Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2605 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

transformetransform

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

Puritas changed it: 610 times in 389 works
Consistency: 99.0% (610 of 616)
Reach if approved: ~647 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: transform
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 616 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (610 changes in 389 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 610)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ascends higher) Or an Angel, meaning no evill one (as Satan when he doth transformetransform himselfe) but an Angell from heaven, pretending he were sent from God. If an …
With rule
… ascends higher) Or an Angel, meaning no evill one (as Satan when he doth transformetransform himselfe) but an Angell from heaven, pretending he were sent from God. If an …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſuch matters, they are no better then plaine witcheries, which doe diſguiſe men, and tranſformetransform them to bruit beaſts. But how merrie ſoeuer worldlings are found to be, ſo …
With rule
… ſuch matters, they are no better then plaine witcheries, which doe diſguiſe men, and tranſformetransform them to bruit beaſts. But how merrie ſoeuer worldlings are found to be, ſo …
William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Saints with religious worship which without exception is proper to God. Yea they transformetransform some of them into detestable idols, making them in trueth mediatours of redemption, specially …
With rule
… the Saints with religious worship which without exception is proper to God. Yea they transformetransform some of them into detestable idols, making them in trueth mediatours of redemption, specially …
William Perkins · A Golden Chain · p. 1015 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a prince of the darknesse of this world, who yet for his aduantage can transformetransform himselfe into an Angel of light, so as the day and night are to …
With rule
… a prince of the darknesse of this world, who yet for his aduantage can transformetransform himselfe into an Angel of light, so as the day and night are to …
William Perkins · The Combat Between Christ and the Devil Displayed · Open in the reader
Printed
… a man should take him to this womanish ornament, hee should but against Nature transformetransform himself (in so farre) into a woman.
With rule
… a man should take him to this womanish ornament, hee should but against Nature transformetransform himself (in so farre) into a woman.
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · Open in the reader
Printed
… condēpne hym. Saynt Paule geueth vs good warnynge, that Sathan to deceyue vs, can transformetransform hym selfe into the Angel of lyght. and telleth vs also, that we must …
With rule
… condēpne hym. Saynt Paule geueth vs good warnynge, that Sathan to deceyue vs, can transformetransform hym selfe into the Angel of lyght. and telleth vs also, that we must …
John Bale · An Expostulation Against the Blasphemies of a Frantic Papist · Open in the reader
Printed
… of light, so his ministers (even such as stand in any false ministery) can transformetransform themselues as though they were the ministers of righteousnes. Which they do no may …
With rule
… of light, so his ministers (even such as stand in any false ministery) can transformetransform themselues as though they were the ministers of righteousnes. Which they do no may …
Francis Johnson · The Ministry of the Church of England · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… abhominable vnto him: and for viſions and apparitions, he ſaith; that the diuell can transformetransform himſelfe into an Angell of light, and deceiue by this meanes: nay he ſaith …
With rule
… abhominable vnto him: and for viſions and apparitions, he ſaith; that the diuell can transformetransform himſelfe into an Angell of light, and deceiue by this meanes: nay he ſaith …
Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 304 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Unloveliness of Love-Locks A10199

Printed
… insist vpon those Lasciuious, Immodest, Whorish, or vngodly Fashions, and Attires, which Metamorphise, and TransformeTransform, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into sundry Antique …
With rule
… insist vpon those Lasciuious, Immodest, Whorish, or vngodly Fashions, and Attires, which Metamorphise, and TransformeTransform, our Light, and Giddie Females of the Superior and Gentile ranke, into sundry Antique …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 1 · Open in the reader