Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #1962 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

comfortlessecomfortless

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

Puritas changed it: 691 times in 361 works
Consistency: 99.1% (691 of 697)
Reach if approved: ~732 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: comfortless
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 697 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (691 changes in 361 works, 99.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 691)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… not reliued, yea nothyng is done in those Parishes by the Pastours, whereby the comfortlessecomfortless may be comforted. No maruell when the Papistes themselues, haue not wherwith to relieue …
With rule
… not reliued, yea nothyng is done in those Parishes by the Pastours, whereby the comfortlessecomfortless may be comforted. No maruell when the Papistes themselues, haue not wherwith to relieue …
Thomas Becon · The Acts of Christ and Antichrist · Open in the reader
Printed
… for God much mightier then thou, is the defendor of the needy & of the comfortleſſecomfortless. And will ſpoile their ſoule who ſpoile them. And will take away their life …
With rule
… for God much mightier then thou, is the defendor of the needy & of the comfortleſſecomfortless. And will ſpoile their ſoule who ſpoile them. And will take away their life …
Peter Moffett · Commentary Upon Proverbs · p. 194 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and ſimpathizing affection towards their Brethren, they freely diſtribute to the ſeverall neceſſities of comfortleſſecomfortless Chriſtians. Secondly, It is one thing for mans law to make proviſion (as alſo …
With rule
… and ſimpathizing affection towards their Brethren, they freely diſtribute to the ſeverall neceſſities of comfortleſſecomfortless Chriſtians. Secondly, It is one thing for mans law to make proviſion (as alſo …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 36 · Open in the reader
Printed
… remembrance, the consideration of which is most terrible. Vndoubtedlie, this religion must needes be comfortlessecomfortless. Alas poore men as we are, we are no better then passengers in this …
With rule
… remembrance, the consideration of which is most terrible. Vndoubtedlie, this religion must needes be comfortlessecomfortless. Alas poore men as we are, we are no better then passengers in this …
William Perkins · Whether Man Be in the Estate of Damnation or Grace · p. 204 · Open in the reader
Printed
Perindus, the very name of comfort, is most comfortlessecomfortless
With rule
Perindus, the very name of comfort, is most comfortlessecomfortless
Phineas Fletcher · Sicelides a Piscatory · Open in the reader
Printed
But beholde when at the strange conference of his comfortlessecomfortless friendes, his minde beganne to be agast, which was not so in all his …
With rule
But beholde when at the strange conference of his comfortlessecomfortless friendes, his minde beganne to be agast, which was not so in all his …
Richard Greenham · Two Treatises Comforting an Afflicted Conscience · p. 6 · Open in the reader
Printed
… left in a miſerable plight, and the kingdome without a king, the huſbande left comfortleſſecomfortless, forſaken of his wife for ſo long a time. And this we may ſee …
With rule
… left in a miſerable plight, and the kingdome without a king, the huſbande left comfortleſſecomfortless, forſaken of his wife for ſo long a time. And this we may ſee …
Thomas Holland · Sermon 17 November 1599 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſure pledge of Gods fauor towardes vs, without this comforte we had bene altogither comfortleſſecomfortless, but nowe is our ioy full and plenteous. This is that ioyfull tydings ſent …
With rule
… ſure pledge of Gods fauor towardes vs, without this comforte we had bene altogither comfortleſſecomfortless, but nowe is our ioy full and plenteous. This is that ioyfull tydings ſent …
Andrew Kingsmill · A View of Mans Estate · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (6)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 4 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary Upon Philemon A22481

Printed
… vſe all meanes (wherewith the Lorde ſhall enable vs) to comfort ſuch as are ComfortleſſeComfortless, by the Comfort where-with wee our ſelues are comforted of God. There is …
With rule
… vſe all meanes (wherewith the Lorde ſhall enable vs) to comfort ſuch as are ComfortleſſeComfortless, by the Comfort where-with wee our ſelues are comforted of God. There is …
William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 481 · Open in the reader

Expositions Upon Matthew 1-10 A76798

Printed
… know that I have comfottable anſwers from God in prayer, when I have them? ComfortleſſeComfortless is the aſſurance of hope ariſing from humane conjecture allowed by Papiſts, and differs …
With rule
… know that I have comfottable anſwers from God in prayer, when I have them? ComfortleſſeComfortless is the aſſurance of hope ariſing from humane conjecture allowed by Papiſts, and differs …
Christopher Blackwood · Expositions Upon Matthew 1-10 · p. 420 · Open in the reader