Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1952 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

tormentestorments

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

Puritas changed it: 586 times in 193 works
Consistency: 98.9% (586 of 592)
Reach if approved: ~622 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: torments
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 592 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (586 changes in 193 works, 98.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 586)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… you vp. The fyre of hel which shall neuer be quenched, tarieth you. Euerlastynge tormentestorments, Intollerable punishments, perpetual turmoylynges abyde you. Ye are appoynted to the place, where wepyng …
With rule
… you vp. The fyre of hel which shall neuer be quenched, tarieth you. Euerlastynge tormentestorments, Intollerable punishments, perpetual turmoylynges abyde you. Ye are appoynted to the place, where wepyng …
Thomas Becon · News Out of Heaven · Open in the reader
Printed
… indulgencies; therefore pardons or indulgencies beganne after men trembled a little while at the tormentestorments of purgatorie. So much the Biſhop. Now here ſaith Polydor to his reader theſe …
With rule
… indulgencies; therefore pardons or indulgencies beganne after men trembled a little while at the tormentestorments of purgatorie. So much the Biſhop. Now here ſaith Polydor to his reader theſe …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 220 · Open in the reader
Printed
… who, as thei had preached diligē tly, so did thei ende their liues by tormentestorments, in the same confession constauntely, and patiently.
With rule
… who, as thei had preached diligē tly, so did thei ende their liues by tormentestorments, in the same confession constauntely, and patiently.
William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… all of vs for high treaſon againſt God condemned to hell to endure eternall tormentestorments: A couenant and promiſe is made, that ſo many as doe beleeue in the …
With rule
… all of vs for high treaſon againſt God condemned to hell to endure eternall tormentestorments: A couenant and promiſe is made, that ſo many as doe beleeue in the …
George Gifford · Sermons Upon Divers Texts · p. 79 · Open in the reader
Printed
… subtile and implacable crueltie, did assaile the bodies of honourable personages with tortures and tormentestorments, to get their secret and hidden treasures, though they had beene before that, their …
With rule
… subtile and implacable crueltie, did assaile the bodies of honourable personages with tortures and tormentestorments, to get their secret and hidden treasures, though they had beene before that, their …
Francis Hastings · Defense of the Watch-Word Against the Ward-Word · p. 199 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I graunt indeed this was the 2. Death, the death of the ſoule, or Hell tormentestorments which Chriſt heere b feared: neither can this by any meanes be denied, as …
With rule
… I graunt indeed this was the 2. Death, the death of the ſoule, or Hell tormentestorments which Chriſt heere b feared: neither can this by any meanes be denied, as …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 130 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Voluntarie, when we do graunte any thing of our owne wyll. Forced, when by tormentestorments we are compelled to graunte that which otherwayes we woulde not, and is properly …
With rule
… Voluntarie, when we do graunte any thing of our owne wyll. Forced, when by tormentestorments we are compelled to graunte that which otherwayes we woulde not, and is properly …
Petrus Ramus · The Logic Newly Translated · p. 66 · Open in the reader
Printed
… we giue GOD thankes from our harte / that he hath delyuered vs from the tormentestorments / ſlaughterhouſe and tyranie of the Pope / who doth cōuert the power of the keyes …
With rule
… we giue GOD thankes from our harte / that he hath delyuered vs from the tormentestorments / ſlaughterhouſe and tyranie of the Pope / who doth cōuert the power of the keyes …
Martin Luther · Sermon on John 20 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright A01115

Printed
TormentesTorments whole dayes together ead.
With rule
TormentesTorments whole dayes together ead.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · Open in the reader

Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 A01331

Printed
… Gods glory by the scorning and deriding of the vngodly, then at any bodilye TormentesTorments, or at the losse of our owne liues. For there is no kinde of …
With rule
… Gods glory by the scorning and deriding of the vngodly, then at any bodilye TormentesTorments, or at the losse of our owne liues. For there is no kinde of …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 17 March 1577 · Open in the reader

Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ A04214

Printed
… parted from the Body. Some of which they believed were in Bleſſednes, ſome in TormentesTorments: although they ſignified neither of theſe in the word Hades, but onely (as I …
With rule
… parted from the Body. Some of which they believed were in Bleſſednes, ſome in TormentesTorments: although they ſignified neither of theſe in the word Hades, but onely (as I …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 176 · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

Printed
TormentesTorments brought out to terrify the Christians. 91
With rule
TormentesTorments brought out to terrify the Christians. 91
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
TormentesTorments of sundry sortes deuised to persecute Christians with all. 8.34.37.79
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TormentesTorments of sundry sortes deuised to persecute Christians with all. 8.34.37.79
John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · Open in the reader

Answer to a Popish Pamphlet of Christs Descent to Hell B00104

Printed
… thoughts from death, which was imminent, but stedfastlie fixt His mynde, vpon all the TormentesTorments that were hanging aboue His head.
With rule
… thoughts from death, which was imminent, but stedfastlie fixt His mynde, vpon all the TormentesTorments that were hanging aboue His head.
William Guild · Answer to a Popish Pamphlet of Christs Descent to Hell · p. 144 · Open in the reader