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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2636 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

assaileassail

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

Puritas changed it
359 times in 205 works
Consistency
99.4% (359 of 361)
Reach if approved
~379 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: assail
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
361 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (359 changes in 205 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 359)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … be taken heede vnto. For euen in good things this will be readie to assaileassail vs: but other sinnes are commonly in the doing of other things. Secondly, although …
    With rule
    … be taken heede vnto. For euen in good things this will be readie to assaileassail vs: but other sinnes are commonly in the doing of other things. Secondly, although …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 712 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … be afraid of naked enemies that ſhould offer, with nothing in their hands, to aſſaileassail them: So here. True it is, as children not knowing what is what, are …
    With rule
    … be afraid of naked enemies that ſhould offer, with nothing in their hands, to aſſaileassail them: So here. True it is, as children not knowing what is what, are …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Colossians 1 and 2 · p. 319 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … onlye Satan and his angels, but also ye world and the fleshe mooste greuously assaileassail me, yea and lead me away captiue as theyr pray. The world wt his …
    With rule
    … onlye Satan and his angels, but also ye world and the fleshe mooste greuously assaileassail me, yea and lead me away captiue as theyr pray. The world wt his …

    Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … not Chriſt, but tempted him immediatly after baptiſme, & therfore he will not ceaſe to aſſaileassail vs, we had need therfore to be ſober & watchful, and to pray continually wt …
    With rule
    … not Chriſt, but tempted him immediatly after baptiſme, & therfore he will not ceaſe to aſſaileassail vs, we had need therfore to be ſober & watchful, and to pray continually wt …

    Eusebius Pagit · Sermon 9 June 1572 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … unevenly in his courses; foreign that is, while hee is quiet and no temptation doth assaileassail him, then he walkes with GOD in a strait rule, but let a temptation …
    With rule
    … unevenly in his courses; foreign that is, while hee is quiet and no temptation doth assaileassail him, then he walkes with GOD in a strait rule, but let a temptation …

    John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 60 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … ſo euil, as indeed they be) ſuſpect not the temptation to euill, ere it aſſaileassail them; and therefore are no ſooner tempted, but they are alſo foyled. Hazael, when …
    With rule
    … ſo euil, as indeed they be) ſuſpect not the temptation to euill, ere it aſſaileassail them; and therefore are no ſooner tempted, but they are alſo foyled. Hazael, when …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 439 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … I the Lord doe keepe it, I will water it euery moment leſt any aſſaileassail it, I will keepe it night and day.
    With rule
    … I the Lord doe keepe it, I will water it euery moment leſt any aſſaileassail it, I will keepe it night and day.

    Samuel Smith · Davids Repentance · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … art despoyled of thine empire. What? wast thou ignorant, yt he whom thou didst assaileassail, was the sonne of God? Why then didst thou confesse him so to be …
    With rule
    … art despoyled of thine empire. What? wast thou ignorant, yt he whom thou didst assaileassail, was the sonne of God? Why then didst thou confesse him so to be …

    John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.