Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11825 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

séekeseek

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

Puritas changed it: 1,156 times in 136 works
Consistency: 100% (1,156 of 1,156)
Reach if approved: ~1,215 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: seek
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,156 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,156 changes in 136 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,156)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… all places sundrie waies assaulted with infinite, both spirituall and corporall enemies, which dayl… séekeseek my destruction, I beseech thée, good father, looke down from heauen vpon me, send …
With rule
… all places sundrie waies assaulted with infinite, both spirituall and corporall enemies, which dayl… séekeseek my destruction, I beseech thée, good father, looke down from heauen vpon me, send …
Philip Stubbes · A Perfect Pathway to Felicity · Open in the reader
Printed
… none shall be deliuered, that is not broughte to sorrowe for sinne and to séekeseek to Iesus Christe, the life of them that rightelye séekeseek him. This (being the …
With rule
… none shall be deliuered, that is not broughte to sorrowe for sinne and to séekeseek to Iesus Christe, the life of them that rightelye séekeseek him. This (being the …
John Udall · Amendment of Life · Open in the reader
Printed
to SéekeSeek death. sig:
With rule
to SéekeSeek death. sig:
Thomas Wilson · A Christian Dictionary · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… reasonable men of equal iudgemēt, to proue that this is no new opinion to séekeseek the See of Antichrist at Rome. They them selues to prooue their doctrine catholike …
With rule
… reasonable men of equal iudgemēt, to proue that this is no new opinion to séekeseek the See of Antichrist at Rome. They them selues to prooue their doctrine catholike …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 November 1570 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which is altogether their owne ſéeking. For all that they deſire, aſke, wiſh, and ſéekeseek for, is is againſt themſelues, and ſo they bring euill vpon their owne heads …
With rule
… which is altogether their owne ſéeking. For all that they deſire, aſke, wiſh, and ſéekeseek for, is is againſt themſelues, and ſo they bring euill vpon their owne heads …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee cannot harme you. Hee will ſéekeseek to winnow you, but he can only ſéekeseek; and if he doe more, hée ſhall finde you Gods wheate, and then you …
With rule
… hee cannot harme you. Hee will ſéekeseek to winnow you, but he can only ſéekeseek; and if he doe more, hée ſhall finde you Gods wheate, and then you …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 162 · Open in the reader
Printed
Auricular confession is not good: if I haue offended God I must séekeseek to him for remission of sinnes by Christ: if I haue offended my neighbour …
With rule
Auricular confession is not good: if I haue offended God I must séekeseek to him for remission of sinnes by Christ: if I haue offended my neighbour …
John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 284 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which were offered often, because they could not purge sinnes. And this …bomination they séekeseek to maintaine by the name of Priestes, sith Priestes are men (they say) appointed …
With rule
… which were offered often, because they could not purge sinnes. And this …bomination they séekeseek to maintaine by the name of Priestes, sith Priestes are men (they say) appointed …
John Rainolds · Conference Between Rainolds and Hart · p. 536 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.