Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2795 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

comprehendecomprehend

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

Puritas changed it: 371 times in 126 works
Consistency: 99.7% (371 of 372)
Reach if approved: ~391 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: comprehend
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 372 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (371 changes in 126 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 371)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… whiche maketh vnequall thinges equall, in ſuche maner as our dull vnderſtanding can neuer comprehendecomprehend ſuche a meruelous diſcord, according. The holy Ghoſt is the onely ſcoolemaiſter to teache …
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… whiche maketh vnequall thinges equall, in ſuche maner as our dull vnderſtanding can neuer comprehendecomprehend ſuche a meruelous diſcord, according. The holy Ghoſt is the onely ſcoolemaiſter to teache …
Martin Luther · Certain Meditations of Perfect Consolation · Open in the reader
Printed
… wyth fayth muſt theſe wordes be taken holde vpon, for naturall reaſon doth not comprehendecomprehend them, in as muche as in dede it appeareth farre otherwyſe. And no man …
With rule
… wyth fayth muſt theſe wordes be taken holde vpon, for naturall reaſon doth not comprehendecomprehend them, in as muche as in dede it appeareth farre otherwyſe. And no man …
Andreas Osiander · Whether a Christian Man Ought to Flee the Plague · Open in the reader
Printed
… him holpen with all diligence? See therefore vvhat a great matter our Sauiour did comprehendecomprehend and folde vp, as it were, and knit together in a bundell, all that …
With rule
… him holpen with all diligence? See therefore vvhat a great matter our Sauiour did comprehendecomprehend and folde vp, as it were, and knit together in a bundell, all that …
Thomas Sparke · Answer to John De Albines · p. 1 · Open in the reader
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… selues (sayeth Austen) are Christes bodye misticall. Nowe therfore, seynge that this sacramēte doth comprehendecomprehend and conteyne indifferentlye bothe bodyes, that is to wete, Christes owne body, and the …
With rule
… selues (sayeth Austen) are Christes bodye misticall. Nowe therfore, seynge that this sacramēte doth comprehendecomprehend and conteyne indifferentlye bothe bodyes, that is to wete, Christes owne body, and the …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Sacrament of the Lords Supper · Open in the reader
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… Catholikes, & true Catholikes, heretiques & sectaries, as antiquitie reporteth. Under the name of Protestants, ye comprehendecomprehend all those y^t forsaking the Pope, & Popish religion haue betaken thēselues to Christ and …
With rule
… Catholikes, & true Catholikes, heretiques & sectaries, as antiquitie reporteth. Under the name of Protestants, ye comprehendecomprehend all those y^t forsaking the Pope, & Popish religion haue betaken thēselues to Christ and …
Perceval Wiburn · Reproof of Howlets Untimely Shrieking · Open in the reader
Printed
… in this text of S. Paule. And euen so the Englishe word (worthie) doth comprehendecomprehend an equalitie in good or euill. Wherefore the sense is all one, whether you …
With rule
… in this text of S. Paule. And euen so the Englishe word (worthie) doth comprehendecomprehend an equalitie in good or euill. Wherefore the sense is all one, whether you …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
By wytte maye comprehendecomprehend
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By wytte maye comprehendecomprehend
John Bale · Comedy Concerning the Corruption of Laws of Nature Moses and Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… the sides therof, In lyke manner is it more vnlyke my simple witte to comprehendecomprehend absolutly the aboundante eloquence and learning whiche floweth most aboundantly out of godly Latimers …
With rule
… the sides therof, In lyke manner is it more vnlyke my simple witte to comprehendecomprehend absolutly the aboundante eloquence and learning whiche floweth most aboundantly out of godly Latimers …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.