Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3873 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

maidesmaids

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

Puritas changed it: 371 times in 194 works
Consistency: 83.7% (371 of 443)
Reach if approved: ~467 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: maids
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 444 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (371 changes in 194 works, 83.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 371)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… is from all kinde of sustenance for many daies together; so Hester and her maidesmaids fasted three daies, Hest. 4. 16. Now the two former may be vsed of vs as …
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… is from all kinde of sustenance for many daies together; so Hester and her maidesmaids fasted three daies, Hest. 4. 16. Now the two former may be vsed of vs as …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 331 · Open in the reader
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… he ment thereby to offer her in ſacrifice, it followeth of neceſſitie, that theſe maidesmaids bewailed her when they met, and did not talke with her, ſhee being dead …
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… he ment thereby to offer her in ſacrifice, it followeth of neceſſitie, that theſe maidesmaids bewailed her when they met, and did not talke with her, ſhee being dead …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 588 · Open in the reader
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… vnderſtand what is their part & dutie in theſe conſiderations. The wordes for intiſing of maidesmaids are theſe: And if a man intiſe a maid that is not betrethed, and …
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… vnderſtand what is their part & dutie in theſe conſiderations. The wordes for intiſing of maidesmaids are theſe: And if a man intiſe a maid that is not betrethed, and …
John Stockwood · A Bartholomew Fairing for Parents to Bestow · p. 24 · Open in the reader
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vpon whom, women, maidesmaids, Princes, Elders, young men and children, from 11. to 15. verse.
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vpon whom, women, maidesmaids, Princes, Elders, young men and children, from 11. to 15. verse.
John Udall · Commentary Upon Lamentations · Open in the reader
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… then much lesse the rest. Ezek. 9. When God had comanded; Slay vtterly old & young, maidesmaids and children; he addes withall, And begin at my Sanctuary. If God begin at …
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… then much lesse the rest. Ezek. 9. When God had comanded; Slay vtterly old & young, maidesmaids and children; he addes withall, And begin at my Sanctuary. If God begin at …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 58 · Open in the reader
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… ſinkes fit for them? When Caiaphas was againſt Chriſt, his whole houſhold, men and maidesmaids, were againſt him, Math. 26.69.71.73. Ahab, a wicked King, had as wicked Courtiers, who did …
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… ſinkes fit for them? When Caiaphas was againſt Chriſt, his whole houſhold, men and maidesmaids, were againſt him, Math. 26.69.71.73. Ahab, a wicked King, had as wicked Courtiers, who did …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 42 · Open in the reader
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… Philoſophy auoucheth this to be true: but if from nature and reaſon▪ the hand-maidesmaids, wee aſcend to Religion the Miſtris, wee ſhall finde in Scripture this vndeniable maxime …
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… Philoſophy auoucheth this to be true: but if from nature and reaſon▪ the hand-maidesmaids, wee aſcend to Religion the Miſtris, wee ſhall finde in Scripture this vndeniable maxime …
Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 420 · Open in the reader
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… that of Dinah, Gen. 34. Dinah the daughter of Iacob, went out to ſee the maidesmaids of the countrie; and one Shechem, ſonne of Hamor Lord of that countrie, ſaw …
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… that of Dinah, Gen. 34. Dinah the daughter of Iacob, went out to ſee the maidesmaids of the countrie; and one Shechem, ſonne of Hamor Lord of that countrie, ſaw …
Josias Nichols · An Order of Household Instruction · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (72)

40 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 34 are listed here. 32 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Black Devil A00564

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… But in this Apostate or blacke Deuill, there is neither the Mistresse nor the MaidesMaids, Faith nor good workes: therefore the roome of his heart is empty, and capable …
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… But in this Apostate or blacke Deuill, there is neither the Mistresse nor the MaidesMaids, Faith nor good workes: therefore the roome of his heart is empty, and capable …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 47 · Open in the reader

The Handmaid to Private Devotion A00587

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… might iustly challenge to your Honour the Dedication of this part of my HAND-MAIDESMAIDS Taske, which is to furnish Christian fastes and feasts with proper MEDITATIONS, HYMNES and …
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… might iustly challenge to your Honour the Dedication of this part of my HAND-MAIDESMAIDS Taske, which is to furnish Christian fastes and feasts with proper MEDITATIONS, HYMNES and …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · Open in the reader
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… for me, and eate not, nor drinke in three dayes: I also and my MaidesMaids will Fast likewise, Ester 4. 16.
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… for me, and eate not, nor drinke in three dayes: I also and my MaidesMaids will Fast likewise, Ester 4. 16.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 276 · Open in the reader
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I also, and my MaidesMaids wil fast, and so I will goe to the King, which is not according …
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I also, and my MaidesMaids wil fast, and so I will goe to the King, which is not according …
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 503 · Open in the reader

A Fruitful Treatise A06783

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… heal th… pain of our tethe. S. Sweteladde and. Sayute Agnes wyll sende vs MaidesMaids good husbandes. Sainte Peter wyll lette vs in at heauen gates, wyth a thousande …
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… heal th… pain of our tethe. S. Sweteladde and. Sayute Agnes wyll sende vs MaidesMaids good husbandes. Sainte Peter wyll lette vs in at heauen gates, wyth a thousande …
Thomas Becon · A Fruitful Treatise · Open in the reader

The Bee Hive of the Romish Church A07026

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… sometime to the other side of the Altar, as though hee were daunsing the MaidesMaids Morice: Why hee heaues or liftes vppe his voyce sometime like a chimnie sweeper …
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… sometime to the other side of the Altar, as though hee were daunsing the MaidesMaids Morice: Why hee heaues or liftes vppe his voyce sometime like a chimnie sweeper …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 211 · Open in the reader

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

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… left but two or thrée aliue: Many were condemned with their Wiues and Children, MaidesMaids also first defloured, then put to death. Pilate, vnder when Christ was crucif…ed …
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… left but two or thrée aliue: Many were condemned with their Wiues and Children, MaidesMaids also first defloured, then put to death. Pilate, vnder when Christ was crucif…ed …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 1 · Open in the reader
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… such vnséemlinesse, that they are punished with hell torments, wee would that Widdowes and MaidesMaids which take the mantle and ring were married.
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… such vnséemlinesse, that they are punished with hell torments, wee would that Widdowes and MaidesMaids which take the mantle and ring were married.
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 94 · Open in the reader
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… deuout maner, then she made her selfe ready, and gaue her things to her MaidesMaids, and caused a handkerchife to be tyed about her face: the hang-man asked …
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… deuout maner, then she made her selfe ready, and gaue her things to her MaidesMaids, and caused a handkerchife to be tyed about her face: the hang-man asked …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 238 · Open in the reader

An Order of Household Instruction A08202

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… ſlew Shechem and all the towne with the edge of the ſworde. The vſe, MaidesMaids muſt not wander or goe a gadding. The ſentences may be ſuch as theſe …
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… ſlew Shechem and all the towne with the edge of the ſworde. The vſe, MaidesMaids muſt not wander or goe a gadding. The ſentences may be ſuch as theſe …
Josias Nichols · An Order of Household Instruction · Open in the reader

The Ready Way to Good Works A09275

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… care and reſpect entertained Chriſt, Mary Magdalen and Suſanna, who were widdowes, or unmarried MaidesMaids, for there is no mention made of any husbands they ever had: and further …
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… care and reſpect entertained Chriſt, Mary Magdalen and Suſanna, who were widdowes, or unmarried MaidesMaids, for there is no mention made of any husbands they ever had: and further …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 51 · Open in the reader

The Players Scourge A10187

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Fourthly, a mans clothing himselfe in MaidesMaids attire, is not onely an imitation of effeminate idolatrous Priests and Pagans, who arrayed …
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Fourthly, a mans clothing himselfe in MaidesMaids attire, is not onely an imitation of effeminate idolatrous Priests and Pagans, who arrayed …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 207 · Open in the reader
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… Earth: if you will learne to become a Bawde, to be uncleane, to devirginate MaidesMaids, to def…oure …onest Wives, &c. If you will learne to sing and ta …
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… Earth: if you will learne to become a Bawde, to be uncleane, to devirginate MaidesMaids, to def…oure …onest Wives, &c. If you will learne to sing and ta …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 391 · Open in the reader
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… to batter the honesty as well of wedded Wives, as the chastity of unmarried MaidesMaids and Widdowes, then are the hearing of common Playes. There, wanton Wives Fables, and …
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… to batter the honesty as well of wedded Wives, as the chastity of unmarried MaidesMaids and Widdowes, then are the hearing of common Playes. There, wanton Wives Fables, and …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 391 · Open in the reader
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… famous Citties, in which on Holi-dayes and Lords-daies it is lawfull for MaidesMaids in a publike manner to runne abrode to their Lovers, yea to their Panders …
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… famous Citties, in which on Holi-dayes and Lords-daies it is lawfull for MaidesMaids in a publike manner to runne abrode to their Lovers, yea to their Panders …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 530 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

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… of the posteritie of Attys, who set Hercules his taske to spin amongst her MaidesMaids. Her husband Tmolus defloured Arriphe in Dianas Temple. Of him haply was named the …
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… of the posteritie of Attys, who set Hercules his taske to spin amongst her MaidesMaids. Her husband Tmolus defloured Arriphe in Dianas Temple. Of him haply was named the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 278 · Open in the reader
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… this was their solemnest Festiuall. The sacrifices beeing ended, all the yong men and MaidesMaids came out of the Temple attired as before, and being placed in order and …
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… this was their solemnest Festiuall. The sacrifices beeing ended, all the yong men and MaidesMaids came out of the Temple attired as before, and being placed in order and …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 679 · Open in the reader
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The yong men and MaidesMaids weare chaines of rosted mais, and the men Garlands, the MaidesMaids Mit…rs made …
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The yong men and MaidesMaids weare chaines of rosted mais, and the men Garlands, the MaidesMaids Mit…rs made …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 681 · Open in the reader
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This ended, the yongmen and MaidesMaids were dismissed: and so I thinke would our Reader, who cannot but be glutted …
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This ended, the yongmen and MaidesMaids were dismissed: and so I thinke would our Reader, who cannot but be glutted …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 682 · Open in the reader
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… bethinke her of devotion, and betake her to her Chappell, with eleuen of her MaidesMaids, where leaping on the Altar, and clasping about an Image, the force of the …
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… bethinke her of devotion, and betake her to her Chappell, with eleuen of her MaidesMaids, where leaping on the Altar, and clasping about an Image, the force of the …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 686 · Open in the reader

A Preparative to Marriage A12367

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MaidesMaids must speake like an Eccho. Fol. 38.
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MaidesMaids must speake like an Eccho. Fol. 38.
Henry Smith · A Preparative to Marriage · Open in the reader

Sermons in One Volume A12406

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MaidesMaids muſt ſpeake like an Eccho. 24
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MaidesMaids muſt ſpeake like an Eccho. 24
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · Open in the reader

Prototypes A15013

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… in two things. Firſt, that hee tooke into the houſe two ſuch ill conditioned MaidesMaids, as were a griefe of heart to Iſaac and Rebekah, Gen. 26. ult. This is …
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… in two things. Firſt, that hee tooke into the houſe two ſuch ill conditioned MaidesMaids, as were a griefe of heart to Iſaac and Rebekah, Gen. 26. ult. This is …
William Whately · Prototypes · p. 266 · Open in the reader

Solomons Marriage A15435

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… that losse doe also staine their honour, and defile the sacred palace of Princes: MaidesMaids then of honour, should seeke to preserue the honour of Virginity, to be examples …
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… that losse doe also staine their honour, and defile the sacred palace of Princes: MaidesMaids then of honour, should seeke to preserue the honour of Virginity, to be examples …
Andrew Willet · Solomons Marriage · p. 42 · Open in the reader

An ABC for Laymen A15621

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MaidesMaids.
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MaidesMaids.
Clergy George Wither · An ABC for Laymen · p. 89 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Deuteronomy A17698

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MaidesMaids ought to make as great accoūt of their Chastitie as of their life, and …
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MaidesMaids ought to make as great accoūt of their Chastitie as of their life, and …
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader
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MaidesMaids.
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MaidesMaids.
John Calvin · Sermons on Deuteronomy · Open in the reader

Exposition of Proverbs 9-10 A20544

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Shee hath ſent forth her MaidesMaids. &c. Verſe. 3
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Shee hath ſent forth her MaidesMaids. &c. Verſe. 3
John Dod · Exposition of Proverbs 9-10 · p. 10 · Open in the reader

Divine Characters in Two Parts A35147

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… is either a Prieſt, or a Friar. As the green-ſickneſſe is reckoned the MaidesMaids diſeaſe, ſo this Lurdaniſme , hath crept in by little and little upon the ſingle …
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… is either a Prieſt, or a Friar. As the green-ſickneſſe is reckoned the MaidesMaids diſeaſe, ſo this Lurdaniſme , hath crept in by little and little upon the ſingle …
Samuel Crook · Divine Characters in Two Parts · p. 483 · Open in the reader

The Riches of Gods Love A64002

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… will not ſay that Tiberius was the principall Authour of the deflouring of thoſe MaidesMaids? In like manner (ſay the Supralapſarians) God hath a purpoſe of putting great ſtore …
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… will not ſay that Tiberius was the principall Authour of the deflouring of thoſe MaidesMaids? In like manner (ſay the Supralapſarians) God hath a purpoſe of putting great ſtore …
William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 81 · Open in the reader
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… errours as was meet. I grant Tiberius was the principall Authour of deflowring thoſe MaidesMaids. For he commanded it, and that, as I have ſhewed, makes a man the …
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… errours as was meet. I grant Tiberius was the principall Authour of deflowring thoſe MaidesMaids. For he commanded it, and that, as I have ſhewed, makes a man the …
William Twisse · The Riches of Gods Love · p. 81 · Open in the reader

The Annals of the World A64619

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… Iras, that trimmed Cleopatra's hair, and Charmium (Nairas and Carmio, Gala saith were Cleopatras MaidesMaids, lib. de Theriaca ad Pisonem) by whom the greatest affairs of Antonius Empire were …
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… Iras, that trimmed Cleopatra's hair, and Charmium (Nairas and Carmio, Gala saith were Cleopatras MaidesMaids, lib. de Theriaca ad Pisonem) by whom the greatest affairs of Antonius Empire were …
James Ussher · The Annals of the World · p. 744 · Open in the reader

A Godly Form of Household Government A67866

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MaidesMaids and young women are to be put in minde, and alwayes to remember, that …
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MaidesMaids and young women are to be put in minde, and alwayes to remember, that …
Robert Cleaver · A Godly Form of Household Government · Open in the reader

Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods Word B40355

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MaidesMaids and young women are to be put in mind, and alwaies to remember, that …
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MaidesMaids and young women are to be put in mind, and alwaies to remember, that …
Henrich Bullinger · Exhortation to the Ministers of Gods Word · p. 350 · Open in the reader