Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3380 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stressestress

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

Puritas changed it: 305 times in 178 works
Consistency: 99.6% (305 of 306)
Reach if approved: ~322 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stress
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 306 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (305 changes in 178 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 305)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… by ſome, (ſayes the Author) if I be not miſinformed: and muſt the whole ſtreſſestress of moſt of their arguments, be layed over upon their deſigne, and intention herein …
With rule
… by ſome, (ſayes the Author) if I be not miſinformed: and muſt the whole ſtreſſestress of moſt of their arguments, be layed over upon their deſigne, and intention herein …
Robert Flemming · The Church Wounded and Rent by a Spirit of Division · p. 14 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Paines, being such as have borne the heate of the day; so that the stressestress of the Ministery hath layen heaviest on their shoulders; such an Elder is worthy …
With rule
… Paines, being such as have borne the heate of the day; so that the stressestress of the Ministery hath layen heaviest on their shoulders; such an Elder is worthy …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 180 · Open in the reader
Printed
I cannot long haue stressestress, nor stand in neede:
With rule
I cannot long haue stressestress, nor stand in neede:
James Melville · Fruitful and Comfortable Exhortation in Death · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the greatest discomforts and disgraces that can be, in the greatest stormes and stressestress, in the foulest weather, this Shippe raignes and rides at Anchor, as in a …
With rule
… of the greatest discomforts and disgraces that can be, in the greatest stormes and stressestress, in the foulest weather, this Shippe raignes and rides at Anchor, as in a …
Samuel Ward · Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he would haue encrease to a great flame; but he putteth to the greatest stressestress his most solid timber and heart of oke, and casteth these waters of triall …
With rule
… he would haue encrease to a great flame; but he putteth to the greatest stressestress his most solid timber and heart of oke, and casteth these waters of triall …
John Downame · Consolations for the Afflicted · p. 694 · Open in the reader
Printed
2. Since the Impoſers do lay ſo much ſtreſſestress upon them, that, it is evident, though they call them Indifferent, yet they think …
With rule
2. Since the Impoſers do lay ſo much ſtreſſestress upon them, that, it is evident, though they call them Indifferent, yet they think …
Edward Bagshaw · Concerning Things Indifferent in Religious Worship Part 2 · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
Answ. First, the Papists lay too much stressestress upon good works: Now assurance is too goodlie a structure to be built upon …
With rule
Answ. First, the Papists lay too much stressestress upon good works: Now assurance is too goodlie a structure to be built upon …
Samuel Clarke · The Marrow of Divinity · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… made him halt. God wreſtled with Job, not corporally, yet in corporall things, the ſtreſſestress alſo of his wreſtling was ſpirituall, and he prevailed with God, and over Satan …
With rule
… made him halt. God wreſtled with Job, not corporally, yet in corporall things, the ſtreſſestress alſo of his wreſtling was ſpirituall, and he prevailed with God, and over Satan …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 15-17 · p. 290 · 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.