Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3152 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pairepair

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

Puritas changed it: 839 times in 445 works
Consistency: 94.9% (839 of 884)
Reach if approved: ~930 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pair
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 885 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (839 changes in 445 works, 94.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 839)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… bodie, where they by the ſpirites, become one man: of mutuall loue, like a pairepair of Turtle Doues, who neuer know any other but one mate: of Chriſt and …
With rule
… bodie, where they by the ſpirites, become one man: of mutuall loue, like a pairepair of Turtle Doues, who neuer know any other but one mate: of Chriſt and …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · Open in the reader
Printed
… h: so f h, that is z g, is unto g r. And two pairepair of shankes f h, g r, f c, g z, by the 6 e xxj …
With rule
… h: so f h, that is z g, is unto g r. And two pairepair of shankes f h, g r, f c, g z, by the 6 e xxj …
Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · p. 281 · Open in the reader
Printed
… churches in the day time. And PATER NOSTER in popery is latine for a pairepair of beades. And becauſe Chriſt ſayd Be like vnto children. Therefore ſay they our …
With rule
… churches in the day time. And PATER NOSTER in popery is latine for a pairepair of beades. And becauſe Chriſt ſayd Be like vnto children. Therefore ſay they our …
William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 32 · Open in the reader
Printed
… crowne ſuteth well with a Lion, a ſword or knife with a calfe, a pairepair of ſcales with a man, and a multitude of dead carkaſſes with an eagle …
With rule
… crowne ſuteth well with a Lion, a ſword or knife with a calfe, a pairepair of ſcales with a man, and a multitude of dead carkaſſes with an eagle …
John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 316 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nightcap vpon his head, and a corner cappe vpon the ſame, going in a pairepair of ſlippers to the ſtake.
With rule
… nightcap vpon his head, and a corner cappe vpon the ſame, going in a pairepair of ſlippers to the ſtake.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 178 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the way: if there be no worldly buſineſſe to be done, then a pairepair of cards, or tables, or ſome honeſt recreation, it ſhould be nowe no good …
With rule
… in the way: if there be no worldly buſineſſe to be done, then a pairepair of cards, or tables, or ſome honeſt recreation, it ſhould be nowe no good …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… many of them were ſecretly conveighed away that very night. For, there were a pairepair of water ſtairs leading out of the garden, appertaining to that houſe, into the …
With rule
… many of them were ſecretly conveighed away that very night. For, there were a pairepair of water ſtairs leading out of the garden, appertaining to that houſe, into the …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 398 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sayth Theodoricus) the Cardinall of Sanger was first broughte vp vnto vs, with a pairepair of iron shakles on his feete and a short mantel about him, because it …
With rule
… sayth Theodoricus) the Cardinall of Sanger was first broughte vp vnto vs, with a pairepair of iron shakles on his feete and a short mantel about him, because it …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (45)

30 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 19 are listed here. 15 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Opening of the Ten Commandments A15011

Printed
1. PairePair.
With rule
1. PairePair.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. PairePair.
With rule
3. PairePair.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
5. PairePair.
With rule
5. PairePair.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
1. PairePair.
With rule
1. PairePair.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 196 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. PairePair.
With rule
3. PairePair.
William Whately · Opening of the Ten Commandments · p. 196 · Open in the reader

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

Printed
Thrice bleſſed, and moſt fitly-matched PAIREPAIR)
With rule
Thrice bleſſed, and moſt fitly-matched PAIREPAIR)
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · Open in the reader
Printed
With ſuch a PairePair, when Kings and Queenes were Sainted.
With rule
With ſuch a PairePair, when Kings and Queenes were Sainted.
George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · Open in the reader

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
… their groanes against him, and by the cry of the bloud of that glorious PairePair of Martyrs at Oxford, which hee so insatiably thirsted after? Let all those then …
With rule
… their groanes against him, and by the cry of the bloud of that glorious PairePair of Martyrs at Oxford, which hee so insatiably thirsted after? Let all those then …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · p. 65 · Open in the reader

Micro-Cosmography A21075

Printed
… a pairepair of Cards, and telling out a doozen of Counters for Post and PairePair, and no man is more methodicall in these businesses. Thus hee spends his age …
With rule
… a pairepair of Cards, and telling out a doozen of Counters for Post and PairePair, and no man is more methodicall in these businesses. Thus hee spends his age …
John Earle · Micro-Cosmography · Open in the reader

A Door of Hope A28659

Printed
2^d. PairePair let be thoſe two Acts of Parliament concerning Parliaments.
With rule
2^d. PairePair let be thoſe two Acts of Parliament concerning Parliaments.
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
3^d. PairePair (of Additions) are thoſe other two Acts, which have taken away that Pair of …
With rule
3^d. PairePair (of Additions) are thoſe other two Acts, which have taken away that Pair of …
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fifth PairePair or Meſſe would be two Statutes which are more speciall for ſome particular Counties …
With rule
Fifth PairePair or Meſſe would be two Statutes which are more speciall for ſome particular Counties …
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
(Seventh PairePair.)
With rule
(Seventh PairePair.)
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
For the ninth PairePair, let us joyne together,
With rule
For the ninth PairePair, let us joyne together,
John Bond · A Door of Hope · p. 58 · Open in the reader

The Dead Yet Speaking A40646

Printed
… s Prophesied in Sackcloath till …hey were sla…ne. So here God had a PairePair of his Preachers, who by their mutuall Company, abated the tediousnesse of Solitarinesse, and …
With rule
… s Prophesied in Sackcloath till …hey were sla…ne. So here God had a PairePair of his Preachers, who by their mutuall Company, abated the tediousnesse of Solitarinesse, and …
Thomas Fuller · The Dead Yet Speaking · p. 24 · Open in the reader

The Disabled Debtor Discharged A57544

Printed
… draught of Friendſhip but is not it; That is the Herd, Friendſhip is the PairePair choſen out of it; a thing eaſily created, once being in company does it …
With rule
… draught of Friendſhip but is not it; That is the Herd, Friendſhip is the PairePair choſen out of it; a thing eaſily created, once being in company does it …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Disabled Debtor Discharged · p. 236 · Open in the reader

Grapes Among Thorns A77002

Printed
… and Commotions. But were they Conquerours at this? I might here appeal to that PairePair of Clergy, neer Stamford (but that one of them falling headlong, is burſt aſunder …
With rule
… and Commotions. But were they Conquerours at this? I might here appeal to that PairePair of Clergy, neer Stamford (but that one of them falling headlong, is burſt aſunder …
John Bond · Grapes Among Thorns · p. 30 · Open in the reader

The Fast Friend A91943

Printed
… firſt draught of it: that is (ſaith one) as the Herd; Friendſhip is the PairePair, that is taken or choſen out of it: That (in ordinary uſe) is but …
With rule
… firſt draught of it: that is (ſaith one) as the Herd; Friendſhip is the PairePair, that is taken or choſen out of it: That (in ordinary uſe) is but …
Nehemiah Rogers · The Fast Friend · p. 36 · Open in the reader

A Case for the Spectacles B14661

Printed
… HVMPHREY LYNDE Knight, In Answer to a Book written by J.R. called, A PAIREPAIR OF SPECTACLES, Together with a Treatise Intituled, STRICTURAE IN LYNDOMASTYGEM, by way of Supplement …
With rule
… HVMPHREY LYNDE Knight, In Answer to a Book written by J.R. called, A PAIREPAIR OF SPECTACLES, Together with a Treatise Intituled, STRICTURAE IN LYNDOMASTYGEM, by way of Supplement …
Humphrey Lynde · A Case for the Spectacles · Open in the reader