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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2745 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wrotwrote

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

Puritas changed it
443 times in 220 works
Consistency
99.5% (443 of 445)
Reach if approved
~468 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: wrote
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
445 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (443 changes in 220 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 443)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Thy seruant Baruch also wrotwrote a boke vnto thi people in their captiuite, commāding them to praye for ye …
    With rule
    Thy seruant Baruch also wrotwrote a boke vnto thi people in their captiuite, commāding them to praye for ye …

    Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. lxxvi · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … booke) and now the is … atriarch of Conſtantinople: being Patriarch of Alex andria he wrotwrote letters to the moſt Reverend father in God the late Archbiſhop of Canturbury, and …
    With rule
    … booke) and now the is … atriarch of Conſtantinople: being Patriarch of Alex andria he wrotwrote letters to the moſt Reverend father in God the late Archbiſhop of Canturbury, and …

    Ephraim Pagitt · Christianography · p. 70 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … both he & out of him our M. of Rhemes reioine: that the fathers neuer wrotwrote thē in ſenſu Proteſtantum, in the ſence & meaning that the Proteſtants take thē: as …
    With rule
    … both he & out of him our M. of Rhemes reioine: that the fathers neuer wrotwrote thē in ſenſu Proteſtantum, in the ſence & meaning that the Proteſtants take thē: as …

    John Prime · Of Nature and Grace · p. 118 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Valens & Theodoſius the noble emperours wrotwrote to ye officer called Prefectus pretorius: Foraſmoche as our dilygent ſtudy & care is / in …
    With rule
    Valens & Theodoſius the noble emperours wrotwrote to ye officer called Prefectus pretorius: Foraſmoche as our dilygent ſtudy & care is / in …

    Martin Bucer · Pictures not to be Worshiped · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … end thereof, where it is ſaid; This is that Diſciple, which teſtifieth theſe things & wrotwrote theſe things. Now what that Diſciple was, the twelfth verſe ſheweth. Then Peter turned …
    With rule
    … end thereof, where it is ſaid; This is that Diſciple, which teſtifieth theſe things & wrotwrote theſe things. Now what that Diſciple was, the twelfth verſe ſheweth. Then Peter turned …

    Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 10 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of our language. A Drifat of thoſe copies D. B. brent, noyſing that I wrotwrote treaſon: twiſe he brent them, vnder Q. E. and vnder your Maieſtie, and conſpiring …
    With rule
    … of our language. A Drifat of thoſe copies D. B. brent, noyſing that I wrotwrote treaſon: twiſe he brent them, vnder Q. E. and vnder your Maieſtie, and conſpiring …

    Hugh Broughton · A Defense of A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Iewel, confesseth vs to be Catholikes, where he saith that Pontacus erred, when he wrotwrote that onely lay men neither learned nor Catholikes, were moderators in the disputation at …
    With rule
    … Iewel, confesseth vs to be Catholikes, where he saith that Pontacus erred, when he wrotwrote that onely lay men neither learned nor Catholikes, were moderators in the disputation at …

    William Fulke · A Retentive to Stay Good Christians · p. 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … emperors? Of the ſame ſort of ſeruice is that, which the ſame pope Adrian wrotwrote to the ſame Friderike: We woonder not a little at your wiſedome, that you …
    With rule
    … emperors? Of the ſame ſort of ſeruice is that, which the ſame pope Adrian wrotwrote to the ſame Friderike: We woonder not a little at your wiſedome, that you …

    François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 119 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.