Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3758 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

restrainesrestrains

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

Puritas changed it: 310 times in 192 works
Consistency: 100% (310 of 310)
Reach if approved: ~326 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: restrains
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 310 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (310 changes in 192 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 310)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that maſters not anger, but ſometime holds it in: nor ſubdueth his luſts, but reſtrainesrestrains them onely: nor loueth chaſtity, but will not be an adulterer for feare, is …
With rule
… that maſters not anger, but ſometime holds it in: nor ſubdueth his luſts, but reſtrainesrestrains them onely: nor loueth chaſtity, but will not be an adulterer for feare, is …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 231 · Open in the reader
Printed
… common good, and the good of those with whome we liue. Againe, this also restrainesrestrains our naturall desire of abundance, inioyning vs to seeke onely for necessaries, as foode …
With rule
… common good, and the good of those with whome we liue. Againe, this also restrainesrestrains our naturall desire of abundance, inioyning vs to seeke onely for necessaries, as foode …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 486 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bond keeps the thing that is bound in; and so doth Gods Spirit, it restrainesrestrains us, it keeps us in when as otherwise wee would runne into all excesse …
With rule
… bond keeps the thing that is bound in; and so doth Gods Spirit, it restrainesrestrains us, it keeps us in when as otherwise wee would runne into all excesse …
John Preston · Sins Overthrow · p. 150 · Open in the reader
Printed
… paſt: modeſtie is a burthen to many women, and further then feare or ſhame reſtrainesrestrains them, grace and wiſedome there is little in ſome of them to doe it …
With rule
… paſt: modeſtie is a burthen to many women, and further then feare or ſhame reſtrainesrestrains them, grace and wiſedome there is little in ſome of them to doe it …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 622 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Church, without his government. He lets loose the enemies thus far, and then he restrainesrestrains them, and subdues and conquers them, making them his foot-stoole. The enemies seeme …
With rule
… Church, without his government. He lets loose the enemies thus far, and then he restrainesrestrains them, and subdues and conquers them, making them his foot-stoole. The enemies seeme …
Richard Sibbes · Light from Heaven · p. 181 · Open in the reader
Printed
… liuely affection. For a fearefull prayer cannot pearce the heauens, becauſe ouer great feare reſtrainesrestrains the minde, that the prayer cannot aſcend, nay not come out. A key cold …
With rule
… liuely affection. For a fearefull prayer cannot pearce the heauens, becauſe ouer great feare reſtrainesrestrains the minde, that the prayer cannot aſcend, nay not come out. A key cold …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 376 · Open in the reader
Printed
… darkenes, not as you say, whether they be perfit, or vnperfit. A third Glosse restrainesrestrains it more, saying, it is a metaphoricall speach, as if he should haue said …
With rule
… darkenes, not as you say, whether they be perfit, or vnperfit. A third Glosse restrainesrestrains it more, saying, it is a metaphoricall speach, as if he should haue said …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 311 · Open in the reader
Printed
Two …ffects of this are, 1 That it reſtrainesrestrains this matrimoniall loue only to their owne wiues. (foreign) 2 That it doth moderate Loue, that …
With rule
Two …ffects of this are, 1 That it reſtrainesrestrains this matrimoniall loue only to their owne wiues. (foreign) 2 That it doth moderate Loue, that …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 53 · 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.