Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2073 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

rottennesserottenness

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

Puritas changed it: 867 times in 462 works
Consistency: 100% (867 of 867)
Reach if approved: ~911 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: rottenness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 867 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (867 changes in 462 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 867)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the tokens of vertue, and godlinesse haue endeuored to eternize, and keepe from the rottennesserottenness of corrupted baserie, and obscure obliuion. And albeit the purport of this whole proiect …
With rule
… the tokens of vertue, and godlinesse haue endeuored to eternize, and keepe from the rottennesserottenness of corrupted baserie, and obscure obliuion. And albeit the purport of this whole proiect …
William Loe · Come and See the Bliss of Brightest Beauty · Open in the reader
Printed
… and as the chaffe is conſumed of the flame: ſo their roote ſhall bee rottenneſſerottenness, and the budde ſhall riſe vp like duſt, becauſe they haue caſt off the …
With rule
… and as the chaffe is conſumed of the flame: ſo their roote ſhall bee rottenneſſerottenness, and the budde ſhall riſe vp like duſt, becauſe they haue caſt off the …
Josias Nichols · Abrahams Faith · p. 289 · Open in the reader
Printed
… his fiftie. And Habbaccuk saith, When I hearde the voice, namely of Gods iudgements, rottennesserottenness entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe that I might be …
With rule
… his fiftie. And Habbaccuk saith, When I hearde the voice, namely of Gods iudgements, rottennesserottenness entred into my bones, and I trembled in my selfe that I might be …
William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 283 · Open in the reader
Printed
12. Therefore was I as a moth vnto Ephraim: and as rottenneſſerottenness to the houſe of Iuda.
With rule
12. Therefore was I as a moth vnto Ephraim: and as rottenneſſerottenness to the houſe of Iuda.
Henry Finch · The Calling of the Jews · p. 201 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a wife, that shall be as a corrosiue to his heart, as corruption and rottennesserottenness in his bones?
With rule
… a wife, that shall be as a corrosiue to his heart, as corruption and rottennesserottenness in his bones?
Thomas Gataker · Two Marriage Sermons · p. 17 · Open in the reader
Printed
… he poſſeſſeth, there is vanity and vexation of ſpirit. There is no ſoundneſſe but rottenneſſerottenness. Miſery may be mitigated, but it can neuer be cured.
With rule
… he poſſeſſeth, there is vanity and vexation of ſpirit. There is no ſoundneſſe but rottenneſſerottenness. Miſery may be mitigated, but it can neuer be cured.
Thomas Granger · Commentary on Ecclesiastes · p. 144 · Open in the reader
Printed
… to ripenesse, as shall appeare by these that followe, and so from ripenesse to rottennesserottenness, which is to be hoped for in that already he is wexed so mellowe …
With rule
… to ripenesse, as shall appeare by these that followe, and so from ripenesse to rottennesserottenness, which is to be hoped for in that already he is wexed so mellowe …
John Bale · The Pageant of Popes · p. 37 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and company of his queane; many a man is sicke of envy, it is rottennesserottenness to his bones; yea many a man goeth up and downe sicke of it …
With rule
… and company of his queane; many a man is sicke of envy, it is rottennesserottenness to his bones; yea many a man goeth up and downe sicke of it …
Thomas Hooker · The Souls Preparation for Christ · p. 191 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.