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Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #2854 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

loosenesselooseness

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

Puritas changed it
542 times in 299 works
Consistency
100% (542 of 542)
Reach if approved
~569 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: looseness
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
542 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (542 changes in 299 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 542)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … and grace in man come from God. Hence our common people take occasion of loosenesselooseness of life: for tell them that they must repent and beleeue, if they will …
    With rule
    … and grace in man come from God. Hence our common people take occasion of loosenesselooseness of life: for tell them that they must repent and beleeue, if they will …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount · p. 134 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … and accuſe you of your vanities, and lay before you, the daies of your looſeneſſelooseness, deſpaire not. Haue you ſpent thirtie yeeres in vanitie? nay, haue you ſpent fortie …
    With rule
    … and accuſe you of your vanities, and lay before you, the daies of your looſeneſſelooseness, deſpaire not. Haue you ſpent thirtie yeeres in vanitie? nay, haue you ſpent fortie …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 184 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … brought forth much ignorance, prophanneſſe, vncharitableneſſe, contempt of holineſſe, neglect of Gods ord…ces, looſeneſſelooseness, and licentiouſneſſe; I grieue to thinke on theſe things, and I can haue no …
    With rule
    … brought forth much ignorance, prophanneſſe, vncharitableneſſe, contempt of holineſſe, neglect of Gods ord…ces, looſeneſſelooseness, and licentiouſneſſe; I grieue to thinke on theſe things, and I can haue no …

    John Randall · Twenty-Nine Lectures · p. 232 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … be loued of him, by howe muche wee resembled him neerest in leawdnesse and loosenesselooseness of life. But there lurketh an other snake in the greene grasse, which bicause …
    With rule
    … be loued of him, by howe muche wee resembled him neerest in leawdnesse and loosenesselooseness of life. But there lurketh an other snake in the greene grasse, which bicause …

    John Foxe · The Pope Confuted · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Chriſt againe to make more of him, and to take heed that by our looſeneſſelooseness and negligence he withdraw not the comfort of his preſence.
    With rule
    … Chriſt againe to make more of him, and to take heed that by our looſeneſſelooseness and negligence he withdraw not the comfort of his preſence.

    Henry Finch · Exposition of the Song of Solomon · p. 120 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … my a…ominations come in like troups, and all the old train band of looſeneſſelooseness and vanity they are come in againſt me, and all the ſins that I …
    With rule
    … my a…ominations come in like troups, and all the old train band of looſeneſſelooseness and vanity they are come in againſt me, and all the ſins that I …

    Thomas Hooker · The Souls Implantation into the Natural Olive · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in the vertue of Chaſtity, that thou wilt euery way indeuour to haue the looſeneſſelooseness of the fleſh bridled, and curbed whatſoeuer it coſteth thee? Such beautie in the …
    With rule
    … in the vertue of Chaſtity, that thou wilt euery way indeuour to haue the looſeneſſelooseness of the fleſh bridled, and curbed whatſoeuer it coſteth thee? Such beautie in the …

    Thomas Barnes · The Gales of Grace · p. 155 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … he found, as he confessed, such blasphemy of God, contempt of Christs true religion, loosenesselooseness of life, and abomination and filthinesse, that he abhorred to tarrie there any longer …
    With rule
    … he found, as he confessed, such blasphemy of God, contempt of Christs true religion, loosenesselooseness of life, and abomination and filthinesse, that he abhorred to tarrie there any longer …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 204 · 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.