Waiting for reviewDoubled lettersCandidate #6503 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

drunkennesdrunkenness

A doubled letter made single: vntill → until.

Puritas changed it: 715 times in 332 works
Consistency: 100% (715 of 715)
Reach if approved: ~751 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: drunkenness
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 715 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (715 changes in 332 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 715)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… worſhiping of images, witch craft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ſtrife, ſeditions, ſectes, enuyings, murthers,, drunkennesdrunkenness, gluttonies, and ſuch like. Gal. 5. ver. 19.20.21. It was not his purpoſe to reckon vp …
With rule
… worſhiping of images, witch craft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, ſtrife, ſeditions, ſectes, enuyings, murthers,, drunkennesdrunkenness, gluttonies, and ſuch like. Gal. 5. ver. 19.20.21. It was not his purpoſe to reckon vp …
George Gifford · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… one to another, to decke themselues inwardly with lowlinesse of minde, without fornication, adulterie, drunkennesdrunkenness, whoredome, &c. knowing▪ that they who doe so, shall neuer inherite the kingdome of …
With rule
… one to another, to decke themselues inwardly with lowlinesse of minde, without fornication, adulterie, drunkennesdrunkenness, whoredome, &c. knowing▪ that they who doe so, shall neuer inherite the kingdome of …
William Guild · A Young Mans Inquisition · p. 265 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Chriſt taſted gall and vinegar for me, why ſhould not I abſtaine from ſurfeting, & drunkennesdrunkenness for him? He that deſireth Chriſt and féedeth on him, will not greatly regard …
With rule
… Chriſt taſted gall and vinegar for me, why ſhould not I abſtaine from ſurfeting, & drunkennesdrunkenness for him? He that deſireth Chriſt and féedeth on him, will not greatly regard …
Robert Hill · The Pathway to Prayer and Piety · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… too? Secondly, ſuch an abuſe of the creature oppreſſeth the heart with ſurfetting and drunkennesdrunkenness: and how can the heart ſo oppreſſed, and perſon liuing in ſuch a trade …
With rule
… too? Secondly, ſuch an abuſe of the creature oppreſſeth the heart with ſurfetting and drunkennesdrunkenness: and how can the heart ſo oppreſſed, and perſon liuing in ſuch a trade …
Robert Horne · Of the Rich Man and Lazarus · p. 10 · Open in the reader
Printed
… purses, and filling of the land full of all manner of sinne, as swearing, drunkennesdrunkenness, whoredome, pride, Idlenesse, &c. witnesse their filthie and rotten speeches, in disgrace of Gods …
With rule
… purses, and filling of the land full of all manner of sinne, as swearing, drunkennesdrunkenness, whoredome, pride, Idlenesse, &c. witnesse their filthie and rotten speeches, in disgrace of Gods …
Alexander Leighton · Appeal to the Parliament · p. 121 · Open in the reader
Printed
Whoredome, wine, & drunkennesdrunkenness, take the hart away.
With rule
Whoredome, wine, & drunkennesdrunkenness, take the hart away.
Thomas Becon · The Principles of Christian Religion · Open in the reader
Printed
… needeth, and ſpend more than they ought, in proud Plumes, gay Clothes, Gaming, Gluttonie, DrunkennesDrunkenness, and riotous Revellings, upon Hawks, or Hounds, or Players, and perhaps, ſometimes upon Whores …
With rule
… needeth, and ſpend more than they ought, in proud Plumes, gay Clothes, Gaming, Gluttonie, DrunkennesDrunkenness, and riotous Revellings, upon Hawks, or Hounds, or Players, and perhaps, ſometimes upon Whores …
Richard Bernard · The Ready Way to Good Works · p. 422 · Open in the reader
Printed
… deliuered, hée ſought earneſtly for ſome of them again, waxing dry after his great drunkennesdrunkenness.
With rule
… deliuered, hée ſought earneſtly for ſome of them again, waxing dry after his great drunkennesdrunkenness.
John Foxe · Abridgment of the Book of Acts and Monuments by Timothy Bright · p. 233 · 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.