Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1673 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

starkestark

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

Puritas changed it: 1,135 times in 499 works
Consistency: 99.5% (1,135 of 1,140)
Reach if approved: ~1,198 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: stark
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,140 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,135 changes in 499 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,135)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Romanes did, by making them the members of an harlot? ſhall wee ſtrip Chriſt ſtarkestark naked by our ſacriledge? ſell him by ſimony? racke him by oppreſſion? teare him …
With rule
… Romanes did, by making them the members of an harlot? ſhall wee ſtrip Chriſt ſtarkestark naked by our ſacriledge? ſell him by ſimony? racke him by oppreſſion? teare him …
Daniel Featley · A Key Opening Mysterious Texts of Scripture · p. 160 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but figuratiue wordes worke nothing, therefore they are not figuratiue. This minor is a starkestark lye often times confuted: These wordes in the very institution of the supper, are …
With rule
… but figuratiue wordes worke nothing, therefore they are not figuratiue. This minor is a starkestark lye often times confuted: These wordes in the very institution of the supper, are …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 585 · Open in the reader
Printed
… flight of a foule, a Iew in the troope vnderstanding it, shot the foule starkestark dead, and then asked how the foule could tell what should befall them, which …
With rule
… flight of a foule, a Iew in the troope vnderstanding it, shot the foule starkestark dead, and then asked how the foule could tell what should befall them, which …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 305 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wretched eſtate! who can bewaile it ſufficientlie? Howe many thouſand thouſandes haue drunke themſelues ſtarkestark drunken with the delightes of this world, and as merrie as they bee, are …
With rule
… wretched eſtate! who can bewaile it ſufficientlie? Howe many thouſand thouſandes haue drunke themſelues ſtarkestark drunken with the delightes of this world, and as merrie as they bee, are …
George Gifford · Two Sermons on 1 Peter 5:8-9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… say they, you must looke better on your booke: Caiphas he saith, you are starkestark fooles, and see nothing, better it is that one die, than the people perish …
With rule
… say they, you must looke better on your booke: Caiphas he saith, you are starkestark fooles, and see nothing, better it is that one die, than the people perish …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 670 · Open in the reader
Printed
And left me starkestark blynde, God knoweth to my sore greuaunce,
With rule
And left me starkestark blynde, God knoweth to my sore greuaunce,
John Bale · Comedy Concerning Corruption of Three Laws of Nature by Sodomites · Open in the reader
Printed
… him in the Gospell, in respect of this spirituall life (I say) he is starkestark dead. Hee is utterly alienated from the life of God, as the Apostle speaketh …
With rule
… him in the Gospell, in respect of this spirituall life (I say) he is starkestark dead. Hee is utterly alienated from the life of God, as the Apostle speaketh …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 518 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and desperate villaines, to haue the spoile of their clothes, stripped the dead bodies starkestark naked & threw them into the riuer of Seane. The profit of all the robberies …
With rule
… and desperate villaines, to haue the spoile of their clothes, stripped the dead bodies starkestark naked & threw them into the riuer of Seane. The profit of all the robberies …
François Hotman · The Furious Outrages of France and the Horrible Slaughter · p. lXII · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 5 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.