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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11272 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

quickningquickening

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

Puritas changed it
3,788 times in 1,314 works
Consistency
99.8% (3,788 of 3,793)
Reach if approved
~3,987 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: quickening
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
3,795 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,788 changes in 1,314 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,788)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … are renewed by the holy Ghoſt, by the Goſpell of faith. This begetting and quickningquickening ſpirit is called immortall ſeede. 1. Pet. 1. 23. Being borne a new, not of mortall ſeede …
    With rule
    … are renewed by the holy Ghoſt, by the Goſpell of faith. This begetting and quickningquickening ſpirit is called immortall ſeede. 1. Pet. 1. 23. Being borne a new, not of mortall ſeede …

    Thomas Granger · The Light of the World · p. 23 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … away, and by the Spirit of sanctification that wee are renewed, mortifying sinne, and quickningquickening grace in vs, Ephes. 5. 26. 7. It was painfull to flesh and bloud. So is mortification …
    With rule
    … away, and by the Spirit of sanctification that wee are renewed, mortifying sinne, and quickningquickening grace in vs, Ephes. 5. 26. 7. It was painfull to flesh and bloud. So is mortification …

    William Guild · Moses Unveiled · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſo hath the ſoule its ſoule whereby it liues, and that is Chriſt the quickningquickening ſpirit. Take away the ſoule from the bodie, and earth becomes earth: ſeuer Chriſt …
    With rule
    … ſo hath the ſoule its ſoule whereby it liues, and that is Chriſt the quickningquickening ſpirit. Take away the ſoule from the bodie, and earth becomes earth: ſeuer Chriſt …

    John Ball · A Treatise of Faith · p. 200 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … of Stone into the fleſhie Tables of our hearts, the killing letter into the quickningquickening ſpirit, not putting out, but putting in, his lawes into our minde, and writing …
    With rule
    … of Stone into the fleſhie Tables of our hearts, the killing letter into the quickningquickening ſpirit, not putting out, but putting in, his lawes into our minde, and writing …

    William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 46 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … ſinne by degrees, and every day giving the ſoule a greater meaſure of inward quickningquickening and vivification to the life of holineſſe and righteouſneſſe; this ſecret worke of regeneration …
    With rule
    … ſinne by degrees, and every day giving the ſoule a greater meaſure of inward quickningquickening and vivification to the life of holineſſe and righteouſneſſe; this ſecret worke of regeneration …

    Benjamin King · The Marriage of the Lamb · p. 52 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … his grieuous fall lost the comfort of Gods Spirit, vers. 12. and the free and quickningquickening motions thereof: and therefore he humbly desires a renouation, and confirmation of the Spirit …
    With rule
    … his grieuous fall lost the comfort of Gods Spirit, vers. 12. and the free and quickningquickening motions thereof: and therefore he humbly desires a renouation, and confirmation of the Spirit …

    Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 69 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … liuely operation and ſupernaturall working of Chriſt in the ſoule where he is, illuminating, quickningquickening, and tranſforming everie man who hath him in the ſpirit of his mind, and …
    With rule
    … liuely operation and ſupernaturall working of Chriſt in the ſoule where he is, illuminating, quickningquickening, and tranſforming everie man who hath him in the ſpirit of his mind, and …

    John Forbes · A Fruitful Sermon · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … but this once I had;] as a woman with childe, though after her firſt quickningquickening, ſhe doth not alwayes finde the childe to ſtir, yet becauſe ſhe did feele …
    With rule
    … but this once I had;] as a woman with childe, though after her firſt quickningquickening, ſhe doth not alwayes finde the childe to ſtir, yet becauſe ſhe did feele …

    Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 29 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Resurrection Revealed A44277

  • Printed
    … EVENING-TIME Light. This Day is the AGE or WORLD TO COME, and the QUICKNINGQUICKENING OF THE DEAD.
    With rule
    … EVENING-TIME Light. This Day is the AGE or WORLD TO COME, and the QUICKNINGQUICKENING OF THE DEAD.

    Nathanael Homes · The Resurrection Revealed · p. 8 · Open in the reader

The Sum of Christian Religion A64611

  • Printed
    QUickningQuickening. How the ſpirit quickneth. pag. 23. Three parts of quickningquickening. 503. why the latter part of …
    With rule
    QUickningQuickening. How the ſpirit quickneth. pag. 23. Three parts of quickningquickening. 503. why the latter part of …

    Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · Open in the reader

The Lords Supper Briefly Vindicated A91214

  • Printed
    … the Lords Supper is a Converting Ordinance: WE GRANT IT TO BE A CONVERTING, QUICKNINGQUICKENING AND LIVELY APPLICATORY ORDINANCE: though he adds a, But how? &c. to it: And …
    With rule
    … the Lords Supper is a Converting Ordinance: WE GRANT IT TO BE A CONVERTING, QUICKNINGQUICKENING AND LIVELY APPLICATORY ORDINANCE: though he adds a, But how? &c. to it: And …

    William Prynne · The Lords Supper Briefly Vindicated · p. 57 · Open in the reader

Suspension Suspended A91293

  • Printed
    … Ordinance, becauſe it applies Chriſt to us; WE GRANT IT TO BE A CONVERTING, QUICKNINGQUICKENING AND LIVELY APPLICATORY ORDINANCE: But how? He may know, that whatever Ordinance addeth a …
    With rule
    … Ordinance, becauſe it applies Chriſt to us; WE GRANT IT TO BE A CONVERTING, QUICKNINGQUICKENING AND LIVELY APPLICATORY ORDINANCE: But how? He may know, that whatever Ordinance addeth a …

    William Prynne · Suspension Suspended · p. 31 · Open in the reader