Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3784 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

sluggishnessesluggishness

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

Puritas changed it: 356 times in 195 works
Consistency: 100% (356 of 356)
Reach if approved: ~374 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: sluggishness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 356 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (356 changes in 195 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 356)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… them, ſo I would to God we would riſe ſpéedely from our former ſecuritie & ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness, to prayers, repentance, & truſt in him. Then as in times paſt, euen ſo now …
With rule
… them, ſo I would to God we would riſe ſpéedely from our former ſecuritie & ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness, to prayers, repentance, & truſt in him. Then as in times paſt, euen ſo now …
Francis Trigge · Defense of our Days over the Days of our Forefathers · p. 35 · Open in the reader
Printed
… languiſhing, it ſuffers not ſo gracious an affection to ſettle vpon the lees of ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness, but will quicken it as a taskemaſter, exacting daily the ſeruice of the day …
With rule
… languiſhing, it ſuffers not ſo gracious an affection to ſettle vpon the lees of ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness, but will quicken it as a taskemaſter, exacting daily the ſeruice of the day …
Henry Wilkinson Sr · The Debt Book · p. 122 · Open in the reader
Printed
… quicke and cheerefull▪ to put life into all, and who cannot indure to see sluggishnessesluggishness or idlenesse in any, much lesse any vngratiousnesse; and therefore can vse also not …
With rule
… quicke and cheerefull▪ to put life into all, and who cannot indure to see sluggishnessesluggishness or idlenesse in any, much lesse any vngratiousnesse; and therefore can vse also not …
John Brinsley · The Grammar School · p. 268 · Open in the reader
Printed
To slavish Mosco's dullard sluggishnessesluggishness;
With rule
To slavish Mosco's dullard sluggishnessesluggishness;
Phineas Fletcher · The Purple Island · p. 4 · Open in the reader
Printed
… for they would not bee poore, nor want means to giue allowance to their sluggishnessesluggishness; yet by their refusall of paines, they call on themselues a voluntary, and ineuitable …
With rule
… for they would not bee poore, nor want means to giue allowance to their sluggishnessesluggishness; yet by their refusall of paines, they call on themselues a voluntary, and ineuitable …
Thomas Adams · Mystical Bedlam · p. 62 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Peter here biddeth, neither do thei bridle the deſires of their bodie, that the ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness and laſciuiouſneſſe thereof maie bee repreſſed. It is good to faſte, howbeit the right …
With rule
… Peter here biddeth, neither do thei bridle the deſires of their bodie, that the ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness and laſciuiouſneſſe thereof maie bee repreſſed. It is good to faſte, howbeit the right …
Martin Luther · Commentary on Peter and Jude · Open in the reader
Printed
… Ieſus Chriſt for his infinite love; and withall alſo it is a kinde of ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness that is in them, that they are loth to put themſelves and their hearts …
With rule
… Ieſus Chriſt for his infinite love; and withall alſo it is a kinde of ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness that is in them, that they are loth to put themſelves and their hearts …
John Randall · Twenty-Three Sermons · p. 98 · Open in the reader
Printed
… that wonted preſence of his at the ordinances, they may admit of an extreme ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness and remiſſeneſſe; he may grow a ſtranger to God.
With rule
… that wonted preſence of his at the ordinances, they may admit of an extreme ſluggiſhneſſesluggishness and remiſſeneſſe; he may grow a ſtranger to God.
Obadiah Sedgwick · Christs Counsel to His Languishing Church of Sardis · p. 10 · 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.