Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2846 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

itselfeitself

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

Puritas changed it: 523 times in 258 works
Consistency: 100% (523 of 523)
Reach if approved: ~550 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: itself
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 523 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (523 changes in 258 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 523)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Q What are you to conſider in the Prayer itſelfeitself?
With rule
Q What are you to conſider in the Prayer itſelfeitself?
John Ball · A Short Catechism · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Deale ſo by your owne Soules, when thou findeſt thine heart hammering helpe from itſelfeitself, and catching it out of the fire, thou ſeeſt thy ſinnes, and art troubled …
With rule
… Deale ſo by your owne Soules, when thou findeſt thine heart hammering helpe from itſelfeitself, and catching it out of the fire, thou ſeeſt thy ſinnes, and art troubled …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sturred euery stone, & sought al deuelish deuises, to deteine y^t same word of god itselfeitself frō his people. May not we (& not vnwortheli) be accōpted far vnder y^e Ethenickes …
With rule
… sturred euery stone, & sought al deuelish deuises, to deteine y^t same word of god itselfeitself frō his people. May not we (& not vnwortheli) be accōpted far vnder y^e Ethenickes …
Hugh Latimer · The Second to Seventh Sermon to His Majesty · Open in the reader
Printed
… this defence implieth, that the abuſe of the Croſſe may be remoued, the Croſſe itſelfeitself remayning: which is both againſt that generall rule, Certum eſt Idolomaniam, qualiter nunc illa …
With rule
… this defence implieth, that the abuſe of the Croſſe may be remoued, the Croſſe itſelfeitself remayning: which is both againſt that generall rule, Certum eſt Idolomaniam, qualiter nunc illa …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nature then these mē take it: and hereto the sound study of the Text itselfeitself, will proue the best helpe, as they will confesse who haue tried most of …
With rule
… nature then these mē take it: and hereto the sound study of the Text itselfeitself, will proue the best helpe, as they will confesse who haue tried most of …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 295 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is no substance, but a naturall vigour or qualitie, and hath no being in itselfeitself, without the bodie on which it wholy dependeth. The soule of a man contrariwise …
With rule
… is no substance, but a naturall vigour or qualitie, and hath no being in itselfeitself, without the bodie on which it wholy dependeth. The soule of a man contrariwise …
William Perkins · A Salve for a Sick Man · p. 11 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giues testimony of it owne damnation; and the troubled conscience imposeth and presumes to itselfeitself terrible things, but the health of faith is health indeed; yea this health is …
With rule
… giues testimony of it owne damnation; and the troubled conscience imposeth and presumes to itselfeitself terrible things, but the health of faith is health indeed; yea this health is …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 84 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet the use of it can make ought for them. As for the signe itselfeitself. Albeit the Ancients did interprete this signe of the letter Tau, to have been …
With rule
… yet the use of it can make ought for them. As for the signe itselfeitself. Albeit the Ancients did interprete this signe of the letter Tau, to have been …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 96 · 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.