Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3400 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

trickestricks

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

Puritas changed it: 358 times in 211 works
Consistency: 97.5% (358 of 367)
Reach if approved: ~386 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: tricks
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 367 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (358 changes in 211 works, 97.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 358)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… they know lesse of ill: they skill not what the studying of oathes, the trickestricks of pride, the pollicie of Atheisme meanes: they make not sense the rule of …
With rule
… they know lesse of ill: they skill not what the studying of oathes, the trickestricks of pride, the pollicie of Atheisme meanes: they make not sense the rule of …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader
Printed
… simulatio: because it is both sinne and simulation. Hypocrites are like Iugglers, that shew trickestricks of Legerdumaine, seeming to doe the feates they doe not, by casting a mist …
With rule
… simulatio: because it is both sinne and simulation. Hypocrites are like Iugglers, that shew trickestricks of Legerdumaine, seeming to doe the feates they doe not, by casting a mist …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… when there is no reaſon to gainſay a truth, ſo it will not invent trickestricks to defeate the power of the truth when it is evident, and plainely brought …
With rule
… when there is no reaſon to gainſay a truth, ſo it will not invent trickestricks to defeate the power of the truth when it is evident, and plainely brought …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 205 · Open in the reader
Printed
… otherwiſe after Gods owne heart, yet tainted with this. Amongſt the reſt of his trickestricks of legerdemain, when he ſpun the ſpiders webbe of his implicit ſin, this was …
With rule
… otherwiſe after Gods owne heart, yet tainted with this. Amongſt the reſt of his trickestricks of legerdemain, when he ſpun the ſpiders webbe of his implicit ſin, this was …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 270 · Open in the reader
Printed
… been another Christ which knew all secrets. Pasquine saith, hee knoweth ten thousand such trickestricks by them.
With rule
… been another Christ which knew all secrets. Pasquine saith, hee knoweth ten thousand such trickestricks by them.
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 390 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the ſimplicitie and ignorance of unſuſpicious and plaine-dealing Chriſtians, by prevarication and meere trickestricks of Law, by * uſurie and unchriſtian exaction from the poore, or by any other …
With rule
… the ſimplicitie and ignorance of unſuſpicious and plaine-dealing Chriſtians, by prevarication and meere trickestricks of Law, by * uſurie and unchriſtian exaction from the poore, or by any other …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as if the hounds should complaine of the hare, that she hath so many trickestricks to escape from them: but, as I say, he was a very prudent man …
With rule
… as if the hounds should complaine of the hare, that she hath so many trickestricks to escape from them: but, as I say, he was a very prudent man …
John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… regnare poſſe, That among blinde men, a purblinde or blinkard may dominere, and put trickestricks vpon them. But, God forbid, that any of the Seers of Iſrael ſhould miſtake …
With rule
… regnare poſſe, That among blinde men, a purblinde or blinkard may dominere, and put trickestricks vpon them. But, God forbid, that any of the Seers of Iſrael ſhould miſtake …
Daniel Featley · Pelagius Raked out of the Ashes by Arminius and his Scholars · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Devils Banket Described A00888

Printed
… fingered, and lighter-conscienced? here is whole feast of Fraudes, a table furnished with TrickesTricks, conueyances, glossings, periuries, cheatings. Hath any Papist a superstitious Appetite? he is set downe …
With rule
… fingered, and lighter-conscienced? here is whole feast of Fraudes, a table furnished with TrickesTricks, conueyances, glossings, periuries, cheatings. Hath any Papist a superstitious Appetite? he is set downe …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 7 · Open in the reader

The Happiness of the Church A01956

Printed
… haue found, that God made man vpright: but they haue sought out many inuentions: TrickesTricks enow to make themselues miserable. That which rottennesse is in the Apple, sowrenesse in …
With rule
… haue found, that God made man vpright: but they haue sought out many inuentions: TrickesTricks enow to make themselues miserable. That which rottennesse is in the Apple, sowrenesse in …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 370 · Open in the reader

Of Justification By Faith A09274

Printed
… tis counterfeit, some other thing that hath onely a shadow of it. All these TrickesTricks are pin vpon the Apostle to pervert his plaine meaning; viz: That as it …
With rule
… tis counterfeit, some other thing that hath onely a shadow of it. All these TrickesTricks are pin vpon the Apostle to pervert his plaine meaning; viz: That as it …
William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 217 · Open in the reader

Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light A19294

Printed
… helping Witch hurt, that it may appeare also that these Couenants are but Iugling TrickesTricks betweene Satan and the Witch, to draw fooles to the stockes, and so on …
With rule
… helping Witch hurt, that it may appeare also that these Couenants are but Iugling TrickesTricks betweene Satan and the Witch, to draw fooles to the stockes, and so on …
Thomas Cooper · Satan Transformed Into an Angel of Light · p. 227 · Open in the reader

The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature A19295

Printed
… helping Witch hurt, that it may appeare also that these Couenants are but Iugling TrickesTricks betweene Satan and the Witch, to draw fooles to the stockes, and so on …
With rule
… helping Witch hurt, that it may appeare also that these Couenants are but Iugling TrickesTricks betweene Satan and the Witch, to draw fooles to the stockes, and so on …
Thomas Cooper · The Mystery of Witchcraft Discovering the Truth of Nature · p. 227 · Open in the reader

A Defense of the Catholic Faith A20944

Printed
… For ſo is it read, and not as Coeffeteau doth falſly alleadge it) The TrickesTricks of which he ſpeaketh, were, to put the title of a good Authour to …
With rule
… For ſo is it read, and not as Coeffeteau doth falſly alleadge it) The TrickesTricks of which he ſpeaketh, were, to put the title of a good Authour to …
Pierre du Moulin Sr · A Defense of the Catholic Faith · p. 449 · Open in the reader

The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide A68954

Printed
… were, and at a ſtay, &c. Nay, an ill ſpirituall Cooke, by his jugling TrickesTricks, may make thee beleeve all thy life long, that thou groweſt in Grace, and …
With rule
… were, and at a ſtay, &c. Nay, an ill ſpirituall Cooke, by his jugling TrickesTricks, may make thee beleeve all thy life long, that thou groweſt in Grace, and …
Robert Bolton · The Saints Sure and Perpetual Guide · p. 245 · Open in the reader