Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31241 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pittyingpitying

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 287 times in 212 works
Consistency: 97.6% (287 of 294)
Reach if approved: ~309 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pitying
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 294 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (287 changes in 212 works, 97.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 287)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… eaſie aduerſaries in compariſon of his owne; his owne followers are ſo farre from pittyingpitying his participation of the loſſe, that they are ready to kill him, becauſe they …
With rule
… eaſie aduerſaries in compariſon of his owne; his owne followers are ſo farre from pittyingpitying his participation of the loſſe, that they are ready to kill him, becauſe they …
Joseph Hall · History of the Old Testament Volume 5 · p. 99 · Open in the reader
Printed
… from pittyingpitying of them: and as Ioſeph carried himſelfe to his brethren; inſtead of pittyingpitying them in their want, he ſpake affrightingly to them, and told them that they …
With rule
… from pittyingpitying of them: and as Ioſeph carried himſelfe to his brethren; inſtead of pittyingpitying them in their want, he ſpake affrightingly to them, and told them that they …
Nicholas Lockyer · A Divine Discovery of Sincerity · p. 170 · Open in the reader
Printed
… much as a compassionate affection. Yet may, and doth the contrary extream of over pittyingpitying others also, prevayl with some. Against both which it is good to consider, that …
With rule
… much as a compassionate affection. Yet may, and doth the contrary extream of over pittyingpitying others also, prevayl with some. Against both which it is good to consider, that …
John Robinson · Observations Divine and Moral · p. 183 · Open in the reader
Printed
… how gratious God is unto us, in uſing ſuch helps for our recovery, and pittyingpitying us more then we pitty our ſelves. Is not this a ſufficient warrant and …
With rule
… how gratious God is unto us, in uſing ſuch helps for our recovery, and pittyingpitying us more then we pitty our ſelves. Is not this a ſufficient warrant and …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in which every member is an high blasphemer, and ought to dye, no eye pittyingpitying them; 5. a Kingdome, an infinite encroacher upon Christian Kings and Kingdomes, and disturber of …
With rule
… in which every member is an high blasphemer, and ought to dye, no eye pittyingpitying them; 5. a Kingdome, an infinite encroacher upon Christian Kings and Kingdomes, and disturber of …
Thomas Taylor · Christ Revealed · p. 314 · Open in the reader
Printed
… whatsoeuer they can imagine vvill disparage my Labour; and vvith such counterfeite shewes of pittyingpitying me, and making a Religions conscience of their words, that such as know neyther …
With rule
… whatsoeuer they can imagine vvill disparage my Labour; and vvith such counterfeite shewes of pittyingpitying me, and making a Religions conscience of their words, that such as know neyther …
George Wither · The Scholars Purgatory Discovered · p. 75 · Open in the reader
Printed
… in the next words, againſt my perſon, and theire expreſſion, I paſſe it by, pittyingpitying his diſtemper. Whereas he ſayth, that, in the reproofe of theſe Complainants Mr. D …
With rule
… in the next words, againſt my perſon, and theire expreſſion, I paſſe it by, pittyingpitying his diſtemper. Whereas he ſayth, that, in the reproofe of theſe Complainants Mr. D …
John Davenport · Reply to a Book · p. 54 · Open in the reader
Printed
… thanks with thine inheritance, for that thou hast turned from me thy wrathful indignation, pittyingpitying me, and saving me according to the multitude of thy mercies, thy Name be …
With rule
… thanks with thine inheritance, for that thou hast turned from me thy wrathful indignation, pittyingpitying me, and saving me according to the multitude of thy mercies, thy Name be …
Richard Allestree · The Exaltation of the Soul · p. 111 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (7)

5 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Complete and Compendious Church History A52804

Printed
… did he find (through Grace) a Praying Heart, but his God finds alſo a PittyingPitying Heart, v. 13. his God heard both his Pray'r for himſelf, and Solomons Pray'r for …
With rule
… did he find (through Grace) a Praying Heart, but his God finds alſo a PittyingPitying Heart, v. 13. his God heard both his Pray'r for himſelf, and Solomons Pray'r for …
Christopher Ness · A Complete and Compendious Church History · p. 214 · Open in the reader

Gospel Public Worship A75847

Printed
… alſo toward the managing of the five Functions, of Teaching, Exhorting, Diſtributing, Ruling, and PittyingPitying; for their benefitting in thoſe five reſpects: Now though they be expreſſed only as …
With rule
… alſo toward the managing of the five Functions, of Teaching, Exhorting, Diſtributing, Ruling, and PittyingPitying; for their benefitting in thoſe five reſpects: Now though they be expreſſed only as …
Thomas Brewer · Gospel Public Worship · p. 55 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that are divers, viz. Teaching, Exhorting, and ſo by the ſame conſequence, Diſtributing, Ruling, PittyingPitying, or ſhewing Mercy. V. 8. with, or in ſingleneſs of eye, or ſimplicity, with diligence …
With rule
… that are divers, viz. Teaching, Exhorting, and ſo by the ſame conſequence, Diſtributing, Ruling, PittyingPitying, or ſhewing Mercy. V. 8. with, or in ſingleneſs of eye, or ſimplicity, with diligence …
Thomas Brewer · Gospel Public Worship · p. 60 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Teacher, Exhorter, Ruler, Diſtributer, Pitier; with their five Functions of Teaching, Exhortation, Ruling, Diſtribution, PittyingPitying: enrighting us by theſe three ſorts of Chriſts five-fold reſpects to Teaching, Exhorting …
With rule
… Teacher, Exhorter, Ruler, Diſtributer, Pitier; with their five Functions of Teaching, Exhortation, Ruling, Diſtribution, PittyingPitying: enrighting us by theſe three ſorts of Chriſts five-fold reſpects to Teaching, Exhorting …
Thomas Brewer · Gospel Public Worship · p. 186 · Open in the reader
Printed
… by theſe three ſorts of Chriſts five-fold reſpects to Teaching, Exhorting, Ruling, Diſtributing, PittyingPitying, for and unto the knowledge, ſincerity, honeſty, proviſion, preſervation, of our underſtanding, heart and …
With rule
… by theſe three ſorts of Chriſts five-fold reſpects to Teaching, Exhorting, Ruling, Diſtributing, PittyingPitying, for and unto the knowledge, ſincerity, honeſty, proviſion, preſervation, of our underſtanding, heart and …
Thomas Brewer · Gospel Public Worship · p. 186 · Open in the reader