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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2603 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tendetend

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

Puritas changed it
403 times in 192 works
Consistency
98.2% (403 of 410)
Reach if approved
~434 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: tend
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
413 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
3 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (403 changes in 192 works, 98.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 403)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … very grauely and auoyde most religiously al voluntarie, & wilful translations of scripture, that might tendetend to maintaine any errour. And the rather they will be perswaded, that Beza hath …
    With rule
    … very grauely and auoyde most religiously al voluntarie, & wilful translations of scripture, that might tendetend to maintaine any errour. And the rather they will be perswaded, that Beza hath …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    And tell me what ye in tendetend,
    With rule
    And tell me what ye in tendetend,

    John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … be true before? Wee muſt alſo denie worldly luſtes, and not onely thoſe, which tendetend to hurt our neighbour, in bodie, goods, or good name: but euen thoſe that …
    With rule
    … be true before? Wee muſt alſo denie worldly luſtes, and not onely thoſe, which tendetend to hurt our neighbour, in bodie, goods, or good name: but euen thoſe that …

    John Knewstubs · Sermon Preached 1579 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … giltie of, and a partaker before God, if thou doest obeye these proceadinges, whiche tendetend to the settyng vp and restoring again (as all men may e…selye perceiue …
    With rule
    … giltie of, and a partaker before God, if thou doest obeye these proceadinges, whiche tendetend to the settyng vp and restoring again (as all men may e…selye perceiue …

    Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … two diuerse applications of this place if they may bee called Diuerse, which all tendetend to the same ende. For some doe apply each phrase to signifie some particular …
    With rule
    … two diuerse applications of this place if they may bee called Diuerse, which all tendetend to the same ende. For some doe apply each phrase to signifie some particular …

    Thomas Bedford · The Sin Unto Death · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is obiected, that their callings are corrupt. I answer thus. All actions Ecclesiasticall, that tendetend to binding or loosing, appertaine properly to the person of Christ, and men are …
    With rule
    … is obiected, that their callings are corrupt. I answer thus. All actions Ecclesiasticall, that tendetend to binding or loosing, appertaine properly to the person of Christ, and men are …

    William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … whereto the counſells of the moſte wiſe, frée, and iuſte GOD the Creatoure doe tendetend. Lette this bée for example, GOD the father tendering the ſaluation of hys Electe …
    With rule
    … whereto the counſells of the moſte wiſe, frée, and iuſte GOD the Creatoure doe tendetend. Lette this bée for example, GOD the father tendering the ſaluation of hys Electe …

    Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … lippes, that no vnſauourie ſpeach come out of my mouth, but that which may tendetend to edification. And diſpoſe ſo all the actions of this day, that no corruption …
    With rule
    … lippes, that no vnſauourie ſpeach come out of my mouth, but that which may tendetend to edification. And diſpoſe ſo all the actions of this day, that no corruption …

    Archibald Simson · The Seven Days · p. 112 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

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