Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11428 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

thinckethink

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

Puritas changed it: 639 times in 76 works
Consistency: 98.7% (639 of 647)
Reach if approved: ~680 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: think
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 647 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (639 changes in 76 works, 98.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 639)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… as my enemies may haue no power ouer me, so I likewyse maye neyther thinckethink, breath, or speake or doo anye thynge that maye bee dipleasaunt to thy fatherly …
With rule
… as my enemies may haue no power ouer me, so I likewyse maye neyther thinckethink, breath, or speake or doo anye thynge that maye bee dipleasaunt to thy fatherly …
Thomas Becon · The Flower of Godly Prayers · p. i · Open in the reader
Printed
… so it may confesse the secrete wickednesse of it: for the Papistes dooe not thinckethink vs Protestants, greater enemies to their superstition, then the inwarde corruptions of our hearts …
With rule
… so it may confesse the secrete wickednesse of it: for the Papistes dooe not thinckethink vs Protestants, greater enemies to their superstition, then the inwarde corruptions of our hearts …
William Perkins · Exposition of Zephaniah 2 · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thoſe auncient brethten have labored I know not what may more be added: I thinckethink rather ther can nothing be added: but now Antichriſt is perfectly both diſcovered & conſumed …
With rule
… thoſe auncient brethten have labored I know not what may more be added: I thinckethink rather ther can nothing be added: but now Antichriſt is perfectly both diſcovered & conſumed …
John Smyth · The Differences of the Churches of the Separation · Open in the reader
Printed
… likely, that he is admitted vnto the kingdome of God. Neither oughte we to thinckethink, that he was ſlayne of God to eternall condemnation, but rather to ſaluation, that …
With rule
… likely, that he is admitted vnto the kingdome of God. Neither oughte we to thinckethink, that he was ſlayne of God to eternall condemnation, but rather to ſaluation, that …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader
Printed
… for my ſelfe, as I woulde be ſorye that my lord or you, ſhuld thinckethink any waueringe in me for my doctrine: ſo I would be lothe, but to …
With rule
… for my ſelfe, as I woulde be ſorye that my lord or you, ſhuld thinckethink any waueringe in me for my doctrine: ſo I would be lothe, but to …
John Bradford · All the Examinations of the Martyr John Bradford · Open in the reader
Printed
… fallation / for it hath not ſo much as a colour of a reaſon / & I thinckethink it can deceiue no body but your ſelf. An other reaſon is / that all …
With rule
… fallation / for it hath not ſo much as a colour of a reaſon / & I thinckethink it can deceiue no body but your ſelf. An other reaſon is / that all …
Thomas Cartwright · A Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift · p. 101 · Open in the reader
Printed
But some perhaps wyll thinckethink this complaint to be gréeuous, God hath not delt thus with vs, but rather …
With rule
But some perhaps wyll thinckethink this complaint to be gréeuous, God hath not delt thus with vs, but rather …
Edward Dering · Brief and Necessary Instruction for All Householders · Open in the reader
Printed
… a worke that is acceptable vnto him. For thoſe that bow vnto grauen Images, thinckethink and ſay that the Lorde is ſerued therein, and that they doe it not …
With rule
… a worke that is acceptable vnto him. For thoſe that bow vnto grauen Images, thinckethink and ſay that the Lorde is ſerued therein, and that they doe it not …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A14354

Printed
… our bodie is his Tēple. Gyue therfore to Godd / that which belongith vnto hym. ThinckeThink what thow lust of doing and dissemblinge for thy commoditie: Yeat this Rule / and …
With rule
… our bodie is his Tēple. Gyue therfore to Godd / that which belongith vnto hym. ThinckeThink what thow lust of doing and dissemblinge for thy commoditie: Yeat this Rule / and …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · Open in the reader
Printed
… shall we saye that the lorde did teache euill / which sayed in the gospell? ThinckeThink not that I am come to sende peace into the earthe. I came not …
With rule
… shall we saye that the lorde did teache euill / which sayed in the gospell? ThinckeThink not that I am come to sende peace into the earthe. I came not …
Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 68 · Open in the reader

Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 A14462

Printed
T. I ThinckeThink for all y^t they haue not alwayes the beſt agremen: of the world among …
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T. I ThinckeThink for all y^t they haue not alwayes the beſt agremen: of the world among …
Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · p. 147 · Open in the reader

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

Printed
… the death of the 18. men vpon whom y^e tower in Siloc fel, preſently ſay: ThinckeThink ye that they were greater ſinners than the reſt? No verilie: but vnleſſe ye …
With rule
… the death of the 18. men vpon whom y^e tower in Siloc fel, preſently ſay: ThinckeThink ye that they were greater ſinners than the reſt? No verilie: but vnleſſe ye …
Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 563 · Open in the reader

The Way to Wealth A19673

Printed
… they thoughte to kepe ſtyll in ſlauerye myght eaſyly take the ſpoyle of them. ThinckeThink not therfore, but if the people quiete thēſelues in theyr oppreſſion and cal vnto …
With rule
… they thoughte to kepe ſtyll in ſlauerye myght eaſyly take the ſpoyle of them. ThinckeThink not therfore, but if the people quiete thēſelues in theyr oppreſſion and cal vnto …
Robert Crowley · The Way to Wealth · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
… precious iewel in the Church of God, then perchance you are yet aware of. ThinckeThink your selfe vnwoorthy to be matched with suche an instrument of God: and also …
With rule
… precious iewel in the Church of God, then perchance you are yet aware of. ThinckeThink your selfe vnwoorthy to be matched with suche an instrument of God: and also …
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1933 · Open in the reader