Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2373 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

hopelessehopeless

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

Puritas changed it: 642 times in 369 works
Consistency: 97.8% (642 of 656)
Reach if approved: ~689 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: hopeless
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 656 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (642 changes in 369 works, 97.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 642)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… good Chriſtian, euery true Nathaniel, and Iſraelite indeed. The reſt are all either firſt, hopeleſſehopeless, or ſecondly, ouerhoping. That, becauſe aliens from the couenants of promiſe. 2 This, for that …
With rule
… good Chriſtian, euery true Nathaniel, and Iſraelite indeed. The reſt are all either firſt, hopeleſſehopeless, or ſecondly, ouerhoping. That, becauſe aliens from the couenants of promiſe. 2 This, for that …
William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 210 · Open in the reader
Printed
… third degree of a troubled conſcience is, when it is for the preſent altogether hopeleſſehopeless; ſuch a conſcience as is ſwallowed up in deſpair: when men thinking of their …
With rule
… third degree of a troubled conſcience is, when it is for the preſent altogether hopeleſſehopeless; ſuch a conſcience as is ſwallowed up in deſpair: when men thinking of their …
William Fenner · The Souls Looking Glass 2 · Open in the reader
Printed
… have no hope of the Reſurrection: and how doth it traduce hopefull Chriſtians as hopeleſſehopeless men, when we bewaile as utterly loſt and extinct, thoſe whom we profeſſe to …
With rule
… have no hope of the Reſurrection: and how doth it traduce hopefull Chriſtians as hopeleſſehopeless men, when we bewaile as utterly loſt and extinct, thoſe whom we profeſſe to …
William Gilbert · The Art of Building Comfort · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
Againe: The Lords of this World haue true aſperitie, falſe iucunditie, certaine miſerie, and hopeleſſehopeless felicitie.
With rule
Againe: The Lords of this World haue true aſperitie, falſe iucunditie, certaine miſerie, and hopeleſſehopeless felicitie.
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 214 · Open in the reader
Printed
… debarred vs of this hope (otherwiſe in and of our ſelues both helpeleſſe and hopeleſſehopeless) but hath giuen vs both his Sonne with his Righteouſneſſe, to be a couering …
With rule
… debarred vs of this hope (otherwiſe in and of our ſelues both helpeleſſe and hopeleſſehopeless) but hath giuen vs both his Sonne with his Righteouſneſſe, to be a couering …
Robert Jenison · The Christians Apparelling · Open in the reader
Printed
… ful of frightings, fearefull terrours endleſſe. They bee in themſelues helpeleſſe, of Gods mercy hopeleſſehopeless. Oh the clamorous outcrying, the yelps and yelling, the ſighs and ſobbing, the mad …
With rule
… ful of frightings, fearefull terrours endleſſe. They bee in themſelues helpeleſſe, of Gods mercy hopeleſſehopeless. Oh the clamorous outcrying, the yelps and yelling, the ſighs and ſobbing, the mad …
Richard Bernard · Contemplative Pictures with Wholesome Precepts Part 1 · p. 107 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and the eternity of these punishments; where the fire is vnquenchable; the torments insupportable, hopelessehopeless, helplesse, easelesse, and endlesse! For our fire may be endured; that intolerable; ours for …
With rule
… and the eternity of these punishments; where the fire is vnquenchable; the torments insupportable, hopelessehopeless, helplesse, easelesse, and endlesse! For our fire may be endured; that intolerable; ours for …
William Perkins · Deaths Knell · Open in the reader
Printed
… the due ſeaſon: For know it for a truth, all duties done vnſeaſonably are hopeleſſehopeless, fruitleſſe.
With rule
… the due ſeaſon: For know it for a truth, all duties done vnſeaſonably are hopeleſſehopeless, fruitleſſe.
Nehemiah Rogers · A Strange Vineyard in Palestine · p. 154 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

6 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Purple Island A00977

Printed
HopelesseHopeless his life; for hopelessehopeless is his love.
With rule
HopelesseHopeless his life; for hopelessehopeless is his love.
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 19 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Jude A09434

Printed
3 HopelesseHopeless of fruite: tvvice dead, that is, certainly.
With rule
3 HopelesseHopeless of fruite: tvvice dead, that is, certainly.
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
4. HopelesseHopeless of life it selfe: Plucked vp by the ….
With rule
4. HopelesseHopeless of life it selfe: Plucked vp by the ….
William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · Open in the reader

Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete A15639

Printed
HopelesseHopeless DESPAIRE.
With rule
HopelesseHopeless DESPAIRE.
George Wither · Fair-Virtue the Mistress of Philarete · Open in the reader

The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated A17418

Printed
… to give that which you cannot hope for, only that you might provoke? What? HopeleſſeHopeless if hee cannot bee provoked, and hope enough if hee bee provoked enough? What …
With rule
… to give that which you cannot hope for, only that you might provoke? What? HopeleſſeHopeless if hee cannot bee provoked, and hope enough if hee bee provoked enough? What …
Richard Byfield · The Doctrine of the Sabbath Vindicated · p. 194 · Open in the reader

Exposition of Job 8-10 A35439

Printed
HopeleſſeHopeless, To be ſo is the worſt condition, p. 84, 88. Where hope faileth, indeavour faileth alſo, 364
With rule
HopeleſſeHopeless, To be ſo is the worſt condition, p. 84, 88. Where hope faileth, indeavour faileth alſo, 364
Joseph Caryl · Exposition of Job 8-10 · Open in the reader