Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2596 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

spurrespurr

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

Puritas changed it: 685 times in 367 works
Consistency: 96.3% (685 of 711)
Reach if approved: ~747 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Disagrees: spur
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 711 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (685 changes in 367 works, 96.3% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 685)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… ipſis tribuunt, quod Principes & Epiſcopos & Paſtores eas vident non abijcere. Another thus, No ſmall ſpurrespurr to idolatrie is the authoritie of the Dedicator. ſo that, the ſcandall of the …
With rule
… ipſis tribuunt, quod Principes & Epiſcopos & Paſtores eas vident non abijcere. Another thus, No ſmall ſpurrespurr to idolatrie is the authoritie of the Dedicator. ſo that, the ſcandall of the …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… able to put us in … gain, never go ſlowly but our conſ… ence may ſpurrespurr us on faſter; that o… conſcience may not be like the ſ… of a …
With rule
… able to put us in … gain, never go ſlowly but our conſ… ence may ſpurrespurr us on faſter; that o… conſcience may not be like the ſ… of a …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · p. 47 · Open in the reader
Printed
… victory ouer Gods ennemies. This truely oughte to be a comfort, and as a spurrespurr to the ministers of the gospell, that they shoulde not fainct vnder there burthen …
With rule
… victory ouer Gods ennemies. This truely oughte to be a comfort, and as a spurrespurr to the ministers of the gospell, that they shoulde not fainct vnder there burthen …
William Fulke · Prelections Upon Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtrengthen paſſions, to famiſh then to cheriſh them, to curb them in, then to ſpurrespurr them out, and to hold them backe, then to give them head. Though they …
With rule
… ſtrengthen paſſions, to famiſh then to cheriſh them, to curb them in, then to ſpurrespurr them out, and to hold them backe, then to give them head. Though they …
William Gouge · The Saints Sacrifice · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
Trew it is, that the spurrespurr of ambition pricketh a mā wounderfullie forewarde, when a man wyll seme, & appeare, wyl …
With rule
Trew it is, that the spurrespurr of ambition pricketh a mā wounderfullie forewarde, when a man wyll seme, & appeare, wyl …
George Hay · The Confutation of the Abbot of Crosraguels Mass · p. 86 · Open in the reader
Printed
… doth worke, it preferreth rest in ignorance, before wearisome labour to know. For a spurrespurr of diligence therefore we haue a naturall thirst after knowledge ingrafted in vs. But …
With rule
… doth worke, it preferreth rest in ignorance, before wearisome labour to know. For a spurrespurr of diligence therefore we haue a naturall thirst after knowledge ingrafted in vs. But …
Richard Hooker · The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity · p. 57 · Open in the reader
Printed
… furniſh themſelues with all kinde of complement: This knowledge of our hope is the ſpurrespurr of action; men worke cheerefully when they know an ample reward abideth them: It …
With rule
… furniſh themſelues with all kinde of complement: This knowledge of our hope is the ſpurrespurr of action; men worke cheerefully when they know an ample reward abideth them: It …
Paul Baynes · Commentary Upon Ephesians 1 · p. 338 · Open in the reader
Printed
… counted no synne at all, but rather a vertue, or at the leest a spurrespurr & prouocaciō to vertue. O the abhominacion of the worlde. O intollerable wickednes. O vncleannes …
With rule
… counted no synne at all, but rather a vertue, or at the leest a spurrespurr & prouocaciō to vertue. O the abhominacion of the worlde. O intollerable wickednes. O vncleannes …
Thomas Becon · A New Pathway Unto Prayer · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (26)

9 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 17 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Christian Observations and Resolutions A13075

Printed
… are left as a mater of our Exercise, the whetstone of grace, and a SpurreSpurr of Prayer: Wee cannot cast thē out, but we should put them vnder tribute …
With rule
… are left as a mater of our Exercise, the whetstone of grace, and a SpurreSpurr of Prayer: Wee cannot cast thē out, but we should put them vnder tribute …
William Struther · Christian Observations and Resolutions · p. 142 · Open in the reader

The Last Battle of the Soul A16539

Printed
… and yet we cannot consider: Oh, that this meditation like the Rowell of a SpurreSpurr could pricke vs forward in our voyage from grace to glorie.
With rule
… and yet we cannot consider: Oh, that this meditation like the Rowell of a SpurreSpurr could pricke vs forward in our voyage from grace to glorie.
Zacharie Boyd · The Last Battle of the Soul · p. 1255 · Open in the reader

A Brand Taken out of the Fire A19281

Printed
… a pledge of my thankefulnesse vnto you, for your loue towards me: and a SpurreSpurr to prouoke and continue our thankefulnesse vnto God, for his wonderfull mercies, renued and …
With rule
… a pledge of my thankefulnesse vnto you, for your loue towards me: and a SpurreSpurr to prouoke and continue our thankefulnesse vnto God, for his wonderfull mercies, renued and …
Thomas Cooper · A Brand Taken out of the Fire · Open in the reader

One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 A30241

Printed
… spiritual Joy, We may ſay it's the life and marrow of Religion, It's the SpurreSpurr and goad to all holineſſe; Therefore how deceived is the world that looketh for …
With rule
… spiritual Joy, We may ſay it's the life and marrow of Religion, It's the SpurreSpurr and goad to all holineſſe; Therefore how deceived is the world that looketh for …
Anthony Burgess · One-Hundred Forty-Five Sermons Upon John 17 · p. 415 · Open in the reader

Sermons on Job A69056

Printed
… ſame ſerue to ſtabliſhe vs, and let it bee as a ſtroke of the SpurreSpurr to pricke vs forward, that wee may drawe ſtill too the ſayd heauenly life …
With rule
… ſame ſerue to ſtabliſhe vs, and let it bee as a ſtroke of the SpurreSpurr to pricke vs forward, that wee may drawe ſtill too the ſayd heauenly life …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 404 · Open in the reader
Printed
… play the wilde beaſtes, and to chafe agaynſt him, and too kicke agaynſt the SpurreSpurr: ſeeing (I ſay) that there is ſuch ſinfulneſſe in vs: lette vs learne to …
With rule
… play the wilde beaſtes, and to chafe agaynſt him, and too kicke agaynſt the SpurreSpurr: ſeeing (I ſay) that there is ſuch ſinfulneſſe in vs: lette vs learne to …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 728 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be faine to ſcare vs: for we on our ſide are dull vpon the SpurreSpurr, and not eaſie to bee brought in ſubiection, and therefore wee haue neede of …
With rule
… be faine to ſcare vs: for we on our ſide are dull vpon the SpurreSpurr, and not eaſie to bee brought in ſubiection, and therefore wee haue neede of …
John Calvin · Sermons on Job · p. 790 · Open in the reader

The Peoples Need of a Living Pastor A80847

Printed
… head, an induſtrious ſtudious ſpirit, and a ſtrong memory, and that which was the SpurreSpurr of all, an exceeding love to and an inſatiable deſire of learning: and now …
With rule
… head, an induſtrious ſtudious ſpirit, and a ſtrong memory, and that which was the SpurreSpurr of all, an exceeding love to and an inſatiable deſire of learning: and now …
Zachary Crofton · The Peoples Need of a Living Pastor · p. 43 · Open in the reader

Englands Parliamentary Chronicle A95892

Printed
Richard SpurreSpurr Eſq
With rule
Richard SpurreSpurr Eſq
John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 384 · Open in the reader