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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3087 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sailessails

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

Puritas changed it
528 times in 296 works
Consistency
100% (528 of 528)
Reach if approved
~556 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: sails
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
529 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
1 places (not counted against it)

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (528 changes in 296 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 528)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    This ſhould teach vs to plucke downe our ſailessails, and to abate the great daintineſſe of our bodies whereunto we are growne. Such …
    With rule
    This ſhould teach vs to plucke downe our ſailessails, and to abate the great daintineſſe of our bodies whereunto we are growne. Such …

    Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 858 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … you are, when you haue neuer so small an occasion to set abroad the sailessails of your railing, & reuiling oration. But let vs see, whether Beza deserue so much …
    With rule
    … you are, when you haue neuer so small an occasion to set abroad the sailessails of your railing, & reuiling oration. But let vs see, whether Beza deserue so much …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 309 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … go or sit still, as in a ship wee are caried speedily, with full sailessails, thorow the sea of this turbulent world, to the port and hauen of our …
    With rule
    … go or sit still, as in a ship wee are caried speedily, with full sailessails, thorow the sea of this turbulent world, to the port and hauen of our …

    William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … takes away the ſenſe of his favour: The Sea is the world, the Soule ſailessails about, and a little gale carrieth it on, but if it ſhould have great …
    With rule
    … takes away the ſenſe of his favour: The Sea is the world, the Soule ſailessails about, and a little gale carrieth it on, but if it ſhould have great …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Engrafting Into Christ · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … sine doctrina, est nauis sine velis, a Priest without knowledge, is a ship without sailessails. By liberalitie: for Nihil habet homo adeò diuinum quàm benefacere, man is in nothing …
    With rule
    … sine doctrina, est nauis sine velis, a Priest without knowledge, is a ship without sailessails. By liberalitie: for Nihil habet homo adeò diuinum quàm benefacere, man is in nothing …

    William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … a man changeth his course (as it were, from East to West) when hee sailessails to a quite contrary point of the Compasse, when the Rudder of his life …
    With rule
    … a man changeth his course (as it were, from East to West) when hee sailessails to a quite contrary point of the Compasse, when the Rudder of his life …

    John Preston · The Saints Qualification · p. 49 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … nigh ſome rocke, thinkes the rocke runnes from the ſhip, when indeed the ſhip ſailessails and the rocke ſtands ſtill: ſo we leaue the waies of God, and run …
    With rule
    … nigh ſome rocke, thinkes the rocke runnes from the ſhip, when indeed the ſhip ſailessails and the rocke ſtands ſtill: ſo we leaue the waies of God, and run …

    Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … That our ſhip may goe ſafe and ſteddy, we muſt not only have the ſailessails of love to make it goe ſwift; but the ballaſt of feare to make …
    With rule
    … That our ſhip may goe ſafe and ſteddy, we muſt not only have the ſailessails of love to make it goe ſwift; but the ballaſt of feare to make …

    John Stoughton · The Righteous Mans Plea to True Happiness · p. 107 · 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.