Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3128 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

weedesweeds

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

Puritas changed it: 430 times in 232 works
Consistency: 97.0% (430 of 443)
Reach if approved: ~465 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: weeds
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 443 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (430 changes in 232 works, 97.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 430)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… doe our beſt, to plucke vp by the roots …ll briars, and thornes, and weedesweeds, that the hearbs may be ſeene. For it is warranted by the Holy Ghoſt …
With rule
… doe our beſt, to plucke vp by the roots …ll briars, and thornes, and weedesweeds, that the hearbs may be ſeene. For it is warranted by the Holy Ghoſt …
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 108 · Open in the reader
Printed
The weedesweeds I confeſſe doe hinder the growth of the good corne, and are there with …
With rule
The weedesweeds I confeſſe doe hinder the growth of the good corne, and are there with …
Gabriel Powel · Refutation of a Puritan-Papist · p. 61 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Apples. We bee of our selues of such earth, as can bring foorth but weedesweeds, nettles, brambles, briers, cockle, and darnell. Wee haue neither Faith, Charitie, Hope, Patience, Chastitie …
With rule
… Apples. We bee of our selues of such earth, as can bring foorth but weedesweeds, nettles, brambles, briers, cockle, and darnell. Wee haue neither Faith, Charitie, Hope, Patience, Chastitie …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
… burning, quarelling, fighting, spilling of blood, vnsupportable sorowes of heart, cursed despaire, selfe-executions, weedesweeds able to blemish and disgrace the lawfullest recreation that is▪ wheresoeuer they be found …
With rule
… burning, quarelling, fighting, spilling of blood, vnsupportable sorowes of heart, cursed despaire, selfe-executions, weedesweeds able to blemish and disgrace the lawfullest recreation that is▪ wheresoeuer they be found …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 256 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to plow vp the fallowes of your hearts, to deſtroy and kill the vnprofitable weedesweeds of ſinne and wickedneſſe in you, and to make your hearts a pure and …
With rule
… to plow vp the fallowes of your hearts, to deſtroy and kill the vnprofitable weedesweeds of ſinne and wickedneſſe in you, and to make your hearts a pure and …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and conſcience. The curſed earth is not ſo apt to bee ouer-growne with weedesweeds, bryars, thornes and thiſtles, as the ſoule with luſts, paſſions, diſtempers, worldly cares, and …
With rule
… and conſcience. The curſed earth is not ſo apt to bee ouer-growne with weedesweeds, bryars, thornes and thiſtles, as the ſoule with luſts, paſſions, diſtempers, worldly cares, and …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 252 · Open in the reader
Printed
… patrimonie of the common wealth; for, as the fatteſt ſoile bringeth forth the rankeſt weedesweeds, when it is not plowed: ſo great houſes, not well ordered, bring forth the …
With rule
… patrimonie of the common wealth; for, as the fatteſt ſoile bringeth forth the rankeſt weedesweeds, when it is not plowed: ſo great houſes, not well ordered, bring forth the …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fields we ſee haue many weedesweeds, yet we call them Cornefields, not fields of weedesweeds: ſo heere, yea Grace, though it ſeeme little ouer that ſinne ſheweth to be …
With rule
… fields we ſee haue many weedesweeds, yet we call them Cornefields, not fields of weedesweeds: ſo heere, yea Grace, though it ſeeme little ouer that ſinne ſheweth to be …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 16 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (13)

6 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 Devils Banket Described A00888

Printed
… grow vp among sober and wholesome admonitions: the same ground produceth both Hearbes and WeedesWeeds, and so nourisheth both Sheepe and Serpents. Terra salutiferas herbas, eademque nocentes nutrit, & vrticae …
With rule
… grow vp among sober and wholesome admonitions: the same ground produceth both Hearbes and WeedesWeeds, and so nourisheth both Sheepe and Serpents. Terra salutiferas herbas, eademque nocentes nutrit, & vrticae …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 56 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… Oratour vnto him in their name) to this poore House and Citie, amongst these WeedesWeeds and Mudde, where thy poore Fathers, Grandfathers, and Kinsfolkes endure what it pleaseth the …
With rule
… Oratour vnto him in their name) to this poore House and Citie, amongst these WeedesWeeds and Mudde, where thy poore Fathers, Grandfathers, and Kinsfolkes endure what it pleaseth the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 661 · Open in the reader

Davids Learning A13538

Printed
… when he was in his owne sense cast off, and compassed with Waues and WeedesWeeds? Was Israel euer more compassed with mercie, then when they were compassed with Mountaines …
With rule
… when he was in his owne sense cast off, and compassed with Waues and WeedesWeeds? Was Israel euer more compassed with mercie, then when they were compassed with Mountaines …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 395 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
… ſowing good ſeede, or vnder-ſow his ground by ſparing his Corne, Thiſtles and WeedesWeeds will ſpring vp in ſtead thereof. Let a man haue food withdrawne from him …
With rule
… ſowing good ſeede, or vnder-ſow his ground by ſparing his Corne, Thiſtles and WeedesWeeds will ſpring vp in ſtead thereof. Let a man haue food withdrawne from him …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
Thornes, Thiſtles, Brambles, WeedesWeeds of Rockes oft grow;
With rule
Thornes, Thiſtles, Brambles, WeedesWeeds of Rockes oft grow;
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
Not onely WeedesWeeds, but Serpents, Adders, Snakes,
With rule
Not onely WeedesWeeds, but Serpents, Adders, Snakes,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 129 · Open in the reader