Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2537 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

commendecommend

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

Puritas changed it: 494 times in 202 works
Consistency: 98.2% (494 of 503)
Reach if approved: ~529 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: commend
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 503 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (494 changes in 202 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 494)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… see no inconuenience to saye, that Christ suffered in soule in hell. I singularly commendecommend the exceding great charitie of christ, that for our sakes would suffer in hel …
With rule
… see no inconuenience to saye, that Christ suffered in soule in hell. I singularly commendecommend the exceding great charitie of christ, that for our sakes would suffer in hel …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whole courſe of his life, vnto paſſion. After this ſorte, doeth ſainct Peter here commendecommend vnto vs, Chriſtes paſſion. He purpoſelie ſpeaketh not hereof the workes of Loue, wherin …
With rule
… whole courſe of his life, vnto paſſion. After this ſorte, doeth ſainct Peter here commendecommend vnto vs, Chriſtes paſſion. He purpoſelie ſpeaketh not hereof the workes of Loue, wherin …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet graūt that his heart may cry vnto the and saye: O Lorde, I commendecommend my soule into thy hādes. Lorde Iesu take my spirite vnto thee. Graunt also …
With rule
… yet graūt that his heart may cry vnto the and saye: O Lorde, I commendecommend my soule into thy hādes. Lorde Iesu take my spirite vnto thee. Graunt also …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. cii · Open in the reader
Printed
… anye couetous Courtier to the spoile. Wherein, no disprayse to any, I must needs commendecommend for their forecast in this pointe, a couple of as arrant bishops (for it …
With rule
… anye couetous Courtier to the spoile. Wherein, no disprayse to any, I must needs commendecommend for their forecast in this pointe, a couple of as arrant bishops (for it …
Martin Marprelate · Protestation · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and glorious cloke of this sciens of Astronomye, they should any longer proceade to commendecommend their false and hyppocriticall art, I would wishe that thys little booke were but …
With rule
… and glorious cloke of this sciens of Astronomye, they should any longer proceade to commendecommend their false and hyppocriticall art, I would wishe that thys little booke were but …
William Fulke · Anti-Prognostication · Open in the reader
Printed
… it is geuen. And this kinde of almes is it, which good Tobie did commendecommend vnto his sonne, being so much more meritorious to the person that procureth it …
With rule
… it is geuen. And this kinde of almes is it, which good Tobie did commendecommend vnto his sonne, being so much more meritorious to the person that procureth it …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 244 · Open in the reader
Printed
… glorious patterne of patience coulde not beare his griefe: he is heauy, & now may commendecommend to all the Image of a wounded spirite, that shall come after. Dauid, a …
With rule
… glorious patterne of patience coulde not beare his griefe: he is heauy, & now may commendecommend to all the Image of a wounded spirite, that shall come after. Dauid, a …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
… which he obtayned the seate: Yet some of the flatterers of Rome do highlye commendecommend him, as one that in all his Popedome did no one thinge to be …
With rule
… which he obtayned the seate: Yet some of the flatterers of Rome do highlye commendecommend him, as one that in all his Popedome did no one thinge to be …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 74 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty A05142

Printed
… he wente to hys execusion, he sawe hys frendes seruaunte, and sayd vnto hym. CommendeCommend me to thy master, and I praye the tel him, I am the same …
With rule
… he wente to hys execusion, he sawe hys frendes seruaunte, and sayd vnto hym. CommendeCommend me to thy master, and I praye the tel him, I am the same …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
… selues wyth me, that in spirite we may be present one with an other. CommendeCommend me to the whole congregation of Christe, willing them not to leaue their countrey …
With rule
… selues wyth me, that in spirite we may be present one with an other. CommendeCommend me to the whole congregation of Christe, willing them not to leaue their countrey …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1834 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pray God strengthen her, and all other his deare Sayntes vnto the end, Amen. CommendeCommend me vnto my deare and faythfull sister Elizabeth B. I thanke her most hartily …
With rule
… pray God strengthen her, and all other his deare Sayntes vnto the end, Amen. CommendeCommend me vnto my deare and faythfull sister Elizabeth B. I thanke her most hartily …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1928 · Open in the reader

Certain Points of Religion A72174

Printed
CommendeCommend him: yea I maye commendecommend him: I am perſwaded wee haue the beſte Prieſte …
With rule
CommendeCommend him: yea I maye commendecommend him: I am perſwaded wee haue the beſte Prieſte …
George Gifford · Certain Points of Religion · Open in the reader

Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters B12393

Printed
… vs vp in a bleſſed vnitie, that they whom he hath afflicted, may reioyce. CommendeCommend me to all. Thank… my coſen, for her letters, and for the parſonage ſhe …
With rule
… vs vp in a bleſſed vnitie, that they whom he hath afflicted, may reioyce. CommendeCommend me to all. Thank… my coſen, for her letters, and for the parſonage ſhe …
Edward Dering · Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters · Open in the reader
Printed
… beſeeche God the Father of our Lorde Ieſus Christe, to keepe you and yours. CommendeCommend me to your little ones: pardon me for writing in ſuch piece of paper …
With rule
… beſeeche God the Father of our Lorde Ieſus Christe, to keepe you and yours. CommendeCommend me to your little ones: pardon me for writing in ſuch piece of paper …
Edward Dering · Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters · Open in the reader
Printed
… clearlie ſee and feele the glorie of God & immortalitie. Fare well good Maistres K. CommendeCommend mee to Nan, Beſſe, Marie. The Lorde bleſſe you with them euer, Amen.
With rule
… clearlie ſee and feele the glorie of God & immortalitie. Fare well good Maistres K. CommendeCommend mee to Nan, Beſſe, Marie. The Lorde bleſſe you with them euer, Amen.
Edward Dering · Certain Godly and Very Comfortable Letters · Open in the reader