Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3092 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sharpnessesharpness

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

Puritas changed it: 583 times in 353 works
Consistency: 98.3% (583 of 593)
Reach if approved: ~623 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sharpness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 593 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (583 changes in 353 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 583)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is called Acies (ſaith Iſidor) from the defenſiue Armes of proofe, and from the ſharpneſſesharpness of the ſword. When ſwords are ſharped, and the ſight of the eye is …
With rule
… is called Acies (ſaith Iſidor) from the defenſiue Armes of proofe, and from the ſharpneſſesharpness of the ſword. When ſwords are ſharped, and the ſight of the eye is …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 174 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thinkeſt thou not that I haue iuſt cauſe to be tart? He commendeth his ſharpneſſesharpness to me as phyſicall, to vomit my choler, and to caſt vp ill humours …
With rule
… thinkeſt thou not that I haue iuſt cauſe to be tart? He commendeth his ſharpneſſesharpness to me as phyſicall, to vomit my choler, and to caſt vp ill humours …
Richard Bernard · Plain Evidences the Church of England is Apostolical · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for some diseases must be purged with bitter pills, others not with the like sharpnessesharpness: againe, some physicke is for weakning, others for restoring the strength: even so there …
With rule
… for some diseases must be purged with bitter pills, others not with the like sharpnessesharpness: againe, some physicke is for weakning, others for restoring the strength: even so there …
John Preston · Sins Overthrow · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we search into the actions and purposes of another; and according as is the sharpnessesharpness of our owne wits, or the course of our owne behaviour and practices, we …
With rule
… we search into the actions and purposes of another; and according as is the sharpnessesharpness of our owne wits, or the course of our owne behaviour and practices, we …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 157 · Open in the reader
Printed
And certainly its true, the ſharpneſſesharpness of God towards his children in their leuiora delicta, argues his extremer ſeueritie againſt …
With rule
And certainly its true, the ſharpneſſesharpness of God towards his children in their leuiora delicta, argues his extremer ſeueritie againſt …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… it, to cleanſe the moſt putrefied ſore. I rebuke and chaſten; there is the ſharpneſſesharpness, and as it were the ſearching vertue of hony: As many as I love …
With rule
… it, to cleanſe the moſt putrefied ſore. I rebuke and chaſten; there is the ſharpneſſesharpness, and as it were the ſearching vertue of hony: As many as I love …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 681 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hay was ſold for foure Attiques. But what need is it to ſhew the ſharpneſſesharpness of this famine by things that want life? I will recount an act never …
With rule
… hay was ſold for foure Attiques. But what need is it to ſhew the ſharpneſſesharpness of this famine by things that want life? I will recount an act never …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… right things vnto vs, but ſpeake all ſmooth things vnto vs; all mildneſſe, no ſharpneſſesharpness; all mercy, no judgement; all promiſes, no penalties; all words of commanding, but no …
With rule
… right things vnto vs, but ſpeake all ſmooth things vnto vs; all mildneſſe, no ſharpneſſesharpness; all mercy, no judgement; all promiſes, no penalties; all words of commanding, but no …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 55 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Preachers Plea A03304

Printed
… agree thoſe properties of the word which the Apoſtle makes mention of: to wit, SharpneſſeSharpness and entring through, to the diuiding aſunder of the ſoule and the ſpirit, and …
With rule
… agree thoſe properties of the word which the Apoſtle makes mention of: to wit, SharpneſſeSharpness and entring through, to the diuiding aſunder of the ſoule and the ſpirit, and …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 205 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul A10663

Printed
… first difficulty which it meets with, is affrighted and discouraged; or out of a SharpnesseSharpness of Apprehension, discovering Insufficiency in that wherein it desired content; or out of an …
With rule
… first difficulty which it meets with, is affrighted and discouraged; or out of a SharpnesseSharpness of Apprehension, discovering Insufficiency in that wherein it desired content; or out of an …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 255 · Open in the reader

A Complete Christian Dictionary A66593

Printed
SharpnesseSharpness]
With rule
SharpnesseSharpness]
Thomas Wilson · A Complete Christian Dictionary · p. 579 · Open in the reader