Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2104 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

forgoeforgo

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

Puritas changed it: 714 times in 393 works
Consistency: 99.5% (714 of 717)
Reach if approved: ~753 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: forgo
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 717 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: forego (3)
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (714 changes in 393 works, 99.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 714)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… we loue to doe euill, we may forbeare it for purposes, but vvill not forgoeforgo it for any thing. The children of God finde such a strife in them …
With rule
… we loue to doe euill, we may forbeare it for purposes, but vvill not forgoeforgo it for any thing. The children of God finde such a strife in them …
Robert Horne · The Christian Governor in the Commonwealth and Private Families · Open in the reader
Printed
… you turne Puritane? will you haue all olde friends talk of you? will you forgoeforgo all olde pleaſures, which with ſuch & ſuch you haue inioyed? and caſt your ſelfe …
With rule
… you turne Puritane? will you haue all olde friends talk of you? will you forgoeforgo all olde pleaſures, which with ſuch & ſuch you haue inioyed? and caſt your ſelfe …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 93 · Open in the reader
Printed
… feeling of that loue and kindnesse, which is better then life it selfe, they forgoeforgo, because they goe from God. We seeke not, we wish not to be wise …
With rule
… feeling of that loue and kindnesse, which is better then life it selfe, they forgoeforgo, because they goe from God. We seeke not, we wish not to be wise …
Robert Mandevill · Timothys Task · p. 56 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in my Text is more paſſiue then actiue, conſiſting in an humble willingneſſe to forgoeforgo any thing which may bee either an acceptable ſacrifice vnto Chriſt, or a dangerous …
With rule
… in my Text is more paſſiue then actiue, conſiſting in an humble willingneſſe to forgoeforgo any thing which may bee either an acceptable ſacrifice vnto Chriſt, or a dangerous …
William Pinke · The Trial of a Christians Sincere Love Unto Christ · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… prudent and diligent endeavour, in the other, but a free choise of mind, to forgoeforgo willingly, what you could have easilie either holden or acquired, if you would, but …
With rule
… prudent and diligent endeavour, in the other, but a free choise of mind, to forgoeforgo willingly, what you could have easilie either holden or acquired, if you would, but …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · Open in the reader
Printed
… Vanitie, abundance of Wealth, setting their shoulders to this Burden, make many a Prophet forgoeforgo all sense of the weight: Ionas loden with his Commission for Niniueh, lay as …
With rule
… Vanitie, abundance of Wealth, setting their shoulders to this Burden, make many a Prophet forgoeforgo all sense of the weight: Ionas loden with his Commission for Niniueh, lay as …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · Open in the reader
Printed
Secondly, they who are wounded with Satans fiery darts, would willingly forgoeforgo all credit, wealth, and pleaſure that the World poſſibly can giue, for a dramme …
With rule
Secondly, they who are wounded with Satans fiery darts, would willingly forgoeforgo all credit, wealth, and pleaſure that the World poſſibly can giue, for a dramme …
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 291 · Open in the reader
Printed
… renounce thoſe ſinnes, which we thinke it were ſome outward inconuenience vnto vs to forgoeforgo. The other thing in which obedience chiefely ſtandeth, is the making conſcience of euery …
With rule
… renounce thoſe ſinnes, which we thinke it were ſome outward inconuenience vnto vs to forgoeforgo. The other thing in which obedience chiefely ſtandeth, is the making conſcience of euery …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 82 · 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.