Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2641 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bleareblear

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

Puritas changed it: 321 times in 188 works
Consistency: 99.0% (321 of 324)
Reach if approved: ~340 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: blear
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 324 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (321 changes in 188 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 321)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vvere notably abused and vvronged by the massacer following:) that friendship serued first to bleareblear the eyes of the French protestants, and after to put them quite out. which …
With rule
… vvere notably abused and vvronged by the massacer following:) that friendship serued first to bleareblear the eyes of the French protestants, and after to put them quite out. which …
John Stubbes · England to be Swallowed by Another French Marriage · Open in the reader
Printed
… The cure was done by a lewde cosening knaue in Germanie. A woman had bleareblear eies that were watery. The knaue lodging there, promised for certainty that hee would …
With rule
… The cure was done by a lewde cosening knaue in Germanie. A woman had bleareblear eies that were watery. The knaue lodging there, promised for certainty that hee would …
George Gifford · Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cobham / neyther was yt compyled of them for that purpose / but onlye therwith to bleareblear the eyes of the vnlerned multytude. And whan they perfeyued that polycye wolde not …
With rule
… Cobham / neyther was yt compyled of them for that purpose / but onlye therwith to bleareblear the eyes of the vnlerned multytude. And whan they perfeyued that polycye wolde not …
John Bale · Brief Chronicle Concerning Examination and Death of John Oldcastle · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whereby though they dazle the ſight of the ſimple and ignorant, yet they cannot bleareblear the eyes of the vnderſtanding and wiſe, from diſcerning into their fraud.
With rule
… whereby though they dazle the ſight of the ſimple and ignorant, yet they cannot bleareblear the eyes of the vnderſtanding and wiſe, from diſcerning into their fraud.
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 145 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee haue corrected, & they deck themſelues with our fethers, to the ende they may bleareblear the eyes of the ignoraūt, yet notwithſtanding they allow vs euil recōpence for their …
With rule
… wee haue corrected, & they deck themſelues with our fethers, to the ende they may bleareblear the eyes of the ignoraūt, yet notwithſtanding they allow vs euil recōpence for their …
Philipp Melanchthon · In Defense of the True Church of God · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his fierie eye pierceth to their inward thoughts and affections: and though they may bleareblear the eyes of men, yet they cannot bleareblear this fierie eye of Christ. If …
With rule
… his fierie eye pierceth to their inward thoughts and affections: and though they may bleareblear the eyes of men, yet they cannot bleareblear this fierie eye of Christ. If …
William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 218 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a warped, aged and decrepit ſuitor; exceeding old, blinde and lame; hauing ſore eyes, bleareblear and raw with cares; ſwolne leggs diſeaſed with ſurfets, and but a few minutes …
With rule
… a warped, aged and decrepit ſuitor; exceeding old, blinde and lame; hauing ſore eyes, bleareblear and raw with cares; ſwolne leggs diſeaſed with ſurfets, and but a few minutes …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Wild Vine · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of their cures they will make ſuch a holy ſhow of deuotion, as may bleareblear the eyes of vnexperienced people. In regarde whereof greater care and diligence ought to …
With rule
… of their cures they will make ſuch a holy ſhow of deuotion, as may bleareblear the eyes of vnexperienced people. In regarde whereof greater care and diligence ought to …
John Smyth · A Pattern of True Prayer · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.