Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2089 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

throwesthrows

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

Puritas changed it: 487 times in 311 works
Consistency: 98.1% (487 of 496)
Reach if approved: ~521 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: throws
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 496 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (487 changes in 311 works, 98.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 487)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vertues side; often cals chastitie her selfe an harlot, and with a guiltie hand throwesthrows the first stone at Innocence.
With rule
… vertues side; often cals chastitie her selfe an harlot, and with a guiltie hand throwesthrows the first stone at Innocence.
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the true purpoſe of his ſaluation, theſe & ſuch like throws, or rather downe throwesthrows of things, in the womb of this old and ſickly world ſo neare to …
With rule
… to the true purpoſe of his ſaluation, theſe & ſuch like throws, or rather downe throwesthrows of things, in the womb of this old and ſickly world ſo neare to …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 359 · Open in the reader
Printed
… perish in his great folly. Besides, such a carelesse regard of ones spirituall estate, throwesthrows a man every moment upon a thousand unexpected dangers. Hee that knowes not how …
With rule
… perish in his great folly. Besides, such a carelesse regard of ones spirituall estate, throwesthrows a man every moment upon a thousand unexpected dangers. Hee that knowes not how …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 41 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feare where thou liueſt; we are begotten in vncleanes, brought forth with throbs and throwesthrows, and nouriſhed in darkenes: we began our tragedy with nakednes & weeping; we continue our …
With rule
… feare where thou liueſt; we are begotten in vncleanes, brought forth with throbs and throwesthrows, and nouriſhed in darkenes: we began our tragedy with nakednes & weeping; we continue our …
Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… stonnes arise, when God either hides his face, or lets out his displeasure, or throwesthrows men upon any extremities, then there is no hope but in our a…ker …
With rule
… stonnes arise, when God either hides his face, or lets out his displeasure, or throwesthrows men upon any extremities, then there is no hope but in our a…ker …
Edward Reynolds · Three Treatises · p. 349 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the rockes, daſheth in peeces and ſo devours it. So the wrath of God throwesthrows us low upon the rockes of ſhame and contempt and terror of conſcience, and …
With rule
… the rockes, daſheth in peeces and ſo devours it. So the wrath of God throwesthrows us low upon the rockes of ſhame and contempt and terror of conſcience, and …
Henry Smith · Jonah the Messenger of Ninevehs Repentance · p. 22 · Open in the reader
Printed
13. Yet were they ſo fooliſh, that though throwesthrows came vpon them, as vpon a woman with Childe, (for ſo is their Common …
With rule
13. Yet were they ſo fooliſh, that though throwesthrows came vpon them, as vpon a woman with Childe, (for ſo is their Common …
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 230 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by and by to our former vomite. But the repentance, that resolues for Heauen, throwesthrows away all impediments▪ if Gold, if pleasure, if a Throne were in the way …
With rule
… by and by to our former vomite. But the repentance, that resolues for Heauen, throwesthrows away all impediments▪ if Gold, if pleasure, if a Throne were in the way …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 29 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

4 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.

Explication of Psalm 110 A10650

Printed
… and actuating that seed, hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God. There are ThrowesThrows and paines both in the Mother and in the Childe; much trouble and care …
With rule
… and actuating that seed, hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God. There are ThrowesThrows and paines both in the Mother and in the Childe; much trouble and care …
Edward Reynolds · Explication of Psalm 110 · p. 374 · Open in the reader

Balm for Bleeding England and Ireland A48917

Printed
… travaile? to ſtrangle it in the wombe? Becauſe the man-Childe makes Panges and ThrowesThrows, therefore weary of travaile, and any peace, ſo but an end of this War …
With rule
… travaile? to ſtrangle it in the wombe? Becauſe the man-Childe makes Panges and ThrowesThrows, therefore weary of travaile, and any peace, ſo but an end of this War …
Nicholas Lockyer · Balm for Bleeding England and Ireland · p. 252 · Open in the reader

The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody A96610

Printed
… ſeverall Conſciences, former and later, but with great Checks, great Threatnings, great Blowes and ThrowesThrows of inward Conſcience.
With rule
… ſeverall Conſciences, former and later, but with great Checks, great Threatnings, great Blowes and ThrowesThrows of inward Conſcience.
Roger Williams · The Bloody Tenant Yet more Bloody · p. 305 · Open in the reader

Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire B23054

Printed
Dear Births, (said She) of my once-teeming ThrowesThrows,
With rule
Dear Births, (said She) of my once-teeming ThrowesThrows,
Simon Ford · Three Poems Related to the Destruction of London by Fire · p. 7 · Open in the reader