Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1712 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tornetorn

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

Puritas changed it: 1,666 times in 770 works
Consistency: 99.1% (1,666 of 1,681)
Reach if approved: ~1,766 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: torn
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,681 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,666 changes in 770 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,666)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… f…ciem, the miserable state of our country, whose face hath bin scratcht and tornetorn by the bloudy nailes of these persecuting beares, Needs must the land be sicke …
With rule
… f…ciem, the miserable state of our country, whose face hath bin scratcht and tornetorn by the bloudy nailes of these persecuting beares, Needs must the land be sicke …
Thomas Adams · Englands Sickness Compared to Israels · p. 44 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are clad with Purple and ſilke, but the conſcience in the meane while lies tornetorn and tattered. Fulgent monilibus; ſed ſordent moribus, (ſaith the ſame Authour) they ſhine and …
With rule
… are clad with Purple and ſilke, but the conſcience in the meane while lies tornetorn and tattered. Fulgent monilibus; ſed ſordent moribus, (ſaith the ſame Authour) they ſhine and …
Stephen Geree · The Ornament of Women · Open in the reader
Printed
… with stripes of contrition; and so must his be: Let him see my breast tornetorn, with sighings and groanings; and so must he doe; and if all this be …
With rule
… with stripes of contrition; and so must his be: Let him see my breast tornetorn, with sighings and groanings; and so must he doe; and if all this be …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon Psalm 150 · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… brother, whom by hys necromancye he brought to the poynte, inuysysyblye to haue bene tornetorn in peces. What he gote by hys Image makynge, the scripture sheweth playne, whiche …
With rule
… brother, whom by hys necromancye he brought to the poynte, inuysysyblye to haue bene tornetorn in peces. What he gote by hys Image makynge, the scripture sheweth playne, whiche …
John Bale · The Acts of English Votaries · Open in the reader
Printed
… the name and verytie of Christ, a few Cities except, vnlesse men will ve tornetorn of these wolues. And thus is it lyke still to continue to y^e end …
With rule
… the name and verytie of Christ, a few Cities except, vnlesse men will ve tornetorn of these wolues. And thus is it lyke still to continue to y^e end …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Sauior himſelfe vnto the ſowing of ſeed: as therfore the ground is firſt tornetorn vp with the plough, before the ſeede be committed to it: ſo the fallow …
With rule
… our Sauior himſelfe vnto the ſowing of ſeed: as therfore the ground is firſt tornetorn vp with the plough, before the ſeede be committed to it: ſo the fallow …
Samuel Hieron · The Preachers Plea · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in one houre, in one inſtant ſhould all have beene miſerably blowne up and tornetorn in peeces, ſo they ſhould not have beene found, or being found, ſhould not …
With rule
… in one houre, in one inſtant ſhould all have beene miſerably blowne up and tornetorn in peeces, ſo they ſhould not have beene found, or being found, ſhould not …
Thomas Hooker · Four Learned and Godly Treatises · p. 113 · Open in the reader
Printed
… left their young, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten. The tornetorn I brought vnto thee, but made it good my ſelfe, at my hand thou …
With rule
… left their young, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten. The tornetorn I brought vnto thee, but made it good my ſelfe, at my hand thou …
Dudley Fenner · Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 62 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (15)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs A11649

Printed
TorneTorn things not to be eaten, Exod. 22. 31.
With rule
TorneTorn things not to be eaten, Exod. 22. 31.
Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · Open in the reader

A Spiritual Hymn A16534

Printed
TorneTorn, naked, pale, a mappe of woes,
With rule
TorneTorn, naked, pale, a mappe of woes,
Robert Boyd · A Spiritual Hymn · Open in the reader

A Worthy Communicant A21060

Printed
… is tornetorn of beasts in the field, ye ſhall caſt it to the Dogges. TorneTorn fleſh it was neither fit for ſervice of men, nor of GOD. Not for …
With rule
… is tornetorn of beasts in the field, ye ſhall caſt it to the Dogges. TorneTorn fleſh it was neither fit for ſervice of men, nor of GOD. Not for …
Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 264 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, for they muſt not eate it. Yee ſhall caſt it to the Dogges. TorneTorn fleſh muſt not be mans meat, but Dogges meate. It was not fit for …
With rule
… man, for they muſt not eate it. Yee ſhall caſt it to the Dogges. TorneTorn fleſh muſt not be mans meat, but Dogges meate. It was not fit for …
Jeremiah Dyke · A Worthy Communicant · p. 264 · Open in the reader

The Gentile Sinner A39252

Printed
… Statutes and break all good Orders; How to weare a Gaudy Suite and a TorneTorn Gowne; To curse his Tutor by the name of Baal's Priest, and to sell …
With rule
… Statutes and break all good Orders; How to weare a Gaudy Suite and a TorneTorn Gowne; To curse his Tutor by the name of Baal's Priest, and to sell …
Clement Ellis · The Gentile Sinner · p. 25 · Open in the reader

Observations Upon the Old Testament A57230

Printed
V. 28. TorneTorn in pieces] Thus Joseph might perceive how they coloured to their father their dealing …
With rule
V. 28. TorneTorn in pieces] Thus Joseph might perceive how they coloured to their father their dealing …
John Richardson · Observations Upon the Old Testament · Open in the reader

The Healing of Israels Breaches A77502

Printed
… Smitten the one with the ſword of a Civill, but Barbarous and Savage enemy: TorneTorn the other, with unhappy differences and diſtractions; yet let not either of theſe diſcourage …
With rule
… Smitten the one with the ſword of a Civill, but Barbarous and Savage enemy: TorneTorn the other, with unhappy differences and diſtractions; yet let not either of theſe diſcourage …
John Brinsley · The Healing of Israels Breaches · p. 26 · Open in the reader

Jurisdictions A87798

Printed
… free-hold, traverſable, and otherwiſe not, 24. Things there not preſented, ſhall be preſented in TorneTorn, and if not in Eyre, and if not in the Kings bench, 84. It ſhall …
With rule
… free-hold, traverſable, and otherwiſe not, 24. Things there not preſented, ſhall be preſented in TorneTorn, and if not in Eyre, and if not in the Kings bench, 84. It ſhall …
John Kitchin · Jurisdictions · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Three Sacred Persons A95611

Printed
TorneTorn with thoſe cru…l… thorns abroad
With rule
TorneTorn with thoſe cru…l… thorns abroad
Faithful Teate · The Doctrine of the Three Sacred Persons · p. 169 · Open in the reader

A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath A96785

Printed
TorneTorn daily from each other, can ariſe,
With rule
TorneTorn daily from each other, can ariſe,
George Wither · A Voice Tending to the Pacification of Gods Wrath · p. 146 · Open in the reader

Archbishops to be Cut Off A96888

Printed
… But I argue it, Torn fleſh is Dogs-meat. The Curates ſervice is as TorneTorn fleſh.
With rule
… But I argue it, Torn fleſh is Dogs-meat. The Curates ſervice is as TorneTorn fleſh.
Hezekiah Woodward · Archbishops to be Cut Off · p. 42 · Open in the reader