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Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6462 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

carelescareless

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it
390 times in 218 works
Consistency
79.7% (390 of 489)
Reach if approved
~514 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: careless
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
489 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (390 changes in 218 works, 79.7% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 390)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … preuaile with him, to keepe him from feare, and to make him secure and carelescareless…e with the rest: for exsamples are strong, especially when they are so generall.
    With rule
    … preuaile with him, to keepe him from feare, and to make him secure and carelescareless…e with the rest: for exsamples are strong, especially when they are so generall.

    William Perkins · A Cloud of Faithful Witnesses · p. 115 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … which purgeth vs from al our sinnes, but also as a very canch of carelescareless securitie, which Sathan hath deuised to aduaunce the dominion of sinne. For where as …
    With rule
    … which purgeth vs from al our sinnes, but also as a very canch of carelescareless securitie, which Sathan hath deuised to aduaunce the dominion of sinne. For where as …

    William Fulke · Two Treatises Against the Papists · p. 19 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … wholly and only (as a priuiledge) to the Prieſts; thereby making them ſecure and carelescareless of God, and all godlines. Only if he came diligently and deuoutly to heare …
    With rule
    … wholly and only (as a priuiledge) to the Prieſts; thereby making them ſecure and carelescareless of God, and all godlines. Only if he came diligently and deuoutly to heare …

    Francis Hastings · A Watch-Word to All Religious and True Hearted Englishmen · p. 13 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    The sin both of curious & carelescareless hearers, 151
    With rule
    The sin both of curious & carelescareless hearers, 151

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Spirit in the mouth of Noe to thoſe liuing then in thoſe dayes, though carelescareless and diſobedient. Therefore this preaching is heere meant to haue bene on earth in …
    With rule
    … Spirit in the mouth of Noe to thoſe liuing then in thoſe dayes, though carelescareless and diſobedient. Therefore this preaching is heere meant to haue bene on earth in …

    Henry Jacob · The Sufferings and Victory of Christ in the Work of Redemption · p. 134 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … so we may beginne in the feare of God, that we be not secure & carelescareless, or presuming of our owne strength, nor rashly enter into this kind of life …
    With rule
    … so we may beginne in the feare of God, that we be not secure & carelescareless, or presuming of our owne strength, nor rashly enter into this kind of life …

    Martin Luther · Commentary on the Psalms of Ascent · p. 166 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … thervnto. Therfore let vs be mery and take no thought. O fylthye swyne and carelescareless dogges. Becaus Christ hathe don that for them, which they could not do for …
    With rule
    … thervnto. Therfore let vs be mery and take no thought. O fylthye swyne and carelescareless dogges. Becaus Christ hathe don that for them, which they could not do for …

    Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … false teachers serueth, ministreth, vpholdeth and defendeth the Po pis kyngdome, whyles hymself sittinge carelescareless in all ease, exempt from all charges taketh hys delicate lustes and pleasu res …
    With rule
    … false teachers serueth, ministreth, vpholdeth and defendeth the Po pis kyngdome, whyles hymself sittinge carelescareless in all ease, exempt from all charges taketh hys delicate lustes and pleasu res …

    Andreas Osiander · The Conjectures of the End of the World · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (99)

81 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 are listed here. 18 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist A04920

  • Printed
    Ye take your pleasure in reasoning with vs, whom ye terme CarelesCareless by necessitie. I will not recompence raling with raling, but I pray God that …
    With rule
    Ye take your pleasure in reasoning with vs, whom ye terme CarelesCareless by necessitie. I will not recompence raling with raling, but I pray God that …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 67 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    And as for you (CarelesCareless m…n) you oght to take it in good worth, what so euer I …
    With rule
    And as for you (CarelesCareless m…n) you oght to take it in good worth, what so euer I …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 451 · Open in the reader

Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny A07225

  • Printed
    Iohn CarelesCareless of Couentry Weauer.
    With rule
    Iohn CarelesCareless of Couentry Weauer.

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 326 · Open in the reader

A Golden Chain A09339

  • Printed
    Bradfords answer to CarelesCareless.
    With rule
    Bradfords answer to CarelesCareless.

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    CarelesCareless.
    With rule
    CarelesCareless.

    William Perkins · A Golden Chain · Open in the reader

A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church A10781

  • Printed
    ¶Wherevnto are also annexed certayne letters of Iohn CarelesCareless, written in the tyme of his imprisonment.
    With rule
    ¶Wherevnto are also annexed certayne letters of Iohn CarelesCareless, written in the tyme of his imprisonment.

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … Pirry to the Christian reader, in commendacion of that worthy man of god Iohn CarelesCareless.
    With rule
    … Pirry to the Christian reader, in commendacion of that worthy man of god Iohn CarelesCareless.

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    and CarelesCareless was in dede.
    With rule
    and CarelesCareless was in dede.

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Another letter of the same Iohn CarelesCareless sent to the same party.
    With rule
    Another letter of the same Iohn CarelesCareless sent to the same party.

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    An other letter sent frō the same Iohn CarelesCareless to the selfe same woman.
    With rule
    An other letter sent frō the same Iohn CarelesCareless to the selfe same woman.

    Nicholas Ridley · A Piteous Lamentation of the Miserable Estate of the Church · Open in the reader

Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 A67927

  • Printed
    … M. Latimer lacked no forewarning being premonished about sixe houres before by one Iohn CarelesCareless (whose story here after foloweth) yet so farre of was it that he thought …
    With rule
    … M. Latimer lacked no forewarning being premonished about sixe houres before by one Iohn CarelesCareless (whose story here after foloweth) yet so farre of was it that he thought …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1740 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … his name. To whom when the other had answered, that his name was Iohn CarelesCareless, then began Doctour Martin to descant at his pleasure vpon that name, saying: that …
    With rule
    … his name. To whom when the other had answered, that his name was Iohn CarelesCareless, then began Doctour Martin to descant at his pleasure vpon that name, saying: that …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1919 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    CarelesCareless.
    With rule
    CarelesCareless.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1920 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … and therefore he hath geuen to thee as to his childe (deare Brother Iohn CarelesCareless) in token that thy sinnes are pardoned: he (I say) hath geuen vnto thee …
    With rule
    … and therefore he hath geuen to thee as to his childe (deare Brother Iohn CarelesCareless) in token that thy sinnes are pardoned: he (I say) hath geuen vnto thee …

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1923 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    Your daily Oratour Iohn CarelesCareless, prisoner of the Lord.
    With rule
    Your daily Oratour Iohn CarelesCareless, prisoner of the Lord.

    John Foxe · Acts and Monuments Volume 2 Part 2 · p. 1931 · Open in the reader

Three Decades of Sermons A96523

  • Printed
    … humbled for our humiliations, becauſe we have performed ſpiritual ſervices in a Carnal and CarelesCareless manner.
    With rule
    … humbled for our humiliations, becauſe we have performed ſpiritual ſervices in a Carnal and CarelesCareless manner.

    Dean Henry Wilkinson · Three Decades of Sermons · p. 181 · Open in the reader