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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11728 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

inforceenforce

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

Puritas changed it
1,687 times in 857 works
Consistency
99.2% (1,687 of 1,699)
Reach if approved
~1,840 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: enforce
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,751 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,687 changes in 857 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,687)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … corporall Idolatrie: thinke it not now a time to ſtriue for complements, and to inforceenforce odious exaſperations, & antichriſtian compariſons againſt the reuerend Fathers, when as you lee your ſoules …
    With rule
    … corporall Idolatrie: thinke it not now a time to ſtriue for complements, and to inforceenforce odious exaſperations, & antichriſtian compariſons againſt the reuerend Fathers, when as you lee your ſoules …

    William Hubbock · Great Britains Resurrection · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the praiſe of God is perfected. Although I want not ſome private respects to inforceenforce me to dedicate this my labour unto your Worſhips, as that I may give …
    With rule
    … the praiſe of God is perfected. Although I want not ſome private respects to inforceenforce me to dedicate this my labour unto your Worſhips, as that I may give …

    Benjamin King · The Marriage of the Lamb · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … ſhould he let the power of it rage & vſurp ſo in vs, as to inforceenforce vs to cry, ô miſerable that we are; ſhould the Lord ſuffer the Diuell …
    With rule
    … ſhould he let the power of it rage & vſurp ſo in vs, as to inforceenforce vs to cry, ô miſerable that we are; ſhould the Lord ſuffer the Diuell …

    Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 31 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … assent to the Maior, so you would haue but staied, and suffred mee to inforceenforce the Minor, will you, nill you, you should haue beene compelled to yeeld to …
    With rule
    … assent to the Maior, so you would haue but staied, and suffred mee to inforceenforce the Minor, will you, nill you, you should haue beene compelled to yeeld to …

    Daniel Featley · The Romish Fisher Caught and Held in his Own Net · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … primitiue Churche▪ for many hundreth yeares after the Apostles, as also that you would inforceenforce vpon the worde foreign, vsed by S. Paule, Tit. 1. as though that worde of constitution …
    With rule
    … primitiue Churche▪ for many hundreth yeares after the Apostles, as also that you would inforceenforce vpon the worde foreign, vsed by S. Paule, Tit. 1. as though that worde of constitution …

    William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 164 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … he ought not to doe: So necessitie to preuent a far greater inconuenience may inforceenforce a man to put the losing of that to the hazard of a Lot …
    With rule
    … he ought not to doe: So necessitie to preuent a far greater inconuenience may inforceenforce a man to put the losing of that to the hazard of a Lot …

    Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · p. 86 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    THe motiues which were alledged to inforceenforce the dutie of prayer in generall, might fitly bee heere againe applied, for prayer …
    With rule
    THe motiues which were alledged to inforceenforce the dutie of prayer in generall, might fitly bee heere againe applied, for prayer …

    William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 504 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … iudge by the lawe / to compel a man to sweare agaynst hymself / least he inforceenforce hym wyckedlye to synne in for swearinge hymself / and so to dispayre of the …
    With rule
    … iudge by the lawe / to compel a man to sweare agaynst hymself / least he inforceenforce hym wyckedlye to synne in for swearinge hymself / and so to dispayre of the …

    Miles Coverdale · A Christian Exhortation Unto Customable Swearers · p. 8 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (12)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 9 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion A17183

  • Printed
    … it, are ſo farre from béeing good workes, that they are plainly called ſinnes. InforceEnforce thou, I pray thée, neuer ſo great a good turne vpon a man againſt …
    With rule
    … it, are ſo farre from béeing good workes, that they are plainly called ſinnes. InforceEnforce thou, I pray thée, neuer ſo great a good turne vpon a man againſt …

    Henrich Bullinger · Fifty Sermons Containing the Chief Points of the Christian Religion · p. 472 · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance A53688

  • Printed
    … in competition with it: In the pursuit of which particulars, I shall indeavour to InforceEnforce and presse those places of Scripture, wherein they are abundantly delivered, and vindicate them …
    With rule
    … in competition with it: In the pursuit of which particulars, I shall indeavour to InforceEnforce and presse those places of Scripture, wherein they are abundantly delivered, and vindicate them …

    John Owen · The Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance · p. 30 · Open in the reader

Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture B13871

  • Printed
    InforceEnforce your selves to use all diligent and vehement indeavours to enter into the kingdome …
    With rule
    InforceEnforce your selves to use all diligent and vehement indeavours to enter into the kingdome …

    Joseph Hall · Paraphrase of the Hard Texts of Scripture · p. 85 · Open in the reader