Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1682 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

quickequick

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

Puritas changed it: 2,718 times in 891 works
Consistency: 98.9% (2,718 of 2,747)
Reach if approved: ~2,886 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: quick
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,747 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,718 changes in 891 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,718)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… availeable to purge away ſinne, and that it is a ſacrifice propitiatory for the quickequick and the dead, as they do impudenly affirme: Let them alſo confeſſe that they …
With rule
… availeable to purge away ſinne, and that it is a ſacrifice propitiatory for the quickequick and the dead, as they do impudenly affirme: Let them alſo confeſſe that they …
George Gifford · Treatise Against the Priesthood and Sacrifice of the Church of Rome · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee ſhall come at the laſt day to iudge the whole worlde, both the quickequick and the dead.
With rule
… hee ſhall come at the laſt day to iudge the whole worlde, both the quickequick and the dead.
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader
Printed
4. Sedulitie. The heauenly Spirits are both diligent, and alſo quickequick and ſpeedy in executing the will of the Lord. They are thereupon ſaid to …
With rule
4. Sedulitie. The heauenly Spirits are both diligent, and alſo quickequick and ſpeedy in executing the will of the Lord. They are thereupon ſaid to …
William Gouge · A Guide to Go to God · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee) may bee meant thoſe that ſhall bee found corporally dead: and by the quickequick, thoſe that ſhall bee found corporally liuing at Chriſts comming: or (ſaith he) by …
With rule
… hee) may bee meant thoſe that ſhall bee found corporally dead: and by the quickequick, thoſe that ſhall bee found corporally liuing at Chriſts comming: or (ſaith he) by …
Henry Greenwood · Works · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not. Oftentimes the more shallow in knowledge, the more bungerly in wickednesse: when a quickequick and sharpe witte without grace, is like a head-strong Horse without a bridle …
With rule
… not. Oftentimes the more shallow in knowledge, the more bungerly in wickednesse: when a quickequick and sharpe witte without grace, is like a head-strong Horse without a bridle …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feuer, they be not externally discerned; except you feele the pulse, which beats thicke, quickequick, and vehement. The Hypocrite is exceedingly rotten at core, like a Sodome apple, though …
With rule
… feuer, they be not externally discerned; except you feele the pulse, which beats thicke, quickequick, and vehement. The Hypocrite is exceedingly rotten at core, like a Sodome apple, though …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
… saluation, and his second coming at the end of the world to iudge the quickequick and the dead.
With rule
… saluation, and his second coming at the end of the world to iudge the quickequick and the dead.
James Forester · The Marrow and Juice of 260 Scriptures · p. 283 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Certainly among so many names as the Scripture giueth them, if sacrificing for the quickequick and the deade, had bene the principall parte of their function, as by you …
With rule
… Certainly among so many names as the Scripture giueth them, if sacrificing for the quickequick and the deade, had bene the principall parte of their function, as by you …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 188 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (29)

17 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 12 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Black Devil A00564

Printed
… of his maisters lusts, and to arride, and deride him. You haue also Setters, QuickeQuick-setters I should say, that vndoe the Countrey by making Commons seuerall. You haue …
With rule
… of his maisters lusts, and to arride, and deride him. You haue also Setters, QuickeQuick-setters I should say, that vndoe the Countrey by making Commons seuerall. You haue …
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted A01042

Printed
QuickeQuick Arguments, with Eloquence enaembled,
With rule
QuickeQuick Arguments, with Eloquence enaembled,
Patrick Forbes · Dialogue Wherein a Romish Rhyme is Confuted · p. 20 · Open in the reader

The Isle of Man A09156

Printed
For QuickeQuick-ſightedneſſe will ſoone eſpy an error in pleading, and Diuine Reaſon will inforce a …
With rule
For QuickeQuick-ſightedneſſe will ſoone eſpy an error in pleading, and Diuine Reaſon will inforce a …
Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to prouide ſuch alſo, the daughters of Good-houſ-wiferie; as Eager and Spare, QuickeQuick and Nimble, Truſty and Timely-vp, Health-full and Chaſte, Euer-doing and Silent …
With rule
… to prouide ſuch alſo, the daughters of Good-houſ-wiferie; as Eager and Spare, QuickeQuick and Nimble, Truſty and Timely-vp, Health-full and Chaſte, Euer-doing and Silent …
Richard Bernard · The Isle of Man · p. 228 · Open in the reader

The Breastplate of Faith and Love A09950

Printed
QuickeQuick.
With rule
QuickeQuick.
John Preston · The Breastplate of Faith and Love · Open in the reader

Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis A11850

Printed
QuickeQuick repairings of all faylings: all which preſerve us from a notorious decaying or dying.
With rule
QuickeQuick repairings of all faylings: all which preſerve us from a notorious decaying or dying.
Obadiah Sedgwick · Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis · Open in the reader

Englands Hallelujah A14379

Printed
Our Liues and Lands like QuickeQuick-sands to deuoure:
With rule
Our Liues and Lands like QuickeQuick-sands to deuoure:
John Vicars · Englands Hallelujah · Open in the reader

Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites A15819

Printed
Reaſon 7. QuickeQuick diſpatch. If truths were to be tryed by Syllogiſmes with the Lord, it would …
With rule
Reaſon 7. QuickeQuick diſpatch. If truths were to be tryed by Syllogiſmes with the Lord, it would …
John Yates · Gods Arraignment of Hypocrites · p. 334 · Open in the reader

The Institutes of the Christian Religion A17662

Printed
… the quickequick. Some there be that in this place expoūd the wordes of the QuickeQuick and the dead otherwise: and we see that some of the olde wryters dyd …
With rule
… the quickequick. Some there be that in this place expoūd the wordes of the QuickeQuick and the dead otherwise: and we see that some of the olde wryters dyd …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · Open in the reader

A Short Explanation of Hebrews A20414

Printed
2. The first propertie of the Worde, it is QuickeQuick: That is, dieth not when those die to whome first it was directed; but …
With rule
2. The first propertie of the Worde, it is QuickeQuick: That is, dieth not when those die to whome first it was directed; but …
David Dickson · A Short Explanation of Hebrews · p. 61 · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs A20796

Printed
QuickeQuick …t meat, quickequick at worke.
With rule
QuickeQuick …t meat, quickequick at worke.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
QuickeQuick in the beginning, but slow in the ending.
With rule
QuickeQuick in the beginning, but slow in the ending.
Thomas Draxe · A Treasury of Ancient Adages and Proverbs · p. 217 · Open in the reader

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
… be cruell and vnmercifull to our own Families, nor ruſh our ſelues into theſe QuickeQuick-ſandes of troubles and turmoyles that after follow at the heeles of this raſhneſſe …
With rule
… be cruell and vnmercifull to our own Families, nor ruſh our ſelues into theſe QuickeQuick-ſandes of troubles and turmoyles that after follow at the heeles of this raſhneſſe …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 382 · Open in the reader

An Exposition of Genesis A44894

Printed
2. QuickeQuick animadversion, behold.
With rule
2. QuickeQuick animadversion, behold.
George Hughes · An Exposition of Genesis · p. 464 · Open in the reader

The Penitent Pardoned A49255

Printed
… offence towards God and towards men. The thoughts of Chriſts coming to judge the QuickeQuick and the Dead ſhould make you have thoughts, to get a good conſcience void …
With rule
… offence towards God and towards men. The thoughts of Chriſts coming to judge the QuickeQuick and the Dead ſhould make you have thoughts, to get a good conſcience void …
Christopher Love · The Penitent Pardoned · p. 145 · Open in the reader

Whole Works A68831

Printed
QuickeQuick and dead burnt of Papiſtes. 435. b
With rule
QuickeQuick and dead burnt of Papiſtes. 435. b
William Tyndale · Whole Works · Open in the reader

Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Creed A77667

Printed
… opinion, that hee went no higher then the Sunne. Shall come to Judge the QuickeQuick and the Dead; in oppoſition to the Hereſie of thoſe; who held, that there …
With rule
… opinion, that hee went no higher then the Sunne. Shall come to Judge the QuickeQuick and the Dead; in oppoſition to the Hereſie of thoſe; who held, that there …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Creed · p. 72 · Open in the reader