Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #14432 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

encountredencountered

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

Puritas changed it: 677 times in 396 works
Consistency: 96.5% (677 of 701)
Reach if approved: ~737 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: encountered
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 701 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (677 changes in 396 works, 96.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 677)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… wee ſee heere, that no man, whatſoeuer his worthineſſe is, or graces, but is encountredencountered by Satan. Our parents were ſet-on in ſtate of innocency: Chriſt; He deſired …
With rule
… wee ſee heere, that no man, whatſoeuer his worthineſſe is, or graces, but is encountredencountered by Satan. Our parents were ſet-on in ſtate of innocency: Chriſt; He deſired …
Paul Baynes · The Spiritual Armor · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feare too much: for Christ is strong, and able to ouercome death, nay he encountredencountered with sinne and Satan on the crosse, ouercame him there, and went downe with …
With rule
… feare too much: for Christ is strong, and able to ouercome death, nay he encountredencountered with sinne and Satan on the crosse, ouercame him there, and went downe with …
William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 97 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Writers of the Church, from our Saviours time till the yeare 1200, who have professedly encountredencountered, censured, condemned Stage-playes, in their incomparably excellent writings, a Catalogue of whose names …
With rule
… Writers of the Church, from our Saviours time till the yeare 1200, who have professedly encountredencountered, censured, condemned Stage-playes, in their incomparably excellent writings, a Catalogue of whose names …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 668 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be able to give them an avant, avoyd Sathan: wee see Christ when hee encountredencountered Sathan, he fights not with Sathans weapons, and when he was to deale with …
With rule
… be able to give them an avant, avoyd Sathan: wee see Christ when hee encountredencountered Sathan, he fights not with Sathans weapons, and when he was to deale with …
Richard Sibbes · The Excellency of the Gospel Above the Law · p. 381 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Righteousnesse, that they must needs bee good men, and deare to God, that are encountredencountered with such aduersaries? 2. That Word which thou persecutest, and wouldest driue out of thy …
With rule
… Righteousnesse, that they must needs bee good men, and deare to God, that are encountredencountered with such aduersaries? 2. That Word which thou persecutest, and wouldest driue out of thy …
Thomas Taylor · The Parable of the Sower and of the Seed · p. 38 · Open in the reader
Printed
… her perfect growth, ſtrength, and full dimenſions in the Fathers dayes, when ſhee valiantly encountredencountered all perſecutors abroad, and heretickes at home. After 600. yeeres ſhe began apparently to breake …
With rule
… her perfect growth, ſtrength, and full dimenſions in the Fathers dayes, when ſhee valiantly encountredencountered all perſecutors abroad, and heretickes at home. After 600. yeeres ſhe began apparently to breake …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 166 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and iudgement with himselfe? yea what a troupe of dilemmaes shall men continually be encountredencountered and entangled withall, wherein they shall be at a stand, able to take neither …
With rule
… and iudgement with himselfe? yea what a troupe of dilemmaes shall men continually be encountredencountered and entangled withall, wherein they shall be at a stand, able to take neither …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 232 · Open in the reader
Printed
… merit of Chriſts death. Hee was made ſinne , and ſo died, and in death encountredencountered with him, who had the power of death, the diuell . By being made ſinne …
With rule
… merit of Chriſts death. Hee was made ſinne , and ſo died, and in death encountredencountered with him, who had the power of death, the diuell . By being made ſinne …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 43 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (24)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 21 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Life of William Phips A50149

Printed
… but ſeeing them Land ſo ſuddenly, and ſo valiantly run down thoſe that firſt EncountredEncountered them, they had Retreated: Nevertheleſs, That Count Frontenac was come down to Quebeck, with …
With rule
… but ſeeing them Land ſo ſuddenly, and ſo valiantly run down thoſe that firſt EncountredEncountered them, they had Retreated: Nevertheleſs, That Count Frontenac was come down to Quebeck, with …
Cotton Mather · Life of William Phips · p. 37 · Open in the reader

Confidence Encountered A87226

Printed
Confidence EncountredEncountered: OR, A VINDICATION OF THE Lawfulneſs of PREACHING without Ordination.
With rule
Confidence EncountredEncountered: OR, A VINDICATION OF THE Lawfulneſs of PREACHING without Ordination.
Jeremiah Ives · Confidence Encountered · Open in the reader

History of the War with Indian Savages A88924

Printed
ARTICLE XXIX. Quakers EncountredEncountered.
With rule
ARTICLE XXIX. Quakers EncountredEncountered.
Cotton Mather · History of the War with Indian Savages · p. 162 · Open in the reader