Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11854 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

harkenhearken

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

Puritas changed it: 935 times in 464 works
Consistency: 100% (935 of 935)
Reach if approved: ~982 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: harken
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 935 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (935 changes in 464 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 935)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… who will any longer with such an asse about this matter, for I will harkenhearken to his law, seeing his Logike is no better. For the better vnderstanding of …
With rule
… who will any longer with such an asse about this matter, for I will harkenhearken to his law, seeing his Logike is no better. For the better vnderstanding of …
William Fulke · Two Popish Heretics Confuted · p. 153 · Open in the reader
Printed
HarkenHearken and geue eare, and beware you do not rage, for the Lord hath ſpokē …
With rule
HarkenHearken and geue eare, and beware you do not rage, for the Lord hath ſpokē …
Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · p. cxlii · Open in the reader
Printed
HarkenHearken here all you that make but a ſport of ſinne, looke vpon your puniſhments …
With rule
HarkenHearken here all you that make but a ſport of ſinne, looke vpon your puniſhments …
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being perswaded already as touching the truth of your cause, ye are not to harkenhearken vnto any sentence, no not though Angels should define otherwise, as the blessed Apostles …
With rule
… being perswaded already as touching the truth of your cause, ye are not to harkenhearken vnto any sentence, no not though Angels should define otherwise, as the blessed Apostles …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 24 · Open in the reader
Printed
… silver come buy and eat, come I say, buy wine and milke without silver: HarkenHearken diligently vnto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soule delight …
With rule
… silver come buy and eat, come I say, buy wine and milke without silver: HarkenHearken diligently vnto me, and eat that which is good, and let your soule delight …
Alexander Hume · The Felicity of the Life to Come · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… tenne tribes, is cōdicionall. for thus saith the Prophet vnto him. And if thou harkenhearken vnto al that I command thee, and wilt walk in my waies, & do right …
With rule
… tenne tribes, is cōdicionall. for thus saith the Prophet vnto him. And if thou harkenhearken vnto al that I command thee, and wilt walk in my waies, & do right …
John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 273 · Open in the reader
Printed
… beholding him ſodenly comming forth, am amaſed at the ſtraungenes thereof, I aske and harkenhearken after the cauſe. What ſhall I doe? ſhall I play ſtill and delude his …
With rule
… beholding him ſodenly comming forth, am amaſed at the ſtraungenes thereof, I aske and harkenhearken after the cauſe. What ſhall I doe? ſhall I play ſtill and delude his …
Martin Luther · Collected Sermons · p. 69 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vs in his Scriptures (verray stratelie) to be war of deceauers and not to harkenhearken to fals Prophets, but rather to try the Spirites whither they be of God …
With rule
… vs in his Scriptures (verray stratelie) to be war of deceauers and not to harkenhearken to fals Prophets, but rather to try the Spirites whither they be of God …
David Fergusson · Answer to Epistle by Renat Benedict · p. 4 · 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.