Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2812 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

drowsinessedrowsiness

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

Puritas changed it: 318 times in 184 works
Consistency: 96.9% (318 of 328)
Reach if approved: ~345 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: drowsiness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 328 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (318 changes in 184 works, 96.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 318)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eares, like the deafe Adder , and voluntarily betake themſelues to a kinde of ſetled drowſineſſedrowsiness. Thus much of the reaſon, why Iohn was to be called a Prophet, where …
With rule
… eares, like the deafe Adder , and voluntarily betake themſelues to a kinde of ſetled drowſineſſedrowsiness. Thus much of the reaſon, why Iohn was to be called a Prophet, where …
Samuel Hieron · The Abridgment of the Gospel · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
3. They are by this quickened in their drowſineſſedrowsiness, cheered in their heavineſſe, called backe from their wandrings, raiſed up when they are …
With rule
3. They are by this quickened in their drowſineſſedrowsiness, cheered in their heavineſſe, called backe from their wandrings, raiſed up when they are …
Paul Baynes · Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life · p. 115 · Open in the reader
Printed
… if we will haue the word fruitfull to vs, we must shake off this drowsinessedrowsiness, be affected with ioy and gladnesse, and heare the word with greedinesse. If a …
With rule
… if we will haue the word fruitfull to vs, we must shake off this drowsinessedrowsiness, be affected with ioy and gladnesse, and heare the word with greedinesse. If a …
William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 81 · Open in the reader
Printed
… exercise: we should watch in feare of jealousie, taking heede of a spirit of drowsinessedrowsiness, labouring also to keepe our selve unspotted of the world.
With rule
… exercise: we should watch in feare of jealousie, taking heede of a spirit of drowsinessedrowsiness, labouring also to keepe our selve unspotted of the world.
Richard Sibbes · Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations · p. 258 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and bring crosses and tryalls on a man, which should shake him vp from drowsinessedrowsiness and securitie, yet hence without further ground many will presume of Gods loue: for …
With rule
… and bring crosses and tryalls on a man, which should shake him vp from drowsinessedrowsiness and securitie, yet hence without further ground many will presume of Gods loue: for …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that howsoeuer her heart waked, yet shee was asleepe. Thirdly, Christians haue still some drowsinessedrowsiness and sluggishnesse about heauenly things hanging vpon them: this exhortation then (to awake out …
With rule
… that howsoeuer her heart waked, yet shee was asleepe. Thirdly, Christians haue still some drowsinessedrowsiness and sluggishnesse about heauenly things hanging vpon them: this exhortation then (to awake out …
Thomas Wilson · Commentary on Romans · p. 1015 · Open in the reader
Printed
… subiect to sicknesse then other, in being more subiect to sinne then other. A drowsinessedrowsiness of spirit is their quartan, incontinence their tertian, pride and gluttony their quotidian ague …
With rule
… subiect to sicknesse then other, in being more subiect to sinne then other. A drowsinessedrowsiness of spirit is their quartan, incontinence their tertian, pride and gluttony their quotidian ague …
John Boys · The Autumn Part from the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity · p. 171 · Open in the reader
Printed
… take not from the poore: to sleepe out the Sermon is but a little drowsinessedrowsiness, all is wel so long as they break not the Sabbath in absence from …
With rule
… take not from the poore: to sleepe out the Sermon is but a little drowsinessedrowsiness, all is wel so long as they break not the Sabbath in absence from …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 386 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (10)

2 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.

Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 A42015

Printed
… is, poverty will come upon an idle and ſloathfull perſon ſuddenly and irreſiſtably. Prov. 23.21. DrowſineſſeDrowsiness ſhall cloath a man with ragges. By drowſineſs underſtand ſloath and when men goe …
With rule
… is, poverty will come upon an idle and ſloathfull perſon ſuddenly and irreſiſtably. Prov. 23.21. DrowſineſſeDrowsiness ſhall cloath a man with ragges. By drowſineſs underſtand ſloath and when men goe …
William Greenhill · Exposition of Ezekiel 14-19 · p. 291 · Open in the reader

Commentary on the Minor Prophets A63068

Printed
DrowſineſſeDrowsiness ſpirituall p. 476
With rule
DrowſineſſeDrowsiness ſpirituall p. 476
John Trapp · Commentary on the Minor Prophets · Open in the reader