Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2671 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

emptinesseemptiness

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

Puritas changed it: 991 times in 442 works
Consistency: 100% (991 of 991)
Reach if approved: ~1,041 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: emptiness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 991 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (991 changes in 442 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 991)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… and to know the love of CHRIST which passeth knowledge. Secondly, there is an emptinesseemptiness of conversation, voide and empty of the duties which are performed in a good …
With rule
… and to know the love of CHRIST which passeth knowledge. Secondly, there is an emptinesseemptiness of conversation, voide and empty of the duties which are performed in a good …
John Preston · The Saints Submission and Satans Overthrow · p. 168 · Open in the reader
Printed
… together, and causeth great paine: So in the spirituall thirst there is a great emptinesseemptiness of all health, hope, and happinesse in himselfe, and so a great paine of …
With rule
… together, and causeth great paine: So in the spirituall thirst there is a great emptinesseemptiness of all health, hope, and happinesse in himselfe, and so a great paine of …
John Rogers · The Doctrine of Faith · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… them Corne, and wine, and Oile, and they shall bee satisfied therewith. A short emptinesseemptiness, shall bring a long fulnesse; and therefore fast that yee may bee full, for …
With rule
… them Corne, and wine, and Oile, and they shall bee satisfied therewith. A short emptinesseemptiness, shall bring a long fulnesse; and therefore fast that yee may bee full, for …
Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 236 · Open in the reader
Printed
… blown opinion of ones selfe: which opinion is either from ignorance of his owne emptinesseemptiness; and so like a Tumbrell full of nothing but aire, makes a greater sound …
With rule
… blown opinion of ones selfe: which opinion is either from ignorance of his owne emptinesseemptiness; and so like a Tumbrell full of nothing but aire, makes a greater sound …
Thomas Adams · Diseases of the Soul · p. 31 · Open in the reader
Printed
… In which place we are to gather that there is in vs sometime an emptinesseemptiness of the Spirit, and a scantnesse of the power of the holy ghost; the …
With rule
… In which place we are to gather that there is in vs sometime an emptinesseemptiness of the Spirit, and a scantnesse of the power of the holy ghost; the …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 328 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and charge, all that cometh that man getteth and enjoyeth heere is vanity, and emptinesseemptiness, no sound comfort or contentment of heart is to be found in it.
With rule
… and charge, all that cometh that man getteth and enjoyeth heere is vanity, and emptinesseemptiness, no sound comfort or contentment of heart is to be found in it.
Arthur Hildersham · The Doctrine of Fasting and Prayer · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… attends the godly; Chriſt comes in the creature to them, and ſo cures the emptineſſeemptiness of it, and puts ſuch a ſupernaturall vertue and ſweetneſſe in it, that they …
With rule
… attends the godly; Chriſt comes in the creature to them, and ſo cures the emptineſſeemptiness of it, and puts ſuch a ſupernaturall vertue and ſweetneſſe in it, that they …
Nicholas Lockyer · Christs Communion with his Church Militant · p. 25 · Open in the reader
Printed
… comfort you, all is vanity and nothing worth, and this vanity is nothing but emptinesseemptiness. And this serves to correct the thoughts of men, who thinke that if they …
With rule
… comfort you, all is vanity and nothing worth, and this vanity is nothing but emptinesseemptiness. And this serves to correct the thoughts of men, who thinke that if they …
John Preston · Four Godly and Learned Treatises · p. 10 · 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.