Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2713 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

represserepress

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

Puritas changed it: 826 times in 395 works
Consistency: 99.5% (826 of 830)
Reach if approved: ~872 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: repress
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 830 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (826 changes in 395 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 826)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vnder the name of Athanasius, but that I haue alleaged already is sufficient to represserepress that vaine and vnskilfull insultation, that you vse in so many wastfull wordes against …
With rule
… vnder the name of Athanasius, but that I haue alleaged already is sufficient to represserepress that vaine and vnskilfull insultation, that you vse in so many wastfull wordes against …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 214 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the lips and liues of men, if you labour not by your authority to represserepress it and keepe it in. Man is a wilde and wicked creature of himselfe …
With rule
… the lips and liues of men, if you labour not by your authority to represserepress it and keepe it in. Man is a wilde and wicked creature of himselfe …
Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good. 1 Theſ. 5, 19, 20, 21. For which cauſe alſo the Apoſtle required both of Timothee & Titus, to repreſſerepress ſuch as should teach corrupt doctrine, and to reſtraine foolish queſtions, and genealogies, and …
With rule
… good. 1 Theſ. 5, 19, 20, 21. For which cauſe alſo the Apoſtle required both of Timothee & Titus, to repreſſerepress ſuch as should teach corrupt doctrine, and to reſtraine foolish queſtions, and genealogies, and …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 282 · Open in the reader
Printed
… aboue, that beholdeth their tirannie, neither yet iustice that will, nor power that maye represserepress their impietie. But yet the spirite of truth doth witnesse, the contrary, affirming, that …
With rule
… aboue, that beholdeth their tirannie, neither yet iustice that will, nor power that maye represserepress their impietie. But yet the spirite of truth doth witnesse, the contrary, affirming, that …
John Knox · Sermon in Edinburgh · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… they may toyle vntill they ſweat agayne, by endeuouring to tame their fleſhe, to repreſſerepress the luſts of it, and to make it ſubiect vnto the Spirit. And by …
With rule
… they may toyle vntill they ſweat agayne, by endeuouring to tame their fleſhe, to repreſſerepress the luſts of it, and to make it ſubiect vnto the Spirit. And by …
Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… heart, that I, by her Maieſties fauor, hauing more authoritie in mine hande to repreſſerepress theſe Puritanes, then any biſhop elſe hath had in England theſe thirtie yeeres, yet …
With rule
… heart, that I, by her Maieſties fauor, hauing more authoritie in mine hande to repreſſerepress theſe Puritanes, then any biſhop elſe hath had in England theſe thirtie yeeres, yet …
Martin Marprelate · The Just Censure and Reproof of Martin Junior · Open in the reader
Printed
… whole thousands passe through our mynd in an hower, which our mynds can neither represserepress nor expresse? O how many doe we esteeme to be good men, whome we …
With rule
… whole thousands passe through our mynd in an hower, which our mynds can neither represserepress nor expresse? O how many doe we esteeme to be good men, whome we …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the flesh shewes it selfe in two actions. The first is, to defile … represserepress the good motions of the spirit. In this respect Paul saith when I would …
With rule
… of the flesh shewes it selfe in two actions. The first is, to defile … represserepress the good motions of the spirit. In this respect Paul saith when I would …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 416 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 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.

A Faithful Admonition A04926

Printed
… now are most afflicted yet ones agayne prayse thy holy name before thy congregation. RepresseRepress the pride of these bloode thristye tyrauntes, consume them in thyne anger according to …
With rule
… now are most afflicted yet ones agayne prayse thy holy name before thy congregation. RepresseRepress the pride of these bloode thristye tyrauntes, consume them in thyne anger according to …
John Knox · A Faithful Admonition · p. 113 · Open in the reader

History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland A47584

Printed
… now are most afflicted, yet once againe praise thy holy Name before thy Congregation: RepresseRepress the pride of those blood-thirsty Tyrants; consume them in thine anger, according to …
With rule
… now are most afflicted, yet once againe praise thy holy Name before thy Congregation: RepresseRepress the pride of those blood-thirsty Tyrants; consume them in thine anger, according to …
John Knox · History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland · p. 78 · Open in the reader