Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3656 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

infirmeinfirm

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

Puritas changed it: 479 times in 289 works
Consistency: 97.9% (479 of 489)
Reach if approved: ~514 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: infirm
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 489 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (479 changes in 289 works, 97.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 479)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… poure and strenghth. Vppō which cowncell / I do gather two thinges. Furst / that the infirmeinfirm and weake must not ioyn themselues in familia ritie with the wicked / for wickednes …
With rule
… poure and strenghth. Vppō which cowncell / I do gather two thinges. Furst / that the infirmeinfirm and weake must not ioyn themselues in familia ritie with the wicked / for wickednes …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doth he frame our prayers, but ſo, as hee applies his aſſiſtance to our infirmeinfirm, weake, and narrow apprehenſions, and ſtirres up deſires in us to ſuch things, as …
With rule
… doth he frame our prayers, but ſo, as hee applies his aſſiſtance to our infirmeinfirm, weake, and narrow apprehenſions, and ſtirres up deſires in us to ſuch things, as …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 187 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stirred vp to serue God, and to followe righteousnes, that the wounde of thy infirmeinfirm conscience may be healed. First then beware, that during the time of thy vexation …
With rule
… stirred vp to serue God, and to followe righteousnes, that the wounde of thy infirmeinfirm conscience may be healed. First then beware, that during the time of thy vexation …
Alexander Hume · Treatise of Conscience Wherein Divers Secrets are Discovered · p. 64 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could not but once be offered, and a certayne confirmacion or seale for the infirmeinfirm and weak linges, that they be redemed by Christ, bi Christes passion, bloud and …
With rule
… could not but once be offered, and a certayne confirmacion or seale for the infirmeinfirm and weak linges, that they be redemed by Christ, bi Christes passion, bloud and …
Thomas Becon · The Jewel of Joy · Open in the reader
Printed
… Now therefore good fellowe ſhewe howe the counſells of God are not vncertaine, and infirmeinfirm. Howe God is not variable and inconſtante, howe not altogither weake, if by no …
With rule
… Now therefore good fellowe ſhewe howe the counſells of God are not vncertaine, and infirmeinfirm. Howe God is not variable and inconſtante, howe not altogither weake, if by no …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are one in nature, in ſubſtance, glorie, and Majeſtie: Let not this baſe and infirmeinfirm nature of man, that I am clad with in the world, ſtay your fayth …
With rule
… are one in nature, in ſubſtance, glorie, and Majeſtie: Let not this baſe and infirmeinfirm nature of man, that I am clad with in the world, ſtay your fayth …
Robert Rollock · Twenty-Five Lectures Upon the Lords Last Sermon and Conference · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from impossible impediments, as from invincible weakenesse may availe, if a man have an infirmeinfirm body, that he cannot doe that which another man can: these excuses, with a …
With rule
… from impossible impediments, as from invincible weakenesse may availe, if a man have an infirmeinfirm body, that he cannot doe that which another man can: these excuses, with a …
Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 227 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Cnapheus out of Antiochia, and Paulus out of Ephesus. Timotheus of Alexandria was old, infirmeinfirm, and neere to the last period of his life, els also he had bene …
With rule
… Cnapheus out of Antiochia, and Paulus out of Ephesus. Timotheus of Alexandria was old, infirmeinfirm, and neere to the last period of his life, els also he had bene …
Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

7 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Christian Dictionary A15520

Printed
… a little Wine for thine often Infirmities. Thus is sicknesse called, because it makes InfirmeInfirm and feeble. Metanimie.
With rule
… a little Wine for thine often Infirmities. Thus is sicknesse called, because it makes InfirmeInfirm and feeble. Metanimie.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 254 · Open in the reader
Printed
3 A priuation and want of all strength, as touching godlinesse. Rom. 5, 8. When we were InfirmeInfirm, (or of no strength) Christ dyed for vs; that is, that naturall imbecility, which …
With rule
3 A priuation and want of all strength, as touching godlinesse. Rom. 5, 8. When we were InfirmeInfirm, (or of no strength) Christ dyed for vs; that is, that naturall imbecility, which …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 254 · Open in the reader
Printed
… signifies inward tentatious, feares, distrusts, &c. 2 Cor. 12. Which shew how weake we are and InfirmeInfirm.
With rule
… signifies inward tentatious, feares, distrusts, &c. 2 Cor. 12. Which shew how weake we are and InfirmeInfirm.
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 255 · Open in the reader
Printed
InfirmeInfirm and weake beleeuers, which Christ did not contemne but mercifully beare withall and support …
With rule
InfirmeInfirm and weake beleeuers, which Christ did not contemne but mercifully beare withall and support …
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 392 · Open in the reader

A Revelation of the Apocalypse A16853

Printed
… Hethen Emperours were taken away, which fel out about the yere of our Lord 300. InfirmeInfirm altogither it is which you allege of the like miracles doon before Antichriſt, as …
With rule
… Hethen Emperours were taken away, which fel out about the yere of our Lord 300. InfirmeInfirm altogither it is which you allege of the like miracles doon before Antichriſt, as …
Thomas Brightman · A Revelation of the Apocalypse · p. 592 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Isaiah A17640

Printed
InfirmeInfirm, how they muſt be ſupported 42. 3
With rule
InfirmeInfirm, how they muſt be ſupported 42. 3
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · Open in the reader

Davids Harp Strung and Tuned A52303

Printed
… when I cryed thou anſweredſt me, and ſtrengthenedst me with ſtrength in my ſoul. InfirmeInfirm creatures we are, and in temptations and afflictions muſt faint, except God ſtrengthen us …
With rule
… when I cryed thou anſweredſt me, and ſtrengthenedst me with ſtrength in my ſoul. InfirmeInfirm creatures we are, and in temptations and afflictions muſt faint, except God ſtrengthen us …
William Nicholson · Davids Harp Strung and Tuned · p. 490 · Open in the reader