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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2717 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

samaritanesamaritan

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

Puritas changed it
520 times in 286 works
Consistency
99.2% (520 of 524)
Reach if approved
~552 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: samaritan
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
525 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (520 changes in 286 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 520)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … when the Iewes saide unto him, Say wee not true, that thou art a SamaritaneSamaritan and hast a devill? answered, I have not a devill, but I honour my …
    With rule
    … when the Iewes saide unto him, Say wee not true, that thou art a SamaritaneSamaritan and hast a devill? answered, I have not a devill, but I honour my …

    William Perkins · The Government of the Tongue · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … up that which is wanting of His afflictions, that Christ Himselfe was called a SamaritaneSamaritan, a Divell, a wine-b…bber, entrapped, spied▪ snared, slaine; and Hee who is …
    With rule
    … up that which is wanting of His afflictions, that Christ Himselfe was called a SamaritaneSamaritan, a Divell, a wine-b…bber, entrapped, spied▪ snared, slaine; and Hee who is …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 534 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſelues to be clothed, as Noah did, to couer your nakedneſſe. As the good SamaritaneSamaritan put him vpon his owne beaſt which was ſpoiled with theeues, and bound vp …
    With rule
    … ſelues to be clothed, as Noah did, to couer your nakedneſſe. As the good SamaritaneSamaritan put him vpon his owne beaſt which was ſpoiled with theeues, and bound vp …

    Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 331 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … answered with rayling and reuiling him, Say we not well, that thou art a SamaritaneSamaritan, &c. ver. 48. vnto which blasphemous slander our Sauiour answereth. ver. 49.50.51.
    With rule
    … answered with rayling and reuiling him, Say we not well, that thou art a SamaritaneSamaritan, &c. ver. 48. vnto which blasphemous slander our Sauiour answereth. ver. 49.50.51.

    James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 106 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Publicans and ſinners. Mat. 27. 63. He is counted a deceiuer. Mat. 9. 34. A ſorcerer. Ioh. 8. 48. A SamaritaneSamaritan, and to haue the diuell. Mark. 3. 21. His kinsfolkes lay hold on him, ſuppoſing him …
    With rule
    … Publicans and ſinners. Mat. 27. 63. He is counted a deceiuer. Mat. 9. 34. A ſorcerer. Ioh. 8. 48. A SamaritaneSamaritan, and to haue the diuell. Mark. 3. 21. His kinsfolkes lay hold on him, ſuppoſing him …

    Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 12 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … euerlaſting life. Thus haue you the courſe of the communication betwixt Chriſt and the SamaritaneSamaritan thus farre. By which you may perceiue, that the maine ſcope of this Text …
    With rule
    … euerlaſting life. Thus haue you the courſe of the communication betwixt Chriſt and the SamaritaneSamaritan thus farre. By which you may perceiue, that the maine ſcope of this Text …

    Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a purifyenge or ſanctifyeng and ſtil furth ſuffereth hymſelfe to be healed, by the SamaritaneSamaritan, and dothe not deſtroye hymſelfe further more and more in vnclenlynes, It ſhalbe graciouſly …
    With rule
    … a purifyenge or ſanctifyeng and ſtil furth ſuffereth hymſelfe to be healed, by the SamaritaneSamaritan, and dothe not deſtroye hymſelfe further more and more in vnclenlynes, It ſhalbe graciouſly …

    Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to the place, came and loked on him, and passed by. But a certayne SamaritaneSamaritan, as he iourneyed, came vnto hym, and when he sawe him, he had compassion …
    With rule
    … to the place, came and loked on him, and passed by. But a certayne SamaritaneSamaritan, as he iourneyed, came vnto hym, and when he sawe him, he had compassion …

    Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 103 · 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.

The Good Samaritan A57545

  • Printed
    … THE PRINCIPALL OBSERVATIONS PROSECVTED IN THIS Enſuing Expoſition of the PARABLE of The good SAMARITANESAMARITAN.
    With rule
    … THE PRINCIPALL OBSERVATIONS PROSECVTED IN THIS Enſuing Expoſition of the PARABLE of The good SAMARITANESAMARITAN.

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Good Samaritan · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE GOOD SAMARITANESAMARITAN
    With rule
    THE GOOD SAMARITANESAMARITAN

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Good Samaritan · p. 1 · Open in the reader