Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11065 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

terrourterror

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 7,109 times in 1,992 works
Consistency: 99.9% (7,109 of 7,114)
Reach if approved: ~7,475 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: terror
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 7,114 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (7,109 changes in 1,992 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 7,109)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to entrap the ſoules withall: Hee hath alſo his forces and fierie dartes of terrourterror to wounde withall. It is no dealing in particulars: but to bee armed ſtronglie …
With rule
… to entrap the ſoules withall: Hee hath alſo his forces and fierie dartes of terrourterror to wounde withall. It is no dealing in particulars: but to bee armed ſtronglie …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… curſed, &c. Alaſſe then it will bee too late to get Heaven: oh! what terrourterror and amazement, what bitter anguiſh to thinke Heaven came neere unto me; it was …
With rule
… curſed, &c. Alaſſe then it will bee too late to get Heaven: oh! what terrourterror and amazement, what bitter anguiſh to thinke Heaven came neere unto me; it was …
Thomas Goodwin · The Happiness of the Saints in Glory · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is ſayd, that with it thou doſt terrible things: and that which is in terrourterror the moſt terrible, when thou once beginneſt, thou never giveſt over: thine anger is …
With rule
… is ſayd, that with it thou doſt terrible things: and that which is in terrourterror the moſt terrible, when thou once beginneſt, thou never giveſt over: thine anger is …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beams of his vnsearchable loue shine vpon thee, thou maiest expect in age, but terrourterror and fearefull torment of conscience, and hereafter to receyue the iust reward and hyre …
With rule
… beams of his vnsearchable loue shine vpon thee, thou maiest expect in age, but terrourterror and fearefull torment of conscience, and hereafter to receyue the iust reward and hyre …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
Nor yet the Israelytes, with terrourterror of the sworde,
With rule
Nor yet the Israelytes, with terrourterror of the sworde,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… two houres together, ſlewe twelue perſons preſently, and amaſed all the reſt with great terrourterror and feare.
With rule
… two houres together, ſlewe twelue perſons preſently, and amaſed all the reſt with great terrourterror and feare.
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſhall looke to my owne life, I ſhall finde it to be a great terrourterror, to keepe mee from diſpleaſing God in my calling, for any mans pleaſure; firſt …
With rule
… ſhall looke to my owne life, I ſhall finde it to be a great terrourterror, to keepe mee from diſpleaſing God in my calling, for any mans pleaſure; firſt …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sawe them. &c. The wicked muste needes be stryken with an horrible teare and terrourterror, when as they shall see them restored againe to life whome they slew, where …
With rule
… sawe them. &c. The wicked muste needes be stryken with an horrible teare and terrourterror, when as they shall see them restored againe to life whome they slew, where …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

2 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 Discourse Grounded on Proverbs A64282

Printed
… World that the Holy Ghoſt applyes that of the Prophet, thine heart ſhall MEDITATE TERROURTERROR; Thou ſhalt be thinking how to kill this corruption, and how to Conquer that …
With rule
… World that the Holy Ghoſt applyes that of the Prophet, thine heart ſhall MEDITATE TERROURTERROR; Thou ſhalt be thinking how to kill this corruption, and how to Conquer that …
Faithful Teate · A Discourse Grounded on Proverbs · p. 161 · Open in the reader

Right Thoughts A64284

Printed
… World that the Holy Ghoſt applyes that of the Prophet, thine heart ſhall MEDITATE TERROURTERROR; Thou ſhalt be thinking how to kill this corruption, and how to Conquer that …
With rule
… World that the Holy Ghoſt applyes that of the Prophet, thine heart ſhall MEDITATE TERROURTERROR; Thou ſhalt be thinking how to kill this corruption, and how to Conquer that …
Faithful Teate · Right Thoughts · p. 75 · Open in the reader