Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11641 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

touchttouched

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

Puritas changed it: 865 times in 431 works
Consistency: 98.9% (865 of 874)
Reach if approved: ~919 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: touched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 875 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (865 changes in 431 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 865)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and thoſe that are departed; the conſideration whereof in the hart of a Chriſtian touchttouched with the leaſt finger of his grace that can heale all our infirmities, will …
With rule
… and thoſe that are departed; the conſideration whereof in the hart of a Chriſtian touchttouched with the leaſt finger of his grace that can heale all our infirmities, will …
William Crashaw · The Ambassador Between Heaven and Earth · Open in the reader
Printed
… a dart, much more then ſhould a Dog or an Hog, if they had touchttouched the Mountaine.
With rule
… a dart, much more then ſhould a Dog or an Hog, if they had touchttouched the Mountaine.
Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 191 · Open in the reader
Printed
… To this we muſt adde a ſecond thing, which in part hath beene alreadie touchttouched, and that is often to thinke on croſſes before they come, and to promiſe …
With rule
… To this we muſt adde a ſecond thing, which in part hath beene alreadie touchttouched, and that is often to thinke on croſſes before they come, and to promiſe …
Robert Harris · Absoloms Funeral · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not, because they have sought it most lazily, who now and then have beene touchttouched with some little sight of sinne and danger, and by the provokings of the …
With rule
… not, because they have sought it most lazily, who now and then have beene touchttouched with some little sight of sinne and danger, and by the provokings of the …
John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
Suppoſe the fire had touchttouched the traine
With rule
Suppoſe the fire had touchttouched the traine
John Wilson · A Song · p. 26 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ought to heare our voice. And certainely if we were ſo liuely and Chriſtianly touchttouched with a feeling of the ſweetneſſe of the word of life as we ſhould …
With rule
… ought to heare our voice. And certainely if we were ſo liuely and Chriſtianly touchttouched with a feeling of the ſweetneſſe of the word of life as we ſhould …
Henry Airay · Lectures Upon Philippians · p. 462 · Open in the reader
Printed
I touchttouched not thy corrupted Officers,
With rule
I touchttouched not thy corrupted Officers,
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 209 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Who if they heare a man preach, or argue against Vsury; and feele themselves touchttouched: They presently labour to dawbe and divert, by asking, whether Hee meane all Vsury …
With rule
… Who if they heare a man preach, or argue against Vsury; and feele themselves touchttouched: They presently labour to dawbe and divert, by asking, whether Hee meane all Vsury …
Robert Bolton · Discourse Concerning Usury · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Saints Humiliation A13835

Printed
5 TouchtTouched them not.
With rule
5 TouchtTouched them not.
Samuel Torshell · The Saints Humiliation · Open in the reader

The Wonders of the Lodestone A14727

Printed
TouchtTouched by one Loadstone, which thy friend
With rule
TouchtTouched by one Loadstone, which thy friend
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 254 · Open in the reader

The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

Printed
TouchtTouched the Ela of praiſe, t'emhlazon't forth?
With rule
TouchtTouched the Ela of praiſe, t'emhlazon't forth?
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 63 · Open in the reader

Several Poems A29149

Printed
TouchtTouched with this news to Perſia he makes,
With rule
TouchtTouched with this news to Perſia he makes,
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 96 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 1-3 A35389

Printed
… he did not demand to ſmite Job, he did but deſire to have him TouchtTouched: you heard before ſomewhat of that. Satan moves that his fleſh and his bone …
With rule
… he did not demand to ſmite Job, he did but deſire to have him TouchtTouched: you heard before ſomewhat of that. Satan moves that his fleſh and his bone …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · p. 259 · Open in the reader

Paradise Regained A50931

Printed
TouchtTouched with the flame: on thir whole Host I flew
With rule
TouchtTouched with the flame: on thir whole Host I flew
John Milton · Paradise Regained · p. 23 · Open in the reader

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America A77237

Printed
TouchtTouched with this newes, to Perſia he makes,
With rule
TouchtTouched with this newes, to Perſia he makes,
Anne Bradstreet · The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America · p. 92 · Open in the reader

The Deputation of Angels A81481

Printed
… they ſate ſtill to ſigh and mourn over us. Chriſt is ſaid to be TouchtTouched with the feeling of our infirmities: Nay in all our afflictions he is afflicted …
With rule
… they ſate ſtill to ſigh and mourn over us. Chriſt is ſaid to be TouchtTouched with the feeling of our infirmities: Nay in all our afflictions he is afflicted …
Robert Dingley · The Deputation of Angels · p. 130 · Open in the reader

The Churchs Quarrel Espoused N01398

Printed
… Greivance, and Common Neuſance? If it be but in Dream, that the Exchequer appears TouchtTouched, without a precept, or the Wings of our Civil Liberties Clipt, or ſo much …
With rule
… Greivance, and Common Neuſance? If it be but in Dream, that the Exchequer appears TouchtTouched, without a precept, or the Wings of our Civil Liberties Clipt, or ſo much …
John Wise · The Churchs Quarrel Espoused · p. 113 · Open in the reader