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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3039 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

licentiousnesselicentiousness

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

Puritas changed it
875 times in 479 works
Consistency
100% (875 of 875)
Reach if approved
~919 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: licentiousness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
875 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (875 changes in 479 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 875)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … receiued any grace, to take heede of going backe. This doctrine tends not to licentiousnesselicentiousness (as Papists slander it) For 1. We grant the best may fall, and cannot choose …
    With rule
    … receiued any grace, to take heede of going backe. This doctrine tends not to licentiousnesselicentiousness (as Papists slander it) For 1. We grant the best may fall, and cannot choose …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    19. But let them ſay what they will, and cloake their licentiouſneſſelicentiousness with neuer ſo holie pretences, all that haue any iudgement to diſcerne colours, which …
    With rule
    19. But let them ſay what they will, and cloake their licentiouſneſſelicentiousness with neuer ſo holie pretences, all that haue any iudgement to diſcerne colours, which …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … shew such examples of loose libertie in them selues, and throwe the raines of licentiousnesselicentiousness into the neckes of others. They remember not the honourable calling whiche they haue …
    With rule
    … shew such examples of loose libertie in them selues, and throwe the raines of licentiousnesselicentiousness into the neckes of others. They remember not the honourable calling whiche they haue …

    Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … frenzie, and lull vs ſo dangerouſly aſleepe, that many in a frantike fit of licentiouſneſſelicentiousness, runne headlong to perdition, and while they reioyce, they raue; and many in a …
    With rule
    … frenzie, and lull vs ſo dangerouſly aſleepe, that many in a frantike fit of licentiouſneſſelicentiousness, runne headlong to perdition, and while they reioyce, they raue; and many in a …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 229 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … impoſſible to attaine, ſo it is dangerous to attaine, this opens a gappe to licentiouſneſſelicentiousness. I wonder what feare there is of this, ſince wee affirme that this aſſurance …
    With rule
    … impoſſible to attaine, ſo it is dangerous to attaine, this opens a gappe to licentiouſneſſelicentiousness. I wonder what feare there is of this, ſince wee affirme that this aſſurance …

    Henry Ramsden · A Gleaning in Gods Harvest · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … more thankfulneſſe and humbleneſſe to walke forward. If any therefore abuſe this liberty to licentiouſneſſelicentiousness and boldneſſe in ſinning, they ſhall beare their puniſhment; and let them be ſure …
    With rule
    … more thankfulneſſe and humbleneſſe to walke forward. If any therefore abuſe this liberty to licentiouſneſſelicentiousness and boldneſſe in ſinning, they ſhall beare their puniſhment; and let them be ſure …

    Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 517 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … so oft doth; Oh what a wide gap doth Mr. B. open here to licentiousnesselicentiousness, when he implieth that for actions meerely naturall or ciuill, there needs no warrant …
    With rule
    … so oft doth; Oh what a wide gap doth Mr. B. open here to licentiousnesselicentiousness, when he implieth that for actions meerely naturall or ciuill, there needs no warrant …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 254 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … It is no easie worke, to make men righteous. If they could retaine couetise, licentiousnesselicentiousness, vaine-glory, in their seruice, and withall be Righteous, there were some hope: but …
    With rule
    … It is no easie worke, to make men righteous. If they could retaine couetise, licentiousnesselicentiousness, vaine-glory, in their seruice, and withall be Righteous, there were some hope: but …

    Thomas Adams · Heaven and Earth Reconciled · 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.