Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #14550 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hearkninghearkening

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

Puritas changed it: 616 times in 419 works
Consistency: 100% (616 of 616)
Reach if approved: ~647 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: harkening
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 616 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (616 changes in 419 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 616)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… faithfull dealing was a meanes of his happy renewing. What we pull downe by hearkninghearkening to the voyce of ſinne, that may be built up againe by hearkening to …
With rule
… faithfull dealing was a meanes of his happy renewing. What we pull downe by hearkninghearkening to the voyce of ſinne, that may be built up againe by hearkening to …
Obadiah Sedgwick · Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
15 And what doth more noriſh and maintaine backbiting than the vſuall vice of hearkninghearkening thereto, euen with greedines? For as if there were no receiuer of theftes, there …
With rule
15 And what doth more noriſh and maintaine backbiting than the vſuall vice of hearkninghearkening thereto, euen with greedines? For as if there were no receiuer of theftes, there …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 271 · Open in the reader
Printed
… liuing vpon the hope of the Meſſiah, ſeating their happineſſe in deliuerance by him, hearkninghearkening, prying. gaping after his comming (hauing him ſhewed to them, by one, whom they …
With rule
… liuing vpon the hope of the Meſſiah, ſeating their happineſſe in deliuerance by him, hearkninghearkening, prying. gaping after his comming (hauing him ſhewed to them, by one, whom they …
Anthony Wotton · Sermons Upon John 1 · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
For Schismes and factions and hearkninghearkening to ambitious Teachers, ch: 1. 2. 3. 4. For incest and fornication chap. 5.
With rule
For Schismes and factions and hearkninghearkening to ambitious Teachers, ch: 1. 2. 3. 4. For incest and fornication chap. 5.
Nicholas Byfield · Directions for the Private Reading of the Scriptures · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee beggard our selues by hearkninghearkening after false riches, and infatuated our selues by hearkninghearkening after false knowledge. So that now, we doe not onely die, but die vpon …
With rule
… wee beggard our selues by hearkninghearkening after false riches, and infatuated our selues by hearkninghearkening after false knowledge. So that now, we doe not onely die, but die vpon …
John Donne · Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… could ſave our ſouls from that deſtroyer? is not ſuch a Saviour worth the hearkninghearkening after? were not the birth of ſuch a one good news? O my ſoul …
With rule
… could ſave our ſouls from that deſtroyer? is not ſuch a Saviour worth the hearkninghearkening after? were not the birth of ſuch a one good news? O my ſoul …
Isaac Ambrose · Looking Unto Jesus · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Phyſicks, or Ethicks, their Naturall or Morall Philoſophy? Or would you reſtraine Chriſtians from hearkninghearkening to Moſes and the Prophets, Chriſt and his Apoſtles, for their better inſtruction and …
With rule
… Phyſicks, or Ethicks, their Naturall or Morall Philoſophy? Or would you reſtraine Chriſtians from hearkninghearkening to Moſes and the Prophets, Chriſt and his Apoſtles, for their better inſtruction and …
William Hinde · The Office and Use of the Moral Law · p. 117 · Open in the reader
Printed
… being ſatisfied. As for that other ſuiter the Fleſh, he is leaſt worthy the hearkninghearkening to of any. Remember he is an ill wooer that wanteth words, they are …
With rule
… being ſatisfied. As for that other ſuiter the Fleſh, he is leaſt worthy the hearkninghearkening to of any. Remember he is an ill wooer that wanteth words, they are …
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 59 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.