Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11840 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

akeache

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

Puritas changed it: 1,194 times in 817 works
Consistency: 99.3% (1,194 of 1,202)
Reach if approved: ~1,307 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: ache
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,244 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,194 changes in 817 works, 99.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,194)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… him, saying, Lord, helpe me; He answered and said, it is not good to …akeache the childrens bread, and cast it vnto whelpes. And thus hath it falne out …
With rule
… him, saying, Lord, helpe me; He answered and said, it is not good to …akeache the childrens bread, and cast it vnto whelpes. And thus hath it falne out …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 408 · Open in the reader
Printed
… upon Vzzah, a ſervant of the family troubled all Iſrael, and made Davids heart akeache; alas what trembling and mourning ſhall there … when God ſhall cut off the friends …
With rule
… upon Vzzah, a ſervant of the family troubled all Iſrael, and made Davids heart akeache; alas what trembling and mourning ſhall there … when God ſhall cut off the friends …
George Hughes · The Saints Loss and Lamentation · p. 30 · Open in the reader
Printed
… haue all thynges comen, in suche sorte that …dle lubbers (as I sayde) myghte …akeache and waste the geines of laborers wyth out restraint of authoritie, or to haue …
With rule
… haue all thynges comen, in suche sorte that …dle lubbers (as I sayde) myghte …akeache and waste the geines of laborers wyth out restraint of authoritie, or to haue …
Thomas Lever · A Fruitful Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… his affection caryed roundly way to ſinning. The Scripture …nd God himſelfe, when they …akeache of ſin, they haue reſpect …nto this wickedneſſe of our …earts, vnto this naturall …
With rule
… his affection caryed roundly way to ſinning. The Scripture …nd God himſelfe, when they …akeache of ſin, they haue reſpect …nto this wickedneſſe of our …earts, vnto this naturall …
Martin Luther · Preface to the Epistle of Romans 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… althoug… the most celebri…us University of Pa… hath let flie two fierce … to …akeache these curres, and the Arch-Bi…ops and Bishops of France have laid … them …
With rule
… althoug… the most celebri…us University of Pa… hath let flie two fierce … to …akeache these curres, and the Arch-Bi…ops and Bishops of France have laid … them …
Daniel Featley · Transubstantiation Exploded · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ascende out of the bodie into the heade, and so causeth the heade to akeache, and then the aking of the head is y^e disquietnes of all the body …
With rule
… ascende out of the bodie into the heade, and so causeth the heade to akeache, and then the aking of the head is y^e disquietnes of all the body …
William Fulke · Sermon 26 February 1580 · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
9. To …akeache heed of profaning or abuſing any thing that is his.
With rule
9. To …akeache heed of profaning or abuſing any thing that is his.
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 289 · Open in the reader
Printed
… yoakt as S. Paul was, with thoſe inward buffetings that may make his heart akeache, and his ſoule to cry out, Oh wretched man that I am, &c. Rom …
With rule
… yoakt as S. Paul was, with thoſe inward buffetings that may make his heart akeache, and his ſoule to cry out, Oh wretched man that I am, &c. Rom …
Robert Harris · Two Sermons 2 · p. 7 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

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

The Pilgrims Progress A30170

Printed
3. If mine Head did begin to AkeAche; or,
With rule
3. If mine Head did begin to AkeAche; or,
John Bunyan · The Pilgrims Progress · p. 189 · Open in the reader

The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons A33330

Printed
… I am so chearful in my heart, that I could laugh whilst my sides AkeAche.—Then to his Brother at the same time, enquiring how he found himself, he …
With rule
… I am so chearful in my heart, that I could laugh whilst my sides AkeAche.—Then to his Brother at the same time, enquiring how he found himself, he …
Samuel Clarke · The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons · p. 115 · Open in the reader

The History of the Worthies of England A40672

Printed
… no fewer then seventeen Actons in England, so called as I conceive Originally from AkeAche, in Saxon an Oake, wherewith antiently no doubt those Townes were well stored. But …
With rule
… no fewer then seventeen Actons in England, so called as I conceive Originally from AkeAche, in Saxon an Oake, wherewith antiently no doubt those Townes were well stored. But …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Worthies of England · p. 172 · Open in the reader

A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine A40681

Printed
… climate Anno Domini 601. Augustine the Monke held a Synode under an Oake (called Augustines AkeAche in old English) which tree our learned Antiquary placeth in the confines of Worcester …
With rule
… climate Anno Domini 601. Augustine the Monke held a Synode under an Oake (called Augustines AkeAche in old English) which tree our learned Antiquary placeth in the confines of Worcester …
Thomas Fuller · A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine · p. 258 · Open in the reader

Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature A91224

Printed
Doe head, teeth, Stomacke, Armes, Legges, Fingers AkeAche,
With rule
Doe head, teeth, Stomacke, Armes, Legges, Fingers AkeAche,
William Prynne · Divine Meditations Raised from Three Leaves of Nature · p. 178 · Open in the reader