Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1316 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

darknessedarkness

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

Puritas changed it: 17,190 times in 2,205 works
Consistency: 99.9% (17,190 of 17,195)
Reach if approved: ~18,073 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: darkness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 17,201 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (17,190 changes in 2,205 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 17,190)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… that they became vaine in their disputations, and their ignorant heart was full of darknessedarkness, and they became starke fooles. Also that the worlde by wisedome, knewe not the …
With rule
… that they became vaine in their disputations, and their ignorant heart was full of darknessedarkness, and they became starke fooles. Also that the worlde by wisedome, knewe not the …
William Fulke · Sermon Preached 12 March 1581 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and what your heartes could wish; you shall haue a time of Sorrow and DarknesseDarkness: Your Noone shall be turned to Midnight. Tender and delicate Babilon, that boasted her …
With rule
… and what your heartes could wish; you shall haue a time of Sorrow and DarknesseDarkness: Your Noone shall be turned to Midnight. Tender and delicate Babilon, that boasted her …
Thomas Adams · The Gallants Burden · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… man, which is created in righteouſneſſe and true holineſſe: & as they haue walked in darkneſſedarkness, ſo now they walke in the light. There is one ſtep yet further in …
With rule
… man, which is created in righteouſneſſe and true holineſſe: & as they haue walked in darkneſſedarkness, ſo now they walke in the light. There is one ſtep yet further in …
George Gifford · A Godly Zealous and Profitable Sermon Upon James 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſame Godhead, bicauſe that all things beſideſfoorth had ſome imperfection, bewraying their originall the darkneſſedarkness, as Iohn calleth it, the Tohu and Bohu, as Moyſes dothe it name. The …
With rule
… ſame Godhead, bicauſe that all things beſideſfoorth had ſome imperfection, bewraying their originall the darkneſſedarkness, as Iohn calleth it, the Tohu and Bohu, as Moyſes dothe it name. The …
Anthony Gilby · Of Election and Reprobation · Open in the reader
Printed
… hath made neceſſarie, they will teach God to make good: this is to picke darkneſſedarkness out of the Sunne. No. Verificatur in ſenſu ſuo. like a good creature, it …
With rule
… hath made neceſſarie, they will teach God to make good: this is to picke darkneſſedarkness out of the Sunne. No. Verificatur in ſenſu ſuo. like a good creature, it …
Thomas Adams · The Barren Tree · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
Epheſ. 5. 11. Haue no fellowſhip with the vnfruitfull works of darkneſſedarkness, but rather reproue them.
With rule
Epheſ. 5. 11. Haue no fellowſhip with the vnfruitfull works of darkneſſedarkness, but rather reproue them.
Dudley Fenner · Treatise of Lawful and Unlawful Recreations · Open in the reader
Printed
… God through ignorance Ephe. 4. 18 For how should Christ, who is light, haue fellowship with darknessedarkness, and not expell it? And obedience doth infallibly attend this saving faith; called therefore …
With rule
… God through ignorance Ephe. 4. 18 For how should Christ, who is light, haue fellowship with darknessedarkness, and not expell it? And obedience doth infallibly attend this saving faith; called therefore …
Phineas Fletcher · The Way to Blessedness · p. 193 · Open in the reader
Printed
… suttleties, crabbed and fruitlesse quillities: it beheld likewise what, and how monstrous fogges of darknessedarkness, and pestiferous errours, violently whirled by blinde fury, cloked with counterfaite hypocrisie, fortified with …
With rule
… suttleties, crabbed and fruitlesse quillities: it beheld likewise what, and how monstrous fogges of darknessedarkness, and pestiferous errours, violently whirled by blinde fury, cloked with counterfaite hypocrisie, fortified with …
John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (5)

5 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.

A Child of Light Walking in Darkness A01898

Printed
A CHILDE OF LIGHT WALKING IN DARKNESSEDARKNESS: OR A TREATISE Shewing
With rule
A CHILDE OF LIGHT WALKING IN DARKNESSEDARKNESS: OR A TREATISE Shewing
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · Open in the reader
Printed
A CHILDE OF LIGHT WALKING in DARKNESSEDARKNESS.
With rule
A CHILDE OF LIGHT WALKING in DARKNESSEDARKNESS.
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 1 · Open in the reader
Printed
A CHILDE OF DARKNESSEDARKNESS VVALKING IN LIGHT.
With rule
A CHILDE OF DARKNESSEDARKNESS VVALKING IN LIGHT.
Thomas Goodwin · A Child of Light Walking in Darkness · p. 86 · Open in the reader

Speech 4 December 1648 A56213

Printed
… I have in my ROME'S MASTER-PIECE, The ROYALL POPISH FAVOVRITE, HIDDEN WORKS OF DARKNESSEDARKNESS BROVGHT TO PVBLICK LIGHT, The ANTIPATHY OF ENGLISH PRELACY TO VNITY and MONARCHY, and …
With rule
… I have in my ROME'S MASTER-PIECE, The ROYALL POPISH FAVOVRITE, HIDDEN WORKS OF DARKNESSEDARKNESS BROVGHT TO PVBLICK LIGHT, The ANTIPATHY OF ENGLISH PRELACY TO VNITY and MONARCHY, and …
William Prynne · Speech 4 December 1648 · p. 307 · Open in the reader

A Scripture-Map of the Wilderness of Sin A95609

Printed
… And thus have I done with the Third meanes of our ſpirituall bewildrings, viz. DARKNESSEDARKNESS. There remaines the
With rule
… And thus have I done with the Third meanes of our ſpirituall bewildrings, viz. DARKNESSEDARKNESS. There remaines the
Faithful Teate · A Scripture-Map of the Wilderness of Sin · p. 212 · Open in the reader