Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11689 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

looktlooked

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

Puritas changed it: 3,085 times in 1,108 works
Consistency: 99.7% (3,085 of 3,094)
Reach if approved: ~3,279 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: looked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,121 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,085 changes in 1,108 works, 99.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,085)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
It followeth in incamping, what things are to be looktlooked into. And firſt, for the formes of the Campes, which with the Iſraelites, I …
With rule
It followeth in incamping, what things are to be looktlooked into. And firſt, for the formes of the Campes, which with the Iſraelites, I …
Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with Quis peccavit? M^r Who hath sinned? See the Religion of those times: They looktlooked upon sinne as the cause of defective or redundant births. Truth indeed, our Saviour …
With rule
… with Quis peccavit? M^r Who hath sinned? See the Religion of those times: They looktlooked upon sinne as the cause of defective or redundant births. Truth indeed, our Saviour …
Thomas Bedford · A Strange Birth at Stone-House · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my youth; that is, though they were a long time agoe committed, yet he looktlooked upon them as present; and this wrought humiliation in him: and thus it was …
With rule
… my youth; that is, though they were a long time agoe committed, yet he looktlooked upon them as present; and this wrought humiliation in him: and thus it was …
John Preston · Remains · p. 216 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee that is in the world. Therefore Gods constant loue is still to bee looktlooked vnto, as the only cause of our safetie, which keepes our wills by grace …
With rule
… hee that is in the world. Therefore Gods constant loue is still to bee looktlooked vnto, as the only cause of our safetie, which keepes our wills by grace …
Francis Rous · The Doctrine of King James · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſeen one cloathed, clouded with the Moon, crowned with a Crown of Stars, and looktlooked thou ſhouldeſt have ſpoken in the language of heaven, with the tongue of Angels …
With rule
… ſeen one cloathed, clouded with the Moon, crowned with a Crown of Stars, and looktlooked thou ſhouldeſt have ſpoken in the language of heaven, with the tongue of Angels …
John Stoughton · Eleven Choice Sermons · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtored of a Romane, that he neuer beheld the rubbiſh of old marble, or looktlooked vpon the ruines of any ancient building: but he wept and cryed, Recordatione temporum …
With rule
… ſtored of a Romane, that he neuer beheld the rubbiſh of old marble, or looktlooked vpon the ruines of any ancient building: but he wept and cryed, Recordatione temporum …
John Wall · The Seraphims Wings to Raise Us Unto Heaven · p. 87 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yet then hee denied him, at his arraignment: when againe Chriſt immediatly upon that looktlooked back upon him with ſo ſweet a looke as broke his heart for this …
With rule
… yet then hee denied him, at his arraignment: when againe Chriſt immediatly upon that looktlooked back upon him with ſo ſweet a looke as broke his heart for this …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · p. 336 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life (I wil not ſay as the old proverbe is then the dogge that looktlooked over Lincolne, but) then thoſe that the Apoſtle ſaith, neither knovv what they speake …
With rule
… life (I wil not ſay as the old proverbe is then the dogge that looktlooked over Lincolne, but) then thoſe that the Apoſtle ſaith, neither knovv what they speake …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

7 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 Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

Printed
LooktLooked like pale Phoebe in her darkned waine.
With rule
LooktLooked like pale Phoebe in her darkned waine.
Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 28 · Open in the reader

Britains Remembrancer A15627

Printed
LooktLooked like a Lunatique from Bedlem broken;
With rule
LooktLooked like a Lunatique from Bedlem broken;
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · Open in the reader
Printed
LooktLooked▪ e're the morning, to be sicke, or dead.
With rule
LooktLooked▪ e're the morning, to be sicke, or dead.
George Wither · Britains Remembrancer · p. 127 · Open in the reader

A Testimony to the Doctrine and Government of the Church of Scotland A35932

Printed
… ſometimes, in the Week days. He asked why not now? I ſaid he was LooktLooked upon …s an Honeſt Man then, but had proved otherwiſe by Breaking his Oath …
With rule
… ſometimes, in the Week days. He asked why not now? I ſaid he was LooktLooked upon …s an Honeſt Man then, but had proved otherwiſe by Breaking his Oath …
John Dick · A Testimony to the Doctrine and Government of the Church of Scotland · p. 3 · Open in the reader

The Appeal of Injured Innocence A40651

Printed
… his Father, and of the Danish Royal blood by his Mother, he might be lookTlooked on as the fittest person in that conjuncture, to content both Nations: But whatsoever …
With rule
… his Father, and of the Danish Royal blood by his Mother, he might be lookTlooked on as the fittest person in that conjuncture, to content both Nations: But whatsoever …
Thomas Fuller · The Appeal of Injured Innocence · p. 23 · Open in the reader

A Memorial Offered to John Williams A43532

Printed
… Tim. 1.18. And Mich. Syncellus follow'd the Tradition, that Dionyſius was made Biſhop of Athens, foreign: LooktLooked into by the Eyes of St. Paul, who could ſee him through and through …
With rule
… Tim. 1.18. And Mich. Syncellus follow'd the Tradition, that Dionyſius was made Biſhop of Athens, foreign: LooktLooked into by the Eyes of St. Paul, who could ſee him through and through …
John Hacket · A Memorial Offered to John Williams · p. 41 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Genesis A56630

Printed
Ver. 7. Caſt her Eyes upon Joſeph.] LooktLooked upon him Amorouſly, or rather Laſciviouſly: He being young as well as handſom.
With rule
Ver. 7. Caſt her Eyes upon Joſeph.] LooktLooked upon him Amorouſly, or rather Laſciviouſly: He being young as well as handſom.
Simon Patrick · Commentary on Genesis · p. 515 · Open in the reader