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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3588 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

easterneeastern

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

Puritas changed it
762 times in 309 works
Consistency
99.8% (762 of 763)
Reach if approved
~802 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: eastern
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
763 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (762 changes in 309 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 762)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … kinde of learning in which he had not some knowledge, but especially for the EasterneEastern tongues, those deepe and profound Studies, in the judgement of the learned, which knew …
    With rule
    … kinde of learning in which he had not some knowledge, but especially for the EasterneEastern tongues, those deepe and profound Studies, in the judgement of the learned, which knew …

    Petrus Ramus · The Way to Geometry · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    E…e the blabbing EasterneEastern scout
    With rule
    E…e the blabbing EasterneEastern scout

    John Milton · A Mask Presented · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … as Ireneus the Biſh. of Lions did Victor, for his raſh proceeding againſt the EaſterneEastern Church. And yet doe not Popes erre?
    With rule
    … as Ireneus the Biſh. of Lions did Victor, for his raſh proceeding againſt the EaſterneEastern Church. And yet doe not Popes erre?

    Richard Bernard · Reims Against Rome · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … ancient and moderne, generall, nationall, provinciall Councels and Synodes, both of the West and EasterneEastern Churches: of divers Ecclesiasticall and imperiall Constitutions, which either expresly or by way of …
    With rule
    … ancient and moderne, generall, nationall, provinciall Councels and Synodes, both of the West and EasterneEastern Churches: of divers Ecclesiasticall and imperiall Constitutions, which either expresly or by way of …

    William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 570 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … becauſe it is ſaid to be ſituated in the Region of Heden in the EaſterneEastern parts, which in no wiſe may be compared with the reſt of the world …
    With rule
    … becauſe it is ſaid to be ſituated in the Region of Heden in the EaſterneEastern parts, which in no wiſe may be compared with the reſt of the world …

    John Salkeld · A Treatise of Paradise · p. 32 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … by; to which saith Pliny, Orientales populi ad insaniam us que addicti sunt. The EasterneEastern people ranne mad after Magick … which Gods law vtterly condemnes.
    With rule
    … by; to which saith Pliny, Orientales populi ad insaniam us que addicti sunt. The EasterneEastern people ranne mad after Magick … which Gods law vtterly condemnes.

    Peter Smart · Sermon 7 July 1628 · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … tyrannie of the Pope is, so auncient is the departure of the Greeke and EasterneEastern Churches from him, which they count to be a schisme and heresie.
    With rule
    … tyrannie of the Pope is, so auncient is the departure of the Greeke and EasterneEastern Churches from him, which they count to be a schisme and heresie.

    William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 64 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … the one part were yeelded vnto; his desire was that of the two the EasterneEastern church should rather yeeld. And to this end he vseth sundry perswasiue speeches. When …
    With rule
    … the one part were yeelded vnto; his desire was that of the two the EasterneEastern church should rather yeeld. And to this end he vseth sundry perswasiue speeches. When …

    Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 187 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Miscellanies Christian and Judaical A05462

  • Printed
    EAsterneEastern tongues, especially the Hebrew and her three Dialects, Chaldee, Syrian, and Arabian, are written …
    With rule
    EAsterneEastern tongues, especially the Hebrew and her three Dialects, Chaldee, Syrian, and Arabian, are written …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 111 · Open in the reader