Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2567 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

loadeload

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

Puritas changed it: 314 times in 203 works
Consistency: 97.5% (314 of 322)
Reach if approved: ~338 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: load
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 322 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (314 changes in 203 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 314)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and at night they are taken from him, which did him no good but loadeload him. How happie were ſome, if they knewe not gold from leade? If thou …
With rule
… and at night they are taken from him, which did him no good but loadeload him. How happie were ſome, if they knewe not gold from leade? If thou …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nothing more ſenceleſſe then the leſſe way we haue to goe, the more to loadeload our ſelues with prouiſion, and as our way ſhortneth, ſo to encreaſe our burden …
With rule
… nothing more ſenceleſſe then the leſſe way we haue to goe, the more to loadeload our ſelues with prouiſion, and as our way ſhortneth, ſo to encreaſe our burden …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a reſting from their labours, a deliuery from their priſon, a laying downe their loadeload, a flitting to their home. Death hath loſt her ſting. Death is now no …
With rule
… a reſting from their labours, a deliuery from their priſon, a laying downe their loadeload, a flitting to their home. Death hath loſt her ſting. Death is now no …
John Gaule · A Defiance to Death · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. First, he bereaueth his owne children of outward prosperitie, yea he will loadeload them with crosses, and yet he wil make a good supply by giuing patience …
With rule
1. First, he bereaueth his owne children of outward prosperitie, yea he will loadeload them with crosses, and yet he wil make a good supply by giuing patience …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 399 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from comming under the meanes, and therefore ſhall never receive good thereby, looſe company loadeload all holy courſes with ſuch ſcandalous reproaches, that they ſcare poore ſinfull creatures from …
With rule
… from comming under the meanes, and therefore ſhall never receive good thereby, looſe company loadeload all holy courſes with ſuch ſcandalous reproaches, that they ſcare poore ſinfull creatures from …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
They would ouer-loadeload me with number, but as Eliſha ſaid, moe are with vs then againſt vs …
With rule
They would ouer-loadeload me with number, but as Eliſha ſaid, moe are with vs then againſt vs …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · Open in the reader
Printed
But I will lay such loadeload vpon his backe,
With rule
But I will lay such loadeload vpon his backe,
Theodore Beza · A Tragedy of Abrahams Sacrifice · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… on his loadeload on his back, as you ſee an horſe take on his loadeload on his back. So, it is a burdene and an heauie burdene: a labor …
With rule
… on his loadeload on his back, as you ſee an horſe take on his loadeload on his back. So, it is a burdene and an heauie burdene: a labor …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 275 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

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