Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1668 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forsookeforsook

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 1,156 times in 553 works
Consistency: 99.6% (1,156 of 1,160)
Reach if approved: ~1,219 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: forsook
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,160 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,156 changes in 553 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,156)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… in our Engliſh Church making all to the glory of God: feare and horror forſookeforsook mee. The Lord grant that all Gods people may wiſely and rightly judge of …
With rule
… in our Engliſh Church making all to the glory of God: feare and horror forſookeforsook mee. The Lord grant that all Gods people may wiſely and rightly judge of …
Henry Greenwood · Marks and No Marks · Open in the reader
Printed
… of whom the Apostle speaketh Heb. 11.8, 14, 15. of whom the Apostle saith that they willingly forsookeforsook their owne country, and all the comforts that they had there, and went willingly …
With rule
… of whom the Apostle speaketh Heb. 11.8, 14, 15. of whom the Apostle saith that they willingly forsookeforsook their owne country, and all the comforts that they had there, and went willingly …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 733 · Open in the reader
Printed
… with the repentance of Ninivie, not onely the ordinarie and refuse sort of people forsookeforsook their sinnes, but even the King himselfe came from his throne and sat in …
With rule
… with the repentance of Ninivie, not onely the ordinarie and refuse sort of people forsookeforsook their sinnes, but even the King himselfe came from his throne and sat in …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 131 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a Prophet was not honoured in his owne country… … for this cauſe the Apoſtle forſookeforsook Iſrael; and ſaid: Becauſe you caſt vs out, & iudge your ſelues vn worthy of …
With rule
… a Prophet was not honoured in his owne country… … for this cauſe the Apoſtle forſookeforsook Iſrael; and ſaid: Becauſe you caſt vs out, & iudge your ſelues vn worthy of …
Laurence Humphrey · A View of the Romish Hydra · p. 161 · Open in the reader
Printed
… their loue also waxed cold, if not freezed, when they fled from him, and forsookeforsook him. Yet no learned Diuine euer affirmed, that their loue to our Sauiour was …
With rule
… their loue also waxed cold, if not freezed, when they fled from him, and forsookeforsook him. Yet no learned Diuine euer affirmed, that their loue to our Sauiour was …
Daniel Featley · A Second Parallel · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wordes of our Prophet Moseh foretelling vs that it should so be, if we forsookeforsook the Lord our God: and leauing vs their posteritie an example thereby, that, if …
With rule
… wordes of our Prophet Moseh foretelling vs that it should so be, if we forsookeforsook the Lord our God: and leauing vs their posteritie an example thereby, that, if …
John Foxe · A Sermon Preached at the Christening of a Jew · Open in the reader
Printed
… but though his Disciples all forsookeforsook him▪ and fled from him; yet his Father forsookeforsook him not, but abode euer with him: And DAVID, though he complain sometime in …
With rule
… but though his Disciples all forsookeforsook him▪ and fled from him; yet his Father forsookeforsook him not, but abode euer with him: And DAVID, though he complain sometime in …
Thomas Gataker · Two Sermons for the Direction for Christian Carriage · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vexation of many Subjects. At the time of his death all of all ſorts forſookeforsook him. Onely one Prieſt is ſaid to be with him, when he gave up …
With rule
… vexation of many Subjects. At the time of his death all of all ſorts forſookeforsook him. Onely one Prieſt is ſaid to be with him, when he gave up …
William Gouge · Gods Three Arrows · p. 364 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Bibles Abstract and Epitome A27502

Printed
Friends ForsookeForsook him: his familiars lifted their heeles against him,
With rule
Friends ForsookeForsook him: his familiars lifted their heeles against him,
Richard Bernard · The Bibles Abstract and Epitome · p. 30 · Open in the reader

A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic A56191

Printed
ForſookeForsook her provender for to adore
With rule
ForſookeForsook her provender for to adore
William Prynne · A Pleasant Purge for a Roman Catholic · p. 182 · Open in the reader

The Kings Chronicle in Two Sections A97343

Printed
… a way or make a way, after the Commandement they will goe. REHOBO AM FORSOOKEFORSOOK THE LAW OF THE LORD, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM. What then? Then all …
With rule
… a way or make a way, after the Commandement they will goe. REHOBO AM FORSOOKEFORSOOK THE LAW OF THE LORD, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM. What then? Then all …
Hezekiah Woodward · The Kings Chronicle in Two Sections · p. 43 · Open in the reader