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asktasked

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

Puritas changed it
1,030 times in 447 works
Consistency
98.6% (1,030 of 1,044)
Reach if approved
~1,122 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: asked
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,068 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,030 changes in 447 works, 98.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,030)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … his Son to die for us. Astonishing Love! it passes all understanding. The Jews asktasked our Saviour with wonder, how is it that thou being a Man makest thy …
    With rule
    … his Son to die for us. Astonishing Love! it passes all understanding. The Jews asktasked our Saviour with wonder, how is it that thou being a Man makest thy …

    William Bates · Spiritual Perfection Unfolded and Enforced from 2 Corinthians 7:1 · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and conformed; I wondered how he past their Examination: He told me that they asktasked him no questions about his Learning or Knowledg, but only whether he would Conform …
    With rule
    … and conformed; I wondered how he past their Examination: He told me that they asktasked him no questions about his Learning or Knowledg, but only whether he would Conform …

    Richard Baxter · Catholic Communion Defended Against Both Extremes · p. 28 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … when the Jews ſaid he did all by Beelzebub, when he caſt out devils, asktasked them [By whom do your Children caſt them out?] Which had it been falſe …
    With rule
    … when the Jews ſaid he did all by Beelzebub, when he caſt out devils, asktasked them [By whom do your Children caſt them out?] Which had it been falſe …

    Richard Baxter · Dying Thoughts Upon Philippians 1:23 · p. 264 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … it was not opened to them; what was the reason of it? because they asktasked when the time was past: for there is a certaine acceptable time when the …
    With rule
    … it was not opened to them; what was the reason of it? because they asktasked when the time was past: for there is a certaine acceptable time when the …

    John Preston · Three Sermons on the Lords Supper · p. 62 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Beneath my Picture; asktasked, what meaned it.
    With rule
    Beneath my Picture; asktasked, what meaned it.

    George Wither · Withers Motto · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … bee the dust of another man, that concernes not him of whom it is asktasked. This death of incineration and dispersion, is, to naturall reason, the most irrecouerable death …
    With rule
    … bee the dust of another man, that concernes not him of whom it is asktasked. This death of incineration and dispersion, is, to naturall reason, the most irrecouerable death …

    John Donne · Deaths Duel · p. 7 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … himself. 'Twas a sober and Christian reply of a late learned Gentleman, who being asktasked by one whether a Papist might be saved, answered, you may be saved without …
    With rule
    … himself. 'Twas a sober and Christian reply of a late learned Gentleman, who being asktasked by one whether a Papist might be saved, answered, you may be saved without …

    Richard Allestree · The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety · p. 268 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … ſhould undoe us. For of Chriſts coming in a way of Reformation, it is asktasked. But who may abide the day of his coming, and who ſhall ſtand when …
    With rule
    … ſhould undoe us. For of Chriſts coming in a way of Reformation, it is asktasked. But who may abide the day of his coming, and who ſhall ſtand when …

    John Angier · A Help to Better Hearts for Better Times · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama A15137

  • Printed
    AsktAsked what misfortune did his worth eclipſe?
    With rule
    AsktAsked what misfortune did his worth eclipſe?

    Nathaniel Whiting · The Peasant History of Albino and Bellama · p. 144 · Open in the reader

Sufferings and Oppressions of Many Christians in Devon A43688

  • Printed
    … of Five: It's true, Mr. Hele found ſome Women in the Houſe, and he AſktAsked them, How they came there? And how, or when, or to what end they …
    With rule
    … of Five: It's true, Mr. Hele found ſome Women in the Houſe, and he AſktAsked them, How they came there? And how, or when, or to what end they …

    John Hickes · Sufferings and Oppressions of Many Christians in Devon · p. 26 · Open in the reader

The Generation of Seekers A53275

  • Printed
    … no evidences of the divine ſpeciall love. But when wee can call them Samuels, AsktAsked of God, they carry a more then ordinary impreſs of Gods favour upon them …
    With rule
    … no evidences of the divine ſpeciall love. But when wee can call them Samuels, AsktAsked of God, they carry a more then ordinary impreſs of Gods favour upon them …

    John Oldfield · The Generation of Seekers · p. 331 · Open in the reader

A Token for Mariners A58039

  • Printed
    … Veſſel to come in there: but he being not acquainted with his Great fame, AsktAsked him When he did believe there would one come in? not that he was …
    With rule
    … Veſſel to come in there: but he being not acquainted with his Great fame, AsktAsked him When he did believe there would one come in? not that he was …

    James Janeway · A Token for Mariners · p. 76 · Open in the reader

Heavenly Treasure A61848

  • Printed
    … that ſometime I have read finding a great Gallant hunting in a deſolate wilderneſs AsktAsked him what he did there; he told him, He came a hunting there: Et …
    With rule
    … that ſometime I have read finding a great Gallant hunting in a deſolate wilderneſs AsktAsked him what he did there; he told him, He came a hunting there: Et …

    William Strong · Heavenly Treasure · p. 342 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

  • Printed
    AsktAsked not of rootes, nor of cock-ſparrowes, leave:
    With rule
    AsktAsked not of rootes, nor of cock-ſparrowes, leave:

    John Donne · Poems · p. 12 · Open in the reader