Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #31732 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

despitefulldespiteful

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 105 times in 82 works
Consistency: 97.2% (105 of 108)
Reach if approved: ~113 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: despiteful
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 108 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (105 changes in 82 works, 97.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 105)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… then doth the malice and bitternesse of their hearts breake forth outragiously in all despitefulldespiteful contempt and cruell usage of the Lords messengers, as all the stories of the …
With rule
… then doth the malice and bitternesse of their hearts breake forth outragiously in all despitefulldespiteful contempt and cruell usage of the Lords messengers, as all the stories of the …
William Pemble · The Worthy Receiving the Lords Supper · p. 34 · Open in the reader
Printed
… where he hath heaped up the moſt of them together, Backebiters, haters of God, deſpitefulldespiteful, &c. there you have among the reſt foreign, haters of God: And if that be …
With rule
… where he hath heaped up the moſt of them together, Backebiters, haters of God, deſpitefulldespiteful, &c. there you have among the reſt foreign, haters of God: And if that be …
John Stoughton · The Heavenly Conversation and Natural Mans Condition · p. 110 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the vngodly greued with afflictions, troubled with iniuries, oppressed with sclaunders, and vexed with despitefulldespiteful dealynges and reproches: contraryewyse that wicked dooers doo flourishe, prosper, and obteyne quiet with …
With rule
… the vngodly greued with afflictions, troubled with iniuries, oppressed with sclaunders, and vexed with despitefulldespiteful dealynges and reproches: contraryewyse that wicked dooers doo flourishe, prosper, and obteyne quiet with …
John Calvin · The Institutes of the Christian Religion · p. 9 · Open in the reader
Printed
… but all dutie and reſpect which we owe vnto God, and in barbarous and deſpitefulldespiteful manner, to loade his holy name with blaſphemies, as though he were the onely …
With rule
… but all dutie and reſpect which we owe vnto God, and in barbarous and deſpitefulldespiteful manner, to loade his holy name with blaſphemies, as though he were the onely …
John Downame · Four Treatises Dissuading from Four Heinous and Common Sins · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
They deride Christ with that reproachfull and despitefulldespiteful name Talui, which is as much as hanged or crucified.
With rule
They deride Christ with that reproachfull and despitefulldespiteful name Talui, which is as much as hanged or crucified.
Edward Leigh · A Fit Conjucture of Religion and Learning · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… or infirmity, but of ſet purpoſe and hatred of the truth, and of a deſpitefulldespiteful malicious ſtomacke conceived against the ſame: which ſinne whoſoever commit, they are puniſhed of …
With rule
… or infirmity, but of ſet purpoſe and hatred of the truth, and of a deſpitefulldespiteful malicious ſtomacke conceived against the ſame: which ſinne whoſoever commit, they are puniſhed of …
Zacharias Ursinus · The Sum of Christian Religion · p. 59 · Open in the reader
Printed
… And then I ſhall be able to make a ſolid reply to all my deſpitefulldespiteful enemies, which are ready to inſult over me in any diſtreſs, and upbraid my …
With rule
… And then I ſhall be able to make a ſolid reply to all my deſpitefulldespiteful enemies, which are ready to inſult over me in any diſtreſs, and upbraid my …
Henry Hammond · Works Volume 4 · p. 342 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which no man is able in any respect to reproue, that the contemptuous and despitefulldespiteful aduersarie against the truth may be ashamed to open their mouthes, when as they …
With rule
… which no man is able in any respect to reproue, that the contemptuous and despitefulldespiteful aduersarie against the truth may be ashamed to open their mouthes, when as they …
Richard Greenham · Works · p. 346 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

1 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.

The Whole Armor of God A01979

Printed
In the definition of this ſinne, wee further added this word, DeſpitefullDespiteful: which alſo appertaineth to the generall matter thereof.
With rule
In the definition of this ſinne, wee further added this word, DeſpitefullDespiteful: which alſo appertaineth to the generall matter thereof.
William Gouge · The Whole Armor of God · p. 600 · Open in the reader