Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #12978 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

stroakestroke

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

Puritas changed it: 587 times in 305 works
Consistency: 99.6% (587 of 589)
Reach if approved: ~619 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stroke
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 589 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (587 changes in 305 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 587)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… first wee reade of no such actuall Repentance, and next the suddennesse of the stroakestroke may seeme to preuent it. But on the other side, if he did actually …
With rule
… first wee reade of no such actuall Repentance, and next the suddennesse of the stroakestroke may seeme to preuent it. But on the other side, if he did actually …
Francis Rous · The Doctrine of King James · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
And from that former ſicknes ſtroakestroke,
With rule
And from that former ſicknes ſtroakestroke,
John Wilson · A Song · p. 46 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sort, that a cunning artist might obserue, that he drew not so cleare a stroakestroke in his master-pieces, nor cast on them so rich and liuely colours, as …
With rule
… sort, that a cunning artist might obserue, that he drew not so cleare a stroakestroke in his master-pieces, nor cast on them so rich and liuely colours, as …
Daniel Featley · The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but ſinnes of ignorance: and what was this, but inſtead of ſtriking them, to ſtroakestroke them, and inſtead of ſtopping them in their race, to adde rather a ſpurre …
With rule
… but ſinnes of ignorance: and what was this, but inſtead of ſtriking them, to ſtroakestroke them, and inſtead of ſtopping them in their race, to adde rather a ſpurre …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Seven Psalms of David · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… did you not conſider, that the ſame Apoſtle doth not alwaies as it were ſtroakestroke their heads, and commend them in tearmes of loue, but (as occaſion requireth) ſometimes …
With rule
… did you not conſider, that the ſame Apoſtle doth not alwaies as it were ſtroakestroke their heads, and commend them in tearmes of loue, but (as occaſion requireth) ſometimes …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee ſhewed (probably at leaſt) to have beene by Peſtilence: but when after that ſtroakestroke, Pharoah ſtill hardned his heart, and purſued Gods people, the Lord met with him …
With rule
… wee ſhewed (probably at leaſt) to have beene by Peſtilence: but when after that ſtroakestroke, Pharoah ſtill hardned his heart, and purſued Gods people, the Lord met with him …
Robert Jenison · Newcastles Call to Her Neighbor and Sister Towns · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were overthrowne by the hand of Gedeon, with his three hundred ſouldiers, without any ſtroakestroke of weapon but only the bro… king of Pitchers, blowing of trumpets, and crying …
With rule
… were overthrowne by the hand of Gedeon, with his three hundred ſouldiers, without any ſtroakestroke of weapon but only the bro… king of Pitchers, blowing of trumpets, and crying …
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath gotten the victory in this spiritual combate when he hath not stricken a stroakestroke, nor felt any blow, none are Christs souldiers, or those whom he came to …
With rule
… hath gotten the victory in this spiritual combate when he hath not stricken a stroakestroke, nor felt any blow, none are Christs souldiers, or those whom he came to …
John Preston · The Saints Submission and Satans Overthrow · p. 273 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 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.