Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1466 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

idlenesseidleness

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

Puritas changed it: 2,780 times in 881 works
Consistency: 99.9% (2,780 of 2,781)
Reach if approved: ~2,922 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: idleness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 2,781 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (2,780 changes in 881 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 2,780)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… vs, but let euermore our conuerſations be holy and heauenly: keepe vs alſo from idleneſſeidleness, grant wee may bee alwaies ſound exerciſed in the duties of our calling, either …
With rule
… vs, but let euermore our conuerſations be holy and heauenly: keepe vs alſo from idleneſſeidleness, grant wee may bee alwaies ſound exerciſed in the duties of our calling, either …
Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
Sings the diuine Poet. IdlenesseIdleness doth neither get, nor saue, but loose. If execise be good, those are best …
With rule
Sings the diuine Poet. IdlenesseIdleness doth neither get, nor saue, but loose. If execise be good, those are best …
Thomas Adams · The Soldiers Honor · p. 18 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a little to breathe from the fear of bloudy perſecution, they fell into diſſolute idleneſſeidleness, and began to nouriſh debate, ſtrife, hatred, emulation, pride, &c. to heap ſinne upon …
With rule
… a little to breathe from the fear of bloudy perſecution, they fell into diſſolute idleneſſeidleness, and began to nouriſh debate, ſtrife, hatred, emulation, pride, &c. to heap ſinne upon …
John Ball · A Friendly Trial of the Grounds Tending to Separation · p. 211 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that we may eat, and to be painfull in our callings? Would not ſuch idleneſſeidleness be Sathans illuſion? Yes ſurely; for no precept rightly vnderſtood, contradicts another. God that …
With rule
… that we may eat, and to be painfull in our callings? Would not ſuch idleneſſeidleness be Sathans illuſion? Yes ſurely; for no precept rightly vnderſtood, contradicts another. God that …
Samuel Balmford · The Right Way to Go to Work · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Beares and Lyons, (as the superstitious doth bugges) in the way; as apologies of idlenesseidleness, that he may sit still and be at ease. The slothfull person is the …
With rule
… Beares and Lyons, (as the superstitious doth bugges) in the way; as apologies of idlenesseidleness, that he may sit still and be at ease. The slothfull person is the …
Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is, Vita pulueris, non puluinaris. Landes, Meanes, and Moneyes, men make the protections of IdlenesseIdleness: whereas Adam commaunded the whole earth, yet worke expected him. In Paradise all things …
With rule
… is, Vita pulueris, non puluinaris. Landes, Meanes, and Moneyes, men make the protections of IdlenesseIdleness: whereas Adam commaunded the whole earth, yet worke expected him. In Paradise all things …
Thomas Adams · Five Sermons Preached Upon Special Occasions · p. 29 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our endleſſe paines, wee endure the inconveniences of theſe ill and diſſolute times, the idleneſſeidleness and dulneſſe of many untoward and grace-leſſe children, the folly of ſome more …
With rule
… our endleſſe paines, wee endure the inconveniences of theſe ill and diſſolute times, the idleneſſeidleness and dulneſſe of many untoward and grace-leſſe children, the folly of ſome more …
Alexander Gill · The Sacred Philosophy of the Holy Scripture · p. 82 · Open in the reader
Printed
… rule, men of wealth, and of what preheminence ſoeuer, whereby vanity is alſo increaſed. IdleneſſeIdleness bringeth the ſluggard to miſery; couetouſneſſe bringeth the niggard to miſery; and wilfulneſſe bringeth …
With rule
… rule, men of wealth, and of what preheminence ſoeuer, whereby vanity is alſo increaſed. IdleneſſeIdleness bringeth the ſluggard to miſery; couetouſneſſe bringeth the niggard to miſery; and wilfulneſſe bringeth …
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 105 · 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.

Commentary on the Minor Prophets A63068

Printed
… world buried in ſecurity: with ſodom, who had fulneſſe of bread, and abundance of idleneſſEidleness: with the land of Shinar (where Babel was built, Gen. 11.) fruitfull beyond credulity, as …
With rule
… world buried in ſecurity: with ſodom, who had fulneſſe of bread, and abundance of idleneſſEidleness: with the land of Shinar (where Babel was built, Gen. 11.) fruitfull beyond credulity, as …
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · p. 133 · Open in the reader