Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11247 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wofullwoeful

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

Puritas changed it: 3,257 times in 1,124 works
Consistency: 99.9% (3,257 of 3,259)
Reach if approved: ~3,424 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: woeful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 3,259 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (3,257 changes in 1,124 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 3,257)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… were they able to performe it. But let vs leaue the Papists with their wofullwoeful arguments, and returne to the Apostles in their request made vnto Christ, Dismisse her …
With rule
… were they able to performe it. But let vs leaue the Papists with their wofullwoeful arguments, and returne to the Apostles in their request made vnto Christ, Dismisse her …
William Fulke · The Woman of Canaan · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… I was ſaued, tanquam torris erutus e flamma, I meane, in that generall and wofullwoeful downfall at the Blackfryers, wherein many leſſe ſinners then my ſelfe breathed their laſt …
With rule
… I was ſaued, tanquam torris erutus e flamma, I meane, in that generall and wofullwoeful downfall at the Blackfryers, wherein many leſſe ſinners then my ſelfe breathed their laſt …
John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 88 · Open in the reader
Printed
Firſt, for the efficient cauſes of this ſo wofullwoeful, deſperate, darke condition of Gods childe: they are three which have a hand in …
With rule
Firſt, for the efficient cauſes of this ſo wofullwoeful, deſperate, darke condition of Gods childe: they are three which have a hand in …
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſecurity, are without number. And yet our Conſciences accuſe vs, and we féele by wofullwoeful experience, how full of wants, imperfections, and frailty we are, how prone to all …
With rule
… ſecurity, are without number. And yet our Conſciences accuſe vs, and we féele by wofullwoeful experience, how full of wants, imperfections, and frailty we are, how prone to all …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… should be songe vnto God. The Lorde keepe me from such errour, And a wofullwoeful phisition you are; if I had bene in such an errour; For the 102. Psalme …
With rule
… should be songe vnto God. The Lorde keepe me from such errour, And a wofullwoeful phisition you are; if I had bene in such an errour; For the 102. Psalme …
John Greenwood · More Work for Priests · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
Want of affliction is wofullwoeful. 243.
With rule
Want of affliction is wofullwoeful. 243.
Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · Open in the reader
Printed
… pitifull perſon his very bowels yearne and are mooued within him, to behold ſome wofullwoeful or diſtreſſed ſpectacle. So the mercy of God in this caſe is not ordinarie …
With rule
… pitifull perſon his very bowels yearne and are mooued within him, to behold ſome wofullwoeful or diſtreſſed ſpectacle. So the mercy of God in this caſe is not ordinarie …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 103 · Open in the reader
Printed
But he such wofullwoeful gift doth much reprove:
With rule
But he such wofullwoeful gift doth much reprove:
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 19 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.