Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12872 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hastninghastening

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

Puritas changed it: 546 times in 401 works
Consistency: 98.5% (546 of 554)
Reach if approved: ~582 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hastening
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 554 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (546 changes in 401 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 546)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… a living death. Now theſe few days of mans life are upon the wing, haſtninghastening and flying from us as the Eagle haſtneth to his prey; and therefore man …
With rule
… a living death. Now theſe few days of mans life are upon the wing, haſtninghastening and flying from us as the Eagle haſtneth to his prey; and therefore man …
Thomas Brooks · The Crown and Glory of Christianity · p. 292 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the body and the ſoul of the wicked is diſſolued, the one of them haſtninghastening vnto putrefaction, the other going to haue a taſt of the eternall paines; even …
With rule
… the body and the ſoul of the wicked is diſſolued, the one of them haſtninghastening vnto putrefaction, the other going to haue a taſt of the eternall paines; even …
Theodore Beza · Propositions and Principles of Divinity Disputed · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of perſons ought ye to be in holy conuerſation and godlynes? Looking for and haſtninghastening vnto the comming of the day of God, wherein the heauens being on fire …
With rule
… of perſons ought ye to be in holy conuerſation and godlynes? Looking for and haſtninghastening vnto the comming of the day of God, wherein the heauens being on fire …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 549 · Open in the reader
Printed
… If you haue, then will hee call and muſter his Hoaſts together, encouraging and haſtninghastening them to the ſlaughter: crying againſt Pride, as the childrē of Edom did in …
With rule
… If you haue, then will hee call and muſter his Hoaſts together, encouraging and haſtninghastening them to the ſlaughter: crying againſt Pride, as the childrē of Edom did in …
William Whately · The View and Downfall of Pride · p. 80 · Open in the reader
Printed
… The anſwere is made that the proſperitie of fooles ſhall deſtroy them, both in haſtninghastening their iudgements, and making it the more grieuous: and ſo ſtoppeth not, but furthereth …
With rule
… The anſwere is made that the proſperitie of fooles ſhall deſtroy them, both in haſtninghastening their iudgements, and making it the more grieuous: and ſo ſtoppeth not, but furthereth …
Robert Cleaver · A Brief Explanation of the Whole Book of Proverbs · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
Fearing the last fires hastninghastening to subdue
With rule
Fearing the last fires hastninghastening to subdue
John Donne · The First Anniversary · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of God ſhall differ moſt exceedingly from what they were before; the time is haſtninghastening, and abundance of the life of Chriſt ſhall be communicated unto every member of …
With rule
… of God ſhall differ moſt exceedingly from what they were before; the time is haſtninghastening, and abundance of the life of Chriſt ſhall be communicated unto every member of …
Timothy Armitage · Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions · p. 404 · Open in the reader
Printed
… impeaceable Principles, Diſpoſitions and Practices: the nearer cloſure of all true Believers, and the haſtninghastening of the Churches Everlaſting Peace: Theſe are his daily Prayers, who is
With rule
… impeaceable Principles, Diſpoſitions and Practices: the nearer cloſure of all true Believers, and the haſtninghastening of the Churches Everlaſting Peace: Theſe are his daily Prayers, who is
Richard Baxter · The Right Method for a Settled Peace of Conscience · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (8)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Trial and Triumph of Faith A57982

Printed
… is a word of Faith, foreign Looking for: the other a word of earnest desire, foreign HastningHastening after (Stepha. votis accelerantes) the coming of the day of the Lord. Faith desireth …
With rule
… is a word of Faith, foreign Looking for: the other a word of earnest desire, foreign HastningHastening after (Stepha. votis accelerantes) the coming of the day of the Lord. Faith desireth …
Samuel Rutherford · The Trial and Triumph of Faith · p. 369 · Open in the reader

The Mourners Companion A60137

Printed
… Expectation of the Appearance of Chriſt from Heaven; Looking for, Waiting for, Praying for, HaſtningHastening to, or haſtninghastening of, the Coming of the Day of God: It comprehends an …
With rule
… Expectation of the Appearance of Chriſt from Heaven; Looking for, Waiting for, Praying for, HaſtningHastening to, or haſtninghastening of, the Coming of the Day of God: It comprehends an …
John Shower · The Mourners Companion · p. 85 · Open in the reader

The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened A71078

Printed
… is alway to be Laboured after, ſo much more now, or when we ſeem HaſtningHastening into that ſtate, wherein there is no further work, Eccl. 9. 10. at leaſt for Fooliſh …
With rule
… is alway to be Laboured after, ſo much more now, or when we ſeem HaſtningHastening into that ſtate, wherein there is no further work, Eccl. 9. 10. at leaſt for Fooliſh …
Benjamin Stonham · The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened · p. 263 · Open in the reader