Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12130 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

choisestchoicest

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

Puritas changed it: 786 times in 396 works
Consistency: 99.1% (786 of 793)
Reach if approved: ~833 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: choicest
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 793 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (786 changes in 396 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 786)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… time, thoughts, and intentions which wee caſt away on trifles, to lay out the choiſeſtchoicest portion of them in this thriving trade of entercourſe with God; the returnes whereof …
With rule
… time, thoughts, and intentions which wee caſt away on trifles, to lay out the choiſeſtchoicest portion of them in this thriving trade of entercourſe with God; the returnes whereof …
Thomas Goodwin · The Return of Prayers · Open in the reader
Printed
… men to looke ſo ſtrange upon thoſe great things, which God reckoneth amongſt the choiſeſtchoicest and chiefeſt of all his bleſſings, as if they were worth little or nothing …
With rule
… men to looke ſo ſtrange upon thoſe great things, which God reckoneth amongſt the choiſeſtchoicest and chiefeſt of all his bleſſings, as if they were worth little or nothing …
Richard Maden · Christs Love and Affection Towards Jerusalem · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… independant; spirituall, by how much it is the more unmixed. And these are the choisestchoicest perfections, whereby the Soule may be filled with joy. It is true indeed, that …
With rule
… independant; spirituall, by how much it is the more unmixed. And these are the choisestchoicest perfections, whereby the Soule may be filled with joy. It is true indeed, that …
Edward Reynolds · Treatise of the Passions and Faculties of the Soul · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Saviour? but that he is [our God,] making himselfe so to us in his choisestchoicest favours: doing that for us, which none else can doe, and which he doth …
With rule
… Saviour? but that he is [our God,] making himselfe so to us in his choisestchoicest favours: doing that for us, which none else can doe, and which he doth …
Richard Sibbes · The Souls Conflict With Itself · p. 568 · Open in the reader
Printed
Who sent both men and all his choisestchoicest stuffe,
With rule
Who sent both men and all his choisestchoicest stuffe,
John Vicars · A Prospective Glass to Look into Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
… himſelfe in the country, hee uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſtchoicest bookes. Algerius an Italtan Martyre ſaid, Hee had rather be in priſon with Cato …
With rule
… himſelfe in the country, hee uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſtchoicest bookes. Algerius an Italtan Martyre ſaid, Hee had rather be in priſon with Cato …
Richard Younge · Sin Stigmatized · p. 812 · Open in the reader
Printed
… inciſted vpon this texte of theirs Col. 2.16. becauſe it is their Maſter, chiefe, and choiſeſtchoicest text againſt the Lords Sabbaths.
With rule
… inciſted vpon this texte of theirs Col. 2.16. becauſe it is their Maſter, chiefe, and choiſeſtchoicest text againſt the Lords Sabbaths.
Theophilus Brabourne · A Defense of the Sabbath Day · p. 135 · Open in the reader
Printed
… after our neighbours houſe (or whole poſſeſsion) his wife (which is his chiefeſt and choiſeſtchoicest treaſure) his ſeruants (which are precious aboue all outward poſſeſſions) his cattel, (which are …
With rule
… after our neighbours houſe (or whole poſſeſsion) his wife (which is his chiefeſt and choiſeſtchoicest treaſure) his ſeruants (which are precious aboue all outward poſſeſſions) his cattel, (which are …
Samuel Crook · The Guide Unto True Blessedness · p. 124 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

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

Sermons on Psalm 119 A51842

Printed
Afflictions though great, are alleviated by the Consolations of the Word—p. 148—ChoisestChoicest Saints have their afflictions—p. 965
With rule
Afflictions though great, are alleviated by the Consolations of the Word—p. 148—ChoisestChoicest Saints have their afflictions—p. 965
Thomas Manton · Sermons on Psalm 119 · Open in the reader