Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6282 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

pittypity

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 4,619 times in 1,540 works
Consistency: 99.9% (4,619 of 4,622)
Reach if approved: ~4,856 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: pity
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 4,622 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (4,619 changes in 1,540 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 4,619)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… but the Souldiers abuſe him. Is hee on the Croſſe? the people will not pittypity him; is he riſen? the High prieſts wil belle him. In a word, is …
With rule
… but the Souldiers abuſe him. Is hee on the Croſſe? the people will not pittypity him; is he riſen? the High prieſts wil belle him. In a word, is …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 238 · Open in the reader
Printed
… my heart, and I am full of heauinesse: I looked for some to haue pittypity on me, but there was none: for comforters, but I found none. Psal. 69. 20.
With rule
… my heart, and I am full of heauinesse: I looked for some to haue pittypity on me, but there was none: for comforters, but I found none. Psal. 69. 20.
Daniel Featley · The Handmaid to Private Devotion · p. 298 · Open in the reader
Printed
… her vexations are fled, her conscience is at rest. Her bowels are full of pittypity: shee is alwayes composing salues for all the wounds of a broken heart, Sedition …
With rule
… her vexations are fled, her conscience is at rest. Her bowels are full of pittypity: shee is alwayes composing salues for all the wounds of a broken heart, Sedition …
Thomas Adams · The City of Peace · p. 3 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wherein you haue so cleared the point in controuersie betweene you; that I much pittypity your opponents hard lot to fall vpon such a subiect and tenet concerning Lots …
With rule
… wherein you haue so cleared the point in controuersie betweene you; that I much pittypity your opponents hard lot to fall vpon such a subiect and tenet concerning Lots …
Thomas Gataker · A Just Defense of Certain Passages · Open in the reader
Printed
… world railes at him liuing: and when he dyes, no man sayes, It is pittypity; but It is pittypity he died no sooner. They shall not lament for him …
With rule
… world railes at him liuing: and when he dyes, no man sayes, It is pittypity; but It is pittypity he died no sooner. They shall not lament for him …
Thomas Adams · The Happiness of the Church · p. 342 · Open in the reader
Printed
Alas for you, I pittypity your caſe, I perceiue how the gods of this world, Satan and Mammon, haue …
With rule
Alas for you, I pittypity your caſe, I perceiue how the gods of this world, Satan and Mammon, haue …
Thomas Granger · Pauls Crown of Rejoicing · p. 50 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a needelesse & fruitlesse question, and eccellente men haue their seueral iudgments, were it not pittypity to make him an anabaptist, a catabaptist, or a Pelagian for this.
With rule
… a needelesse & fruitlesse question, and eccellente men haue their seueral iudgments, were it not pittypity to make him an anabaptist, a catabaptist, or a Pelagian for this.
Job Throckmorton · Some Laid Open in his Colors · p. 51 · Open in the reader
Printed
… a blancke paper: it was in them pittypity, rather then piety, in Iudas neither pittypity nor piety, but plaine perfidie, an exorbitant and transcendent sinne, that would haue brought …
With rule
… a blancke paper: it was in them pittypity, rather then piety, in Iudas neither pittypity nor piety, but plaine perfidie, an exorbitant and transcendent sinne, that would haue brought …
Thomas Adams · The White Devil · p. 3 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Abuses Stripped and Whipped A15623

Printed
PIttyPity is knowne a kinde and tender Passion,
With rule
PIttyPity is knowne a kinde and tender Passion,
George Wither · Abuses Stripped and Whipped · Open in the reader

Of Peace and Contentment of Mind A81837

Printed
PIttyPity is a Paſſion compoſed of love and ſorrow, moved by the diſtreſs of another …
With rule
PIttyPity is a Paſſion compoſed of love and ſorrow, moved by the diſtreſs of another …
Peter du Moulin Jr · Of Peace and Contentment of Mind · p. 323 · Open in the reader

Contemplations and Devotions B13985

Printed
PIttyPity, and of all other feminine pittypity 'tis the poorest helplessest salve of misery: our …
With rule
PIttyPity, and of all other feminine pittypity 'tis the poorest helplessest salve of misery: our …
Charles Herle · Contemplations and Devotions · p. 286 · Open in the reader