Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2637 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

baitebait

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

Puritas changed it: 450 times in 275 works
Consistency: 100% (450 of 450)
Reach if approved: ~473 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bait
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 450 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (450 changes in 275 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 450)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… man, without virtue, is like a baitebait floating without an hooke; it hath a baitebait to entice, but no hooke to hold. And, A faire woman, saith Salomon, without …
With rule
… man, without virtue, is like a baitebait floating without an hooke; it hath a baitebait to entice, but no hooke to hold. And, A faire woman, saith Salomon, without …
Thomas Gataker · Two Marriage Sermons · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… though he had an hundred hands. Heere Actus pollentior armis. Fishes must haue a BaiteBait, Birdes a Nette; and hee that takes Beastes, must be a cunning Hunter. Can …
With rule
… though he had an hundred hands. Heere Actus pollentior armis. Fishes must haue a BaiteBait, Birdes a Nette; and hee that takes Beastes, must be a cunning Hunter. Can …
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meanes vnworthie for the maiestie of a king, to deceiue: this king for a baitebait and allurement abused the mariage of his owne sister, and in a manner besprinkled …
With rule
… meanes vnworthie for the maiestie of a king, to deceiue: this king for a baitebait and allurement abused the mariage of his owne sister, and in a manner besprinkled …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. lXVII · Open in the reader
Printed
… vengeance wittie questions. But our Doctours and faithfull Catholikes wil neuer come to that baitebait, they will rather spend both hide and haire, than they will recant & giue ouer …
With rule
… vengeance wittie questions. But our Doctours and faithfull Catholikes wil neuer come to that baitebait, they will rather spend both hide and haire, than they will recant & giue ouer …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · Open in the reader
Printed
… Iudgement. Hath God giuen thee beauty & comelinesse? and doest thou vse it as a baitebait to ensnare others for the satisfying of thy lust? then looke vnto it thou …
With rule
… Iudgement. Hath God giuen thee beauty & comelinesse? and doest thou vse it as a baitebait to ensnare others for the satisfying of thy lust? then looke vnto it thou …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 389 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vanitie of the world, which Christians haue renounced in their Baptisme, and a meere baitebait to inamor, and inescate others: but likewise because it was a …adge and character …
With rule
… vanitie of the world, which Christians haue renounced in their Baptisme, and a meere baitebait to inamor, and inescate others: but likewise because it was a …adge and character …
William Prynne · The Unloveliness of Love-Locks · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and through the day, thou weane and withdraw thine heart from any ſuch noiſome baitebait or prouocation, as ſuffereth thee not to ariſe in the morning, to walke through …
With rule
… and through the day, thou weane and withdraw thine heart from any ſuch noiſome baitebait or prouocation, as ſuffereth thee not to ariſe in the morning, to walke through …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 404 · Open in the reader
Printed
… offendeth, whereby so euer hee is allured, the sin, and the sinner, and the baitebait, are compassed, and contriued by this Archpolitique, which calles himselfe a Compasser. Many haue …
With rule
… offendeth, whereby so euer hee is allured, the sin, and the sinner, and the baitebait, are compassed, and contriued by this Archpolitique, which calles himselfe a Compasser. Many haue …
Henry Smith · Satans Compassing the Earth · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.