Waiting for reviewOther spellingsCandidate #11568 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

wofullywoefully

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

Puritas changed it: 747 times in 429 works
Consistency: 99.6% (747 of 750)
Reach if approved: ~788 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: woefully
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 750 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (747 changes in 429 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 747)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… them, and vnthankfull and rebellions euerie way, as many may ſee it openly and wofullywoefully, let call themſelues backe, and ſee what kinde of children they were before, how …
With rule
… them, and vnthankfull and rebellions euerie way, as many may ſee it openly and wofullywoefully, let call themſelues backe, and ſee what kinde of children they were before, how …
John Dod · A Bright Star which Leadeth Wise Men to our Lord Jesus Christ · Open in the reader
Printed
… an imperious obstinacy passes for nobleness and greatness of mind. But alas they are wofullywoefully mistaken in their notion of a great spirit, which consists in scorning to do …
With rule
… an imperious obstinacy passes for nobleness and greatness of mind. But alas they are wofullywoefully mistaken in their notion of a great spirit, which consists in scorning to do …
Richard Allestree · The Ladys Calling · p. 40 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Mercy restoring to perfect health, and easing of greevous paine a man that was wofullywoefully bedrid; and theirs an action of bloud procuring torment: (For where in all the …
With rule
… Mercy restoring to perfect health, and easing of greevous paine a man that was wofullywoefully bedrid; and theirs an action of bloud procuring torment: (For where in all the …
George Abbot · The Sabbath Vindicated · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… were not at this inſtant grievouſly aſtoniſhed. Neither could he be ſo aſtoniſhed and wofullywoefully diſtreſſed in his Soule, without that intolerable and infinit waight of ſorrowes before ſpoken …
With rule
… were not at this inſtant grievouſly aſtoniſhed. Neither could he be ſo aſtoniſhed and wofullywoefully diſtreſſed in his Soule, without that intolerable and infinit waight of ſorrowes before ſpoken …
Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… life of a man. We haue read of many, who partly haue been moſt wofullywoefully handled of the ſtrumpets themſelues, whom they haue truſted with life and goods, and …
With rule
… life of a man. We haue read of many, who partly haue been moſt wofullywoefully handled of the ſtrumpets themſelues, whom they haue truſted with life and goods, and …
Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 742 · Open in the reader
Printed
… dogs: Is not this plainlie to agree with Zacharie? that they weepe and lament wofullywoefully one by one euen as dogs vſe to doe. And after, their zeale followes …
With rule
… dogs: Is not this plainlie to agree with Zacharie? that they weepe and lament wofullywoefully one by one euen as dogs vſe to doe. And after, their zeale followes …
Francis Trigge · The True Catholic · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
… obserue the first and secret motions of the heart, lest he should vnawares be wofullywoefully caught, and ensnared in that blacke and accursed chaine: the first lincke of which …
With rule
… obserue the first and secret motions of the heart, lest he should vnawares be wofullywoefully caught, and ensnared in that blacke and accursed chaine: the first lincke of which …
Robert Bolton · The State of True Happiness · p. 149 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but fight faintly, and yeeld most cowardly, and perish most miserablie. Which daily and wofullywoefully appeareth by that fearefull staggering and yeelding of so many, when any scoffing Papist …
With rule
… but fight faintly, and yeeld most cowardly, and perish most miserablie. Which daily and wofullywoefully appeareth by that fearefull staggering and yeelding of so many, when any scoffing Papist …
William Burton · The Rousing of the Sluggard · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

A Complete Body of Divinity N02384

Printed
… given for it; and which it is more than pro…, that they had been WofullyWoefully Defective … during their abode in Egypt.
With rule
… given for it; and which it is more than pro…, that they had been WofullyWoefully Defective … during their abode in Egypt.
Samuel Willard · A Complete Body of Divinity · p. 659 · Open in the reader