Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2593 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sownesown

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

Puritas changed it: 1,123 times in 538 works
Consistency: 99.5% (1,123 of 1,128)
Reach if approved: ~1,185 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sown
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,128 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,123 changes in 538 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,123)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… hath not tyed his grace to the very time of receiuing: Light may be ſownesown for the righteous, and ioy for the vpright in heart, as it is, Pſal …
With rule
… hath not tyed his grace to the very time of receiuing: Light may be ſownesown for the righteous, and ioy for the vpright in heart, as it is, Pſal …
Robert Jenison · The Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
Printed
… Rabshaceh's, vniust Pilates, shall reape the seed in their eternall deaths, which they haue sownesown in their temporall liues. There shall be scorching heate, and freezing cold: Ex vehementissimo …
With rule
… Rabshaceh's, vniust Pilates, shall reape the seed in their eternall deaths, which they haue sownesown in their temporall liues. There shall be scorching heate, and freezing cold: Ex vehementissimo …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their scholars now a dayes? In all ages since this wielde seede was first sownesown, the true preachers, the workemen of Gods haruest, haue euer plucked it vp, as …
With rule
… their scholars now a dayes? In all ages since this wielde seede was first sownesown, the true preachers, the workemen of Gods haruest, haue euer plucked it vp, as …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 420 · Open in the reader
Printed
… mans diſſolution to be a bleſſing. Thus is his body by death as ſeede ſownesown in the ground which bringeth forth an harueſt. This Chriſt hath promiſed: this therefore …
With rule
… mans diſſolution to be a bleſſing. Thus is his body by death as ſeede ſownesown in the ground which bringeth forth an harueſt. This Chriſt hath promiſed: this therefore …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 266 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good Vine, but his Apostasie made all his children sowre grapes. Our nature was sownesown good, behold, wee are come vp euill. Through whose default ariseth this badnesse?
With rule
… good Vine, but his Apostasie made all his children sowre grapes. Our nature was sownesown good, behold, wee are come vp euill. Through whose default ariseth this badnesse?
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he waites? And why? becauſe he hath experience: ſo muſt wee, when we haue ſownesown our ſeed; ſay we bury our prayers, ſay to our ſeeming they die, ſay …
With rule
… he waites? And why? becauſe he hath experience: ſo muſt wee, when we haue ſownesown our ſeed; ſay we bury our prayers, ſay to our ſeeming they die, ſay …
Robert Harris · Peters Enlargement · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they have learned in their childhood. The seeds of knowledge and grace, which were sownesown in Moses heart, by his mother, while she nursed him. Exod. 2.9, 10. could never be …
With rule
… they have learned in their childhood. The seeds of knowledge and grace, which were sownesown in Moses heart, by his mother, while she nursed him. Exod. 2.9, 10. could never be …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath begotten us by the word, and the ſeed of the promiſe which is ſownesown in our hearts, by the vertue of the ſeed and the Spirit of grace …
With rule
… hath begotten us by the word, and the ſeed of the promiſe which is ſownesown in our hearts, by the vertue of the ſeed and the Spirit of grace …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Vocation · p. 81 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
SowneSown in their hearts, a large increaſe doth breede,
With rule
SowneSown in their hearts, a large increaſe doth breede,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 154 · Open in the reader