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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3749 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

receivreceive

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

Puritas changed it
325 times in 106 works
Consistency
96.7% (325 of 336)
Reach if approved
~353 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: receive
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
336 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (325 changes in 106 works, 96.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 325)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … administration of the word / seales / and censures / is set forth and practised: though many receivreceive it into evil harts and vnfaithful / to their greater condemnation. But the elect of …
    With rule
    … administration of the word / seales / and censures / is set forth and practised: though many receivreceive it into evil harts and vnfaithful / to their greater condemnation. But the elect of …

    Henry Ainsworth · An Epistle Unto Two Daughters of Warwick · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … it is in the saincts a communion of grace and sacrifice: how may we receivreceive it of such in private?
    With rule
    … it is in the saincts a communion of grace and sacrifice: how may we receivreceive it of such in private?

    Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … good is to receive good: And yet he will reward ſuch for doing and receivreceive.
    With rule
    … good is to receive good: And yet he will reward ſuch for doing and receivreceive.

    Richard Baxter · How to Do Good to Many · p. 34 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Alcimus who had procured from Eupator to be made High Prieſt, being not now receivreceive…d nor owned by the people, for that in the days of Epiphanes he …
    With rule
    Alcimus who had procured from Eupator to be made High Prieſt, being not now receivreceive…d nor owned by the people, for that in the days of Epiphanes he …

    Samuel Cradock · The History of the Old Testament Methodized · p. 18 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Lord of theſe worſhipers? If any ma… worſhip the Beaſt and the Image, and receivreceive… his mark in his forehead, or in his hand; th… ſame ſhall drink of …
    With rule
    … Lord of theſe worſhipers? If any ma… worſhip the Beaſt and the Image, and receivreceive… his mark in his forehead, or in his hand; th… ſame ſhall drink of …

    William Dyer · Mount Zion · p. 143 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … is ſo far from being able to give to another, that he needeth to receivreceive… himſelf, yet muſt be ſo poſſeſſed with Chriſtian Love and Compaſſion, that he would …
    With rule
    … is ſo far from being able to give to another, that he needeth to receivreceive… himſelf, yet muſt be ſo poſſeſſed with Chriſtian Love and Compaſſion, that he would …

    William Gearing · Philadelphia · p. 89 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … if it be otherwiſe, viz. upright, even words of Truth, O then ye Saints receivreceive… this Ordinance, and let what I have ſaid by the aſſiſtance of God's Spirit …
    With rule
    … if it be otherwiſe, viz. upright, even words of Truth, O then ye Saints receivreceive… this Ordinance, and let what I have ſaid by the aſſiſtance of God's Spirit …

    Benjamin Keach · Breach Repaired in Gods Worship · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … works of the Devil; whatever came upon our Natures by his first Temptation, whatever receivreceive… strength in our Persons by his daily suggestions, Christ died to destroy it all …
    With rule
    … works of the Devil; whatever came upon our Natures by his first Temptation, whatever receivreceive… strength in our Persons by his daily suggestions, Christ died to destroy it all …

    John Owen · Of the Mortification of sin in Believers · p. 173 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

8 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.

Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement A10620

  • Printed
    … wrote to a freind in Engl. perswading against us that saying of the Apostle, ReceivReceive him not to house neyther bid him God speed: 2. Joh. 10. which letter (if we …
    With rule
    … wrote to a freind in Engl. perswading against us that saying of the Apostle, ReceivReceive him not to house neyther bid him God speed: 2. Joh. 10. which letter (if we …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 1 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Preists, when by the Bishop, (who onely can give this order) it is sayd, ReceivReceive power to offer sacrifice vnto God, and to celebrate Masses, both for the living …
    With rule
    … Preists, when by the Bishop, (who onely can give this order) it is sayd, ReceivReceive power to offer sacrifice vnto God, and to celebrate Masses, both for the living …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … for the dead, in the name of the Lord. The Bishop sayth with al, ReceivReceive the holy Ghost: the Preists are also shaved on their crownes, and anoynted with …
    With rule
    … for the dead, in the name of the Lord. The Bishop sayth with al, ReceivReceive the holy Ghost: the Preists are also shaved on their crownes, and anoynted with …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 61 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … new office and caling be given them, I assure my self they that say ReceivReceive the Teachers office &c. may impose hands: even as they that say: J baptise …
    With rule
    … new office and caling be given them, I assure my self they that say ReceivReceive the Teachers office &c. may impose hands: even as they that say: J baptise …

    Henry Ainsworth · Animadversion to Cliftons Advertisement · p. 63 · Open in the reader

The Growth of Error A48862

  • Printed
    … that according to this Principle the Mahometans are good Chriſtians, and ought to be ReceivReceive…d into the Church of Chriſt, as Members of his Body. For they do …
    With rule
    … that according to this Principle the Mahometans are good Chriſtians, and ought to be ReceivReceive…d into the Church of Chriſt, as Members of his Body. For they do …

    Stephen Lobb · The Growth of Error · p. 192 · Open in the reader

Treatise of the Sacraments A68467

  • Printed
    … to assure us therof: note that word [therof] must be referred to the verb ReceivReceive, not to the noun Grace. Sacraments do not only assure us that such a …
    With rule
    … to assure us therof: note that word [therof] must be referred to the verb ReceivReceive, not to the noun Grace. Sacraments do not only assure us that such a …

    Thomas Bedford · Treatise of the Sacraments · p. 70 · Open in the reader

Answer to Two Questions Regarding Infant Baptism A76816

  • Printed
    … phraſe Eat not with him, is the ſame in effect with that of 2 Joh. 10. ReceivReceive him not into your Houſe It was altogether unlawfull for the Corinths to invite …
    With rule
    … phraſe Eat not with him, is the ſame in effect with that of 2 Joh. 10. ReceivReceive him not into your Houſe It was altogether unlawfull for the Corinths to invite …

    Thomas Blake · Answer to Two Questions Regarding Infant Baptism · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to receive the Benefit with Him. Shall not the Husband pray, or Hear and ReceivReceive, becauſe the wife of his Boſome is paſſionate and irreconciliable? Shall not Lot make …
    With rule
    … to receive the Benefit with Him. Shall not the Husband pray, or Hear and ReceivReceive, becauſe the wife of his Boſome is paſſionate and irreconciliable? Shall not Lot make …

    Thomas Blake · Answer to Two Questions Regarding Infant Baptism · p. 28 · Open in the reader