Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3215 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

cleannessecleanness

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

Puritas changed it: 495 times in 230 works
Consistency: 99.8% (495 of 496)
Reach if approved: ~521 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: cleanness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 496 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (495 changes in 230 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 495)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
God hath not called vs to vn cleannessecleanness, but to holines. 1. Thes. 4. 7.
With rule
God hath not called vs to vn cleannessecleanness, but to holines. 1. Thes. 4. 7.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and Significations. For those washings, as they were significant and taught what holinesse or cleannessecleanness should be among the people of God, they are called by the name of …
With rule
… and Significations. For those washings, as they were significant and taught what holinesse or cleannessecleanness should be among the people of God, they are called by the name of …
George Gillespie · Dispute Against the English-Popish Ceremonies · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the sinnes of euery penitent in Christs bloud, and consecration of them to Sanctification & cleannessecleanness of life thereafter, Act. 8. 22. 2. Cor. 2. 6.
With rule
… the sinnes of euery penitent in Christs bloud, and consecration of them to Sanctification & cleannessecleanness of life thereafter, Act. 8. 22. 2. Cor. 2. 6.
William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 141 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of GOD for the clensing and sauing of mankynd: That none can worke that CleannesseCleanness, except it bee some one of the Beginnings, that is to say, except it …
With rule
… of GOD for the clensing and sauing of mankynd: That none can worke that CleannesseCleanness, except it bee some one of the Beginnings, that is to say, except it …
Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 479 · Open in the reader
Printed
… iniquitie, therefore hath the Lord recompensed mee according to my uprightnesse: according to the cleannessecleanness of my hands in his eyes sight: and then in the 25, & 26. verses, both parts …
With rule
… iniquitie, therefore hath the Lord recompensed mee according to my uprightnesse: according to the cleannessecleanness of my hands in his eyes sight: and then in the 25, & 26. verses, both parts …
John Preston · Remains · p. 278 · Open in the reader
Printed
… varietie of his iudgements; once and twice by famine and ſcarcitie of bread, and cleanneſſecleanness of teeth, with peſtilence after the manner of Egypt; with vnſeaſonable weather, fearfull inundations …
With rule
… varietie of his iudgements; once and twice by famine and ſcarcitie of bread, and cleanneſſecleanness of teeth, with peſtilence after the manner of Egypt; with vnſeaſonable weather, fearfull inundations …
William Sclater · A Key to the Key of Scripture · p. 96 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take away the heart of stone) so he that would haue euidence of his cleannessecleanness, must beginne here, and first wash the inside: so the holy man Dauid, although …
With rule
… take away the heart of stone) so he that would haue euidence of his cleannessecleanness, must beginne here, and first wash the inside: so the holy man Dauid, although …
Thomas Taylor · Commentary on Titus · p. 520 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for him to make that common, which God had made cleane. Loe how the cleanneſſecleanness or vncleanneſſe of things is not to bee ordered by mans authoritie, no, not …
With rule
… for him to make that common, which God had made cleane. Loe how the cleanneſſecleanness or vncleanneſſe of things is not to bee ordered by mans authoritie, no, not …
William Whately · A Care Cloth · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.