Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3117 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tossetoss

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

Puritas changed it: 324 times in 247 works
Consistency: 97.0% (324 of 334)
Reach if approved: ~351 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: toss
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 334 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (324 changes in 247 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 324)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of God, and take it for a glory, to giue it a foile; that tossetoss Gods Word vp and downe like a tennis-ball, and shew no more reuerence …
With rule
… of God, and take it for a glory, to giue it a foile; that tossetoss Gods Word vp and downe like a tennis-ball, and shew no more reuerence …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 314 · Open in the reader
Printed
… no reste neither night nor daye. The desire and care of money doth so tossetoss hym, as it were the sea, when it is most vnquiet. He inuenteth suche …
With rule
… no reste neither night nor daye. The desire and care of money doth so tossetoss hym, as it were the sea, when it is most vnquiet. He inuenteth suche …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · p. 76 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſand for abound of the ſea by a perpetuall decree & the waues though they toſſetoss, & roare cannot paſſe it? Our lives, our ſoules are in Gods hands. Hee hath …
With rule
… ſand for abound of the ſea by a perpetuall decree & the waues though they toſſetoss, & roare cannot paſſe it? Our lives, our ſoules are in Gods hands. Hee hath …
William Price · The Souls Porter to Cast Out Sin · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… winde to beate thee from Chriſt; all …n…ations are as manie windes to toſſetoss thee heere and there that thou ſettle not. Looke then if we haue neede …
With rule
… winde to beate thee from Chriſt; all …n…ations are as manie windes to toſſetoss thee heere and there that thou ſettle not. Looke then if we haue neede …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in nothing els. For we rest vppon the worke wrought as they did, we tossetoss it from poste▪ to piller as they did in one word, if a number …
With rule
… in nothing els. For we rest vppon the worke wrought as they did, we tossetoss it from poste▪ to piller as they did in one word, if a number …
John Udall · The Combat Betwixt Christ and the Devil · Open in the reader
Printed
… by a perpetuall decree, that it cannot paſſe it; and though the waves thereof toſſetoss themſelves, yet can they not prevaile, though they roare yet can they not paſſe …
With rule
… by a perpetuall decree, that it cannot paſſe it; and though the waves thereof toſſetoss themſelves, yet can they not prevaile, though they roare yet can they not paſſe …
Hezekiah Woodward · A Childs Patrimony · p. 116 · Open in the reader
Printed
… re-inuitation as men at Tennisse, tossetoss the ball to another, that hee may tossetoss it to them againe: but who helpes the poore? Wealth maketh many friends, but …
With rule
… re-inuitation as men at Tennisse, tossetoss the ball to another, that hee may tossetoss it to them againe: but who helpes the poore? Wealth maketh many friends, but …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a ſythe, then to take vp a ſword, to lift a pitchforke then to toſſetoss a pike, to handle a mattocke then to hold a musket, and to carrie …
With rule
… a ſythe, then to take vp a ſword, to lift a pitchforke then to toſſetoss a pike, to handle a mattocke then to hold a musket, and to carrie …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 421 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 6 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Virtues History A11081

Printed
TosseToss vp and downe with some vncertaine winde,
With rule
TosseToss vp and downe with some vncertaine winde,
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 4-7 A35438

Printed
… Robber, is given from both: From the firſt, becauſe robbers and ſpoylers are commonly ToſſeToss pots and drunkards, men that love their liquor, a thirſty generation in that ſence …
With rule
… Robber, is given from both: From the firſt, becauſe robbers and ſpoylers are commonly ToſſeToss pots and drunkards, men that love their liquor, a thirſty generation in that ſence …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 4-7 · p. 211 · Open in the reader

Some New Blazing Stars Styling Themselves New Lights A91187

Printed
… to do miſcheife, and then, THE COMMON PEOPLE will beg in to ſing, Her ToſſeToss, The Devil's dead; Presbytery will quickly dye, the Synod be diſſolved, the divell chained …
With rule
… to do miſcheife, and then, THE COMMON PEOPLE will beg in to ſing, Her ToſſeToss, The Devil's dead; Presbytery will quickly dye, the Synod be diſſolved, the divell chained …
William Prynne · Some New Blazing Stars Styling Themselves New Lights · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
ToſſeToss; teare, ſplit, ſinke us, and we ſhipwracke make.
With rule
ToſſeToss; teare, ſplit, ſinke us, and we ſhipwracke make.
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 82 · Open in the reader