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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1718 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

barkebark

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

Puritas changed it
908 times in 485 works
Consistency
100% (908 of 908)
Reach if approved
~954 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bark
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
908 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (908 changes in 485 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 908)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    In both of which places we must not be so superstitiously religious of the barkebark and shell of the letter, as to neglect the kernel of the spiritual sense …
    With rule
    In both of which places we must not be so superstitiously religious of the barkebark and shell of the letter, as to neglect the kernel of the spiritual sense …

    John Jackson · The Worthy Churchman · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … the people, and sent droanes and loyterers amongs… them, dumb dogs, that can not barkebark: and is not this great cruelty to the poore Soules of men to deprive …
    With rule
    … the people, and sent droanes and loyterers amongs… them, dumb dogs, that can not barkebark: and is not this great cruelty to the poore Soules of men to deprive …

    John Bastwick · Answer to John Banks · p. 22 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … the ciuil law, altered againe the preſidents mind: and ſo the commiſſion was called barkebark, and the army retired, which was come within a mile & a half, of the …
    With rule
    … the ciuil law, altered againe the preſidents mind: and ſo the commiſſion was called barkebark, and the army retired, which was come within a mile & a half, of the …

    John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 483 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … into the church, did any of the true pastors free from the same error, barkebark like a good shepheard against the beginner of that, which they count so great …
    With rule
    … into the church, did any of the true pastors free from the same error, barkebark like a good shepheard against the beginner of that, which they count so great …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 389 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … excluſiue, Alone. And yet when Ioye ſayeth that fayth alone doeth iuſtifie: you can barkebark & brale at hym biding him bring ſome opē ſcripture wher it is written faith …
    With rule
    … excluſiue, Alone. And yet when Ioye ſayeth that fayth alone doeth iuſtifie: you can barkebark & brale at hym biding him bring ſome opē ſcripture wher it is written faith …

    Anthony Gilby · Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … right course, neither shrinking nor slipping into the gulfe of desperation, neither battering our barkebark against the rocke of presumption; Let vs in a contrite spiri…e cry vnto …
    With rule
    … right course, neither shrinking nor slipping into the gulfe of desperation, neither battering our barkebark against the rocke of presumption; Let vs in a contrite spiri…e cry vnto …

    Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 72 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … whilest this chosen flocke are thus entring into this citie, the cruell dogges, which barkebark against the veritie, and teare the true seruauntes of God, are still remayning without …
    With rule
    … whilest this chosen flocke are thus entring into this citie, the cruell dogges, which barkebark against the veritie, and teare the true seruauntes of God, are still remayning without …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … is the God of Eliah. All the ordinances of God, are but as the barkebark of the tree; but Chriſt and the Promiſe are the pith. The heart, and …
    With rule
    … is the God of Eliah. All the ordinances of God, are but as the barkebark of the tree; but Chriſt and the Promiſe are the pith. The heart, and …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Humiliation · p. 43 · 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.