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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11805 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

darkneddarkened

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

Puritas changed it
1,815 times in 999 works
Consistency
98.9% (1,815 of 1,834)
Reach if approved
~1,927 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: darkened
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,834 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,815 changes in 999 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,815)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … aſmuch as our underſtandings are exceedingly blinded through ignorance and ſelfe love, and much darkneddarkened with fleſhly luſts (as you ſhal ſee a looking glaſſe to be ſometime covered …
    With rule
    … aſmuch as our underſtandings are exceedingly blinded through ignorance and ſelfe love, and much darkneddarkened with fleſhly luſts (as you ſhal ſee a looking glaſſe to be ſometime covered …

    Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 578 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and a stumbling blocke, even for a recompence vnto them, let their eies bee darkneddarkened, that they doe not see, bow downe their backs forever, keepe them downe. And …
    With rule
    … and a stumbling blocke, even for a recompence vnto them, let their eies bee darkneddarkened, that they doe not see, bow downe their backs forever, keepe them downe. And …

    Richard Hooker · Two Sermons Upon Jude · p. 45 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … hand to prooue, but ſpringing vp in the more corrupt times, when ſuperſtition had darkneddarkened the light of true Religion, and almoſt baniſhed it out of the world.
    With rule
    … hand to prooue, but ſpringing vp in the more corrupt times, when ſuperſtition had darkneddarkened the light of true Religion, and almoſt baniſhed it out of the world.

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 401 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Fourthly, a pale horſe, here the Sunne, Moone, and Starres are ſaid to be darkneddarkened, all things growing corrupt in the Church. Some interpret theſe ſeuen Trumpets of ſeuen …
    With rule
    … Fourthly, a pale horſe, here the Sunne, Moone, and Starres are ſaid to be darkneddarkened, all things growing corrupt in the Church. Some interpret theſe ſeuen Trumpets of ſeuen …

    John Mayer · Exposition on the Catholic Epistles · p. 338 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … the holy scriptures / was figured out by the smoke of the botomlesse pit, which darkneddarkened sun and aier. And the ylluminated Elders of this Family / ar pourtrahed out by …
    With rule
    … the holy scriptures / was figured out by the smoke of the botomlesse pit, which darkneddarkened sun and aier. And the ylluminated Elders of this Family / ar pourtrahed out by …

    Henry Ainsworth · An Epistle Unto Two Daughters of Warwick · p. 57 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … euer frō doing any worke entirely and totally good. Knowledge we haue: but much darkneddarkened by ignorance. We haue a will to doe good: but that also corrupted with …
    With rule
    … euer frō doing any worke entirely and totally good. Knowledge we haue: but much darkneddarkened by ignorance. We haue a will to doe good: but that also corrupted with …

    William Pemble · Of Justification By Faith · p. 114 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … were darke and blinde in spirituall and celestiall matters, Rom. 1. 21. 22. 23. Their foolish hearts were darkneddarkened, and then they changed the truth of God into a lye, and worshipped the …
    With rule
    … were darke and blinde in spirituall and celestiall matters, Rom. 1. 21. 22. 23. Their foolish hearts were darkneddarkened, and then they changed the truth of God into a lye, and worshipped the …

    John Preston · The Doctrine of the Saints Infirmities · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … sonne of righteousnes our onely ful redemption, or the light of his holy word darkneddarkened by all the myste of mennes deuises, which Allen or his complices can rayse …
    With rule
    … sonne of righteousnes our onely ful redemption, or the light of his holy word darkneddarkened by all the myste of mennes deuises, which Allen or his complices can rayse …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 285 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (19)

8 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 11 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Retractive from the Romish Religion A06106

  • Printed
    … ignorance of the Scripture. And Saint Paul coupleth theſe two together in the Gentiles, DarknedDarkened cogitations through ignorance, and ſtrangers from the life of God: where he plainely ſheweth …
    With rule
    … ignorance of the Scripture. And Saint Paul coupleth theſe two together in the Gentiles, DarknedDarkened cogitations through ignorance, and ſtrangers from the life of God: where he plainely ſheweth …

    Thomas Beard · A Retractive from the Romish Religion · p. 345 · Open in the reader

The Whole Duty of Mourning and Preparing Ourselves for Death A23803

  • Printed
    … than the Gliding Stream, or Constant Sun: here the Sun may be one day DarknedDarkened, and the Moon pay home her borrowed Light, the fixed Stars may become Planets …
    With rule
    … than the Gliding Stream, or Constant Sun: here the Sun may be one day DarknedDarkened, and the Moon pay home her borrowed Light, the fixed Stars may become Planets …

    Richard Allestree · The Whole Duty of Mourning and Preparing Ourselves for Death · p. 121 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Pauls Epistles A35951

  • Printed
    DarknedDarkened] (2.) That the reason of unregenerate Gentiles, in things pertaining to God and happiness, is …
    With rule
    DarknedDarkened] (2.) That the reason of unregenerate Gentiles, in things pertaining to God and happiness, is …

    David Dickson · An Exposition of Pauls Epistles · p. 119 · Open in the reader

A Memento to Young and Old A50403

  • Printed
    … and not before? while the Sun, or the Moon, or the Starrs be not DarknedDarkened, and the Clouds return after the Rain. A most absurd thing, to give all …
    With rule
    … and not before? while the Sun, or the Moon, or the Starrs be not DarknedDarkened, and the Clouds return after the Rain. A most absurd thing, to give all …

    John Maynard · A Memento to Young and Old · p. 48 · Open in the reader

A Spiritual Legacy A52818

  • Printed
    … of love wherein to diſperſe thoſe dark clouds and ſhine upon my Dead and DarknedDarkened Soul! O hath my night no day, 'tis an hell to me to be …
    With rule
    … of love wherein to diſperſe thoſe dark clouds and ſhine upon my Dead and DarknedDarkened Soul! O hath my night no day, 'tis an hell to me to be …

    Christopher Ness · A Spiritual Legacy · p. 118 · Open in the reader

A Strange and Wonderful Trinity A52819

  • Printed
    … not ſet at Noon upon our Heads, as Amos 8.9. and our Land be not DarknedDarkened in a clear Day: Pray earneſtly—Nobiſcum, Chriſte, Maneto.
    With rule
    … not ſet at Noon upon our Heads, as Amos 8.9. and our Land be not DarknedDarkened in a clear Day: Pray earneſtly—Nobiſcum, Chriſte, Maneto.

    Christopher Ness · A Strange and Wonderful Trinity · Open in the reader

The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God A61474

  • Printed
    … Head, like Christ, Brightnesses of the Fathers Glory, which can neither be Defiled, nor DarknedDarkened. That which is born of God, sins not, nor cannot sin. I may add …
    With rule
    … Head, like Christ, Brightnesses of the Fathers Glory, which can neither be Defiled, nor DarknedDarkened. That which is born of God, sins not, nor cannot sin. I may add …

    Peter Sterry · The Rise Race and Royalty of the Kingdom of God · p. 173 · Open in the reader

The Efficacy of the Fear of Hell to Restrain Men from Sin N01395

  • Printed
    … to flatter themſelves; they become Vain in their Imaginations, and their fooliſh Hearts are DarknedDarkened. Rom. 1.21. And through Heedleſſneſs and Forgetfullneſs, they are very Ignorant of what they might …
    With rule
    … to flatter themſelves; they become Vain in their Imaginations, and their fooliſh Hearts are DarknedDarkened. Rom. 1.21. And through Heedleſſneſs and Forgetfullneſs, they are very Ignorant of what they might …

    Solomon Stoddard · The Efficacy of the Fear of Hell to Restrain Men from Sin · p. 44 · Open in the reader