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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2863 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

nailenail

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

Puritas changed it
549 times in 349 works
Consistency
93.6% (549 of 586)
Reach if approved
~616 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: nail
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
586 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (549 changes in 349 works, 93.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 549)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the Gospell being once read, they stroke themselves on the head, and kisse the nailenail of their right thumbe, and sit down againe as wife as they were afore …
    With rule
    … the Gospell being once read, they stroke themselves on the head, and kisse the nailenail of their right thumbe, and sit down againe as wife as they were afore …

    Thomas Becon · The Displaying of the Popish Mass · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … ſo much as the breadth of a foote, of one inch, or of one nailenail to plant and ſettle true ioy vpon. If one would aske in what things …
    With rule
    … ſo much as the breadth of a foote, of one inch, or of one nailenail to plant and ſettle true ioy vpon. If one would aske in what things …

    William Negus · Mans Active Obedience · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … neither yet that it was lawfull for them, ſo much as to faſten a nailenail in the Tabernacle, but according to the paterne which Moſes had ſeene in the …
    With rule
    … neither yet that it was lawfull for them, ſo much as to faſten a nailenail in the Tabernacle, but according to the paterne which Moſes had ſeene in the …

    Theodore Beza · The True and Visible Marks of the Catholic Church · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … none working in any handicraft; their houses are of timber and reedes, without one nailenail in them, which their slaues build, and doe also their other labors. They haue …
    With rule
    … none working in any handicraft; their houses are of timber and reedes, without one nailenail in them, which their slaues build, and doe also their other labors. They haue …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 452 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … was to bee acted in a Countrey Towne, the firſt queſtion that an Hob-nailenail Spectator made, before hee would pay his penny to goe in, was, Whether there …
    With rule
    … was to bee acted in a Countrey Towne, the firſt queſtion that an Hob-nailenail Spectator made, before hee would pay his penny to goe in, was, Whether there …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … they have fed us, cloathed us, and in our imagination ſecured us, drive the nailenail of deſtruction into our temples: like Abſaloms feaſt for Amnon, they doe but prepare …
    With rule
    … they have fed us, cloathed us, and in our imagination ſecured us, drive the nailenail of deſtruction into our temples: like Abſaloms feaſt for Amnon, they doe but prepare …

    Alexander Grosse · Deaths Deliverance and Elijahs Fiery Chariot · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … good, but hee ſeeth that if mercy and ſalvation were laid downe upon the nailenail for beleeving and receiving of it, hee could not doe it of himſelfe, and …
    With rule
    … good, but hee ſeeth that if mercy and ſalvation were laid downe upon the nailenail for beleeving and receiving of it, hee could not doe it of himſelfe, and …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … bee conceiued as a further reaſon, and ſo a newe ſtroake driuing the ſame nailenail, diſſwading their prepoſterous ſeeking earthly things, which was the point the former reaſons did …
    With rule
    … bee conceiued as a further reaſon, and ſo a newe ſtroake driuing the ſame nailenail, diſſwading their prepoſterous ſeeking earthly things, which was the point the former reaſons did …

    Paul Baynes · A Counterbane Against Earthly Carefulness · p. 2 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (37)

15 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 22 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Foot out of the Snare A01576

  • Printed
    … mother) of Witchcraft, of the killing of the childe of Thomas Walſhman, with a NaileNail in the Nauill, the boyling, eating and oyling, thereby to tranſ-forme themſelues into …
    With rule
    … mother) of Witchcraft, of the killing of the childe of Thomas Walſhman, with a NaileNail in the Nauill, the boyling, eating and oyling, thereby to tranſ-forme themſelues into …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 52 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … of the heauens and diuelish enchantments. Onymancie with Oile and Soote daubed on the NaileNail of an vndefiled child, and held vp against the Sunne: Hydromancy with water: Acromancie …
    With rule
    … of the heauens and diuelish enchantments. Onymancie with Oile and Soote daubed on the NaileNail of an vndefiled child, and held vp against the Sunne: Hydromancy with water: Acromancie …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 310 · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

  • Printed
    … merites, thy mercies: Let the Blood of his Aduocate pl…ade for his pardon: NaileNail all his sinnes to the Crosse of thy Sonne Iesus. Rid out of his …
    With rule
    … merites, thy mercies: Let the Blood of his Aduocate pl…ade for his pardon: NaileNail all his sinnes to the Crosse of thy Sonne Iesus. Rid out of his …

    Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 556 · Open in the reader

A Censure of Simony A17294

  • Printed
    … a bare promise or intimation of gratuitie, but make their bargaine sure vpon the NaileNail, or vpon the Seale; as Iudas would not sell and betray Christ, before he …
    With rule
    … a bare promise or intimation of gratuitie, but make their bargaine sure vpon the NaileNail, or vpon the Seale; as Iudas would not sell and betray Christ, before he …

    Henry Burton · A Censure of Simony · p. 84 · Open in the reader

The Plain Mans Pathway to Heaven A20202

  • Printed
    … to lay any of them to our charge, but freely forget all, & forgiue all; NaileNail downe all our ſins & iniquities to the Croſſe of Chriſt, bury them in his …
    With rule
    … to lay any of them to our charge, but freely forget all, & forgiue all; NaileNail downe all our ſins & iniquities to the Croſſe of Chriſt, bury them in his …

    Arthur Dent · The Plain Mans Pathway to Heaven · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A21059

  • Printed
    … hath bin a religious both profeſſor, & protector of the practiſe therof. To haue a NaileNail faſtned in a ſure place, the antiquity of a long ſtanding Name, and Family …
    With rule
    … hath bin a religious both profeſſor, & protector of the practiſe therof. To haue a NaileNail faſtned in a ſure place, the antiquity of a long ſtanding Name, and Family …

    Jeremiah Dyke · Two Treatises · Open in the reader

Mixed Contemplations in Better Times A40678

  • Printed
    … in this kinde. In Reformations of great importance, the violent driving in of the NaileNail, will either break the head, or bow the point thereof, or rive and split …
    With rule
    … in this kinde. In Reformations of great importance, the violent driving in of the NaileNail, will either break the head, or bow the point thereof, or rive and split …

    Thomas Fuller · Mixed Contemplations in Better Times · p. 51 · Open in the reader

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

  • Printed
    … Hebrew, without tenſe or verb, [out of him the CORNER, out of him the NAILENAIL, out of him the BATTLE BOW, out of him every oppreſſor, or as in …
    With rule
    … Hebrew, without tenſe or verb, [out of him the CORNER, out of him the NAILENAIL, out of him the BATTLE BOW, out of him every oppreſſor, or as in …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 343 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … the CORNER ſtone Chriſt. and ſo incorporated into the Church, they ſhall faſten the NAILENAIL of union with Iſrael, and together with them, and the reſt of the Church …
    With rule
    … the CORNER ſtone Chriſt. and ſo incorporated into the Church, they ſhall faſten the NAILENAIL of union with Iſrael, and together with them, and the reſt of the Church …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 343 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … of this whole propheſie, afore-quoted; underſtanding by the War-horſe, the Corner, the NaileNail, the Battle-Bow, and the ſtrong men, &c. the Apoſtles, Evangeliſts, and Paſtors of …
    With rule
    … of this whole propheſie, afore-quoted; underſtanding by the War-horſe, the Corner, the NaileNail, the Battle-Bow, and the ſtrong men, &c. the Apoſtles, Evangeliſts, and Paſtors of …

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 346 · Open in the reader

Two Treatises A62118

  • Printed
    … had given him a ſtab with a ſeverall one? nay, further: May not a NaileNail in the hand of Iael as well deſtroy Siſera, as Baraks Sword or Speare …
    With rule
    … had given him a ſtab with a ſeverall one? nay, further: May not a NaileNail in the hand of Iael as well deſtroy Siſera, as Baraks Sword or Speare …

    Alexander Simson · Two Treatises · p. 182 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Laws of Moses A73378

  • Printed
    … the Law and the Prophets, foreign pendent, even as wee hang a thing upon a NaileNail, Eſay 22.23. So the Law and the Prophets hang upon theſe two.
    With rule
    … the Law and the Prophets, foreign pendent, even as wee hang a thing upon a NaileNail, Eſay 22.23. So the Law and the Prophets hang upon theſe two.

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Laws of Moses · p. 165 · Open in the reader

Christ and Moses Excellency A90893

  • Printed
    NaileNail.
    With rule
    NaileNail.

    Vavasor Powell · Christ and Moses Excellency · p. 394 · Open in the reader

Redemption from the Curse A96661

  • Printed
    … and ſay, woe is me, I am an accurſed creature. And to drive this NaileNail home, I ſhall inſiſt a while on the conſideration, both 1. of the ſad effects …
    With rule
    … and ſay, woe is me, I am an accurſed creature. And to drive this NaileNail home, I ſhall inſiſt a while on the conſideration, both 1. of the ſad effects …

    Elkanah Wales · Redemption from the Curse · p. 27 · Open in the reader

Exposition of the Apostles Creed B27417

  • Printed
    … afresh. Every notorious habitual enormity indulg'd to against conscience, is a Thorn, and a NaileNail, and a Spear yet to wound him. The List of particulars I give you …
    With rule
    … afresh. Every notorious habitual enormity indulg'd to against conscience, is a Thorn, and a NaileNail, and a Spear yet to wound him. The List of particulars I give you …

    William Nicholson · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 257 · Open in the reader