Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2683 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

gallowesgallows

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

Puritas changed it: 684 times in 387 works
Consistency: 100% (684 of 684)
Reach if approved: ~719 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gallows
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 684 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (684 changes in 387 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 684)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… After that, the soule came to the body agayne, and was taken from the gallowesgallows, and the man lyued afterward very honestly. Hec ille.
With rule
… After that, the soule came to the body agayne, and was taken from the gallowesgallows, and the man lyued afterward very honestly. Hec ille.
Martin Luther · Admonition to the Germans · Open in the reader
Printed
… oute of fauoure on suche sorte that he was immediately hāged on y^e same gallowesgallows, which he had newly prepared for another? Maye sūptuous mansions and delicate fare cause …
With rule
… oute of fauoure on suche sorte that he was immediately hāged on y^e same gallowesgallows, which he had newly prepared for another? Maye sūptuous mansions and delicate fare cause …
Thomas Becon · A Pleasant New Nosegay · Open in the reader
Printed
If Haman ſet vp a gallowesgallows to hang vp Mordecai, Haman may be the firſt that ſhall be hanged thereon …
With rule
If Haman ſet vp a gallowesgallows to hang vp Mordecai, Haman may be the firſt that ſhall be hanged thereon …
Sebastian Benefield · Seventeen Sermons on Amos 3 · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are by M. Calfhil discredited, but also the holy crosse is likened to a gallowesgallows, &c. which moued him to follow Salomons counsell, & to answer a foole according to …
With rule
… are by M. Calfhil discredited, but also the holy crosse is likened to a gallowesgallows, &c. which moued him to follow Salomons counsell, & to answer a foole according to …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 123 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the pit which they digged for others. As Haman was hanged on his owne GallowesGallows: Perillus tormented in his owne Engine. Nec enim lex iustior vll… est; Quàm necis …
With rule
… the pit which they digged for others. As Haman was hanged on his owne GallowesGallows: Perillus tormented in his owne Engine. Nec enim lex iustior vll… est; Quàm necis …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 245 · Open in the reader
Printed
3 A great sort of your shorne generacion …o ere drawne to the gallowesgallows in the seconde yeare of kynge henrye the forth / and now in owr tyme …
With rule
3 A great sort of your shorne generacion …o ere drawne to the gallowesgallows in the seconde yeare of kynge henrye the forth / and now in owr tyme …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a fault, that deſerueth death, with death, and may condemne a malefactor to the gallowesgallows, whom he may not condemn to hell. The Miniſter may cenſure faults by the …
With rule
… a fault, that deſerueth death, with death, and may condemne a malefactor to the gallowesgallows, whom he may not condemn to hell. The Miniſter may cenſure faults by the …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 342 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they built Churches, which the cruell Duke demolished, and in their place set up GallowesGallows, executing all that could be found.
With rule
… they built Churches, which the cruell Duke demolished, and in their place set up GallowesGallows, executing all that could be found.
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 221 · 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.