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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3195 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

bridegroomebridegroom

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

Puritas changed it
1,535 times in 427 works
Consistency
99.8% (1,535 of 1,538)
Reach if approved
~1,616 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bridegroom
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,538 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
bride groome (1)
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,535 changes in 427 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,535)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … with his tares: it is time to watch, if we meane to accompanie the bridegroomebridegroom.
    With rule
    … with his tares: it is time to watch, if we meane to accompanie the bridegroomebridegroom.

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … God which euery where take place. The foolish virgines went forth to meete the bridegroomebridegroom with lampes in their handes as well as the wise, but they neuer so …
    With rule
    … God which euery where take place. The foolish virgines went forth to meete the bridegroomebridegroom with lampes in their handes as well as the wise, but they neuer so …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 519 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Bride (among the heathen) on the first day of her marriage, challenged of the BridegroomeBridegroom, vbi tu Caius, ego C…, where you are Master, I must be mistresse. Mariage …
    With rule
    … Bride (among the heathen) on the first day of her marriage, challenged of the BridegroomeBridegroom, vbi tu Caius, ego C…, where you are Master, I must be mistresse. Mariage …

    Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … no sinners shall bee suffered to enter; The righteous shall be taken, with the BridegroomeBridegroom, into glory: and the ungodly with shame, shall be shut out of dores. For …
    With rule
    … no sinners shall bee suffered to enter; The righteous shall be taken, with the BridegroomeBridegroom, into glory: and the ungodly with shame, shall be shut out of dores. For …

    Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 1 · p. 108 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the same loue. Fulfill the Apostles ioy onely? the ioy of the Bride and BridegroomeBridegroom, of the Church on earth, of the Saints in heauen; of the ioy of …
    With rule
    … the same loue. Fulfill the Apostles ioy onely? the ioy of the Bride and BridegroomeBridegroom, of the Church on earth, of the Saints in heauen; of the ioy of …

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is required it be godly ſorrow, that we mourn for the abſence of the BridegroomeBridegroom, and that we faint not when we ſow, neither in faith nor obedience. In …
    With rule
    … is required it be godly ſorrow, that we mourn for the abſence of the BridegroomeBridegroom, and that we faint not when we ſow, neither in faith nor obedience. In …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 311 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … but what are theſe to the ſociety with my ſweeteſt Saviour, and moſt delightfull BridegroomeBridegroom; deſiring to leave all to bee with Chriſt which is beſt of all. Examine …
    With rule
    … but what are theſe to the ſociety with my ſweeteſt Saviour, and moſt delightfull BridegroomeBridegroom; deſiring to leave all to bee with Chriſt which is beſt of all. Examine …

    Benjamin King · The Marriage of the Lamb · p. 119 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … and the ſupper held, are included: for here the Church is prepared for the BridegroomeBridegroom Chriſt by ſanctification through the word and Sacraments, which haue now their courſe more …
    With rule
    … and the ſupper held, are included: for here the Church is prepared for the BridegroomeBridegroom Chriſt by ſanctification through the word and Sacraments, which haue now their courſe more …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 495 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Bridegroom A03274

  • Printed
    THE BRIDEGROOMEBRIDEGROOM BY SAMVEL HIERON.
    With rule
    THE BRIDEGROOMEBRIDEGROOM BY SAMVEL HIERON.

    Samuel Hieron · The Bridegroom · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    THE BRIDEGROOMEBRIDEGROOM.
    With rule
    THE BRIDEGROOMEBRIDEGROOM.

    Samuel Hieron · The Bridegroom · p. 1 · Open in the reader