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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2898 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

soaresoar

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

Puritas changed it
440 times in 267 works
Consistency
95.8% (440 of 459)
Reach if approved
~483 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: soar
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
460 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (440 changes in 267 works, 95.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 440)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … lust, nor terrour in conscience, or corrupt affectiō. In the bodie there shalbe no soaresoar, no sicknes, nor paine: for God shall▪ wipe away all teares from their eyes …
    With rule
    … lust, nor terrour in conscience, or corrupt affectiō. In the bodie there shalbe no soaresoar, no sicknes, nor paine: for God shall▪ wipe away all teares from their eyes …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 534 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … As a Bird with a little eye and the advantage of a wing to soaresoar up withall may see farre wider then an Oxe with a greater: so the …
    With rule
    … As a Bird with a little eye and the advantage of a wing to soaresoar up withall may see farre wider then an Oxe with a greater: so the …

    Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 363 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … only, to clenſe and heale it. What if he meete with an old feſtere ſoaresoar that is cauterized, and muſt haue corſiues to eate out the dead fleſh, if …
    With rule
    … only, to clenſe and heale it. What if he meete with an old feſtere ſoaresoar that is cauterized, and muſt haue corſiues to eate out the dead fleſh, if …

    Samuel Smith · The Ethiopian Eunuchs Conversion · p. 395 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    In those daies gunnes (the sure and soaresoar messengers of death) were not so in vse as now they are. Strength and …
    With rule
    In those daies gunnes (the sure and soaresoar messengers of death) were not so in vse as now they are. Strength and …

    William Gouge · The Dignity of Chivalry · p. 44 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … a begger, or some common rogue, who, though he know himselfe to haue a soaresoar about him, yet he is not any way willing to haue it healed, because …
    With rule
    … a begger, or some common rogue, who, though he know himselfe to haue a soaresoar about him, yet he is not any way willing to haue it healed, because …

    Robert Harris · The Way to True Happiness · p. 253 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … too late; yee will beare the check of conscience, & in time the wound growes soaresoar, and your soule sinks into irrecoverable misery; Oh, woe to that soule, this is …
    With rule
    … too late; yee will beare the check of conscience, & in time the wound growes soaresoar, and your soule sinks into irrecoverable misery; Oh, woe to that soule, this is …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 232 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … plaine truths, into abſtruſe termes, a new coat upon old divinitie, and ſtrive to ſoaresoar in drie Metaphyſicall ſtraines, above your owne and others apprehenſion? Doe ye not build …
    With rule
    … plaine truths, into abſtruſe termes, a new coat upon old divinitie, and ſtrive to ſoaresoar in drie Metaphyſicall ſtraines, above your owne and others apprehenſion? Doe ye not build …

    Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … here is ſalue: but where is the hand that must lay it on the ſoaresoar? Here is Balme: where is the finger that muſt poure it into the wound …
    With rule
    … here is ſalue: but where is the hand that must lay it on the ſoaresoar? Here is Balme: where is the finger that muſt poure it into the wound …

    Thomas Newhouse · Sermon in Norwich · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 14 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Gods Arrows A14760

  • Printed
    3 SoareSoar.
    With rule
    3 SoareSoar.

    William Ward · Gods Arrows · p. 2 · Open in the reader

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

  • Printed
    SoareSoar so base a pitch as your.
    With rule
    SoareSoar so base a pitch as your.

    George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 15-17 A35473

  • Printed
    … degree, or meaſure of the affliction: If the Playſter be too narrow for the SoareSoar, how can it heale?
    With rule
    … degree, or meaſure of the affliction: If the Playſter be too narrow for the SoareSoar, how can it heale?

    Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 217 · Open in the reader

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

  • Printed
    … Senator; who falling sick of the Plague, and having applyed an Onion to the SoareSoar, and taking it off, and laid it by him, this little Ionas coming, tooke …
    With rule
    … Senator; who falling sick of the Plague, and having applyed an Onion to the SoareSoar, and taking it off, and laid it by him, this little Ionas coming, tooke …

    Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 165 · Open in the reader

The Disabled Debtor Discharged A57544

  • Printed
    … like the Flie, they care for faſtening no where, but on the Gall or SoareSoar, a little blemiſh in their Brethren ſo over-clouds their good parts and properties …
    With rule
    … like the Flie, they care for faſtening no where, but on the Gall or SoareSoar, a little blemiſh in their Brethren ſo over-clouds their good parts and properties …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 129 · Open in the reader