 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.