Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3048 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

malignemalign

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

Puritas changed it: 372 times in 258 works
Consistency: 98.9% (372 of 376)
Reach if approved: ~395 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: malign
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 376 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (372 changes in 258 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 372)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Church, though they repent of their sinnes as David, he will not cease to malignemalign and abuse them, yea & to defame the whole Church therby, as if it were …
With rule
… Church, though they repent of their sinnes as David, he will not cease to malignemalign and abuse them, yea & to defame the whole Church therby, as if it were …
Francis Johnson · Inquiry and Answer of Thomas Whites Discovery of Brownism · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
Looke what soeuer sinne they reproue, the gilty can not abide, but malignemalign the preacher, and seeke to do him displeasure. The Gergesens had rather Christ shulde …
With rule
Looke what soeuer sinne they reproue, the gilty can not abide, but malignemalign the preacher, and seeke to do him displeasure. The Gergesens had rather Christ shulde …
Thomas Becon · The Fortress of the Faithful Against the Cruel Assaults of Poverty and Hunger · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, and carry a ſpeciall loue towards him, what though the ſubiect hate and malignemalign him, the Kings fauour will keepe him farre enough out of the reach of …
With rule
… man, and carry a ſpeciall loue towards him, what though the ſubiect hate and malignemalign him, the Kings fauour will keepe him farre enough out of the reach of …
John Randall · Saint Pauls Triumph · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in ſecret pride of heart, any ſhould ſwell againſt this, as being readier to malignemalign and enuy it, then to correct it: I would deſire him not to hinder …
With rule
… in ſecret pride of heart, any ſhould ſwell againſt this, as being readier to malignemalign and enuy it, then to correct it: I would deſire him not to hinder …
Richard Rogers · Seven Treatises · p. 584 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in ſtead of imitating their vertues, or commending their gifts, wee enuie them and malignemalign them, and ſo their ioye is our ſorrow. But the enuious man doth pay …
With rule
… in ſtead of imitating their vertues, or commending their gifts, wee enuie them and malignemalign them, and ſo their ioye is our ſorrow. But the enuious man doth pay …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 355 · Open in the reader
Printed
Some men are of …uch malignemalign constitution, as that they haue nothing in their hearts, …eads, or lippes, but lawe …
With rule
Some men are of …uch malignemalign constitution, as that they haue nothing in their hearts, …eads, or lippes, but lawe …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 582 · Open in the reader
Printed
… good opinions, scorne all the rabble of vncharitable detractors: For none I know will malignemalign it except those, who eyther particularly malice my person, or professe th…mselues enemies …
With rule
… good opinions, scorne all the rabble of vncharitable detractors: For none I know will malignemalign it except those, who eyther particularly malice my person, or professe th…mselues enemies …
George Wither · The Shepherds Hunting · Open in the reader
Printed
… do you so cruelly detest him? Why do your brethren so hatefully enuie and malignemalign your naturall brother? And beeyng Iewes borne your selues, why do you so vylanously …
With rule
… do you so cruelly detest him? Why do your brethren so hatefully enuie and malignemalign your naturall brother? And beeyng Iewes borne your selues, why do you so vylanously …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Sermons on Psalm 119 A51842

Printed
… hate them. As Herod seared Iohn, and put him to Death, Mark 6. 20. Still men MaligneMalign, what they will not Imitate; Natural Conscience in them doth homage to the Image …
With rule
… hate them. As Herod seared Iohn, and put him to Death, Mark 6. 20. Still men MaligneMalign, what they will not Imitate; Natural Conscience in them doth homage to the Image …
Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · p. 998 · Open in the reader