Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11502 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spokēspoken

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

Puritas changed it: 872 times in 323 works
Consistency: 100% (872 of 872)
Reach if approved: ~916 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 872 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (872 changes in 323 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 872)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… he said this? It coulde not be his bodie, before the words of consecration spokēspoken as all Catholike papists affirme: then it was bread, then, the word following Is …
With rule
… he said this? It coulde not be his bodie, before the words of consecration spokēspoken as all Catholike papists affirme: then it was bread, then, the word following Is …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 561 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that iudgeth, and there is a blessing propounded for them that are so euil spokēspoken of. But there are foure hundred Prophets that speak against you, are they all …
With rule
… that iudgeth, and there is a blessing propounded for them that are so euil spokēspoken of. But there are foure hundred Prophets that speak against you, are they all …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 652 · Open in the reader
Printed
… first chapter of Ecclesiastes otherwyse called the preacher / but not as it is there spokēspoken. For here it is / Vix corriguntur impi…. And there it is thus / peruers… diffici …
With rule
… first chapter of Ecclesiastes otherwyse called the preacher / but not as it is there spokēspoken. For here it is / Vix corriguntur impi…. And there it is thus / peruers… diffici …
John Bale · A Mystery of Iniquity Disclosed and Confuted · Open in the reader
Printed
… I would know what commaundement the Gileadites had to erect that Altar which is spokēspoken of in the booke of Iosua. Did not cōgruity of reason induce them therunto …
With rule
… I would know what commaundement the Gileadites had to erect that Altar which is spokēspoken of in the booke of Iosua. Did not cōgruity of reason induce them therunto …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
… forſaking of his worſhip: as they alſo expound their returning to their firſt husband ſpokēspoken of ch. 2, 7.) to be the returning to the worship of their firſt Lord. 3. That …
With rule
… forſaking of his worſhip: as they alſo expound their returning to their firſt husband ſpokēspoken of ch. 2, 7.) to be the returning to the worship of their firſt Lord. 3. That …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… maye applye the merytes of Chriſtes paſſion, to whome ye liſt▪ This is proudly ſpokēspoken. Then may ye make peace with God at youre pleaſure. But the contrarye ſpeaketh …
With rule
… maye applye the merytes of Chriſtes paſſion, to whome ye liſt▪ This is proudly ſpokēspoken. Then may ye make peace with God at youre pleaſure. But the contrarye ſpeaketh …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader
Printed
Thys is ſpokēspoken of the doctryne, whithe muſt be pure & ſyncere, namely the deare bleſſed, holy, and …
With rule
Thys is ſpokēspoken of the doctryne, whithe muſt be pure & ſyncere, namely the deare bleſſed, holy, and …
Martin Luther · The Chief and Principal Articles of the Christian Faith · Open in the reader
Printed
… muſt keep our ſelvs without rebuke, that the word of God be not evill ſpokēspoken of by our iniquityes, and that we ſuffer nothing to be added or taken …
With rule
… muſt keep our ſelvs without rebuke, that the word of God be not evill ſpokēspoken of by our iniquityes, and that we ſuffer nothing to be added or taken …
John Forbes · Four Sermons · p. 39 · 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.