Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11064 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

darkenessedarkness

Everything else the mechanical classes do not explain: shew → show, then → than.

Puritas changed it: 5,301 times in 1,083 works
Consistency: 99.9% (5,301 of 5,302)
Reach if approved: ~5,576 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: darkness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 5,307 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (5,301 changes in 1,083 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 5,301)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… into darkenſſe, that hée ſhoulde gyue nowe good things, nowe euill, nowe light, nowe darkeneſſedarkness. No, ſaithe the Apoſtle Paule, let God be true, and al men lyars. Can …
With rule
… into darkenſſe, that hée ſhoulde gyue nowe good things, nowe euill, nowe light, nowe darkeneſſedarkness. No, ſaithe the Apoſtle Paule, let God be true, and al men lyars. Can …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… owne conſciences, were not able to abide his preſence: yet notwithſtanding the houre of darkeneſſedarkness being come, they laid hold on him. In Act. 24. 26. wicked Felix trembled when he …
With rule
… owne conſciences, were not able to abide his preſence: yet notwithſtanding the houre of darkeneſſedarkness being come, they laid hold on him. In Act. 24. 26. wicked Felix trembled when he …
Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… light: but the Prince of DarkenesseDarkness came informing us, that our Lig…t was darkenessedarkness: whose mistie perswasions making us, first, doubt of a truth; and then resolve of …
With rule
… light: but the Prince of DarkenesseDarkness came informing us, that our Lig…t was darkenessedarkness: whose mistie perswasions making us, first, doubt of a truth; and then resolve of …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Lords Prayer · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
… sucking:) thinking euery houre an Olympiade, till the Sunne ariseth: so is the soules darkenessedarkness, if securitie hath not rocked asleepe; and custome (which is the apoplexy of bed …
With rule
… sucking:) thinking euery houre an Olympiade, till the Sunne ariseth: so is the soules darkenessedarkness, if securitie hath not rocked asleepe; and custome (which is the apoplexy of bed …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 72 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are some cases in which foreign, it is not possible. What communion hath light with darkenessedarkness! and what concord hath Christ with Belial! Wee must haue no peace with it …
With rule
… are some cases in which foreign, it is not possible. What communion hath light with darkenessedarkness! and what concord hath Christ with Belial! Wee must haue no peace with it …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wicked, by consequence it may signifie hell, as the day signifieth light, the night darkenessedarkness, fire heate, peace signifieth prosperitie, and an hundreth suche like speaches. But where you …
With rule
… wicked, by consequence it may signifie hell, as the day signifieth light, the night darkenessedarkness, fire heate, peace signifieth prosperitie, and an hundreth suche like speaches. But where you …
William Fulke · Defense of the Translations of the Scriptures into the English Tongue · p. 219 · Open in the reader
Printed
… confidence to be concealed: What though Sinners be the servants of the Prince of darkenessedarkness, and therefore hope to obtaine from their Lord and Master a protection that no …
With rule
… confidence to be concealed: What though Sinners be the servants of the Prince of darkenessedarkness, and therefore hope to obtaine from their Lord and Master a protection that no …
Thomas Fuller · Josephs Party-Colored Coat · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… walke woorthy of it. Wee muſt haue no felloweſhippe with the vnfruitefull woorkes of darkeneſſedarkness, hauing fellowſhippe with GOD, and with his Sonne Ieſus Chriſt, and being called to …
With rule
… walke woorthy of it. Wee muſt haue no felloweſhippe with the vnfruitefull woorkes of darkeneſſedarkness, hauing fellowſhippe with GOD, and with his Sonne Ieſus Chriſt, and being called to …
George Gifford · A Catechism · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of Job 1-3 A35389

Printed
DArkeneſſeDarkness, Divers ſorts, p. 347. A darke day is a ſad day, p. 348. It ſtaines the …
With rule
DArkeneſſeDarkness, Divers ſorts, p. 347. A darke day is a ſad day, p. 348. It ſtaines the …
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 1-3 · Open in the reader