Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2867 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

oppugneoppugn

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

Puritas changed it: 420 times in 255 works
Consistency: 99.5% (420 of 422)
Reach if approved: ~443 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: oppugn
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 422 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (420 changes in 255 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 420)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to be denyed vs, or refuſed by vs. Thoſe that with the Iewes do oppugneoppugn this truth and count it a carnall doctrine are ſuch as vnder pretext of …
With rule
… to be denyed vs, or refuſed by vs. Thoſe that with the Iewes do oppugneoppugn this truth and count it a carnall doctrine are ſuch as vnder pretext of …
John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 250 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by man in the matter of religion, which either directly or by iust consequence oppugneoppugn the word of God, are doctrines of Diuels: 1. Tim. 4. 1. 3. Doctrines repugnant to the word …
With rule
… by man in the matter of religion, which either directly or by iust consequence oppugneoppugn the word of God, are doctrines of Diuels: 1. Tim. 4. 1. 3. Doctrines repugnant to the word …
William Perkins · The Combat Between Christ and the Devil Displayed · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… superstruction, both of Pelagianisme, Popery, Arminianisme, and Libertinisme, are vtterly subuerted, I will briefely oppugneoppugn it with these seuerall atheisticall, blasphemous, absurd, and dangerous consequences, which will necessarily result …
With rule
… superstruction, both of Pelagianisme, Popery, Arminianisme, and Libertinisme, are vtterly subuerted, I will briefely oppugneoppugn it with these seuerall atheisticall, blasphemous, absurd, and dangerous consequences, which will necessarily result …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 78 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fundamentall faith of Originall sinne, let it then be mine, but if it doe oppugneoppugn it, let it not be thine.
With rule
… fundamentall faith of Originall sinne, let it then be mine, but if it doe oppugneoppugn it, let it not be thine.
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 391 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crosse to CHRIST, whereby though wee cannot crucifie his Flesh, yet wee oppose and oppugneoppugn his Spirit: as if Cynically we affected snarling, or like the Gyants, would trye …
With rule
… crosse to CHRIST, whereby though wee cannot crucifie his Flesh, yet wee oppose and oppugneoppugn his Spirit: as if Cynically we affected snarling, or like the Gyants, would trye …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all the Wicked, and lurking Hypocrites, shall bee conveaned together in Antichrist's Hoaste, & openly oppugneoppugn the Church of the Sayncts: which (sayeth hee) hath not yet beene: and therefore …
With rule
… all the Wicked, and lurking Hypocrites, shall bee conveaned together in Antichrist's Hoaste, & openly oppugneoppugn the Church of the Sayncts: which (sayeth hee) hath not yet beene: and therefore …
William Guild · Popish Glorying in Antiquity Turned to their Shame · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
No more credible is that, that Conſtantine did ſo long oppugneoppugn chriſtian religion, but that he had hard ſomwhat of Peter and Paul, moſt famous …
With rule
No more credible is that, that Conſtantine did ſo long oppugneoppugn chriſtian religion, but that he had hard ſomwhat of Peter and Paul, moſt famous …
François Hotman · The Brutish Thunderbolt · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… honour of God, should not regard nor care, who did defend, nor who did oppugneoppugn the Church of God in theyr dominions. By these wordes of this aunciēt and …
With rule
… honour of God, should not regard nor care, who did defend, nor who did oppugneoppugn the Church of God in theyr dominions. By these wordes of this aunciēt and …
John Knox · Appellation from the Cruel and Unjust Sentence Against Him · p. 24 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.