Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2264 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sunkesunk

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

Puritas changed it: 402 times in 276 works
Consistency: 97.8% (402 of 411)
Reach if approved: ~433 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sunk
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 412 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (402 changes in 276 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 402)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… lets in his indignation into his ſoule, to his humiliation, terrour, and vexation; this ſunkesunk him infinitely, and this God might doe to every beleever under Heaven, Iob 13.24, 26. Why …
With rule
… lets in his indignation into his ſoule, to his humiliation, terrour, and vexation; this ſunkesunk him infinitely, and this God might doe to every beleever under Heaven, Iob 13.24, 26. Why …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Exaltation · p. 185 · Open in the reader
Printed
… fetch a booke, which was forgotten behynde. when the seruant came the house was sunkesunk. So we see that worldly prosperity maketh vs to forget god, and in the …
With rule
… fetch a booke, which was forgotten behynde. when the seruant came the house was sunkesunk. So we see that worldly prosperity maketh vs to forget god, and in the …
Hugh Latimer · Twenty-Seven Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… Sea, and the other ſwallowed vp in the earth: and both of them are ſunkesunk euen to the bottome of hell. But we for our parts lette vs reioyce …
With rule
… Sea, and the other ſwallowed vp in the earth: and both of them are ſunkesunk euen to the bottome of hell. But we for our parts lette vs reioyce …
Philipp Melanchthon · Of Two Popish Monsters – A Popish Ass and a Monkish Calf · Open in the reader
Printed
… senselesse like stocks, labouring of a spirituall apoplexy, and a diuelish dead palsy, being sunkesunk into the gulfe of security, and hauing made a league with death and a …
With rule
… senselesse like stocks, labouring of a spirituall apoplexy, and a diuelish dead palsy, being sunkesunk into the gulfe of security, and hauing made a league with death and a …
William Perkins · Predestination · Open in the reader
Printed
… Hely, in baniſhing of Dauid, &c? and will he not puniſh vs, which are ſunkesunk deeper in ſuch tranſgreſſions? But as it is a moſt certaine ſigne of ſpeedy …
With rule
… Hely, in baniſhing of Dauid, &c? and will he not puniſh vs, which are ſunkesunk deeper in ſuch tranſgreſſions? But as it is a moſt certaine ſigne of ſpeedy …
Theodore Beza · Christian Questions and Answers Part 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… seede of life, quickning and repayring our fainting soules, so that when wee are sunkesunk in the depths of tryall, and seeme even inclosed in the belly of hell …
With rule
… seede of life, quickning and repayring our fainting soules, so that when wee are sunkesunk in the depths of tryall, and seeme even inclosed in the belly of hell …
Phineas Fletcher · Joy in Tribulation · p. 71 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and billowes had gone over him? as David complaines; Pſal. 42. 7. How would he have ſunkesunk in Hemans deepes, Pſ. 88. or in Davids, Pſ. 69. 2. I ſinke in the deepe mire …
With rule
… and billowes had gone over him? as David complaines; Pſal. 42. 7. How would he have ſunkesunk in Hemans deepes, Pſ. 88. or in Davids, Pſ. 69. 2. I ſinke in the deepe mire …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vpon stony ground; that is to say, onely falne from our eyes, but neuer sunkesunk into our stonie and hard hearts, and so could take no roote; or else …
With rule
… vpon stony ground; that is to say, onely falne from our eyes, but neuer sunkesunk into our stonie and hard hearts, and so could take no roote; or else …
Walter Balcanquhall · Sermon Preached 14 April 1623 · p. 97 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (9)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

Printed
(SunkeSunk with griefe and sorrow nigh)
With rule
(SunkeSunk with griefe and sorrow nigh)
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

Works of Joseph Hall A68126

Printed
SunkeSunk in with griefe
With rule
SunkeSunk in with griefe
Joseph Hall · Works of Joseph Hall · p. 157 · Open in the reader

Poems A69225

Printed
SunkeSunk ſo low, as to love one which did ſcorne.
With rule
SunkeSunk ſo low, as to love one which did ſcorne.
John Donne · Poems · p. 280 · Open in the reader

Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England N00171

Printed
… having waded fourteen or fifteen mile through the Country of the old Queen, or SunkeSunk Squaw of Narhaganset: they came at one a clock upon the edge of the …
With rule
… having waded fourteen or fifteen mile through the Country of the old Queen, or SunkeSunk Squaw of Narhaganset: they came at one a clock upon the edge of the …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to the said place, and found the same Indians, with some others, and their SunkeSunk Squaw, or chief woman of that Indian Plantation, there ready to meet him.
With rule
… to the said place, and found the same Indians, with some others, and their SunkeSunk Squaw, or chief woman of that Indian Plantation, there ready to meet him.
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 104 · Open in the reader
Printed
There were about fifteen of the Indians present, beside their SunkeSunk Squaw (which is with us their Governess or Lady) in conclusion they engaged for …
With rule
There were about fifteen of the Indians present, beside their SunkeSunk Squaw (which is with us their Governess or Lady) in conclusion they engaged for …
William Hubbard · Narrative of the Troubles with the Indians in New England · p. 105 · Open in the reader