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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3335 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

patternespatterns

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

Puritas changed it
521 times in 268 works
Consistency
100% (521 of 521)
Reach if approved
~547 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: patterns
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
521 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (521 changes in 268 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 521)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … them, for which onely God misliked them. The Saints are to bee held as PatternesPatterns, not as Patrones of our life. But the Papists praise not God in his …
    With rule
    … them, for which onely God misliked them. The Saints are to bee held as PatternesPatterns, not as Patrones of our life. But the Papists praise not God in his …

    Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    So Abraham and Dauid being patternespatterns of Gods mercie, are also patternespatterns of our weakenesse. Abraham in denying Sarah to be his wife both to Pharaoh …
    With rule
    So Abraham and Dauid being patternespatterns of Gods mercie, are also patternespatterns of our weakenesse. Abraham in denying Sarah to be his wife both to Pharaoh …

    Richard Greenham · Works · p. 360 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … authoritie. It is vntrue, this is not preſuppoſed. Then, the Epistles bee the very patternespatterns and precedents of Biſhoply function. &c Well: what then? Then Timothie and Titus were …
    With rule
    … authoritie. It is vntrue, this is not preſuppoſed. Then, the Epistles bee the very patternespatterns and precedents of Biſhoply function. &c Well: what then? Then Timothie and Titus were …

    Henry Jacob · Attestation of Many Learned Godly and Famous Divines · p. 245 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … a most naturall, and most louing paire of true-hearted brethren, Patrones of Pietie, PatternesPatterns of much good. Grace be multiplied in Christ.
    With rule
    … a most naturall, and most louing paire of true-hearted brethren, Patrones of Pietie, PatternesPatterns of much good. Grace be multiplied in Christ.

    William Loe · The Kings Shoe · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … haue beene in our windowes, but we haue ſwept them downe. Here we haue patternespatterns of our liues. We that are met here together at this preſent doe liue …
    With rule
    … haue beene in our windowes, but we haue ſwept them downe. Here we haue patternespatterns of our liues. We that are met here together at this preſent doe liue …

    Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … them have not praised and practised. Instances might be shewed in those many excellent patternespatterns of vertue, whose lives have been left registred unto us by the Ancients: and …
    With rule
    … them have not praised and practised. Instances might be shewed in those many excellent patternespatterns of vertue, whose lives have been left registred unto us by the Ancients: and …

    William Pemble · A Plea for Grace · p. 74 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … reall, uniform subsistence of them; and that God hath indeede some such living, walking PatternesPatterns of his owne Great Holinesse, and more transcendent Graces.
    With rule
    … reall, uniform subsistence of them; and that God hath indeede some such living, walking PatternesPatterns of his owne Great Holinesse, and more transcendent Graces.

    John Preston · Life Eternal · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    But may thy fortunes better PatternesPatterns see.
    With rule
    But may thy fortunes better PatternesPatterns see.

    Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 87 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.