Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2778 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

beforbefore

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

Puritas changed it: 397 times in 261 works
Consistency: 99.0% (397 of 401)
Reach if approved: ~421 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: before
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 401 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (397 changes in 261 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 397)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Samuel beforbefore admoniſhed of his inobediēce, cōmynge vnto Saule a…feth what voyce was it whiche …
With rule
Samuel beforbefore admoniſhed of his inobediēce, cōmynge vnto Saule a…feth what voyce was it whiche …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader
Printed
… his justice-Court: therefore also, in the samin only, his elect hopes to stand beforbefore his face: and not be their awin dignitie or merit; For gif they sulde …
With rule
… his justice-Court: therefore also, in the samin only, his elect hopes to stand beforbefore his face: and not be their awin dignitie or merit; For gif they sulde …
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
That the wonders done by the Sorcerers of Egypt beforbefore… Pharaoh, were lrgling sleights, and not true and reall works. 160
With rule
That the wonders done by the Sorcerers of Egypt beforbefore… Pharaoh, were lrgling sleights, and not true and reall works. 160
William Perkins · The Damned Art of Witchcraft · Open in the reader
Printed
… for therefore he judgeth us, because wee would not take paines with our selves beforbefore.
With rule
… for therefore he judgeth us, because wee would not take paines with our selves beforbefore.
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… diuerſities of obſeruyng the faſt / began not now firſt nether in our dayes but beforbefore vſe. Socrates alſo a Greciane writeth in the xj. boke of the threparted ſtory …
With rule
… diuerſities of obſeruyng the faſt / began not now firſt nether in our dayes but beforbefore vſe. Socrates alſo a Greciane writeth in the xj. boke of the threparted ſtory …
William Turner · The Rescuing of the Romish Fox · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vnbeleuer will dwell together with the other. This I do also acknowledge / as beforbefore I haue said: for vnto thē / al necessary businesses / especially those which are ordeyned …
With rule
… the vnbeleuer will dwell together with the other. This I do also acknowledge / as beforbefore I haue said: for vnto thē / al necessary businesses / especially those which are ordeyned …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 52 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as it ſhall ſeeme good to His infinite wiſdome. Therefore all the poſſibilities mentioned beforbefore… are in reſpect of the creature o…ly; not in reſpect of the infinite …
With rule
… as it ſhall ſeeme good to His infinite wiſdome. Therefore all the poſſibilities mentioned beforbefore… are in reſpect of the creature o…ly; not in reſpect of the infinite …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… make mensyon that it was out of his handes and delyuered to his Apostles beforbefore he spake those wordes. Therfor that breathinge of yowrs vpon the breade / is but …
With rule
… make mensyon that it was out of his handes and delyuered to his Apostles beforbefore he spake those wordes. Therfor that breathinge of yowrs vpon the breade / is but …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · p. 50 · 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 Sick Mans Salve A07163

Printed
… Manasses were great, ye… behold the louing kindnes of Go… toward him & his people. BeforBefore… he sent any punishement amon… them, he raised vp his Prophets which exhorted both …
With rule
… Manasses were great, ye… behold the louing kindnes of Go… toward him & his people. BeforBefore… he sent any punishement amon… them, he raised vp his Prophets which exhorted both …
Thomas Becon · The Sick Mans Salve · p. 78 · Open in the reader

Review and Examination of the Doctrine A39999

Printed
… takes in excommunication, were performed by the probati quique seniores, all the approved elders. BeforBefore him Iraenus [haeres: lib: 4 cap. 44.] Will have these Presbyters obeyed. Qui successionem habent ab …
With rule
… takes in excommunication, were performed by the probati quique seniores, all the approved elders. BeforBefore him Iraenus [haeres: lib: 4 cap. 44.] Will have these Presbyters obeyed. Qui successionem habent ab …
Thomas Forrester · Review and Examination of the Doctrine · p. 230 · Open in the reader