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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3448 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pilatpilate

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

Puritas changed it
435 times in 210 works
Consistency
97.9% (435 of 444)
Reach if approved
~467 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: pilot
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
444 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (435 changes in 210 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 435)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … which, said he, Moses had there hidden. Wherevpon they seditiously assembling, & besiedging T…rabatha, PilatPilate came vpon them with his forces, & cut them in peeces.
    With rule
    … which, said he, Moses had there hidden. Wherevpon they seditiously assembling, & besiedging T…rabatha, PilatPilate came vpon them with his forces, & cut them in peeces.

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 131 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … so neere Gods children, as vaine-glorious Teachers that are of the same profession; PilatPilate a Heathen shewed more favour to Christ than the Pharisees: and this use we …
    With rule
    … so neere Gods children, as vaine-glorious Teachers that are of the same profession; PilatPilate a Heathen shewed more favour to Christ than the Pharisees: and this use we …

    Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · p. 215 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … do, becauſe God had forbidden and reſtrained him, to whom he was onely ſubiect. PilatPilate indeed in his pride ſaid to our Sauiour, that he had power to crucifie …
    With rule
    … do, becauſe God had forbidden and reſtrained him, to whom he was onely ſubiect. PilatPilate indeed in his pride ſaid to our Sauiour, that he had power to crucifie …

    Thomas Stoughton · The Christians Sacrifice Better than all the Legal Sacrifices of Jews · p. 124 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    There is an other, in this ſame Goſpell of the like nature; where PilatPilate, at the arraignement of our Lord, ſaith thus to him; Knowest thou not, that …
    With rule
    There is an other, in this ſame Goſpell of the like nature; where PilatPilate, at the arraignement of our Lord, ſaith thus to him; Knowest thou not, that …

    Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 380 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … of torments; I would inflict a thousand deaths vpon Iudas that betrayed thee, and PilatPilate that condemned thee, and the enuious Scribes and Pharisees that layed snares for thee …
    With rule
    … of torments; I would inflict a thousand deaths vpon Iudas that betrayed thee, and PilatPilate that condemned thee, and the enuious Scribes and Pharisees that layed snares for thee …

    Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 300 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the Virgin conceived of the holy Ghost, whom Simeon imbraced in his arms, whom PilatPilate condemned, whom the Iewes crucified, whom the Apostles preached, he is Christ, the Lord …
    With rule
    … the Virgin conceived of the holy Ghost, whom Simeon imbraced in his arms, whom PilatPilate condemned, whom the Iewes crucified, whom the Apostles preached, he is Christ, the Lord …

    Richard Hooker · Justification Works and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown · p. 29 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … him: refuſing, to be a Iudge and diuider of the inheritance, and openly before PilatPilate renounced ſecular power and autority. Notwithstanding the Pope and Prelats rebelling againſt Christs commands …
    With rule
    … him: refuſing, to be a Iudge and diuider of the inheritance, and openly before PilatPilate renounced ſecular power and autority. Notwithstanding the Pope and Prelats rebelling againſt Christs commands …

    John Bastwick · Answer to Exceptions Against His Litany Part 2 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … he suffered in bodie for the redemption of my bodie, namely that vnder Pontius PilatPilate, he was nailed to a crosse, died, and was buried. Matth. 27. Gal. 3, 14.
    With rule
    … he suffered in bodie for the redemption of my bodie, namely that vnder Pontius PilatPilate, he was nailed to a crosse, died, and was buried. Matth. 27. Gal. 3, 14.

    Robert Openshaw · Short Questions And Answers Containing The Sum Of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.