Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3683 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maintainesmaintains

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

Puritas changed it: 522 times in 287 works
Consistency: 100% (522 of 522)
Reach if approved: ~548 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: maintains
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 522 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (522 changes in 287 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 522)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not apparent euill, by ill interpretation, where neither the State intendeth it, nor ſo maintainesmaintains it.
With rule
… not apparent euill, by ill interpretation, where neither the State intendeth it, nor ſo maintainesmaintains it.
Richard Bernard · Christian Advertisements and Counsels of Peace · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than it, as some Papists doe. But here wee may obserue further, how God maintainesmaintains the dignity & decorum of it: he placeth Abraham and Sarah together, and puts none …
With rule
… than it, as some Papists doe. But here wee may obserue further, how God maintainesmaintains the dignity & decorum of it: he placeth Abraham and Sarah together, and puts none …
William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
That maintainesmaintains and frequents stewes. Deut. 23. 17.
With rule
That maintainesmaintains and frequents stewes. Deut. 23. 17.
William Perkins · The Nature and Practice of Repentance · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and embraced this opinion of Election and Reprobation which he there (and we here) maintainesmaintains. This Bucer (saith he) in our Vniuersity; this Peter Martyr at Oxford, haue professed …
With rule
… and embraced this opinion of Election and Reprobation which he there (and we here) maintainesmaintains. This Bucer (saith he) in our Vniuersity; this Peter Martyr at Oxford, haue professed …
William Prynne · The Church of Englands Antithesis to Arminianism · p. 126 · Open in the reader
Printed
… state here he is at the gates of death, therefore thanke God that he maintainesmaintains us with comforts in our pilgrimage, and withall that he gives us strength to …
With rule
… state here he is at the gates of death, therefore thanke God that he maintainesmaintains us with comforts in our pilgrimage, and withall that he gives us strength to …
Richard Sibbes · The Riches of Mercy · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and use of scriptures, but affirming, that he is a friend to heretikes, who maintainesmaintains an ordinary reading of Scripture: nay that it is pernicious and impious. For loue …
With rule
… and use of scriptures, but affirming, that he is a friend to heretikes, who maintainesmaintains an ordinary reading of Scripture: nay that it is pernicious and impious. For loue …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 245 · Open in the reader
Printed
… moment? In God wee liue, and moue, and haue our being: and hee that maintainesmaintains life muſt perfect all our workes for vs. In matter of profit no man …
With rule
… moment? In God wee liue, and moue, and haue our being: and hee that maintainesmaintains life muſt perfect all our workes for vs. In matter of profit no man …
John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 407 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Maieſty their lawfull Soueraigne, and to get himſelfe acknowledged as their head and God, maintainesmaintains a ſort of diſcontented fugitiues in his Seminaries as in ſo many cages, where …
With rule
… Maieſty their lawfull Soueraigne, and to get himſelfe acknowledged as their head and God, maintainesmaintains a ſort of diſcontented fugitiues in his Seminaries as in ſo many cages, where …
Robert Jenison · The Height of Israels Heathenish Idolatry · p. 145 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.