Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11654 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fourmeform

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

Puritas changed it: 537 times in 115 works
Consistency: 99.6% (537 of 539)
Reach if approved: ~566 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: form
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 539 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (537 changes in 115 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 537)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… church there shoulde bee one only forme of beliefe, one fourmeform of seruice, one fourmeform of Sacramentes, and the like: euen as there is (according to Paule) one Baptisme …
With rule
… church there shoulde bee one only forme of beliefe, one fourmeform of seruice, one fourmeform of Sacramentes, and the like: euen as there is (according to Paule) one Baptisme …
William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · p. 19 · Open in the reader
Printed
… layd aside, the baytes cleane taken away; and those blessings of Moses removed a fourmeform lower: for, they were to them the very face of the promise; but are …
With rule
… layd aside, the baytes cleane taken away; and those blessings of Moses removed a fourmeform lower: for, they were to them the very face of the promise; but are …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
Moreouer, the ſentence of that great day proceedeth againſt the damned perſons in this fourmeform. Departe from me ye curſed into euerlaſting fire whiche is prepared for the diuel …
With rule
Moreouer, the ſentence of that great day proceedeth againſt the damned perſons in this fourmeform. Departe from me ye curſed into euerlaſting fire whiche is prepared for the diuel …
John Knewstubs · Lectures Upon Exodus 20 · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… repente. So whenne thou arte nowe baptysed, there appearethe in thy fleshe no other fourmeform, then was before. But I pray thee is absolution and Baptisme therefore of no …
With rule
… repente. So whenne thou arte nowe baptysed, there appearethe in thy fleshe no other fourmeform, then was before. But I pray thee is absolution and Baptisme therefore of no …
Thomas Becon · Sermons Upon all the Sunday Gospels · Open in the reader
Printed
… that he hath left, and is departed from vs touchinge his humanitie. Touchinge the fourmeform of a ſeruaunte whiche he hath lift vp into heauen out of our company …
With rule
… that he hath left, and is departed from vs touchinge his humanitie. Touchinge the fourmeform of a ſeruaunte whiche he hath lift vp into heauen out of our company …
Theodore Beza · An Oration · Open in the reader
Printed
… felow wold not yet cease crauyng, but aunswered agayne: It becommeth kynges to per fourmeform what so euer they graūt euen with a becke of theyr hedde. Neuer a …
With rule
… felow wold not yet cease crauyng, but aunswered agayne: It becommeth kynges to per fourmeform what so euer they graūt euen with a becke of theyr hedde. Neuer a …
Richard Taverner · The Garden of Wisdom · Open in the reader
Printed
… nor diminiſhe anye thinge, but that hee will giue it them, in the ſame fourmeform as hée receyued it of his Maſter Ieſus Chriſte. I doe not boeléeue that …
With rule
… nor diminiſhe anye thinge, but that hee will giue it them, in the ſame fourmeform as hée receyued it of his Maſter Ieſus Chriſte. I doe not boeléeue that …
Pierre Viret · The Christian Disputations · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sensible, whether it be the element, or the word, is the matter, and the fourmeform to bee the signification, Sic Dominicus a Soto, Caietanus. Others thinke that all Sacramentes …
With rule
… sensible, whether it be the element, or the word, is the matter, and the fourmeform to bee the signification, Sic Dominicus a Soto, Caietanus. Others thinke that all Sacramentes …
Andrew Willet · The Four Principal Pillars of Papistry · p. 151 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.