Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31573 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

aptnesaptness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 140 times in 84 works
Consistency: 98.5% (140 of 142)
Reach if approved: ~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: aptness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (140 changes in 84 works, 98.5% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 140)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… our corruptions; the very least transgression of the law of God; even our passionatnes, & aptnesaptness to be angry without cause, and to exceed therein; even of our mispending of …
With rule
… our corruptions; the very least transgression of the law of God; even our passionatnes, & aptnesaptness to be angry without cause, and to exceed therein; even of our mispending of …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Oppoſites in anſwering this, agree not together. ſome of them yeelding ther is an aptnesaptness in the Ceremonies to breed ſcandal, to wit, an inconvenience: others hotly contending, they …
With rule
… Oppoſites in anſwering this, agree not together. ſome of them yeelding ther is an aptnesaptness in the Ceremonies to breed ſcandal, to wit, an inconvenience: others hotly contending, they …
Robert Parker · Against Symbolizing with Antichrist in Ceremonies · p. 43 · Open in the reader
Printed
… is not alwayes in act. As we see a fountaine, it hath alwayes an aptnesaptness to powre forth water, it is ready to breake into a current, but, if …
With rule
… is not alwayes in act. As we see a fountaine, it hath alwayes an aptnesaptness to powre forth water, it is ready to breake into a current, but, if …
John Preston · The Saints Daily Exercise · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… euer for a man to number his daies they be ſo few. Fourthly, the aptnesaptness of man to forget death rather then any thing els, and therfore Moſes praieth …
With rule
… euer for a man to number his daies they be ſo few. Fourthly, the aptnesaptness of man to forget death rather then any thing els, and therfore Moſes praieth …
Henry Smith · Sermons in One Volume · p. 546 · Open in the reader
Printed
speaker A. W. None of these hath that aptnesaptness that is in faith. For the other haue more shew of desert in man …
With rule
speaker A. W. None of these hath that aptnesaptness that is in faith. For the other haue more shew of desert in man …
Anthony Wotton · Defense of Perkins Book Called a Reformed Catholic · p. 233 · Open in the reader
Printed
… power, credit, authoritie: or whether they be indued with wiſdome, counſell, policie, wit, foreſight, aptnesaptness of inuention, or boldnes: for if ſo be we haue God with vs, we …
With rule
… power, credit, authoritie: or whether they be indued with wiſdome, counſell, policie, wit, foreſight, aptnesaptness of inuention, or boldnes: for if ſo be we haue God with vs, we …
John Calvin · Commentary on Isaiah · p. 91 · Open in the reader
Printed
… shall find in us, much unwillingnesse unto every thing that is good, and great aptnesaptness and pronenes unto everything that is evill. And if (with the Apostle Paul,) we …
With rule
… shall find in us, much unwillingnesse unto every thing that is good, and great aptnesaptness and pronenes unto everything that is evill. And if (with the Apostle Paul,) we …
John Dod · Exposition of the Lords Prayer · p. 111 · Open in the reader
Printed
… things between God and Man doth, in great part, owe it self, to our aptnesaptness to compare unduly, the Divine Government with that of Secular Rulers; and our expectation …
With rule
… things between God and Man doth, in great part, owe it self, to our aptnesaptness to compare unduly, the Divine Government with that of Secular Rulers; and our expectation …
John Howe · Gods Prescience of the Sins of Men Reconciled with the His Counsels · p. 61 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Defense of the Holy Scriptures A13202

Printed
Let us see this in Israel▪ AptnesAptness to teach was to be in al the Governours: in the whole tribe of …
With rule
Let us see this in Israel▪ AptnesAptness to teach was to be in al the Governours: in the whole tribe of …
Henry Ainsworth · A Defense of the Holy Scriptures · p. 101 · Open in the reader