Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2962 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

basilebasil

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

Puritas changed it: 347 times in 104 works
Consistency: 99.4% (347 of 349)
Reach if approved: ~367 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: basil
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 349 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (347 changes in 104 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 347)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… done, if we note, that the Scripture according to the aforesaid rule of S. BasileBasil, when it speaketh of two things, as some way opposite the one to the …
With rule
… done, if we note, that the Scripture according to the aforesaid rule of S. BasileBasil, when it speaketh of two things, as some way opposite the one to the …
Edmund Bunny · Of Divorce for Adultery · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… pricke: yet yt ofte maketh a great matter. The greatnes off the metrapolitanſhip of BaſileBasil ouer Capadocia, was ſcarce a plowghe land in compariſon off that which yow imagine …
With rule
… pricke: yet yt ofte maketh a great matter. The greatnes off the metrapolitanſhip of BaſileBasil ouer Capadocia, was ſcarce a plowghe land in compariſon off that which yow imagine …
Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. CCCCXCV · Open in the reader
Printed
… Juſtin, M. Athenagoras, Tatianus, Tertullian, Clemens Alexand. Origen againſt Celſus, &c. Cyprian, Lactantius, Athanaſius, BaſileBasil Gr. Nazianzene, Nyſſen, &c.
With rule
… Juſtin, M. Athenagoras, Tatianus, Tertullian, Clemens Alexand. Origen againſt Celſus, &c. Cyprian, Lactantius, Athanaſius, BaſileBasil Gr. Nazianzene, Nyſſen, &c.
Richard Baxter · The Reasons of the Christian Religion Part 1 · p. 453 · Open in the reader
Printed
But leuing VVittenberge, I come to BasileBasil, where I will be more parciall, not bicause I can not prayse him sufficiently …
With rule
But leuing VVittenberge, I come to BasileBasil, where I will be more parciall, not bicause I can not prayse him sufficiently …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader
Printed
… Prelates looke for leſſe? The Biſhop Argenſius found by experience in the Councill of BaſileBasil, that there is no dealing with Superiours who expect the inferiour muſt ſuccumbere: and …
With rule
… Prelates looke for leſſe? The Biſhop Argenſius found by experience in the Councill of BaſileBasil, that there is no dealing with Superiours who expect the inferiour muſt ſuccumbere: and …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · Open in the reader
Printed
… the auncient Lyturgies bearing the names of Iames the Apoſtle, of Chriſostome, and of BaſileBasil, nor in the Liturgie of the reformed Churges, it ſeemeth there was no cauſe …
With rule
… the auncient Lyturgies bearing the names of Iames the Apoſtle, of Chriſostome, and of BaſileBasil, nor in the Liturgie of the reformed Churges, it ſeemeth there was no cauſe …
Walter Travers · Defense of the Ecclesiastical Discipline · p. 114 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with blasphemie, which notwithstanding they cannot auoyde: Let vs heare, what the fathers of BasileBasil say to this poynt. Bellarmine saith, the Pope is the husband: but they reason …
With rule
… with blasphemie, which notwithstanding they cannot auoyde: Let vs heare, what the fathers of BasileBasil say to this poynt. Bellarmine saith, the Pope is the husband: but they reason …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… was a wanton, Mercurius a theefe, Iupiter a monsterous adulterer, an ingenious man (as BasileBasil writes) would blush to report that of beastes, which the Gentiles haue recorded of …
With rule
… was a wanton, Mercurius a theefe, Iupiter a monsterous adulterer, an ingenious man (as BasileBasil writes) would blush to report that of beastes, which the Gentiles haue recorded of …
John Boys · Exposition of the Last Psalm · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Confutation of Unwritten Verities A19566

Printed
BAsileBasil of the holy goste. Cap. 27. Of those doctrines / that ar preached in the churche …
With rule
BAsileBasil of the holy goste. Cap. 27. Of those doctrines / that ar preached in the churche …
Archishop Thomas Cranmer · Confutation of Unwritten Verities · Open in the reader