Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2818 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

failesfails

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

Puritas changed it: 859 times in 464 works
Consistency: 100% (859 of 859)
Reach if approved: ~903 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fails
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 859 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (859 changes in 464 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 859)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
In other subiect, failesfails so in his duty
With rule
In other subiect, failesfails so in his duty
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
Make the possessed franticke. This is a speeding cause, and failesfails not to distemper the soule, whereof it hath gotten mastery. There may bee first …
With rule
Make the possessed franticke. This is a speeding cause, and failesfails not to distemper the soule, whereof it hath gotten mastery. There may bee first …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that thou profeſſeſt Chriſt onely becauſe of the applauſe of chriſtians, and when reſpect failesfails, doth thy endeavour faile? the caſe is cleare, thou art Selfe ſtill. The ſoule …
With rule
… that thou profeſſeſt Chriſt onely becauſe of the applauſe of chriſtians, and when reſpect failesfails, doth thy endeavour faile? the caſe is cleare, thou art Selfe ſtill. The ſoule …
Thomas Hooker · The Christians Two Chief Lessons · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bee true and do their vtmoſt, for thoſe that truſt to them: ſo God failesfails not a beleeuing heart. Beſide the ſuite will be cold there, where there is …
With rule
… bee true and do their vtmoſt, for thoſe that truſt to them: ſo God failesfails not a beleeuing heart. Beſide the ſuite will be cold there, where there is …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 378 · Open in the reader
Printed
… alter, and fals he into disgrace with the world, into persecution, into poverty? Charity failesfails not for all this. Tis not affliction shal divide between Ionathans soule, & the soule …
With rule
… alter, and fals he into disgrace with the world, into persecution, into poverty? Charity failesfails not for all this. Tis not affliction shal divide between Ionathans soule, & the soule …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from the heart, is a marke of Gods child, Psal. 15. 2. And he whose faith failesfails towards men, shall much more faile towards God.
With rule
… from the heart, is a marke of Gods child, Psal. 15. 2. And he whose faith failesfails towards men, shall much more faile towards God.
William Perkins · Commentary on Galatians 1-5 · p. 447 · Open in the reader
Printed
… things by nature, yet when godlines comes, it helpes out in things wherein nature failesfails, as Sampson could doe many ordinary things by his owne strength, but when he …
With rule
… things by nature, yet when godlines comes, it helpes out in things wherein nature failesfails, as Sampson could doe many ordinary things by his owne strength, but when he …
John Preston · The Deformed Form · Open in the reader
Printed
… said also thou shalt not commit adultery; so I say to euery man that failesfails in any particular, and allowes himselfe to lie in any particular sinne that he …
With rule
… said also thou shalt not commit adultery; so I say to euery man that failesfails in any particular, and allowes himselfe to lie in any particular sinne that he …
John Preston · Sermons · p. 99 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.