Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11319 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

darkenesdarkness

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

Puritas changed it: 1,433 times in 452 works
Consistency: 99.9% (1,433 of 1,434)
Reach if approved: ~1,507 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: darkness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,434 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,433 changes in 452 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,433)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… darknes: and was neither vaine or fruitleſſe, neither implieth vvill or povver in the darkenesdarkness and deep themſelues here…. Which is the more to be regarded, becauſe the Apoſtle …
With rule
… darknes: and was neither vaine or fruitleſſe, neither implieth vvill or povver in the darkenesdarkness and deep themſelues here…. Which is the more to be regarded, becauſe the Apoſtle …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 237 · Open in the reader
Printed
… most pure times thereof, their owne schooles also (in the height of palpable prevailing darkenesdarkness) have given vs, yet, this to answer them, quod ad actum moraliter bonum non …
With rule
… most pure times thereof, their owne schooles also (in the height of palpable prevailing darkenesdarkness) have given vs, yet, this to answer them, quod ad actum moraliter bonum non …
Patrick Forbes · Defense of the Lawful Calling of Ministers of Reformed Churches · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of mine, and two of his owne, he thinketh himselfe so well armed with darkenesdarkness and confusion, that if he cannot haue a conquest, yet he may be sure …
With rule
… of mine, and two of his owne, he thinketh himselfe so well armed with darkenesdarkness and confusion, that if he cannot haue a conquest, yet he may be sure …
William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · Open in the reader
Printed
… our vncleannes is to be cleanſed away by the pure word. Ignorance, hereſie, errors, darkenesdarkness, and vnbeléefe, are expelled by it.
With rule
… our vncleannes is to be cleanſed away by the pure word. Ignorance, hereſie, errors, darkenesdarkness, and vnbeléefe, are expelled by it.
George Gifford · Eight Sermons on Ecclesiastes · p. 127 · Open in the reader
Printed
… after thine owne image in the beginning, for our eſtectuall vocation out of the darkenesdarkness of this world into thy glorious light and kingdome by the outward preaching of …
With rule
… after thine owne image in the beginning, for our eſtectuall vocation out of the darkenesdarkness of this world into thy glorious light and kingdome by the outward preaching of …
Thomas Granger · The Blind Mans Sermon · Open in the reader
Printed
… loue of the Father offered in him, willingly and wilfully giuing ouer themselues to darkenesdarkness, to the Prince of darknes, and to the condemnation of, and with, the Prince …
With rule
… loue of the Father offered in him, willingly and wilfully giuing ouer themselues to darkenesdarkness, to the Prince of darknes, and to the condemnation of, and with, the Prince …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 239 · Open in the reader
Printed
… oft tymes. Alleluia. So much dyffreth the one from the other, the children of darkenesdarkness frō the children of light, they y^t séeke their owne glory from them that …
With rule
… oft tymes. Alleluia. So much dyffreth the one from the other, the children of darkenesdarkness frō the children of light, they y^t séeke their owne glory from them that …
John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · Open in the reader
Printed
… wee say we have fellowship with him (saith the Apostle, 1 Iohn 1.6.) and walke in darkenesdarkness, we lye, and do not the truth.
With rule
… wee say we have fellowship with him (saith the Apostle, 1 Iohn 1.6.) and walke in darkenesdarkness, we lye, and do not the truth.
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 329 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.