Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2988 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

decayesdecays

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

Puritas changed it: 621 times in 380 works
Consistency: 88.2% (621 of 704)
Reach if approved: ~740 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: decays
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 704 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (621 changes in 380 works, 88.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 621)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
Vexed her I haue, with battayles and decayesdecays,
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Vexed her I haue, with battayles and decayesdecays,
John Bale · A Tragedy Manifesting the Chief Promises of God Unto Man · Open in the reader
Printed
Quhen earthly pleasure, game, and myrth decayesdecays:
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Quhen earthly pleasure, game, and myrth decayesdecays:
James Melville · A Spiritual Propine of a Pastor to his People · Open in the reader
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… way, but hee followes hard after the marke; though he be subiect to many decayesdecays, to many sweruings and declinings, yet, still he makes them vp againe, still hee …
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… way, but hee followes hard after the marke; though he be subiect to many decayesdecays, to many sweruings and declinings, yet, still he makes them vp againe, still hee …
John Preston · The New Covenant · p. 16 · Open in the reader
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… for that purpose, it being otherwise of it selfe subject to continuall languishings and decayesdecays. And this life is thus continued and preserved amongst other meanes by the grace …
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… for that purpose, it being otherwise of it selfe subject to continuall languishings and decayesdecays. And this life is thus continued and preserved amongst other meanes by the grace …
Edward Reynolds · Meditations on the Lords Supper · p. 173 · Open in the reader
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Then vertue of thy spotted soule decayesdecays,
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Then vertue of thy spotted soule decayesdecays,
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader
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… vnto Chriſtianitie, as the firſt ſinne was pride; So when God doth repaire the decayesdecays of nature by the worke of grace, the firſt grace wrought in the renewed …
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… vnto Chriſtianitie, as the firſt ſinne was pride; So when God doth repaire the decayesdecays of nature by the worke of grace, the firſt grace wrought in the renewed …
Samuel Smith · The Ethiopian Eunuchs Conversion · p. 217 · Open in the reader
Printed
With its bright beames the eye-sight much decayesdecays,
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With its bright beames the eye-sight much decayesdecays,
John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
… beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignitie, and the excellencie of power. Man decayesdecays, and the children of age are not so strong as the children of youth …
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… beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignitie, and the excellencie of power. Man decayesdecays, and the children of age are not so strong as the children of youth …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 75 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (83)

51 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 28 are listed here. 32 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Touch-Stone of Grace A02746

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Fifthly, it is only grace which makes vp DecayesDecays and defects in Nature, which all the things in the world cannot doe. Arte …
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Fifthly, it is only grace which makes vp DecayesDecays and defects in Nature, which all the things in the world cannot doe. Arte …
Adam Harsnett · A Touch-Stone of Grace · p. 217 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

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… should observe in them, their essentiall Properties, their Ebbes and Flowes, their Springings and DecayesDecays, the manner of their severall Impressions, the Physicall Effects which are wrought by them …
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… should observe in them, their essentiall Properties, their Ebbes and Flowes, their Springings and DecayesDecays, the manner of their severall Impressions, the Physicall Effects which are wrought by them …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 41 · Open in the reader

The Grand Evil Discovered A39699

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… Strength and Power to resist it: Now so far as we are under the DecayesDecays mentioned, so far is the Heart divided through the deceitfulness of Sin.
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… Strength and Power to resist it: Now so far as we are under the DecayesDecays mentioned, so far is the Heart divided through the deceitfulness of Sin.
Phineas Flavel · The Grand Evil Discovered · p. 44 · Open in the reader
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… this work as necessary. The fruit of a Deceitful heart in the Lives and DecayesDecays of many in point of Holiness, and the Scandals and Miscarriages that others are …
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… this work as necessary. The fruit of a Deceitful heart in the Lives and DecayesDecays of many in point of Holiness, and the Scandals and Miscarriages that others are …
Phineas Flavel · The Grand Evil Discovered · p. 57 · Open in the reader

One Hundred Select Sermons A44565

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… refreſh it ſelf with all. That when the Body Languiſhes, and the outward man DecayesDecays, and as it was once with good old Barzillai, we can neither Taſte, nor …
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… refreſh it ſelf with all. That when the Body Languiſhes, and the outward man DecayesDecays, and as it was once with good old Barzillai, we can neither Taſte, nor …
Thomas Horton · One Hundred Select Sermons · p. 66 · Open in the reader

The Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers A53712

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DecayesDecays in Degrees of Grace caused by Indwelling Sin. The Waies of its prevalency to …
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DecayesDecays in Degrees of Grace caused by Indwelling Sin. The Waies of its prevalency to …
John Owen · The Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers · p. 240 · Open in the reader

The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded A53719

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… he may obtain such supplies of Grace as may effectually preserve him from such DecayesDecays.
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… he may obtain such supplies of Grace as may effectually preserve him from such DecayesDecays.
John Owen · The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded · p. 74 · Open in the reader
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… sin doth one way or other, make an encrease in them proportionate unto these DecayesDecays; and will sooner or later discover it self so to do. And themselves if …
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… sin doth one way or other, make an encrease in them proportionate unto these DecayesDecays; and will sooner or later discover it self so to do. And themselves if …
John Owen · The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded · p. 130 · Open in the reader
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… But with many of all sorts it is not so; they fall into woful DecayesDecays as unto their Affections about Spiritual things, and consequently in their whole Profession and …
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… But with many of all sorts it is not so; they fall into woful DecayesDecays as unto their Affections about Spiritual things, and consequently in their whole Profession and …
John Owen · The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded · p. 272 · Open in the reader
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Secondly, There will be in such Persons, no DecayesDecays in Holiness of Life, nor as unto Diligence in all Religious Duties. If the …
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Secondly, There will be in such Persons, no DecayesDecays in Holiness of Life, nor as unto Diligence in all Religious Duties. If the …
John Owen · The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded · p. 274 · Open in the reader
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… bear with them who are utterly dead, than with those who abide under these DecayesDecays, Rev. 3.15, 16. This is the only Case wherein he threatens to reject and cast off …
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… bear with them who are utterly dead, than with those who abide under these DecayesDecays, Rev. 3.15, 16. This is the only Case wherein he threatens to reject and cast off …
John Owen · The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded · p. 275 · Open in the reader

Concerning the Holy Spirit A53720

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… Actual sins, these he cures and makes up, healing our backslidings and repairing our DecayesDecays. And he acts the Grace we have received by constant fresh Supplyes. He wants …
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… Actual sins, these he cures and makes up, healing our backslidings and repairing our DecayesDecays. And he acts the Grace we have received by constant fresh Supplyes. He wants …
John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 347 · Open in the reader
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… unto Death and Dissolution. And we know many of us how hardly these insensible DecayesDecays are discerned: Unless some great and violent disease befall us, we rather know that …
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… unto Death and Dissolution. And we know many of us how hardly these insensible DecayesDecays are discerned: Unless some great and violent disease befall us, we rather know that …
John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 351 · Open in the reader
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(3^ly.) It is acknowledged that there may be, that there are in many great DecayesDecays in Grace and Holiness; that the work of Sanctification goeth back in them, and …
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(3^ly.) It is acknowledged that there may be, that there are in many great DecayesDecays in Grace and Holiness; that the work of Sanctification goeth back in them, and …
John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 353 · Open in the reader
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… own Experience? What shall we say then, is there no sincere Holiness where such DecayesDecays are found? God forbid; But we must enquire the Reasons whence this comes to …
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… own Experience? What shall we say then, is there no sincere Holiness where such DecayesDecays are found? God forbid; But we must enquire the Reasons whence this comes to …
John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 353 · Open in the reader
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… they are as the first Acts of Life, which principally evidence the Strength or DecayesDecays of it. And from these we may take the best Measure of our spiritual …
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… they are as the first Acts of Life, which principally evidence the Strength or DecayesDecays of it. And from these we may take the best Measure of our spiritual …
John Owen · Concerning the Holy Spirit · p. 464 · Open in the reader

Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery A57579

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… all the Revolutions of Empires and Nations, their Original, their Growth, their Prosperities and DecayesDecays, so he does likewise over particular persons in their Life and Death. His knowledge …
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… all the Revolutions of Empires and Nations, their Original, their Growth, their Prosperities and DecayesDecays, so he does likewise over particular persons in their Life and Death. His knowledge …
Timothy Rogers · Practical Discourses on Sickness and Recovery · p. 21 · Open in the reader

Concerning Old Age A61390

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… that its only contracted by imi…ation and custome, must needs yield that the DecayesDecays, the …eebleness and the Dyscrasy, even of the temperatest man in the world, must …
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… that its only contracted by imi…ation and custome, must needs yield that the DecayesDecays, the …eebleness and the Dyscrasy, even of the temperatest man in the world, must …
Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 22 · Open in the reader
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… God, take me not away in the midst of my dayes. So that these DecayesDecays must not be impropriated to Old-age; any Age may be afflicted with them …
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… God, take me not away in the midst of my dayes. So that these DecayesDecays must not be impropriated to Old-age; any Age may be afflicted with them …
Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 142 · Open in the reader
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… for Eyes, he was mistaken in his own Sons. Indeed the Degrees of these DecayesDecays are different, in some less, in some greater: but as in Houses the Windows …
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… for Eyes, he was mistaken in his own Sons. Indeed the Degrees of these DecayesDecays are different, in some less, in some greater: but as in Houses the Windows …
Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 151 · Open in the reader
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… of the Ear, as there are for the Dimness of the Eye. However, the DecayesDecays of either of them, especially of Both these senses, are a great Disadvantage, and …
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… of the Ear, as there are for the Dimness of the Eye. However, the DecayesDecays of either of them, especially of Both these senses, are a great Disadvantage, and …
Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 153 · Open in the reader
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And lastly, let us that feel these DecayesDecays, greatly magnify the Lord, who hath directed us to the use of Glasses and …
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And lastly, let us that feel these DecayesDecays, greatly magnify the Lord, who hath directed us to the use of Glasses and …
Richard Steele · Concerning Old Age · p. 157 · Open in the reader

Upon Uprightness A61396

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2. Of DecayesDecays. 172
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2. Of DecayesDecays. 172
Richard Steele · Upon Uprightness · Open in the reader
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O but 2. I have experience of DecayesDecays in my soul, and no growth. The path of the just is like the …
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O but 2. I have experience of DecayesDecays in my soul, and no growth. The path of the just is like the …
Richard Steele · Upon Uprightness · p. 172 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jude A87554

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7. DecayesDecays in grace are moſt repugnant to a Chriſtians welfare; decreaſing in ſpiritual bleſſings directly …
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7. DecayesDecays in grace are moſt repugnant to a Chriſtians welfare; decreaſing in ſpiritual bleſſings directly …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude · p. 171 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jude 2 A87557

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… ſtrong current, fals down the ſtream, if the Oars reſt but never ſo little: DecayesDecays in ſpirituals deſerve moſt of our pity. It's not ſo uncomfortable to ſee a …
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… ſtrong current, fals down the ſtream, if the Oars reſt but never ſo little: DecayesDecays in ſpirituals deſerve moſt of our pity. It's not ſo uncomfortable to ſee a …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude 2 · p. 339 · Open in the reader
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1. In reſpect of God; DecayesDecays in our Chriſtian courſe, oppoſe his nature in whom is no ſhadow of change …
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1. In reſpect of God; DecayesDecays in our Chriſtian courſe, oppoſe his nature in whom is no ſhadow of change …
William Jenkyn · Exposition of Jude 2 · p. 355 · Open in the reader

The Duty and Honor of Aged Women N01257

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… Excellencies, and bury their Infirmities; not taking our Judgment of them from their preſent DecayesDecays, but their paſt Uſe and Services, and their abiding growing Devotion.
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… Excellencies, and bury their Infirmities; not taking our Judgment of them from their preſent DecayesDecays, but their paſt Uſe and Services, and their abiding growing Devotion.
Benjamin Colman · The Duty and Honor of Aged Women · p. 43 · Open in the reader