Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12249 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

fetchtfetched

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

Puritas changed it: 1,505 times in 764 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,505 of 1,510)
Reach if approved: ~1,587 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: fetched
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,510 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,505 changes in 764 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,505)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… metall he was of; ran away with some other of good note, and were fetchtfetched back again, and bound with a new oath to prosecute the warre. At last …
With rule
… metall he was of; ran away with some other of good note, and were fetchtfetched back again, and bound with a new oath to prosecute the warre. At last …
Thomas Fuller · The History of the Holy War · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all it is most auncient: and many good thing: in Philosophers and Poets are fetchtfetched from this. Sixtly, all the prophecies set downe by diuers writers with one consent …
With rule
… all it is most auncient: and many good thing: in Philosophers and Poets are fetchtfetched from this. Sixtly, all the prophecies set downe by diuers writers with one consent …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 756 · Open in the reader
Printed
… may return the fiercer. I ſay it again, ſolid and laſting comfort muſt be fetchtfetched out of the word, or no where, if thou expect comfort from other things …
With rule
… may return the fiercer. I ſay it again, ſolid and laſting comfort muſt be fetchtfetched out of the word, or no where, if thou expect comfort from other things …
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 169 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that one of them ſhould remaine his priſoner, vntill the reſt went home and fetchtfetched their brother Beniamin, (whom they had ſpoke off) to bring him to him.
With rule
… that one of them ſhould remaine his priſoner, vntill the reſt went home and fetchtfetched their brother Beniamin, (whom they had ſpoke off) to bring him to him.
Thomas Barnes · The Court of Conscience · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of Colen, cannot vnderstand it: yet it is sufficient for vs, that we haue fetchtfetched our transubstantiation out of it, and sette it forth irreuocably. Although we haue yet …
With rule
… of Colen, cannot vnderstand it: yet it is sufficient for vs, that we haue fetchtfetched our transubstantiation out of it, and sette it forth irreuocably. Although we haue yet …
Phillips Marnix · The Bee Hive of the Romish Church · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the North, ſo theſe Iudgements ſhould fall upon the Northren Countries. This is farre fetchtfetched, and little worth. 2. Becauſe the South winde is more tempeſtuous than others. Ariſt. Met …
With rule
… the North, ſo theſe Iudgements ſhould fall upon the Northren Countries. This is farre fetchtfetched, and little worth. 2. Becauſe the South winde is more tempeſtuous than others. Ariſt. Met …
William Pemble · Exposition of Zechariah 1-9 · p. 154 · Open in the reader
Printed
… than the forme oft hat will. But theſe (it maye be) are too far fetchtfetched, whiche yet I thought good to ſette downe in moe wordes, that in parte …
With rule
… than the forme oft hat will. But theſe (it maye be) are too far fetchtfetched, whiche yet I thought good to ſette downe in moe wordes, that in parte …
Theodore Beza · Display of Popish Practices · p. 48 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but by the Common conſent of the whole; and conſent is not to bee fetchtfetched from houſe to houſe, of euery man by himſelfe, for that courſe is ſubiect …
With rule
… but by the Common conſent of the whole; and conſent is not to bee fetchtfetched from houſe to houſe, of euery man by himſelfe, for that courſe is ſubiect …
John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 273 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

3 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.

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

Printed
FetchtFetched from the Hesperides.
With rule
FetchtFetched from the Hesperides.
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Several Poems A29149

Printed
FetchtFetched rubbiſh from the oppoſite old town,
With rule
FetchtFetched rubbiſh from the oppoſite old town,
Anne Bradstreet · Several Poems · p. 85 · Open in the reader

The City of God A79823

Printed
… their ſin, in looking into the Ark of the Lord, even 50000. of them Verſe 19. FetchtFetched by the men of Kerjathjearim into the Houſe of Abinadab on the Hill.
With rule
… their ſin, in looking into the Ark of the Lord, even 50000. of them Verſe 19. FetchtFetched by the men of Kerjathjearim into the Houſe of Abinadab on the Hill.
Henry Danvers · The City of God · p. 189 · Open in the reader