Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11666 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stoptstopped

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

Puritas changed it: 1,913 times in 1,034 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,913 of 1,920)
Reach if approved: ~2,017 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stopped
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,920 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,913 changes in 1,034 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,913)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… have need of that fountaine, from whence their perfection commeth, which if it be stoptstopped, they will come to nothing.
With rule
… have need of that fountaine, from whence their perfection commeth, which if it be stoptstopped, they will come to nothing.
John Preston · Life Eternal · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue deſtroyed the Giliadites at the firſt onſet, while they were vnarmed: the Lord ſtoptstopped him, and cauſed him to hearken to a needleſſe condition, whereby the time being …
With rule
… haue deſtroyed the Giliadites at the firſt onſet, while they were vnarmed: the Lord ſtoptstopped him, and cauſed him to hearken to a needleſſe condition, whereby the time being …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 530 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stoptstopped by Divine Power, from preying upon the tamer: so the Lions mouthes were stoptstopped from preying upon Daniel in the Lions Den.
With rule
… stoptstopped by Divine Power, from preying upon the tamer: so the Lions mouthes were stoptstopped from preying upon Daniel in the Lions Den.
Richard Sibbes · The Saints Safety in Evil Times · p. 95 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whether God will hide himselfe, whether the word shall profit, or his eare be stoptstopped to thy petitions? Then shalt thou see in his colours, and heare with unspeakable …
With rule
… whether God will hide himselfe, whether the word shall profit, or his eare be stoptstopped to thy petitions? Then shalt thou see in his colours, and heare with unspeakable …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 235 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon him a Caldron full of water, whose bottome was full of holes artificially stoptstopped with waxe: which when it felt the heat of that furious Idol, melted and …
With rule
… vpon him a Caldron full of water, whose bottome was full of holes artificially stoptstopped with waxe: which when it felt the heat of that furious Idol, melted and …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
… every high thing that exalted it selfe in them against the knowledge of God (stoptstopped their mouthes quite, and made them past reasoning against it) and brought into captivity …
With rule
… every high thing that exalted it selfe in them against the knowledge of God (stoptstopped their mouthes quite, and made them past reasoning against it) and brought into captivity …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Such a one is man fallen among Satan, Sinne, and Death, and by them stoptstopped, stript, and striped. Satan dismounts him off his Innocency that should sustaine him: Sinne …
With rule
… Such a one is man fallen among Satan, Sinne, and Death, and by them stoptstopped, stript, and striped. Satan dismounts him off his Innocency that should sustaine him: Sinne …
John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 190 · Open in the reader
Printed
… proclaymer hereof either better revenge himſelfe, then to ſet him vpon the ſtage, who ſtoptstopped at home his popiſh leavene, & detected abroade many of his badde proceedings; or gratifie …
With rule
… proclaymer hereof either better revenge himſelfe, then to ſet him vpon the ſtage, who ſtoptstopped at home his popiſh leavene, & detected abroade many of his badde proceedings; or gratifie …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 131 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Virtues History A11081

Printed
StoptStopped with her fingers her imprisond eares,
With rule
StoptStopped with her fingers her imprisond eares,
Francis Rous · Virtues History · Open in the reader

Sermons A65074

Printed
… that is by conviction as is plaine by the ninth verſe as Chriſt foreign Matth. 22. 34. StoptStopped the Sadduces mouths by ſilencing their arguments. They wil tell you that arguments of …
With rule
… that is by conviction as is plaine by the ninth verſe as Chriſt foreign Matth. 22. 34. StoptStopped the Sadduces mouths by ſilencing their arguments. They wil tell you that arguments of …
Richard Vines · Sermons · p. 60 · Open in the reader

Nature and Danger of Heresy A95963

Printed
… that is by conviction as is plaine by the ninth verſe as Chriſt foreign Matth. 22. 34. StoptStopped the Sadduces mouths by ſilencing their arguments. They wil tell you that arguments of …
With rule
… that is by conviction as is plaine by the ninth verſe as Chriſt foreign Matth. 22. 34. StoptStopped the Sadduces mouths by ſilencing their arguments. They wil tell you that arguments of …
Richard Vines · Nature and Danger of Heresy · p. 60 · Open in the reader

The Divine Original and Dignity of Government Asserted N01247

Printed
… Dwelling is in fleſh, whoſe breath is in their Noſtrils, and may be ſoon StoptStopped; which will give check to a Spirit of flattery, regulate their Expectations from them …
With rule
… Dwelling is in fleſh, whoſe breath is in their Noſtrils, and may be ſoon StoptStopped; which will give check to a Spirit of flattery, regulate their Expectations from them …
Ebenezer Pemberton · The Divine Original and Dignity of Government Asserted · p. 3 · Open in the reader