Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2927 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wingeswings

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

Puritas changed it: 472 times in 196 works
Consistency: 100% (472 of 472)
Reach if approved: ~496 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: wings
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 472 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (472 changes in 196 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 472)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a mans ground, hee cannot promise himselfe any certaintie of them, because they haue wingeswings, and will flie away; such are riches.
With rule
… a mans ground, hee cannot promise himselfe any certaintie of them, because they haue wingeswings, and will flie away; such are riches.
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
Seraphims six wingeswings, why. 3
With rule
Seraphims six wingeswings, why. 3
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath left this egge in so many birdes nestes to be hatched vnder their wingeswings, and to be counted for one of their chickens, but that your voyce doth …
With rule
… hath left this egge in so many birdes nestes to be hatched vnder their wingeswings, and to be counted for one of their chickens, but that your voyce doth …
William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but Peter by the power of the Lord Iesus, brought him downe with his wingeswings headlong to the ground: by the which fall his legges and ioyntes were broken …
With rule
… but Peter by the power of the Lord Iesus, brought him downe with his wingeswings headlong to the ground: by the which fall his legges and ioyntes were broken …
Patrick Hamilton · Concerning the Doctrine of Faith and of the Law · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… world vpon any condition, till it was couered vnder your Lordships nourishing, and protecting wingeswings.
With rule
… world vpon any condition, till it was couered vnder your Lordships nourishing, and protecting wingeswings.
David Lindsay · The Godly Mans Journey to Heaven · p. 523 · Open in the reader
Printed
… frō vs / & to suffer the prince of dar kenes to shadow vs with his wingeswings of hellish ignoraūcy & deuelish blindnes vnto our great discōfort & cōtinual sorow. God haue mercy …
With rule
… frō vs / & to suffer the prince of dar kenes to shadow vs with his wingeswings of hellish ignoraūcy & deuelish blindnes vnto our great discōfort & cōtinual sorow. God haue mercy …
Thomas Becon · A Comfortable Epistle to Gods Faithful People in England · Open in the reader
Printed
… by this meanes leaue her yoong ones in great danger, but wearieth her owne wingeswings & hazardeth her owne life, meeting ſometimes with a net, ſometimes with a pellet: ſo …
With rule
… by this meanes leaue her yoong ones in great danger, but wearieth her owne wingeswings & hazardeth her owne life, meeting ſometimes with a net, ſometimes with a pellet: ſo …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 228 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it. The Athenians bewrayed the like when they made an image to Victoria without wingeswings to the end ſhe ſhould not flie away from them. And the Sicilians when …
With rule
… it. The Athenians bewrayed the like when they made an image to Victoria without wingeswings to the end ſhe ſhould not flie away from them. And the Sicilians when …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 138 · 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.