Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12538 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

strikenstricken

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

Puritas changed it: 778 times in 326 works
Consistency: 99.8% (778 of 779)
Reach if approved: ~819 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stricken
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 779 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (778 changes in 326 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 778)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… of their God, that they should shadow out vnto him his Christ whipped, stocked, strikenstricken, stoned, tormented, tortured, and bloudily butchered.
With rule
… of their God, that they should shadow out vnto him his Christ whipped, stocked, strikenstricken, stoned, tormented, tortured, and bloudily butchered.
William Loe · Come and See the Bliss of Brightest Beauty · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
Gehesy was strikenstricken with leprosy, because he receiued mony of Naaman.
With rule
Gehesy was strikenstricken with leprosy, because he receiued mony of Naaman.
Thomas Becon · The Governance of Virtue · Open in the reader
Printed
… in his handes and feete: not the scattering of the disciples the Shepheard beeing strikenstricken: not the citie seuered into three factions, wherof the thirde part onely remained sound …
With rule
… in his handes and feete: not the scattering of the disciples the Shepheard beeing strikenstricken: not the citie seuered into three factions, wherof the thirde part onely remained sound …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… when they heare of his great iudgmenets, and worthy actes, and their heart not ſtrikenstricken with reuerence & feare. Likewiſe when they heare his word, think of it, or talk …
With rule
… when they heare of his great iudgmenets, and worthy actes, and their heart not ſtrikenstricken with reuerence & feare. Likewiſe when they heare his word, think of it, or talk …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
… that many poore folks died for want of victuals: and the rich men were ſtrikenstricken with covetouſneſſe, that they would not relieve them. Amongſt theſe is to be noted …
With rule
… that many poore folks died for want of victuals: and the rich men were ſtrikenstricken with covetouſneſſe, that they would not relieve them. Amongſt theſe is to be noted …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… victorious conqueſt ouer England, was conquered himſelf, without any blow, or not many blowes ſtrikenstricken; the Lord of hoſts ſetting the boyſterous windes, and ſurging ſeas to fight againſt …
With rule
… victorious conqueſt ouer England, was conquered himſelf, without any blow, or not many blowes ſtrikenstricken; the Lord of hoſts ſetting the boyſterous windes, and ſurging ſeas to fight againſt …
Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… as very an hypocrite (both of them great dissemblers and lyars to GOD) were strikenstricken by the hand of God, in the Ministery of Peter. Peter could not abide …
With rule
… as very an hypocrite (both of them great dissemblers and lyars to GOD) were strikenstricken by the hand of God, in the Ministery of Peter. Peter could not abide …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… call it) foure ſcore of the principal men, that recyted the ſame, horriblye were ſtrikenstricken by y^e plague of God, to death all in an houre. The papiſtes attribute …
With rule
… call it) foure ſcore of the principal men, that recyted the ſame, horriblye were ſtrikenstricken by y^e plague of God, to death all in an houre. The papiſtes attribute …
John Knox · Letter to Lady Mary · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

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