Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2343 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

shooteshoot

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

Puritas changed it: 684 times in 353 works
Consistency: 99.2% (684 of 689)
Reach if approved: ~724 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: shoot
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 689 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (684 changes in 353 works, 99.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 684)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… for him. Pſal. 119.110. Did hee (therefore) lay another for them? No, he would not ſhooteshoot with Satan in his own bow, recompencing ſin with ſin, but ſtuck to the …
With rule
… for him. Pſal. 119.110. Did hee (therefore) lay another for them? No, he would not ſhooteshoot with Satan in his own bow, recompencing ſin with ſin, but ſtuck to the …
Robert Horne · Life and Death · p. 395 · Open in the reader
Printed
… one, if my prayer might be heard you ſhoulde ſoone attaine. But ſuche ſtarres ſhooteshoot not often, ſuch birdes flie ſeldome abrode: but if there happen any ſuch wherevpon …
With rule
… one, if my prayer might be heard you ſhoulde ſoone attaine. But ſuche ſtarres ſhooteshoot not often, ſuch birdes flie ſeldome abrode: but if there happen any ſuch wherevpon …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader
Printed
… doth prouoke vs: Looke as Foulers couch vnder their ſtalking-horſe, that they may ſhooteshoot the more ſecurely, and deadly; So doth he keep out of ſight, that he …
With rule
… doth prouoke vs: Looke as Foulers couch vnder their ſtalking-horſe, that they may ſhooteshoot the more ſecurely, and deadly; So doth he keep out of ſight, that he …
Paul Baynes · A Help to True Happiness · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in pulling out. This is the arrow they make ready on the string, to shooteshoot priuily at the vpright in heart.
With rule
… in pulling out. This is the arrow they make ready on the string, to shooteshoot priuily at the vpright in heart.
Thomas Adams · The Black Devil · p. 28 · Open in the reader
Printed
… free promise. For this seemeth the very butte wherat these delicate fine doctors do shooteshoot so busily. For proofe whereof beholde the whole fourme of the do…trine which …
With rule
… free promise. For this seemeth the very butte wherat these delicate fine doctors do shooteshoot so busily. For proofe whereof beholde the whole fourme of the do…trine which …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · p. 65 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſaith it groweth vp, and the thornes grow vp with it, the ſtalk doth ſhooteshoot foorth the eare, and lacketh but riping. For this may be proued by Saint …
With rule
… ſaith it groweth vp, and the thornes grow vp with it, the ſtalk doth ſhooteshoot foorth the eare, and lacketh but riping. For this may be proued by Saint …
George Gifford · Sermon on the Parable of the Sower · Open in the reader
Printed
… on him sharp arrowes, and to set him vp as as a Butte to shooteshoot at; when hee thought God caused him to possesse the sinnes of his youth …
With rule
… on him sharp arrowes, and to set him vp as as a Butte to shooteshoot at; when hee thought God caused him to possesse the sinnes of his youth …
Richard Greenham · Comfort for All Those Afflicted in Conscience · Open in the reader
Printed
7 And when he had stomaked them by the holy Ghost, to shooteshoot foorth hys word without feare, he wēt forward with them by his grace, conqueryng …
With rule
7 And when he had stomaked them by the holy Ghost, to shooteshoot foorth hys word without feare, he wēt forward with them by his grace, conqueryng …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 70 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

4 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Kings Shoe A06191

Printed
… no place, in Church no dignity, in Countrey no regiment. O most gratious king foreign. ShooteShoot so still, Resolue so still. Let not the cry of the Edomites preuaile, that …
With rule
… no place, in Church no dignity, in Countrey no regiment. O most gratious king foreign. ShooteShoot so still, Resolue so still. Let not the cry of the Edomites preuaile, that …
William Loe · The Kings Shoe · p. 13 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

Printed
… some of those Nations, and in some other languages Schieten, of which our word ShooteShoot is deriued: Mela in his third booke and fifth chapter, calleth them all Sagae …
With rule
… some of those Nations, and in some other languages Schieten, of which our word ShooteShoot is deriued: Mela in his third booke and fifth chapter, calleth them all Sagae …
Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 331 · Open in the reader

Comforting Afflicted Consciences A16330

Printed
… nothing will breake; the Palme tree, that yeelds not to the waightiest burden; the ShooteShoot-Anchor, that holds, when other tacklings breake; the oile, that ever over-swims the …
With rule
… nothing will breake; the Palme tree, that yeelds not to the waightiest burden; the ShooteShoot-Anchor, that holds, when other tacklings breake; the oile, that ever over-swims the …
Robert Bolton · Comforting Afflicted Consciences · Open in the reader

A Treasury of Similes A18271

Printed
… thou fauourably, and in Loue againſt vs? Then come as terribly as thou wilt. ShooteShoot thine arrowes, and ſpend them all vpon vs, beate vs to pouder, take all …
With rule
… thou fauourably, and in Loue againſt vs? Then come as terribly as thou wilt. ShooteShoot thine arrowes, and ſpend them all vpon vs, beate vs to pouder, take all …
Robert Cawdrey · A Treasury of Similes · p. 441 · Open in the reader