Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #21391 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

blacknesseblackness

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

Puritas changed it: 650 times in 321 works
Consistency: 100% (650 of 650)
Reach if approved: ~683 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: blackness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 650 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (650 changes in 321 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 650)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… black too: but then his spirit in them (together with the …ight of their blacknesseblackness) seeth their beauty too. I am blacke but comely, &c. Be not discouraged therefore …
With rule
… black too: but then his spirit in them (together with the …ight of their blacknesseblackness) seeth their beauty too. I am blacke but comely, &c. Be not discouraged therefore …
Richard Sibbes · Bowels Opened · p. 324 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not by the colour of the stones, nor the changing of colour by brightnesse, blacknesseblackness, or bloodinesse of them (as some Jews) but the Lord answered by voyce. Numb …
With rule
… not by the colour of the stones, nor the changing of colour by brightnesse, blacknesseblackness, or bloodinesse of them (as some Jews) but the Lord answered by voyce. Numb …
Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 120 · Open in the reader
Printed
… our Lord and Saviour, who is altogether lovelie, Cant. 5.16. All other beauty is but blackneſſeblackness to this, which is the true beauty of every gracious woman fearing God, and …
With rule
… our Lord and Saviour, who is altogether lovelie, Cant. 5.16. All other beauty is but blackneſſeblackness to this, which is the true beauty of every gracious woman fearing God, and …
Stephen Geree · The Ornament of Women · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… vnprofitable seruant into vtter Darknesse. Mat. 25. 30. And Iud▪ Ver. 13. To them is reserued the blacknesseblackness of darknesse for euer
With rule
… vnprofitable seruant into vtter Darknesse. Mat. 25. 30. And Iud▪ Ver. 13. To them is reserued the blacknesseblackness of darknesse for euer
Thomas Adams · The Sacrifice of Thankfulness · p. 13 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſtoop, his heart to ake and ſhake within him, and his countenance to gather blackneſſeblackness. But at the great day, it will make every ſinner in Belſhazzars caſe, & worſe …
With rule
… ſtoop, his heart to ake and ſhake within him, and his countenance to gather blackneſſeblackness. But at the great day, it will make every ſinner in Belſhazzars caſe, & worſe …
Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… not be refuſed; a patrimonie of howling, weeping, and gnaſhing; a patrimonie of darkneſſe, blackneſſeblackness, and obſcuritie; a patrimonie of fire, brimſtone, and the wrath of God. There ſhall …
With rule
… not be refuſed; a patrimonie of howling, weeping, and gnaſhing; a patrimonie of darkneſſe, blackneſſeblackness, and obſcuritie; a patrimonie of fire, brimſtone, and the wrath of God. There ſhall …
Sebastian Benefield · The Sin Against the Holy Ghost · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Lord Iesus, when all impenitent Play-poets, Players, and Play-haunters faces shall gather blacknesseblackness, their hearts faint, their spirits languish, their joynts tremble, their knees smite one against …
With rule
… Lord Iesus, when all impenitent Play-poets, Players, and Play-haunters faces shall gather blacknesseblackness, their hearts faint, their spirits languish, their joynts tremble, their knees smite one against …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · p. 974 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſoules; Hypocrites that hes nothing in themſelues but blackneſſeblackness (an hypocrite hes nothing but blackneſſeblackness, and yet he will be in the Church, and as farre in as any …
With rule
… ſoules; Hypocrites that hes nothing in themſelues but blackneſſeblackness (an hypocrite hes nothing but blackneſſeblackness, and yet he will be in the Church, and as farre in as any …
Robert Rollock · Lectures Upon the Epistles to the Thessalonians · p. 246 · 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.