Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bignessebigness

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

Puritas changed it: 530 times in 247 works
Consistency: 99.2% (530 of 534)
Reach if approved: ~561 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: bigness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 534 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (530 changes in 247 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 530)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eclipſed, becauſe it is both higher and bigger than the Moone; and knowing the bigneſſebigness of the bodie of the Moone; wee may underſtand what diſtance there is betwixt …
With rule
… eclipſed, becauſe it is both higher and bigger than the Moone; and knowing the bigneſſebigness of the bodie of the Moone; wee may underſtand what diſtance there is betwixt …
John Weemes · Observations Natural and Moral · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee seldome unbuttons his tumored breast, but when hee findes none to oppose the bignessebigness of his lookes and tongue, but this holds not alwaies for sure I am …
With rule
… hee seldome unbuttons his tumored breast, but when hee findes none to oppose the bignessebigness of his lookes and tongue, but this holds not alwaies for sure I am …
Richard Younge · The Drunkards Character · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… at this day they are grown Masters. Yea, not considerable was Tunis then in bignessebigness, great onely in mischief. But as a small scratch just upon the turning of …
With rule
… at this day they are grown Masters. Yea, not considerable was Tunis then in bignessebigness, great onely in mischief. But as a small scratch just upon the turning of …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reſt it) ebbes and flowes perpetually: ſometimes (at a Springtyde) it ſwels to that bigneſſebigness, that the bankes cannot containe it; ſometimes againe, it falles backe ſo low, that …
With rule
… reſt it) ebbes and flowes perpetually: ſometimes (at a Springtyde) it ſwels to that bigneſſebigness, that the bankes cannot containe it; ſometimes againe, it falles backe ſo low, that …
Samuel Hieron · The Spiritual Fishing · p. 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crooked: Secondly, that the shankes bee made equall, that is of like or equall bignessebigness: Thirdly, that the bases be equall: which three conditions if they doe meete, it …
With rule
… crooked: Secondly, that the shankes bee made equall, that is of like or equall bignessebigness: Thirdly, that the bases be equall: which three conditions if they doe meete, it …
Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… true of accidentall glorie, therein all shall not equall. Take sundrie vessels of diuers bignessebigness, and cast them in to the sea, all will be filled with water, though …
With rule
… true of accidentall glorie, therein all shall not equall. Take sundrie vessels of diuers bignessebigness, and cast them in to the sea, all will be filled with water, though …
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 555 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if not in bulk, yet in firmnesse; as when the body leavs growing in bignessebigness, it knits better then before. Neither indeed can we be safe from being drawn …
With rule
… if not in bulk, yet in firmnesse; as when the body leavs growing in bignessebigness, it knits better then before. Neither indeed can we be safe from being drawn …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hewed out of the mountaine without handes to be waxing and growing to the bignessebigness of a great mountaine, replenishing the whole earth, euen in the time of most …
With rule
… hewed out of the mountaine without handes to be waxing and growing to the bignessebigness of a great mountaine, replenishing the whole earth, euen in the time of most …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Way to Geometry A05115

Printed
Magnitudo, a Magnitude or BignesseBigness is the subject about which Geometry is busied. For every Art hath a proper …
With rule
Magnitudo, a Magnitude or BignesseBigness is the subject about which Geometry is busied. For every Art hath a proper …
Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 7 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 A65748

Printed
… him in brightneſſe; both they, the Earth, Seas, Mountains, and divers other Creatures in BigneſſeBigness: The Lion in fierceneſſe of Courage; the Horſe, Oxe, and divers other Creatures, in …
With rule
… him in brightneſſe; both they, the Earth, Seas, Mountains, and divers other Creatures in BigneſſeBigness: The Lion in fierceneſſe of Courage; the Horſe, Oxe, and divers other Creatures, in …
John White · Commentary Upon Genesis 1-3 · p. 83 · Open in the reader

Truth Tried A97067

Printed
… Body: Be there alſo in Lines, Bodies, Sounds, &c. (beſides their Abſolute Affections, Length, BigneſſeBigness, Lowdneſſe, &c.) ſome mutuall Relations of Proportion, Harmony, Diſcord, &c. Be there in Phyſicall …
With rule
… Body: Be there alſo in Lines, Bodies, Sounds, &c. (beſides their Abſolute Affections, Length, BigneſſeBigness, Lowdneſſe, &c.) ſome mutuall Relations of Proportion, Harmony, Diſcord, &c. Be there in Phyſicall …
John Wallis · Truth Tried · p. 42 · Open in the reader