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Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11980 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fastnedfastened

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

Puritas changed it
1,795 times in 884 works
Consistency
99.5% (1,795 of 1,803)
Reach if approved
~1,894 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: fastened
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,803 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,795 changes in 884 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,795)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … put out in the behalfe of the goſpel, to the number of twelue; & were faſtnedfastened vpon the Churchdoore of Paules at London, and alſo at Weſtminſter. 1. The firſt was …
    With rule
    … put out in the behalfe of the goſpel, to the number of twelue; & were faſtnedfastened vpon the Churchdoore of Paules at London, and alſo at Weſtminſter. 1. The firſt was …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 292 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … breake nor weaken the hands of him that holds it, [Illi. Θ.] be rightly faſtnedfastened one in another: to that period of the ſeventy yeares beginning with the firſt …
    With rule
    … breake nor weaken the hands of him that holds it, [Illi. Θ.] be rightly faſtnedfastened one in another: to that period of the ſeventy yeares beginning with the firſt …

    Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 157 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … of sore eyes. Pleasures, lusts, and vanities, make the eyes sore that are dotingly fastnedfastened on them. The Vsurer with telling his Gold: the haughti… with contemplating his greatnesse …
    With rule
    … of sore eyes. Pleasures, lusts, and vanities, make the eyes sore that are dotingly fastnedfastened on them. The Vsurer with telling his Gold: the haughti… with contemplating his greatnesse …

    Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Firſt, the Godhead in the death of our Saviour was faſtnedfastened and united inſeparably to the manhood, and did ſuſtaine and ſupport the manhood.
    With rule
    Firſt, the Godhead in the death of our Saviour was faſtnedfastened and united inſeparably to the manhood, and did ſuſtaine and ſupport the manhood.

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 217 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … about to pull them out, and plucke them up, they will be too deeply faſtnedfastened in a ſhort time.
    With rule
    … about to pull them out, and plucke them up, they will be too deeply faſtnedfastened in a ſhort time.

    Paul Baynes · Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life · p. 145 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … head, than it was before, when with but few blows it was but weakly faſtnedfastened in it. Inordinate luſts and affections are not ſo eaſily mortified, when they have …
    With rule
    … head, than it was before, when with but few blows it was but weakly faſtnedfastened in it. Inordinate luſts and affections are not ſo eaſily mortified, when they have …

    Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 185 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … tua de pedibus tuis, &c. .i. Before their Synagogues they have a certaine iron faſtnedfastened in a wall; whereat every one is bound to make cleane his foule or …
    With rule
    … tua de pedibus tuis, &c. .i. Before their Synagogues they have a certaine iron faſtnedfastened in a wall; whereat every one is bound to make cleane his foule or …

    Joseph Mede · The Reverence of Gods House · p. 39 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſhould be preſerved ſafe, vvhere it was kept: in taking alſo the nayles which faſtnedfastened the hands of Chriſt vnthe croſſe, and putting them in his horſe bridles and …
    With rule
    … ſhould be preſerved ſafe, vvhere it was kept: in taking alſo the nayles which faſtnedfastened the hands of Chriſt vnthe croſſe, and putting them in his horſe bridles and …

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 237 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Emblems Ancient and Modern A15631

  • Printed
    A FaſtnedFastened Anchor, and a Bended Bow;
    With rule
    A FaſtnedFastened Anchor, and a Bended Bow;

    George Wither · Emblems Ancient and Modern · p. 39 · Open in the reader

The Nail and the Wheel A34747

  • Printed
    THE NAIL FASTNEDFASTENED by a Hand from Heaven.
    With rule
    THE NAIL FASTNEDFASTENED by a Hand from Heaven.

    John Carter · The Nail and the Wheel · Open in the reader

The British Appeals with Gods Merciful Replies A66744

  • Printed
    … Chain; and, FaſtnedFastened in his Noſtrils too,
    With rule
    … Chain; and, FaſtnedFastened in his Noſtrils too,

    George Wither · The British Appeals with Gods Merciful Replies · p. 39 · Open in the reader

The Garden of Zion B01751

  • Printed
    FaſtnedFastened moſt ſure, with cordes of fine linnen,
    With rule
    FaſtnedFastened moſt ſure, with cordes of fine linnen,

    Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 420 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    FaſtnedFastened are they? Or who of it
    With rule
    FaſtnedFastened are they? Or who of it

    Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 141 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    FaſtnedFastened upon thine heart,
    With rule
    FaſtnedFastened upon thine heart,

    Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 191 · Open in the reader