Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11719 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

choakedchoked

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

Puritas changed it: 651 times in 439 works
Consistency: 98.3% (651 of 662)
Reach if approved: ~696 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: choked
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 662 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (651 changes in 439 works, 98.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 651)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… to the word, but pride was neuer rooted out of his heart, therefore it choakedchoked the word in him, 1 Tim. 5. 11. Paul ſpeakes of young widowes, that hauing entertained and …
With rule
… to the word, but pride was neuer rooted out of his heart, therefore it choakedchoked the word in him, 1 Tim. 5. 11. Paul ſpeakes of young widowes, that hauing entertained and …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 8 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by overu-sing of these lawfull things and setting their hearts upon them, they choakedchoked all grace, and care of heavenly things, they fed and increased the pride and …
With rule
… by overu-sing of these lawfull things and setting their hearts upon them, they choakedchoked all grace, and care of heavenly things, they fed and increased the pride and …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 318 · Open in the reader
Printed
… giuen him an Italian figge? or, what haue you done vnto him? haue you choakedchoked him with a fat prebend or two? What? I trowe my father wil ſwallow …
With rule
… giuen him an Italian figge? or, what haue you done vnto him? haue you choakedchoked him with a fat prebend or two? What? I trowe my father wil ſwallow …
Martin Marprelate · Theses · Open in the reader
Printed
… would not part with all for Christ, the world they esteemed more; The thornes choakedchoked them, vers. 7.) But the fourth ground was fully humbled; that is, they were so …
With rule
… would not part with all for Christ, the world they esteemed more; The thornes choakedchoked them, vers. 7.) But the fourth ground was fully humbled; that is, they were so …
John Preston · A Lifeless Life · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… been forward, zealous, carefull in the waies of godlineſs, but now the world hath choakedchoked them, the vanity thereof beguiled them, they are not the men they haue been …
With rule
… been forward, zealous, carefull in the waies of godlineſs, but now the world hath choakedchoked them, the vanity thereof beguiled them, they are not the men they haue been …
Nehemiah Rogers · Christian Courtesy · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… nouriſhing weeds, tares, or corn of little worth, the good wheate is pulled down, choakedchoked, or ſtarved. He whoſe cares are too much about the earth, his care will …
With rule
… nouriſhing weeds, tares, or corn of little worth, the good wheate is pulled down, choakedchoked, or ſtarved. He whoſe cares are too much about the earth, his care will …
Henry Scudder · The Christians Daily Walk in Holy Security and Peace · p. 400 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Thirdlye, as the ſeede that fell among thornes cōmeth at the laſt to be choakedchoked vp and ſtiffeled: ſo muſt we beware that the cares of worldly affaires, & the …
With rule
… Thirdlye, as the ſeede that fell among thornes cōmeth at the laſt to be choakedchoked vp and ſtiffeled: ſo muſt we beware that the cares of worldly affaires, & the …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 537 · Open in the reader
Printed
The Roman pouch is so stuffed with Traditions, so choakedchoked with counterfait ouergilt Copper of new-minted Articles, that Christ, and his Apostles, and …
With rule
The Roman pouch is so stuffed with Traditions, so choakedchoked with counterfait ouergilt Copper of new-minted Articles, that Christ, and his Apostles, and …
Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 127 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (11)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 7 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Jonah A46743

Printed
… eighteen years; Others were poſſeſſed of Devils, and ſuffered exceedingly; Others had their ſwine ChoakedChoked in the waters. Our Saviour himſelf was hurried of the Devil from place to …
With rule
… eighteen years; Others were poſſeſſed of Devils, and ſuffered exceedingly; Others had their ſwine ChoakedChoked in the waters. Our Saviour himſelf was hurried of the Devil from place to …
William Jemmat · Exposition of Jonah · p. 26 · Open in the reader

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… Charles the 9th. of France, (the Author of the Pariſian Maſſacre) who were all ChoakedChoked with their own Blood for Drinking the Blood of Saints: Yea, and our Q …
With rule
… Charles the 9th. of France, (the Author of the Pariſian Maſſacre) who were all ChoakedChoked with their own Blood for Drinking the Blood of Saints: Yea, and our Q …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 466 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Proteſtants) was made now to Wallow in his own Blood, and ſo was ChoakedChoked. (2.) Upon the Bloody Duke, God paid him home in his own Coin, for as …
With rule
… of Proteſtants) was made now to Wallow in his own Blood, and ſo was ChoakedChoked. (2.) Upon the Bloody Duke, God paid him home in his own Coin, for as …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 466 · Open in the reader

The Signs of the Times A52817

Printed
… be no ſtronger then an Hair or Fly (in Gods Hands) wherewith he was ChoakedChoked: The word [foreign] Jaculum. A Dart, is uſed Heb. 12.20. Yet it alſo ſignifies that Plummet …
With rule
… be no ſtronger then an Hair or Fly (in Gods Hands) wherewith he was ChoakedChoked: The word [foreign] Jaculum. A Dart, is uſed Heb. 12.20. Yet it alſo ſignifies that Plummet …
Christopher Ness · The Signs of the Times · p. 39 · Open in the reader